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  Meet Your Neighbor--Thomas Windley!

  by Voyager in

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  this one comes from (sun news), the thread is incomplete at the end, but here is the story anyway.. one of the first things i thought about when i read this article, was how many jws i knew who were (not) permitted to have (federal) or government jobs in times past.

  i also wondered how many social security numbers this guy may have sent to the watchtower at their request, violating privacy regulations.

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  Wolfgirl

  "His job is his hobby."
  
  Am I the only one who finds that sad?
  
  I don't really think he'd share SS#s.
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  Elders raid a SDA church!

  by ozziepost in

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  is it true what we're hearing?

  it's been reported to us that two elders burst in to a sda church service about a month ago seeking to trap a witness man there.

  the man, a witness for 14 years, had become disillusioned with the affairs of the wts in australia after viewing the "sunday" program on channel nine which exposed the cover-up of paedophilia in the witness movement.

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  What an utter lack of respect for other people. How would they like it if someone "raided" them? Whether or not you agree with a particular religion's beliefs, you don't just burst in on their services.
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  What Is Your Biggest Regret Because You Were a Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  growing up as a witness makes it nearly impossible to deal with the "world", as a child.

  constant pressure is put on witness kids to conform.

  most lead a "double life" out of necessity.

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  I can think of one, and he wore a firefighter's uniform. Hee-hee!
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  Thanks for such a warm welcome

  by AloneinOh in

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  wow!

  it's really encouraging to find such warm hearted people so willing to welcome a new guy.. all of your kind words have made a difference already.

  i have been reading hundreds of posts and i never imagined that there were so many others out there going through or have gone through the same thing.. i think you all are right about talking to my parents.

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  Glad you've decided to stick around. :) I had a friend who lived in mid-Ohio. Last I heard, he was still a JW. I wish he wasn't. I'm considering sending him a letter. He lived in the Mansfield area.
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  Depressed and about to lose it

  by AloneinOh in

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  once i left i became about as "worldly" as a person could get.

  world that once i left i went totally out of control.

  when i left, .

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  Wolfgirl

  I remember how I felt when I discovered 'the truth about the truth.' I felt like someone very strong had punched me in the stomach. I wanted to throw up. I cried. I felt physically ill. And then...
  
  ...I got angry.
  
  I used that anger for a while, to get over the pain of both the abuse I suffered, and the lies I was told. And then I let it go.
  
  Give it time. Learn what you can about what you've been taught, so that you realise just why you should never go back. And then...
  
  ...move on with your life. Enjoy your freedom with your wife. Be happy. Don't let them "win." You can do anything you want to do. Be alive, REALLY alive.
  
  
  By the way, I was born and raised in Ohio. Spent the first 27 years of my life there. I'm originally from the Akron/Cuyahoga Falls area.
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  What? He's not in the truth???!!!!

  by gerbils in

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  2 1/2 years ago i met my non-jw boyfriend, and i received a shepherding call from two lovely elders who told me that i was mixing good with evil, and didn't i know the man i loved was going to die at armaggedon?

  they left me in tears...not as though i left my boyfriend of course.

  i've made sure that things like that don't get to me anymore.

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  More than once. OK, more than twice. :D
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  Marriage material in JW

  by JustTickledPink in

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  i grew up jw and was your average blonde, blue eyed florida girl.

  i of course being a normal girl had raging hormones and was always looking around at boys.

  i was a pioneer though and homeschooled, so i only met jws and was always of the mindset that i had to marry a jw.

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  "Oh my god........that just strikes me as soooo funny......and typical! Did he try selling this shit to unsuspecting brothers and sisters? I can just see an entire congregation of orange people showing up at the meeting.......oh man, I can't stop laughing at this one......He sounds like a regular Donald Trump: ambitious, knowledgable, successful..........LMAO......."
  
  
  Sell it? LOL...I don't think anyone wanted to look like him. :D Successful? He was nearing 40 and still lived with his parents. Does that tell you anything? Hee-hee!
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  Marriage material in JW

  by JustTickledPink in

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  i grew up jw and was your average blonde, blue eyed florida girl.

  i of course being a normal girl had raging hormones and was always looking around at boys.

  i was a pioneer though and homeschooled, so i only met jws and was always of the mindset that i had to marry a jw.

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  That happened to me with a guy who was about 12 years older than me. He used to make his own fake tanning lotion. He was orange. His nickname, unknown to him, was Wood Grain. He listed his criteria for women: 1. Blonde, 2. Tan, 3. Spiritual. Uhhh...OK.
  
  Anyway, I'm neither blonde nor tan. He asked me out anyway. Well, his version of asking me out was, "What would you do if we went on a date?" He asked me in front of the entire bookstudy group.
  
  I just stared at him, looked at my friend, and then said, "Nothing, coz we'd never go on a date." Hey, if he's going to put me on the spot in front of all those people, he can get embarrassed in front of all those people.
  
  A year later, he asked my sister out. She's 5 years younger than me. Thankfully, she turned him down too. As far as I know, he's still single. Blech.
  
  My husband is 9 years older than me. We have a wonderful relationship. I've never been in any sort of relationship (friendship or otherwise) that is this easy.
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  MY non-JW mother will be in Paradise Earth!

  by badboy in

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  i have been told by a jw that our family knows that my mother will be in paradise earth because she was a christian..

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  Wolfgirl

  I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that many JWs believe their loved ones will be resurrected to paradise if they die before Armageddon. I know my father hopes his parents will die before Armageddon, so that he can see them again. What a crock of.....
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  Being a JW Woman - Was It Really That Bad?

  by eljefe in

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  i have seen quite a few posts from many ex-jw women about how unhappy they were about male domination in congregation.

  was it really that bad?

  when i was still a jw, no one ever told me anything to that effect.

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  Having a very domineering "father," I was kind of used to it. But it really irked me when a man was chosen to do a job that I knew I could do MUCH better. It was even worse when the MEN knew I could do it better than them, but they still insisted on doing it because they were men. Apparently, being born with a penis makes you more important. :D
  
  My first (and only) JW boyfriend started talking about how I'd have to do all the work around the house if we got married, because he didn't know how to do anything. I worked full-time; he worked part-time. I mentioned that, and he ever so graciously said he could run the vacuum. I told him he could learn how to do other things to help me, since I worked more hours than him. He said no. Pffft. I broke up with him.
  
  I was always a strong, independent woman in that sense, and my mouth got me in "trouble" fairly often.
  
  JWs believe that "worldly" women have such a warped view, and that not being submissive to the 'head of the house' is so evil. I think that's ridiculous. I am not "submissive" to my husband. He is not "submissive" to me. We are partners. We work together to make the marriage good. I do things for him; he does things for me. We discuss decisions together, and we both work for the best possible outcome. Most of the time, we have the same ideas about how things should be done. If we disagree, quite often, he does things the way I think they should be done, because I am more practical than he is. And both of us can easily say that the other was right and we were wrong.
  
  That's how a good marriage works. Not like so many of the JW marriages I saw, where the woman was a doormat and the husband "considered her opinion" and then did whatever he wanted anyway, no matter the outcome.
  
  I was always grateful that I didn't have to give public talks, be in long elders' meetings, etc. It did annoy me that women were given the "menial" jobs when it came to KH cleaning or building sites. 'Here sister, go clean the toilet.' HA! YOU go clean the toilet. I'm going to vacuum. (That's the way it usually went for me, when I actually showed up to clean the hall.)
  
  When our congregation was building their new hall, one of the elders suggested that I help carry nails to the brothers and sweep up junk. I gave him the most incredulous look I could manage, and then told him I was going to go build frames. I did very well too, thank you very much. Hee-hee!
  
  Thank "god" I'm out.