Posts by Chemical Emotions

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Ex-JW Women website!

by Chemical Emotions in

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i just created a website for jw and ex-jw women.

please visit it and tell me what you think (and maybe sign up hehe)!

it's a work in progress.

Chemical Emotions

I just created a website for JW and ex-JW women. Please visit it and tell me what you think (and maybe sign up hehe)! It's a work in progress. Is it ok? What should I do next?

http://www.exjwwomen.webs.com

Edit: Sorry, gave you the wrong address. Fixed it.

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I want to create an Ex-JW website. Please help! Need suggestions!

by Chemical Emotions in

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i'm not trying to rip off this site.

i love this site, and i've found others, like jwfacts, that are also awesome.. but i thought it might be fun to try one myself.

a forum-type site where i can also post cute things on the home page or something.. maybe for ex-jw women?

Chemical Emotions

I think my motivation is just to help people like I've been helped.

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I want to create an Ex-JW website. Please help! Need suggestions!

by Chemical Emotions in

jw
friends

i'm not trying to rip off this site.

i love this site, and i've found others, like jwfacts, that are also awesome.. but i thought it might be fun to try one myself.

a forum-type site where i can also post cute things on the home page or something.. maybe for ex-jw women?

Chemical Emotions

Darkside Blues: Thanks. I think I'm going to go through with this soon.

I'll check out yahoo groups.

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I want to create an Ex-JW website. Please help! Need suggestions!

by Chemical Emotions in

jw
friends

i'm not trying to rip off this site.

i love this site, and i've found others, like jwfacts, that are also awesome.. but i thought it might be fun to try one myself.

a forum-type site where i can also post cute things on the home page or something.. maybe for ex-jw women?

Chemical Emotions

I'm not trying to rip off this site. I love this site, and I've found others, like JWfacts, that are also awesome.

But I thought it might be fun to try one myself. A forum-type site where I can also post cute things on the home page or something.

Maybe for ex-JW women? Or something? IDK. What does everyone think? Any ideas?

If I make it, it has to be free. I can't afford to spend money on it. Maybe use Webs.com or something, and make a free site.

I can't devote a ton of time to it, but I'd be able to visit it frequently.

I have a Win98 and DSL. I have no experience in making websites, but I know a bit about computers and the internet.

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i found this site randomly the other day on an unrelated search, and its nice to find a place where people can discuss a relgion that in house cannot be discussed without either being quoted mantras or a very skewed view of the world.. ok about me.. im a 24 year old taiwanese-american, and i have been raised as a jw from the age of about three to the age of 17, when i unoffically left.

i started to have doubts around age 12, but did what i was supposed to to keep mommy and daddy happy.

my parents are jws, as well as my older 1/2 sister, and my younger sister.

Chemical Emotions

Hi there!

"Jws have left me cynical and maladjusted to the real world."

I can identify with that!

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December AWAKE entitled: The Truth About Christmas

by AwSnap in

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i just found an envelope outside my door.

as i picked it up, it felt a little heavy.

inside, there is an awake, and print-out, and a hand written note:.

Chemical Emotions

lisaBObeesa

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Do you have to deal with a psychopathic person?

by moshe in

def: psychopathy (/sa?

'k?p?i/[1][2]) is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness.

psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime.

Chemical Emotions

Well darn. I posted something on here a couple hours ago but it disapeared.

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sorry...but how do they not notice???

by oompa in

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that their bible is different from any bible anyone else reads in that it has added the name jehovah to the new testament greek scriptures??

when it is not there in any ancient manuscript????

i mean they put it there where it aint quoted at all....like all 12 times in revelation....i mean how can they not have a problem with that???

Chemical Emotions

Snoozy, I love your avatar.

On a more relevant note, Jehovah doesn't like it when you question the GB. You've been marked.

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JWs Depression and Suicide

by 00DAD in

since jehovah's witnesses supposedly have "the truth" and are part of god's visible organization living in a "spiritual paradise" you would naturally expect that they should be the happiest people on earth!

this clearly is not the case.

wha happened?

Chemical Emotions

NC: Boy, I've heard some similar comments from elders, mostly older ones. Such mysoginistic, outdated ideas.

3rdgen: Thanks.

What's sad is that many JWs who come across these posts, depressed or not themselves, will assume we're all liars or we didn't rely on god's Org ebough. *sigh*

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JWs Depression and Suicide

by 00DAD in

since jehovah's witnesses supposedly have "the truth" and are part of god's visible organization living in a "spiritual paradise" you would naturally expect that they should be the happiest people on earth!

this clearly is not the case.

wha happened?

Chemical Emotions

Although I know more JWs than nonJWs, and although I have met a few nonJWs who have had depression or seemed depressed, I have known, or at least met MANY JWs who were depresses, uch more than nonJWs, it seems.

A few weeks ago I heard a talk at my KH. It wasn't a great one, of course, but I noticed that the speaker emphasized that 1) a lot of JWs get depressed and 2) it doesn't mean that Jehovahs doesn't love you or that you're doing something wrong. Apparently many JWs tell depressed JWs that they don't have J's holy spirit. I think I recently read an article that breifly mentioned that too. They still tend to accuse the depressed, but they're being more subtle about it.

I haven't heard a lot about JWs being such "happy people" recently!

And I was depressed. Suicidal. I'll tell my whole story on here one day, but for now, suffice to say I'm much happier knowing that I'm not a bad person for thinking that hitting kids (even on "acceptable areas") is wrong, that nonJWs (and especially not their children) don't deserve to die horribly, etc. I don't live in fear of not being good enough for god. I don't worry that I'll get raped and will have "asked for it" just because I wore a low-cut top, or that I'll have committed fornication and no JW man will want me because I'm damaged goods. I now fully admit to myself that I believe in feminism without any guilt. I don't feel the need to have any respect for abusers, no matter what their age or reltaion to me, and I can stand up for myself better than I used to. I still get bouts of semi-depression for a few hours or days, occasionally, because I still haven't disassociated myself just yet. But I've finally gotten a taste of what life outside the WTS cult is like (mentally and partly physically), and I'm NEVER going back.