Been out 27 years. Happier, educated, worked in my field of CHOICE, not cleaning toilets or washing windows. I feel satisfied with myself; at peace. Oh I have flaws that I would like to overcome, but I do not mind chalking my flaws up to being a human.
Roberta804
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Has Your Personality Changed Since Leaving The Witnesses?
by minimus ini have an aquaintance that likes to say, "once an a hole always an a hole".
i guess you could reason that whatever your religious views were, your core is you are who you are.. did your personality change for better or worse when you left the organization?.
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Only "TIME" matters
by Roberta804 init was last year at easter time that i had a big insight that still looms large with me.
my elderly mother was living with me and she had been suffering from dementia.
i was taken aback why this one elder would come over once a month to try to get my mom to come up with 15 minutes of fs.
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Roberta804
It was last year at Easter time that I had a big insight that still looms large with me. My elderly mother was living with me and she had been suffering from dementia. I was taken aback why this one elder would come over once a month to try to get my mom to come up with 15 minutes of FS. I then understood that "time" was the value exchange in this crazy religion. The more "time" you reported, the more valuable you were to the Printing Company. It now made perfect sense why the only time my mother ever spent with me was "time" she could count. She made me have a bible study with her twice a week--- hated it, and why absolutely everything she would talk about would somehow, somewhat end up JW related. She was obsessed with counting her "time". She recently passed away... but what a horrible way to spend your entire life obsessed with JW "time".
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I went to Pioneer School, three times...so there
by Quarterback indon't you just hate it.
a school that strokes the egos of r-pioneers.
there is no school for publishers.
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Roberta804
Moshe,
Were you around when the book studies were into the book "The Finished Mystry"? It was in the 1970s. I bet we went though that damn book 5 times. All it talked about was dates and the UN.
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I went to Pioneer School, three times...so there
by Quarterback indon't you just hate it.
a school that strokes the egos of r-pioneers.
there is no school for publishers.
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Roberta804
Short version, born in, married in, left when I was 24 after my son turned 5. Couldn't see raising him the way I was raised. My husband and I were part of the 1985 witch hunts. We are still married, 35 years now. Had two sons, and now have 4 grandchildren. In my 20s, I got my GED, communitiy college and then university. Master's degree in social work. Hubby also return to college, engineer. Oldest son a chemical engineer and MBA, youngest son in med school. I have never, ever looked back even for a second. I rely on my hubby who was not born-in to help me out socially, born-ins really do have disadvantage not having any reference point.
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I went to Pioneer School, three times...so there
by Quarterback indon't you just hate it.
a school that strokes the egos of r-pioneers.
there is no school for publishers.
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Roberta804
And here I am on a Easter Sunday morning, past noon, still in my pjs, cat by my side, 3 cup of coffee an looking forward to be big Easter dinner this afternoon, and you have to get ready for a meeting. Oh I do envy you!! NOT! Well when they allow you to have time to yourself, tell us your story.
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I went to Pioneer School, three times...so there
by Quarterback indon't you just hate it.
a school that strokes the egos of r-pioneers.
there is no school for publishers.
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Roberta804
Hey Quarterback, tell us your story!
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warped logic from the memorial talk
by why144000 inspeaker said we should not partake because when jesus arrives he will take the remnat to heaven and the memorial will be no more.
just as we will not partake then (because the memorial will not exist) it is only logical that we will not partake now.
warped logic at its finest!.
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Roberta804
gypsy sam,
you said: We had at least eight halls meet in one location, with over 1300 attending.
8 halls put together????? Are there that few attending???
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Hello from Totally ADD. I am back.
by TotallyADD inhopfully many of the older ones do.
since our move to wild's of pa many things have happen to my wife and i. our donut business went out the window.
we closed it last july.
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Roberta804
ADD,
Thank you so much for sharing your success. And I am so happy that you and your wife left the printing company and stayed together. I would like to see more stories like yours.
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There was a knock at the door....
by exwhyzee inor more like a thunking sound really, which set our little dog into a fit of barking.
i crawled out from behind the fridge where i was doing a repair on the waterline for the icemaker, so i could go see what all the commotion was about.
i fugured it was going to be my neighbor returning my ladder but instead it was jw's handing out memorial invites.. the woman and the young man (her 20 something son) were people i had known but hadn't seen since we faded 4+ years ago.
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Roberta804
She'll get over it..... you shared with her what was in your heart.... nothing wrong with that
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How do I as a future "Therapist" help ex-jws that won't move on from the WT?
by booker-t ini am halfway through my master's program in psychology/sociology and plan on being a therapist/sounselor.
i left jw's in 1988 and i have never looked back.
i enjoy my life so much after getting my aa degree, then my ba degree, and now i will soon get my ma degree.
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Roberta804
144001 your funny