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  What is your happy or comforting memory from your childhood?

  by MissFit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i think of my childhood i tend to organize my memories based on the houses i lived in.

  the house i remember the most was the house on the hill when i was 6. i can still picture it in my mind.

  it had a big porch with a porch swing.

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  Mine is similar..

  I had a wonderful Grandfather and a fussy but good hearted Grandmother who took me away for a few weeks of wonderfulness every summer.

  No meetings, no praying, no list of what was wrong and that I shouldnt do...

  My grandmother worked afternoon shift as a nurse at the hospital, leaving my grandfather to entertain me. He liked to spend his afternoons fishing in the ocean with those long lines you cast from the beach.

  I would wander wherever my heart lead me, collecting shells and meeting other children, always ending up at the boardwalk for a snow cone my grandfather and given me a coin for.
  

  I remember feeling freedom then in the sun and the salty tang of the air.

  Back at home, my mom talked a lot about a paradise but my grandparents actually provided it.
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  The "faithful slave" urges confession in latest Watchtower!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  watchtower october 2017, page 11, par.

  17 - confess and abandon secret sins.

  some christians who have committed a serious sin try to cover it over in order to avoid embarrassing themselves or disappointing others.

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  People are scared to confess for the same reason they are scared to leave...

  a person could lose their entire family and social structure.

  So when an article like this comes along it heightens the feelings of guilt over trivial (and sometimes more weighty) wrongdoings.

  Then what happens?

  To relieve the torturous guilt feelings the individual does more.

  More donating of time and money.

  More self flagellation about trying to walk the straight and narrow.

  Also, the individual "gives up stuff" maybe its watching sports.

  Maybe its watching TV in general. Maybe its social time...

  whatever it is the poor person makes up some kind of penance and tries to carry it out.

  This all can only benefit the Org. Their lazy words in the article are meant to be a guilt trip punch to the gut, like cracking a whip on the poor publisher who hasnt managed to be a "perfect" Witness yet.
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  Who Do You Think Is HOTTTT?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what attracts you in a male or female?

  give me an example or better yet a pic to tell me what you like.😈.

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  I dont want to hit dislike tepid because I really like you but

  blech! LOL
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  Who Do You Think Is HOTTTT?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what attracts you in a male or female?

  give me an example or better yet a pic to tell me what you like.😈.

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  Ah great picture oppostate. Eye of the beholder and all that.

  I tend to fall hard for intellectually sexy. My latest fascination is Jordan Peterson. He gets better and better looking to me the more he talks!
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  My Younger Brother Has Left The Witnesses!! :-D

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  absolutely thrilled to give you the news that my younger brother, a zealous full-time pioneer has left the witnesses!!.

  i haven't seen or spoke to him in a year.

  i'd lost all contact with him, no facebook, no mobile number, i didn't even know his address because he'd moved house.

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  Fantastic PE!

  Simply wonderful.
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  What "Rules" Did The Elders In Your KH Make?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  some congregations were known as liberal and others were considered very conservative.

  back in the 1970s a nearby congregation made all speakers who gave public talks a white shirt to wear.

  if a speaker came in wearing anything but white they were brought into the library and were given a white shirt!

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  My hall -

  No jeans skirts for sisters - even in field service.

  The white dress shirt rule also

  No cowboy boots

  No ear piercings beyond one per ear (sisters only - need I even say that?)

  No 2 door cars (not spiritual)

  ah, those were the days!
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  What made you stay "in" even when you knew it wasn't the "truth"?

  by mentalclarity in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i've been thinking a lot about why i stayed a jw for so long even though i had always had doubts about the doctrines.

  i was born into the religion, left and came back as an adult for another decade.

  some of the things that come to mind (besides the threat of shunning-and this isn't to minimize that very real threat) was:.

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  Love that Giordano
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  Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

  one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

  if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.

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  By the way...I meant to add welcome to the group MentalClarity!

  On the matter of suicide, I know an elders wife who has attempted it a couple of times. Each time it gets hushed up and covered over by the elder body.

  The bulk of the congregation knows too but its not openly acknowledged.

  An unhealthy environment by any ones standards~
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  Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

  one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

  if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.

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  How horrible to be publicly reproved for a suicide attempt.

  Words fail me.
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  What made you stay "in" even when you knew it wasn't the "truth"?

  by mentalclarity in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i've been thinking a lot about why i stayed a jw for so long even though i had always had doubts about the doctrines.

  i was born into the religion, left and came back as an adult for another decade.

  some of the things that come to mind (besides the threat of shunning-and this isn't to minimize that very real threat) was:.

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  mentalclarity
  @millie210 family is the big one too! I don't have any family (siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins) who are not JWs. It would have been easier of at least one family member was not JW.

  Boy do I agree!

  Thats ok though...I am of the opinion that at least some of our still in family envy us.

  Of course they shove the thought down and repress it immediately but thats not the same as never having the thought is it?