I love hockey but wasn't allowed to play in organized leagues because they had links to the parrish and the games and practices could interfere with meetings and service. One of the local teams I could have played on was where NY Islander's Mike Bossy started. After I turned 18 I played in industrial leagues and quickly realized that I was quite good despite being the shortest player on the team! 40 years later, I still play twice a week and still ask myself where my determination could have taken me...Today I'm not only the shortest player, but also the oldest on the team!
Posts by NVR2L8
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26For the born-in/raised in, you ever get resentful upon seeing kids involved with organized sports?
by Theocratic Sedition inthis past saturday, i was watching the georgetown/syracuse game, and a nike commercial was played during one of the breaks.
i couldn't locate the exact commercial, but below is a variation of it that has scenes from the same one that aired on saturday.
man did i feel some heavy resentment towards the wt during and especially after the commercial aired.
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Where is Jehovah?
by His Excellency inhow do we reconcile those bullshits being told at the meetings about how jehovah's eyes are upon us and how his figurative wings serves as protection to those who are destitute with the condition of these sickly sudanese refugees at this camp.. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihlh1xd2lu&feature=g-all-u.
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Mouthy I will not supply any rocks for your garden...I have way too much respect for you! At this time I have not been able to disassociate the belief in a god from the WT lies...so I abstain from believing.
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Where is Jehovah?
by His Excellency inhow do we reconcile those bullshits being told at the meetings about how jehovah's eyes are upon us and how his figurative wings serves as protection to those who are destitute with the condition of these sickly sudanese refugees at this camp.. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihlh1xd2lu&feature=g-all-u.
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He's with the Easter bunny, tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the Boogeyman and living in Caleb's imagination...sorry he is not allowed to have imagination with the exception of being Jehovah's friend...
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POLL: How long did you remain a JW from point of baptism to leaving the KH
by Terry ini was baptised --1963. left in 1978. fifteen years.
pre-baptism, another 5 years.
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43 years
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At over 60 years in the Cult, Is Lois Lane the Longest serving JW wake up here?
by cantleave ini was in 42 years and thought that was a long time.
do you know anyone else who woke up after being in 60 or 70 years?
it gives me hope that maybe my mum will wake up..................................
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No regrets,
The talk was You can be secure in an unsafe world...and it highlighted some of the elements that threatens our lives such as natural disasters. I started looking for the latest stats on earthquakes and quickly realized the WT claims of a drastic increase since 1914 were bogus. What else could the WT lie about was my next question...Alarm bells were already ringing when I had given a service meeting part on how we should only use the WT publications to do research or when we started having a special issue of the Wt for study only. Then the book study was fitted in the midweek meeting transforming it into a form of speed-meeting that lost all meanings...flood gates were now fully open...
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At over 60 years in the Cult, Is Lois Lane the Longest serving JW wake up here?
by cantleave ini was in 42 years and thought that was a long time.
do you know anyone else who woke up after being in 60 or 70 years?
it gives me hope that maybe my mum will wake up..................................
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Cantleave,
My mom will turn 80 this year and she is still pioneering...Since my dad died almost 10 years ago she has become obsessed with service and meetings. She has no other hobbies or passtimes than cult-related activities and she has no time for a normal live. My younger brother who has never been in the truth recently became a grand father and he wanted to come and visit mom with his grand son...well although she always complains that he never visits her, she gave him a specific time to come since all other days she is out in service or at the meetings...so my brother said that he wasn't going to go out in service just to be with her.
So trying to help mom to free herself from the cult would be taking away her sole reason to live. I live 600 km from mom and I haven't told her how I feel about the JWs...I think she knows I am inactive...and if I was to DA or be DF she would be very hurt...
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If your "brothers and sisters" in the congregation are more important than your "unbelieving" family and relatives, it's a cult.
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At over 60 years in the Cult, Is Lois Lane the Longest serving JW wake up here?
by cantleave ini was in 42 years and thought that was a long time.
do you know anyone else who woke up after being in 60 or 70 years?
it gives me hope that maybe my mum will wake up..................................
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I was 3 when my parents were baptized, always regular in service from age 6, enrolled in the ministry school at 8, baptized at 14, was a MS on and off from age 20, then as I was reaching out to be an elder I found the truth about the truth while doing research for a public talk...at age 54. I continued for a year then I stopped going to the meetings after the DC in 2010. What I heard and saw made me realize that I was in a cult...
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At what age do most or many JWs kids count as "publisher?"
by Gayle inwhat is considered as a requirement for them now-a-days to turn in their time as a "publisher?
" among born-in, how young were you?
my parents became jws when i was 9 yrs old.
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I was 6...many mornings my mom would walk me to school and one block away there was a busy bus stop where we would do street corner work...standing with the large Watchtower and Awake mags of the early sixties...Many of my school mates and teachers would pass by and see me standing there...and after half an hour I would then go to school. That was the routine every morning when mom was a "vacation" pioneer in April.
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Can't they EVER answer a "normal" question?
by mac n cheese inok, so, some jws stopped by my apartment today.
i knew two of the three that came to the door.
they were all very friendly, no mention was made of our long absence from the kingdom hall, even though hubby is sporting a full beard.. here's what i don't get, i asked after several of their family members and the responses were, "oh, my sister and her husband are now regular pioneers" and "he's a ministerial servant now.
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I agree Mac n cheese...every year my now 79 year old pioneer mom sends us a wedding aniversary card...which usually include the latest news about her. It reads exactly like the annoucements at the service meeting...we are having our special assembly day blablablabla, going to pioneer school for the 3rd time blablablabla, your brother the elder, his wife and daughter are pioneering, blablablablabla, may Jehovah bless your marriage, blablablabla, I am so busy in service, the end is near. I asked my brother the elder why is it that we just can't express "normal" feelings for each other without feeling obligated to include the organization or our accomplishments in the ministry? Is it that we have no natural love for each other and that we love the organization more? This year the wedding aniversary card arrived and for the first time in years there were no mention of "theocratic" activities, of Jehovah's blessing...just how much she loves us and our children and grand children and how she wished us the best aniversary ever! I guess my brother the elder talked to her...and that not all is lost.