Godsendconspirator

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  Really weird sentence

  by Moses Joe in

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  i've been absent from meetings recently because i'm having serious life challenges that make me really not want to have to deal with all of the people and the sitting.

  i had made an attempt to, "simplify my life" that rather than being blessed was meant with unemployment.

  lol.. anyway, i finally got tired of all the phone calls checking up on me and sent a message to someone explaining that i just wanted to be left alone (an elder).

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  Godsendconspirator

  Just a couple weeks ago, an elder and the CO from the congregation I went to dropped by my house. I forgot what scripture they used but it was something about those who leave the congregation for whatever reasons. They said they wanted to help and asked which I probably fit into. I said I don't fit into any of them. They shut up real quick and left.
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  I Offer You This Choice

  by simon17 in

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  suppose the following choice were offered you, and you had to choose one or the other.

  which would you pick (and perhaps why):.

  1) you can continue living your life as it is, die when you might, and that's that.. 2) you can instead agree to die in 1 year in exchange for this: you will be granted access to the entire past and future history of intelligent life in the universe.

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  Godsendconspirator

  I would take the latter choice. Finding out those answers were all I ever wanted in life even if I can't do anything with it.
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  Good response when you are told " you want to do your own thing".

  by jam in

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  i was told that, it's a selfish act on your part not to come back.. well apparently i must be having fun, a good life.....

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  Godsendconspirator

  Nah, people who ruin their child's life by not providing for their own emotional needs just because they wanna go to paradise that doesn't exist are the selfish ones.
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  untitled

  by lambsbottom in

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  going to meet the jw i studied with for lunch.

  hell prob ask why i haven't been at meetings.

  any suggestions for a non incriminating statement that will still satisfy his curiosity?

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  Godsendconspirator

  Just curious, how old are you OP?
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  Amway

  by bobld in

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  wt inc./j.w.

  are similar to amway,one promosies paradise the other financial freedom.. the top get all the benefits.the r&f do all the work.. amway has rallies/seminars/meeting/etc.. wt inc. has r.c.

  (was d.c.)/c.a./tms/etc.. recruitment: amway meet for coffee for a financial discussion only to invite you to a hotel meeting but don't say what it is about.when you get there you say wtf it is an amway meeting.. wt inc/j.w.

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  Godsendconspirator

  I've been to a couple Amway meetings since I had family and friends doing it. The Amway meetings are set up exactly how JW meetings go. Everything is kinda secretive but with a recruiting front. The seats were set up exactly the same with a bunch of suits around. They love bomb you just the same. In the amway meeting they talked about marrying somebody from within the organization because you're gonna need all the good association (they literally used this term). Then I'm shown around like some trophy. I felt like I was in the kingdom hall day 1, all over again. They have their own language and behavior that I found was exactly like the JW mindset. I wouldn't recommend it.
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  What was YOUR First Worldly Experience?

  by Yondaime in

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  while i was in florida during the spring visiting my oldest sister.

  i had the time of my life with my brother in law.. you see my sister married a non-believer and my parents viewed him as the scum of the earth, so i was terrified to ever talk to him.

  turns out he's one of the coolest people i have ever met.

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  Godsendconspirator

  I don't really have a first wordly experience, to be exact. I was raised catholic until I obsessively started studying with the Jdubs when I was 17. I got baptized at 18. But I always had my "wordly friends" around. They were kinda my savior. Because when I find out about TTATT, I at least at them. And I always talked about them in the kingdom hall and no one really told me to to stop associating with them. Whenever I was shown the scripture about association, I always said, thank god I have good friends. No one really pressured me to let them go. Which was nice because because when I left, the first thing I did was get high with them.
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  I think this is closure for me.

  by quellycatface in

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  well, i have finally got rid of my baptism cards.

  the congratulations cards....the wt ones, the ones with sheep on etc.... all gone.

  they dated back to 23/09/2000.. has anyone else "purged" their witness past this way?.

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  Godsendconspirator

  I still keep my blood card on me (unsigned of course) just to show people how crazy this religion is.
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  Another Story about JWs Placing JW.org Tracks

  by ABibleStudent in

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  while i was writing my 1-page bio to send to managers today, a 30-ish, nicely-dressed jw man and woman knocked on my door.

  they wanted to give me a track to visit jw.org.

  i don't believe that jw.org is truthful.

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  Godsendconspirator

  It's funny how they want no part of the government until it's their "constitutional right" to be there.
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  Surreal experience last night.

  by objectivetruth in

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  recently a jw friend that my wife & i knew 3 years ago added me on facebook, after i accepted the request she invited me to a dinner that her and her husband are holding next month.. i imagined that she was unaware of our apostasy, so i declined the invitation on the basis of not wanting to ruin her dinner after the rest of her guests fled at our presence.. i'm never sure how old friends will react when i tell them that i'm no longer a jw.. usually their response is "..... permanent-silence......".

  her response went something like this, " we are all out!

  everyone that is coming is out we all look forward to seeing you guys so much" it turns out that there will be 6 people at the dinner all friends of ours from a congregation that we attended a few years back.. they have all left the organization recently.. pretty crazy experience..

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  Godsendconspirator

  Congrats! I'm happy for you that you can you take back what the GB took away.
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  Weird crazy rules imposed by your local Elders.

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  we all know the sort of thing..... in many congregations, specific "rules" creep in...introduced by the local elders that become set in stone.. years ago, i heard of a congregation that sat down during the first song of the evening but stood for all others (the co changed that very soon after).

  then there were the older accounts of congs that had rules to make the public speakers wear only white shirts.... in one cong now, i heard that brothers can only be used for sound or microphones if they do a minimum of 5 hours per month in the ministry!.

  another cong has ruled that all appointed men must pioneer for at least one month each year in order to remain qualified.. .

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  Godsendconspirator

  ^number three is crazy. They kick you out and still want control over you.