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  Why hang on in there??

  by KenUK in

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  not been posting on this board too long, but started my ex jw internet excursion with the philia group back in 1995 (thanx alanf:-)).. not wishing to poke anybody in the eye but i'm curious at those mails i've read where some of you guys are hanging in on there (from where i sit) under the jw tag.

  by that i mean you've clearly identified you've not attended meetings, have no intention of going to meetings, maybe (albeit under the jw rules)in a d/a or d/f situation, but laying low.. geniunely interested in why - i got d/f by banging on the elders door (metaphysically speaking) and sitting through a judicial to get out properly.. maybe 33 years as jw straight off (18 years under hillary step formula:-))skewed my thinking, but just curious....

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  KenUK

  Not been posting on this board too long, but started my ex jw internet excursion with the philia group back in 1995 (thanx AlanF:-)).

  Not wishing to poke anybody in the eye but I'm curious at those mails I've read where some of you guys are hanging in on there (from where I sit) under the jw tag. By that I mean you've clearly identified you've not attended meetings, have no intention of going to meetings, maybe (albeit under the jw rules)in a d/a or d/f situation, but laying low.

  Geniunely interested in why - I got d/f by banging on the elders door (metaphysically speaking) and sitting through a judicial to get out properly.

  Maybe 33 years as jw straight off (18 years under Hillary Step formula:-))skewed my thinking, but just curious....
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  How Long A JW ( Baptised )?

  by hillary_step in

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  i frequently read on this board that somebody has 'been a jw for over 25 years' and then learn that they are in fact 25 years and three days old.. i am very easily confused, in fact i actually got inside a car of similar color to my own recently and spent at least five minutes with a furrowed brow trying to force my car key into its ignition, fortunately, i realised my error before i was arrested.

  so, just to humor me, can you all post how long you were/are baptised jw's?.

  thank you -- hs.

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  KenUK

  Born into "truth";

  Baptized aged 14 in 1975 (just in case you understand...)

  Walked out after memorial April 1993

  D/F May 1993

  @18 years..
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  American Words Unused Here. Vice-Versa Also.

  by Englishman in

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  in the uk you never hear words such as:.

  railroad.

  mortician.

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  KenUK

  Julien..

  Edited as requested:-)
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  American Words Unused Here. Vice-Versa Also.

  by Englishman in

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  in the uk you never hear words such as:.

  railroad.

  mortician.

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  KenUK

  Some more...

  Liquor Store / Off Licence

  Batchelor Party / Stag Party

  Freeway / Motorway

  Drugstore /Chemist

  Vacation / Holiday

  Restroom / Toilet

  And of course the famous...

  Fanny pack / Bum Bag

  :-))
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  Queen's New Years Honours

  by Englishman in

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  "london - oscar-winning actor ben kingsley, boxer lennox lewis and veteran high-pitched pop stars the bee gees were among the great and good feted in the queen's new year honours list for 2002. .

  other awards went to pop singer helen sade, best known for her sexy hit "smooth operator", actress lynn redgrave and england cricket captain nasser hussain, who all received obes (officer of the order of the british empire).

  terence leahy, chief executive of britain's largest retailer tesco, and robin saxby, chairman of the chip designer arm holdings, received knighthoods.

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  Alan Shearer missed for a knighthood again...

  Mebbe next year:-)
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  What did I miss? Big Ray is closing WOL!!!

  by LDH in

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  just noticed effective tonight he's pulling the site!

  wow--did someone else post about this?.

  * http://www.witnessesonline.com/.

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  Should we go to the study hall.....

  After all:

  We all want to "dig for wisdom"... this is where we get together for our regular theocratic discussions.
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  where have all the JWs gone

  by badboy in

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  i remember the days when the jws came round practically every weeek, nowadays you can go months without seeing a jw.. what has happened that they don't came round so often?

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  Interesting:-)

  Because I haven't missed them I hadn't noticed. Last knock on the door I had was from an "elda" prior to the memorial - since then nothing. (Not even an old mag/leaflet left (my old trick to get my placements up) when a regular n/h!)
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  GRRRRRRR.......People!!!

  by sleepy in

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  do you ever feel like that?.

  i,ve just attended my own funeral, well it might as well have been .. i'm now nonexistant in my former friends eyes.. they have to stay away , i'm a danger to them.. so i can now count on one hand how many friends i have 2 , including my wife.. the other friend has also left the truth but i dont see him much as he lives in another town .. so since i work on my own i'm going to be pretty lonely for a while .. no more weekends down the pub or staying down anyones house.. i wonder whats on telly.. er nothing..oh crap.. well there always next door cat i wonder if hes good at conversation..here kitty , kitty.

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  Hi sleepy,

  I guess no right or wrong reply to this - each person will react differently - when your whole infrastructure of life has been built around the "truth" and you're suddenly out of the "club" then every negative emotion under the sun surfaces - it did for me..

  Like yourself I was a jw from birth to age 33, moved around half a dozen congs and had friends in many towns - until April 1993 when I left and was then d/f. I live in a smallish town and my "friends" actually crossed the street (if the traffic let them!) or turned their head to one side avoiding eye contact and they still do today!.

  Apart from this cheering you up (!) whats it done 8 years down the line - I have no friends at all - Why - I don't know - mebbe a hang up in trusting people after the jw experience. It may be deemed shallow but having been on the net since @1995 its like a frienship, but at a distance (safe and no emotions there...)

  I'd be interested in seeing how others coped - is being in from birth and getting out many years later different from someone becoming a jw in "later" years the leaving.
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  How to wash your dishes properly

  by spacegirl in

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  i remembered the other day reading in an awake, oh it must have been about five or six years ago, an article on how to wash your dishes properly.

  for god's sake, do jw's not know how to do that and do the borg think they have to tell them how to do it.

  it's cracking me up just thinking about it.. to make you laugh even more, in the next issue of awake someone had written a bloody letter thanking them for the article and how it had helped them so much and had a query on whether to rinse dishes with water or not after washing.

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  Spacegirl,

  Yes - one must rinse dishes after washing to remove the soap suds - preferably hot water - avoids the teatowel getting too wet.

  Eccl Ch 8 vs 97
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  Favorite childhood clapping rhymes

  by hungry4life in

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  my 9 year old daughter is really into the clapping rhymes.

  i t really brings back memories here is one of my favorites.

  it would be great if you would post yours.

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  I know Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water..

  Always thought that was a strange place to get a pail of water from..

  Not sure if you could clap to this one anyway; you'd drop the pail..

  Sorry:-)