Posts by nolongerwaiting

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Longtime lurker - first post

by applehippie in

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been listening for quite a while to the many conversations found here on this forum.

i'm a good listener as my friends will tell you.. i am a born in jw, inactive for at least 2 years now.

i originally joined this forum to find out what my husband was "up to".

Update on my chemotherapy and my sister

by MsDucky in

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my sister lost her battle with breast cancer last week.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansas/obituary.aspx?n=mayola-d-walker-johnson&pid=149005242 her funeral was today.

i had just been dismissed from the hospital the day before and she was admitted to icu the next day.

nolongerwaiting

I hope they can find a treatment that works for you. I'm so sorry about your sister. What a tough time you must be going through.

NLW's wife

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How have your opinions changed?

by LovelyEunie in

how have your opinions changed on subjects like premarital sex, gay marriage, higher education, music, smoking, interfaith marriage etc... and do you think they have changed for the better?

personally i feel like everybody has the right to choose their own path, free to make their own choices outside of the jw's and everybody within their religion needs to deal with it and move on, like they expect everyone else to do when they made the choice to become a jw.. i have no problem with homosexuality, seeing that i'm bisexual myself; i used to hate it when my mother would get angry with me because i wouldn't tell my gay friends that it was wrong and disgusting and one day god was gonna killl them kill them for it, when she knew i was too, it was hypocracy at it's finest.

smoking is so not a moral choice to me, it's a health choice.

nolongerwaiting

I can't relate to my old JW self now. Basically, most of what JW's got their panties in a bunch over I don't care about any more.

NLW's wife

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Update on my daughter Ali....Amazing

by coffee_black in

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i wrote here about my daughter ali's severe heart failure.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/203661/1/update-on-ali-my-daughter.

it has been a few months since the whole nightmare began.. today her cardiologist released her to return to work.

she starts in 2 weeks.

nolongerwaiting

What good news!

NLW's wife

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College

by d in

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i am a college trying to maintain good grades.college is stressful especially this year.have any of you who are still in college, or went to college found it to be difficult in any way shape or form?.for me i am worried about finding a good career after i graduate.since the job market is still slow.. thanks.

d.

nolongerwaiting

Keep at it as collage is worth it. It is indeed a wonderful feeling when you are finished!!!!

NLW's wife

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What world events would cause you to run back to the JW,s

by jam in

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a year or two after leaving the borg.

i was on shaky ground.. any major catastrophe in the world that took place, i thought.

today i can not think of one single event.

nolongerwaiting

If I was starving and they had a soup kitchen in their parking lot. LOL Then I would see how fast I could eat and run.

NLW's wife

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Volunteering

by MrFreeze in

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does anybody here do any volunteer work?

i mean real volunteer work.

not the jw "knock on doors and annoy people" kind of volunteer work.

nolongerwaiting

I do volunteer work and find it to be fun. I don't want to say what it is in case someone is spying on me. Darn spies are everywhere. That's why I have to wear a trench coat everywhere I go.

NLW's wife

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Does anyone out there understand how i feel?

by TimothyT in

my name is tim, im 23, from the uk, and im currently a jw!.

ok... to cut a long story short... i love serving jehovah but ive begun now to embrace my sexuality as a gay man.. although im still attending the meetings, praying to jehovah and trying my hardest, i can no longer lie to myself about my sexuality.. i have had enough of feeling depressed and confused now - its killing me!!!.

does anyone else know what i feel like?

nolongerwaiting

I really do wish you all the best. Trying to be someone your not is a good way to slowly destroy your mental state.

NLW's wife

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Never thought Id be cursing out my Dfd Dad

by lil.lady.03 in

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see my dad is dfd.

hes been dfd all my life.

he got dfd a year before i was born.

nolongerwaiting

What is it with non active/DF'd people who think they have the right to play god in your life? Yeah I know someone like that. If you don't do as that person says then you are dead to them. Such a hypocrite. People like that drive me crazy.

NLW's wife

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Here i am....

by makersmark in

here i am - born in truth, hard-core spiritual everything all my life, early reg.pioneer, ms, elder, assembly parts, tour at bethel, etc, married now...... i'm trying to examine jw teachings a little closer...... i've spent the last two weeks reading many many posts, info , references on where ex-jw's are coming from.

i'm kind of concerned about a few things lately..... honestly - some points make sense to me - some don't - here are my general thoughts:.

-wt getting un membership for access to library - doesnt bother me - some passports and other governement documents have similar forms and requirements..... -blood issue - some counterpoints to the jw 'rules' makes sense (original intent of scripture is unbled animals, white blood cells similar in mothers milk) etc -however a lot of 'apostate' reasonings and proof are inaccurate.

nolongerwaiting

Welcome.

NLW's wife