Posts by shakyground

after many years of visiting this site off and on since its inception i would finally like to throw in my two cents and opinions into the mix.. first of all, i am a born in, baptized at the tender age of 9. although i totally disagree with allowing someone at that age to get baptized, i will say that i was very imformed and i knew my dogma!

at the same time, though, i was aware of many inconsistancies with many of the beliefs and practices of the jw faith.

i was adopted by my grandparents since i was 2 months and they had been jws since 1950s.

shakyground

What's up redeemer? I'm kinda new here too and you are a genius for that star wars analogy. Anakin didn't turn to the dark side until he was on the council and not allowed to be a master. Also me and countless others can probably relate to how Anakin had to hide his non jedi wife from the council at the risk of being kicked out of the jedi order(disfellowshipped) lol how many people had non witness friends and girlfriends that they try to hide from the congregation? lol I'm guessing many. I'm not even baptized, been studying for awhile but only recently started having doubts, cut off all my non witness friends and most of my fam are witness. For a long time the woman i'm seeing now used to always recommend going out and doing things that were way too close to the hall and territory and I always made an excuse as to why we should go do this for our date all the way on the other side of town lol. Like me you will probably get addicted to JWN lol I lurk everyday.

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I need advice, I know many of you have been in this same situation.

by shakyground in

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i've been seeing this woman who is very special to me for quite some time now.

there is only one problem, she goes to church every sunday and tuesday.

she keeps asking me to come and complaining that i don't even give it a chance.

shakyground

Thanks guys for all the advice. Isaac you hit the nail on the head. I have slowed down my meeting attendance as of late and I'm definately getting raised eyebrows. The thing is, since I've been seeing her she has always tried to get me to come to church. She says things like everyone wonders where my mysterious boyfriend is, so and so is dying to meet you. I went to that picnic trying to appease and meet her church members, many of whom are her cousins and uncles and aunts. I already met all of them and socialized so why am I still getting bothered about coming to her church?? I think she just wants me to conform, she says I am husband material all the time, but I am sick and tired of always doing what others want me to do!!!!!!!!! No I don't believe in hell and no I don't believe your uncle is a prophet and you aunt a prophetess!!!! If I never set foot in a hall again I probably never will believe these things. I'm not really feeling organized religion right now. Obviously if I haven't come yet I feel uncomfortable and really don't want to come so why can't you respect that? I don't care if your pastor/uncle keeps bugging you about me. People that wasn't raised witness or around witnesses never understand....

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I need advice, I know many of you have been in this same situation.

by shakyground in

jw
friends

i've been seeing this woman who is very special to me for quite some time now.

there is only one problem, she goes to church every sunday and tuesday.

she keeps asking me to come and complaining that i don't even give it a chance.

shakyground

I grew up on Soul food Entirely P so that's not much of a temptation lol.

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I need advice, I know many of you have been in this same situation.

by shakyground in

jw
friends

i've been seeing this woman who is very special to me for quite some time now.

there is only one problem, she goes to church every sunday and tuesday.

she keeps asking me to come and complaining that i don't even give it a chance.

shakyground

I've been seeing this woman who is very special to me for quite some time now. There is only one problem, she goes to church every sunday and tuesday. She keeps asking me to come and complaining that I don't even give it a chance. She knows how I was raised and it seems like people who were not raised witness or raised around witnesses will never understand, no matter how thouroughly you explain it to them. I'm still kinda hesitant about going to a church. She goes to a black pentocostal church, lots of music and testifying or whatever lol. She just doesn't understand how deeply ingrained contempt for any other religion especially other christian religions are in witnesses over the years. I just feel like slowing down on meetings and then going to church is not really what I want. Kinda like getting out of a relationship and jumping right into another one. It took alot of balls for me to go to her church picnic and I was dreading that. The whole way up to the park I was thinking about how many witnesses go here to play basketball lol. Her pastor is her uncle and he kept bugging me about coming to the church. I told him I'll make it soon just to shut him up. Now they keep asking when i'm coming. I told her that I'm thinking about not going to meetings at all anymore and that I don't know about jumping into something else and quickly changed the subject. Don't know what to do man....

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What imaginary places would you visit if you could?

by rebel8 in

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risa [star trek].

several of the places in the old james bond movies.

willie wonka factory.

shakyground

The Jedi Temple

Corelia

Naboo

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It's funny how situations like this created so much drama.

by shakyground in

i'm sitting here at work by myself reminiscing about an old situation that created unneccesary tension.

a few years ago as my mother was in the hospital just diagnosed with ovarian cancer,most family were already at the hospital but my sister who lived in new york at the time had not arrived yet.

my mother who was newly reinstated and knew that my sister and her ex husband now boyfriend wanted to stay the week in her house.

shakyground

That's funny NewChapter because I know a sister who whould not attend the baby shower of a study because she was not married. She said even tho she got pregnant before she knew about Jehovah's laws, it would still be like honoring fornacation....