Oh don't mention snow. We are supose to get some this Wednesday morning in the Boston area and I still have 2 weeks left for me to walk with crutches!!!!!
Posts by KD
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35Let it Snow...Let it Snow...Let it Snow!
by scootergirl inyahooo!!!!!!!!!
take a look at the gorgeous scenery that we woke up to this morning!
minnesota is getting hit w/early snow this year!
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I am so Happy. I found this board
by kaxfenixot inwow i am new to the internet thing and i am so happy i found this board.
i can now converse with my brothers and sisters of the world this is great !!!!
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KD
Hi Kaxfenixot!! Welcome to the board.
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Damn you Watchtower!
by IslandWoman intwo women came to my door tonight.
they were walking house to house in the dark, offering free deluxe bibles and an invitation to their baptist church!.
their were not giving a practiced presentation, they were not condemning other religions, they were not looking down on me and my family.
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If you really think about it, there is a lot of kindness out there and many kind hearted people too who live in "the world" or "worldly people". Leave it to the WTS to constantly focus on all the evil and hate that exists and constantly leaving it's members in fear. The members should watch carefully all the video footage of 911 and see how worldly or non-jw people really lend a hand to help their fellow human beings. They could take a lesson from this!!!
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What did you REALLY think about the banned things
by SpannerintheWorks inwhat prompted this topic was when an ex-jw ( ex-elder ) friend of mine told me that once when he was doing a "car" witness with three others, near to christmas time, they lost one of them!
after a bit of searching along the route, the others eventually found him in a house, eating a mince pie and drinking a glass of brandy!.
my friend reminded him that he shouldn't be participating in these " worldly things.
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While I was in it, I still celebrated holidays with my parents. Hell pass up turkey and stuffing the way my dad made it!! Are you kidding!! Now that my dad has been dead for a number of years, I miss the holiday cooking more than ever.
Oh, by the way. The reason why I was df'ed was that I donated my blood to a dying man whom I did not know. I told the Elders that I had no regrets and would do it again.
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How many would have stayed?
by freedom96 inmy lost new posting topic made me think of this question:.
if the wts was more normal, how many would have stayed?.
was it in fact the teachings that made you leave?
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While I was in it, I always questioned several aspects of the teachings but excepted it any ways. If it was not for their control of my life I may have stayed. There were somethings about it that I enjoyed and all my friends were there too. But in a way it seems that after I left, my whole life and veiw of thinking broadened.
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What thing did you do when you left
by shera in.
what was one thing you did and really wanted to do when you left the jw's;what you couldn't do because of the organization?.
mine was martial arts.
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Well since I was in still in my early 20's and single, I decided to go to college. I ended up joining a fraterninty and had the time of my life!!!!!
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Feild service and answering
by shera ini was wondering how you all felt about feild service.. i didn't like it all all,i would have minor anixety attacks and sweaty palms before i went door to door.
i would have a hard time taking a door,so one time,my loving "sister" left me standing at door by myself.i remeber being "happy".
i was very uncomfortable going to peoples door and trying to force religion on them,when they didn't want it.i only went out because it was imbedded in my mind that i had to go door to door to save peoples lives.i didn't want to have blood on my hands of the people i may have helped save with god's words.. with the answering,i almost passed out...lol..i used to be painfully shy.when i didn't answer enough,i would be judged as not being spiritually(sp)strong.the woman i was studing with would try to raise my hand up.the way i looked at it there was no accepting of who you were...had to be like the social butterflies to be accepted.now thats what i call love.
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I was always shy and had trouble at the door. I also had trouble trying to force my religion down someones throat if they did not want to hear it. What made matters worst was that after a while I has troubles talking to others about things that I was already starting to question.
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Hey that is a good one Garybuss! Kinda looks like the Governing Body behind the sceens inventing New Light scams to fool the JW masses.
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What sold you on the JW faith?
by MYOHNSEPH ini havent posted much here, but ive read a lot for about six months now.
although most everyone here appears to have had some degree of affiliation with the jw organization, the individual posters seem to be from pretty diverse backgrounds.
im really curious about something.
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Hello Myohnseph, welcome to the board. It's quite funny actually. It started in my junior year of high school. My best friend and I had a class that was taught by a JW. We found that during class if we asked about the bible, he would stop teaching and answer our questions for the rest of the period. My friend and I were both interested in the bible and were both searching. One day I asked my friend if he would like to look into the JW religion. He laughed and said "Can you imagine us going door to door". Sometime later I approached the teacher after school and told him that I wanted to learn more of his religion. He invited me to his home that night. I arrived that evening on a cold February night. I got out of my vehicle and in the distance I heard another vehicle. To my surprise it was my friend! He had started studying the week before.
The rest is history. I lasted about 4 years before going apostate. My friend became a pioneer soon after high school. 21 years had passed since I saw my friend because of the shunning I lost track of him and several other people I was close to. This passed Summer my old friend tracked me down on the internet and we met again after all those years. The thing was, was that it was a sheparding call because he was now an Elder. Well I guess I will wait another 21 years before I see him again.
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How were you perceived .............. as a jw
by A Paduan in.
as a continuation of minimus' thread.. how do you think people perceived you - when you were a jw?
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This post made me realize that I actually lived 2 separate lives. I was always interested in the bible all my live, so when I became a JW during my mid high school years, I attended meetings and was perceived as being quiet and shy by the others. Some called me anti-social at times because I did not socialize with some of the clicky groups. Outside the hall, such work after school or work after graduation, I never let anybody know that I was a JW. I still drank, swore and sometimes smoked. To the non-JW's I was a typical young adult.