Welcome mellow! You have most of your life ahead of you. It is awesome that you can now persue your dreams/goals without guilt. Go for it!
Posts by 3rdgen
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35Celebrate my first post of many :)
by Mellow inhi everyone, my name is mellow (some names have been changed) lol.
as no doubt many of you were, i was born in.
i am now in my mid 20s living in a jehovah's witness household.
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Hi
by LucidChimp ini've been lurking here for a year or two now (since i stumbled across ttatt and was stumbled by it), i even started an account some while back and asked a couple of questions.. but i never actually stood up and said hi... so hi, my name's jon and i'm a dubaholic.. .
i was "born in" in the 80s - and grew up on a liquid diet of cheap suits and revelation book pictures (i mean really, group after group just staring at the pictures while not listening, i must have spent more time staring at those pictures than i have any work of art in my life, literally hours at each lurid picture).
i "left" in my teens, but apparently lacking any kind of actual sense, returned to studying with a childhood friend from the congregation in my twenties (although i was never baptised, my entire small family were dubs, so i saw more witnesses than "worldly people" on a regular basis.. they love bombed my arse for years!)..
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Welcome Lucidchimp! Congrats on seeing through the "love bombing' and not getting baptised. You are entering the best years of your life free from the stranglehold of the Watchtower.It looks as though you have your family too. Woo hoo
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How do I Know?
by mouthy inhow do i know my youth is all spent?.
but in spite of it all i am able to grin,.
when i think of the places my get-up has been.
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My granny died.
by LouBelle inlast week friday i was delayed in going to work, for which i am glad.
it was an opportunity for me to help my gran one last time.
she thanked me, told me she loved me and that i would be very blessed.
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Loubelle, I am very sorry for your loss. She must have been a great person for you and you family to love her so much. She was blessed with a long life and a lovely grandaughter. (you!) Cheers to you both
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Slayer, LOL!
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just when you think you've made friends with a "normal" person
by Hortensia inrode over to the farmer's market with a couple of neighbors, nice women, seem sensible.
the driver stopped in the middle of a block and stared at the coca-cola truck that was parked there.
she said, "do you see the round tower?
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And I thought MY neighbors were weird.....
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ELDERS STEPPING DOWN
by ADJUSTMENTS inbetween two congregations that i know of four elders have stepped down in the last two months!
there is something really going on in this mandmade organization!
it's busting at the seams!.
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When my hubby resigned to spend more family time, NOT ONE in the cong. including the servant body said a word to "encourage" him to remain in his "position". There was NO deriliction of duty or even a HINT of wrongdoing on his part. Hubby had voiced his disapproval of the "good ole' boys" running our hall and SCREAMED BLOODY MURDER when a pedophile was about to be promoted to elder. There were NO meetings with him. No accusations, No asking him to please reconsider. NOTHING He was not even allowed to carry mikes. (as if that is a privelige) We now thank these ass@#$%$ for helping us wake up.
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HELP! Can God SEE the future?? How?? Is this predestination??
by Bloody Hotdogs! inhad a very long and frustrating debate last night.. .
jws like to say that god has the ability to foresee the future, but can chose not to look.
this, they claim, removes the problem of predestination/preordination.. .
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Madgiant makes the point: if the Bible can't be clear, how can anyone who goes by it be dogmatic? Can the bugs in my back yard theorise why I mow the lawn? If there is a God, He/she/it would be completely inscrutable by humans.
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A House Divided Against Itself Falls-Luke 11:17
by Stand for Pure Worship inthat text reminds me of one of a handful of problems peculiar to the ex-jw community.
second only to the wild beast's internal divisions, is the divided makeup of the ex-jw populace.
you know the one thing that indicates jehovah's blessing upon the worldwide association of kingdom proclaimers, is not only the continued success of the preaching work, but along with it the unity and love amongst the brothers and sisters.
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The troll is hungry
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Gran is dying.
by LouBelle inmy dear granny hasn't been feeling well for some time and has had a problem keeping anything down.
she had lost a lot of weight and gone for many tests.
those tests came back and on friday we were told she has cancer of the pancreas.
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Loubelle, I am very sorry about your grandma. Pancreatic cancer is a sore spot for me because I lost my favorite relative (other than my son) to this disease. He did not go to hospice but stayed with family until the last few days. Every case is different, of course. Sending you positive thoughts.