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  The Happiest I Have Ever Been

  by nolongerconfused in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello dear friends,.

  it has been a while since i've posted here.

  much has happened since i left the cult.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Congratulations on your new life, new house and soon to be new wife. I'm very happy for you and your 'out' family. Happiness to all of you!
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  so, what ARE society 'approved' jobs anyway?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  obviously they feel a window washer job is a job anyone can do anywhere in he world .

  and makes great money, yea right.. so what are all those 'approved jobs?'.

  add to the list of any and all building skills, cleaning type jobs.

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  PaintedToeNail

  A recent magazine (within the last several years) listed appropriate jobs that required little schooling. One of the jobs was 'hairdresser'. I have never lived in an area where a simple hairdresser made enough money to support themselves. It is a low paying job a best, for most people.

  My hubby gets flack for being an on the road salesman. When he took the job, the elders told him Jehovah would provide, that if we lost our home, we wouldn't starve, Jehovah promises that....Yay! Just what I've always wanted, to live with other JW's in a spare bedroom with three kids. (Yes, that was a suggested option).
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  Matthew 24:19-21

  by Pete Zahut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  but woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

  and pray that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.. this scripture was always used to frighten us about the upcoming great tribulaton.

  when i was in high school my late mother found out she was pregnant with my youngest sister.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Your poor mother. What mean, spiteful, nasty sisters. I hated that scripture when I was pregnant with my first child, it seemed like it was always being referred to at meetings. Maybe it was a case of just being more attuned to it because of the pregnancy. Either way it is a cruel thing to bring up to pregnant women.
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  My dog just died.

  by panhandlegirl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just buried my beloved poddle, little brother.

  he died suddenly.

  i know to most people that is not an important event.

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  PaintedToeNail

  I am very sorry about the loss of your beloved poodle. The loss of a pet can be devastating, as anyone who has ever loved an animal knows.
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  Chuck Morse Interviews Barbara Anderson "WatchTowers CHILD ABUSE Reporting Policies"

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i`ve just received this from barbara anderson..it`s her interview with radio personality chuck morse..thanks barbara!...

  morse, who is known for his free-wheeling and insightful intellectual style, was named to the list of heavy 100 radio talk show hosts by talkers magazine, and as the national right to work committee communicator of the year in 2003.

  "i have developed a reputation for inviting guests who express opinions on all sides of issues.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Power stuff! If everyone here had just one IN JW listen to this, what would the affect be? In one part she mentions that the Borg knew of an instance of 40 children being molested by one pedo and they did nothing.
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  Woe to the Women of the Watchtower

  by skeeter1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the trouble with women is that they have a breaking point.

  it comes when their needs are not being met or they are not respected.

  and, that is a beauty too.

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  PaintedToeNail

  skeeter-You make some valid points. For some weird reason women seem to flock to religions, this and others. Some make you wear white bonnets on your head and plain ugly dresses (Amish). Some women shave their heads and wear a wig so they don't have men lusting after them (some Orthodox Jews). Some women cover their entire bodies to become faceless, shapeless non-entities (some Muslims). Others don't ever cut their hair and wear no make-up (Pentecostals). Women endure extreme pain of childbirth needlessly and refuse to allow very ill children medical care (Christian Scientists). Some end up JW's who must appear happy at all costs, even if their child is sexually assaulted, their husbands spend more time shepherding the flock than seeing them and put in many hours trying to be good enough to buy their way into everlasting life.
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  "You have to find out her fears and exploit that. What is her worst fear?"

  by cognac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  literally, a text message to my husband from one of his "friends".

  he also wrote, "it's in her hands.

  it's her move now.

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  PaintedToeNail

  cognac-I hope that you are all right, and your husband too. It would be wonderful if the mental health people would be able to help him and thereby help you. He is also dealing with something very difficult for him, his wife's defection from his value system. When I left the 'borg it shook my husband to the core. He did the same as your husband, he told my family and dearest friends. It felt like a betrayal and I was very hurt. Wishing you and your family the very, very best.
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  Over 1,000,000 in attendance and you are worried about tight pants?

  by Separation of Powers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you know, rarely in the history of the org has a group this large congregated to hear from "mother.

  " they incessantly speak of the huge group that met at yankee stadium in 1958...the over 250,000 that congregated to be instructed by jehovah.

  but over the weekend, there were over 1,000,000 people excited to hear some type of direction, some type of encouragement, something to help them hang on "just a little longer.".

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  PaintedToeNail

  OnTheWayOut-The video on the Congo men dressing with style was great! Loved the guy in a kilt. Can you imagine what the GB would say if the brothers all started wearing kilts in the USA? They definitely aren't tight pants!
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  Does having priveleges in the congregation mean you will have a successful marriage?

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after reading about tight pant tony's rant about sisters only marrying ministerial servants lest their marriage will be a failure what anecdotal evidence do you have to support this.

  the divorces that i am familiar with in the congregation show me that having priveledges in the congregation do not improve the odds of a better marriage.

  i would say about 60% of the divorces had at least one spouse who was a pioneer, elder or ministerial servant.

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  PaintedToeNail

  No. An elder I knew in northern Minnesota, "Buck", had wife after wife. After the first or second one he was removed, and df'd. However the fact remains that he was an elder with his first one, found a younger, new model and married that one. Then finding another younger new model he moved on to her and so on.

  There was another elder in the mid-west who was noted as an arrogant hot head.His family moved to Chile where the need was greater. He came back to the USA sometime later. His wife left him when the kids were grown. Heard he got involved in 'wrong' doing too.

  An elder nearby in the Mid-Atlantic, married a sister who was a regular pioneer, the daughter of the PO. Several years later she ran off with his best friend, another elder.

  Another elder in Minnesota, a transplant from Michigan with his regular pioneer wife, took up with a sister who was having problems in her marriage. Her husband tried to kill himself when he found out about the betrayal. The elder's wife had breast cancer when all this was going on. Her first marriage fell apart because her elder husband, who was sent to different congregations to trouble shoot, had an affair on her too. So she married two cheating elders.
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  Gerrit Losch's "I DO NOT ANSWER TO WATCHTOWER"

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. social
  2. current

  in gerrit losch's public statement to the superior copurt of california.

  http://www.watchtower.exposed/?p=364.

  documents: https://www.dropbox.com/s/49zyexvagn7ux7j/losch%20public%20statement.jpg?dl=0.

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  PaintedToeNail

  I can't open anything except the first page of the document