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  never looked at your names till now

  by Found Sheep in

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  the down side of having a name like raveen is that names don't mean anything to me.

  all people become nothing... any odd name people undesrsand?

  i was called she... you... not my name for most of my life... that made me not care what your name was.... so i don't know people i want to know!!!

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  sizemik....... i agree. i like raveen too. nice name
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  A Bumb in with some JWs....

  by dm6 in

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  just to brief you all who dont know me since im still fairly new, i am darren, i am 24 years old, and i studied with the jws for about a year before i came to my senses.. here is a little "experience" i had a short while ago, 2 or 3 weeks back i thought i would share it all with you.. i just arrvied in new zealand a couple of months ago now, after being in england for so long, i decided to move back here and see my parents.. i was getting over the whole "indoctrination" process and things were looking good!

  aside from the time i spent with jws, i only ever spoke to them once, i was about 12 and they dropped a magazine off at my parents house from which i thanked them since my parents were not home, closed the door, casually threw the magazine in the bin and carried on doing whatever i was doing.. after all these years of not seeing them or knowing anythign about them etc, i did my study in the uk and left that and i am now here.. so i had much more of understanding about jws etc.. my parents and i decided to drive to rotorua from new plymouth for a family drive and quality bonding time :) on the way there, about half way through, we decided to stop on a lay by and there was like a patch of grass no longer than a strip of about 15 metres with 2 benches.. we had a little mini(ish) picnic there and coffee before continuing our road trip.. i forgot to mention that as we pulled up to stop there, there was a car at the first bench and a group inside and a few people outside.. i didnt think abything of it, i actually thought they must have been some family doing what we were doing, a road trip, since there were not even any houses near by, it was all lovely views of mountains/hillsides etc.. anyway, we sit down at this bench about 5 or 6 metres away from them, and one raises there voice and says "hi there!

  " so my dad responds hey!.

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  yeah hehe my dad is sevout Catholic though, all of the family are. Funny thing is she would have tried to start a conversation with my dad about it if she knew he was a catholic, the only problem there for her is, since Catholics are primary meat targets for JWs (because a lot dont know their bible) my dad knows more than the average JW since he reads in private on his own all the time. Im sure he would have demolished her!

  Anyway, nice to meet you still thinking! what part of NZ?

  I have a facebook page if you (or anyone for that matter) would like to join up.

  facebook.com/snowball21
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  A Bumb in with some JWs....

  by dm6 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just to brief you all who dont know me since im still fairly new, i am darren, i am 24 years old, and i studied with the jws for about a year before i came to my senses.. here is a little "experience" i had a short while ago, 2 or 3 weeks back i thought i would share it all with you.. i just arrvied in new zealand a couple of months ago now, after being in england for so long, i decided to move back here and see my parents.. i was getting over the whole "indoctrination" process and things were looking good!

  aside from the time i spent with jws, i only ever spoke to them once, i was about 12 and they dropped a magazine off at my parents house from which i thanked them since my parents were not home, closed the door, casually threw the magazine in the bin and carried on doing whatever i was doing.. after all these years of not seeing them or knowing anythign about them etc, i did my study in the uk and left that and i am now here.. so i had much more of understanding about jws etc.. my parents and i decided to drive to rotorua from new plymouth for a family drive and quality bonding time :) on the way there, about half way through, we decided to stop on a lay by and there was like a patch of grass no longer than a strip of about 15 metres with 2 benches.. we had a little mini(ish) picnic there and coffee before continuing our road trip.. i forgot to mention that as we pulled up to stop there, there was a car at the first bench and a group inside and a few people outside.. i didnt think abything of it, i actually thought they must have been some family doing what we were doing, a road trip, since there were not even any houses near by, it was all lovely views of mountains/hillsides etc.. anyway, we sit down at this bench about 5 or 6 metres away from them, and one raises there voice and says "hi there!

  " so my dad responds hey!.

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  Hi all!

  Just to brief you all who dont know me since im still fairly new, I am Darren, I am 24 years old, and i studied with the JWs for about a year before i came to my senses.

  Here is a little "experience" i had a short while ago, 2 or 3 weeks back i thought i would share it all with you.

  I just arrvied in New Zealand a couple of months ago now, after being in England for so long, i decided to move back here and see my parents.

  I was getting over the whole "indoctrination" process and things were looking good! Aside from the time i spent with JWs, i only ever spoke to them once, i was about 12 and they dropped a magazine off at my parents house from which i thanked them since my parents were not home, closed the door, casually threw the magazine in the bin and carried on doing whatever i was doing.

  After all these years of not seeing them or knowing anythign about them etc, i did my study in the UK and left that and i am now here.

  so i had much more of understanding about JWs etc.

  My parents and I decided to drive to rotorua from New Plymouth for a family drive and quality bonding time :) On the way there, about half way through, we decided to stop on a lay by and there was like a patch of grass no longer than a strip of about 15 metres with 2 benches.

  we had a little mini(ish) picnic there and coffee before continuing our road trip.

  i forgot to mention that as we pulled up to stop there, there was a car at the first bench and a group inside and a few people outside.

  I didnt think abything of it, i actually thought they must have been some family doing what we were doing, a road trip, since there were not even any houses near by, it was all lovely views of mountains/hillsides etc.

  Anyway, We sit down at this bench about 5 or 6 metres away from them, and one raises there voice and says "Hi there!" So my Dad responds Hey!

  "lovely weather today isnt it?" Immediately alarm bells rang off when i heard that, i KNEW after spending a bit of time with JWs, they all seem to have this similar personality they develop, mor elike a "cult personality" i would call it, full of false smiles and pretend happiness, But the conversations alway sstart off about the poxy weather.

  So my dad replies and conversation is kept short about where we are from and what we are doing etc, it was actually nice.

  My mother who is extremely ANTI JW, was quietly sitting down listening drinking coffee. Obviously my Parents know all about my past with all this nonsense.

  So A woman walks over holding something.......(drum roll please.......) and as she approaches my father she says, "hi there thought i would come over rather than shout, were all actually Jehovahs Witnesses and i have this lovely magazine here with lots of benefical material that you could all enjoy!!"

  My Mum sits there laughing, my dads jaw dropped, and i am partially stunned (since i have never ever had a run in with them before excluding the time i spent with them, and i left about 3 or 4 months ago and here they are)

  So my dad says i am already a man of faith and i do not wish to discuss my beilefs with you because I BEILEVE it is PRIVATE. You might want to speak to my Son here though.

  So she turns to me holding out this magazine (body language begging for me to take it) and says HI! im whatever her name was i forget, and i said hi im Darren.

  I said i have no interest WHATSOEVER in reading your magazine, i have just been through an indoctrination from your religion and i am now recovering quite well!

  She says "Oh, and what was the reason you decided to leave?"

  I said i am here, with my family and we are minding our own business!!! it was a few scriptures that did it for me (it was really the truth behind the truth which i read online, but i wasn't about to tell her that, the convo may never have ended!)

  So she goes on " DO you care to share the scriptures with me?" as she says this, she pulls out the pocket size bible.

  i could read her body language like a book. Shes obviously very good at this, so im seeing ehat shes doing taking her bible out and asking me so as to provoke an answer for me which she could back up from the bible.

  So i say NO! I do not wish to share it with you as i said, i am here with my family and i dont wish to be rude but this is kind of killing my family bonding time.

  So she leaves after that and walks back to her group.

  i wish i could have said a lot mroe, but it was difficult for me to think properly, plus my family were there and i didnt want to be out of line.

  Anyway, this is my experience, not very exciting, but it extremely frustrates me because there we were my family and i trying to enjoy ourselves and some dogooder trying to poke their nose in, even when i said not interested, and i am here with my parents as you can see, she still persisted.

  To me, that is a privacy invasion and i didnt like it to say the least.

  here is me as an almost JW!! ....my embarassing past.
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  never looked at your names till now

  by Found Sheep in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the down side of having a name like raveen is that names don't mean anything to me.

  all people become nothing... any odd name people undesrsand?

  i was called she... you... not my name for most of my life... that made me not care what your name was.... so i don't know people i want to know!!!

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  Hi Naomi! did you know that your name backwards spells i moan? hehe sorry .... im just messing about :) (wink)

  Well my name is Darren but most people call me Daz.

  i chose dm6 as my username because its what i use for everything because of my username for Quakelive.com (an online shooting game)

  DM6 is the very popular map name and i guess i was lucky enough to get to have the name before anyone else! :P
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  I'm new here..... Studying with the Witnesses

  by PenelopePaige in

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  2. friends

  hi- i just wanted to say that i have been checking the website out for a few weeks and have read some horror stories and some sad ones.

  but i have been studying with witnessess for about six months and can't help but feel that they're completely sincere and maybe even, the true religion.

  i love the watchtower and awake and to me, none of that seems crazy.

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  Penelope Paige. Please read my post - all of it.

  I studied with the Witnesses as you are, and i did for about a year. I even started bible readings in the hall.

  I never got to the status of unbaptized publisher though etc, because my questioning got more intense with them, and then they saw that as me "opposing it".

  I always beileved in Heaven and hell for ALL people too, and not this paradise earth nonesense. They pride themselves that they are supposed LOGICAL people and there is logic in their faith in order that it is true.

  Howwever there is NO logic whatsoever in this so calle dparadise earth, and just like you THAT was my problem too. The whole time i studied with them, i could never accept it, and if you beileve the bible, jesus Christ says all the time about storing earthly treasures in the heavens.

  Think about it, their religion is based on IF. What IF they didnt eat the fruit, then they would have lived! forever! LOL!!!

  Come on, it was Gods plan to show us, that given our free will we WILL sin. and we ALL will. Right to the very first people on earth adam and eve they sinned and went against God. Gods plan was exactly that,he knew we would sin and that is what we did. We die because of our sin (as the bible rightly says) and then there is heaven and hell for each of us.

  All i will say is, go with your GUT feeling, i did and it led me to the correct choice.

  Do you REALLY think GOD ALMIGHTY would have his full faith trust and leadership here on earth, run by 7 men in brooklyn that gets so much hatred and destroys so many lives, families etc.

  it is NOT right.

  God wants us to be happy and live happy lives, and aside from their false smiles and pretending their little suburban nightmare is alright, it is NOT. And they are NOT happy. true story.

  Go with your gut instinct. all we can do here is advise.
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  Songs that express feelings towards Watchtower

  by discreetslave in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjffzqtlwrq&nr=1.

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  this thread makes me LOL
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  My association with this organisation is coming to its end!

  by TimothyT in

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  im posting from my boyfriend's house!

  im having a week here with him to get away from things and to enjoy myself.

  recently i came out to my entire family that im gay.

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  and would like to also be the third to say - what James_wood said.

  Good luck timmy chin up mate, its all good now.
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  It's all getting to me now...I let them back in my head, help

  by discreetslave in

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  this was a big week for me.

  i've been riding the momentum wave but now i feel like i'm washed up on the shore.

  i let them back in my head.

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  come on man stop being silly u know its all lies. you will always have these doubts forever and ever amen.
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  Car Full of JW's while I'm at the Car Wash............

  by Terry in

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  i'm sort of angry right now.. no, not angry..... i'm shaky.

  at least, when i lift my cup of coffee to my lips, sitting here at starbucks, my hand is trembly.. i hate that!.

  the power they have to still reach me on some hidden point that hides in the corners of my very being.... .

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  He was white-haired with glasses and had a sort of Insurance Salesman smile.

  Oh this made me LOL!
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  I'm new here..... Studying with the Witnesses

  by PenelopePaige in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi- i just wanted to say that i have been checking the website out for a few weeks and have read some horror stories and some sad ones.

  but i have been studying with witnessess for about six months and can't help but feel that they're completely sincere and maybe even, the true religion.

  i love the watchtower and awake and to me, none of that seems crazy.

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  watch and learn my friend, watch and learn.

  Nuff said.

  Also please please please read 2nd JOHN 1:7