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  What did you lose your virginity to JWN? Before or after leaving the JWs?

  by usualusername in

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  i visited this site about 2 years after leaving?.

  when did you first visit jwn?.

  paul.

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  I started coming here right after I decided I didn't want to be a dub anymore. I had no idea about all the scandals, doctrinal errors, and absolute bull coming out of Brooklyn. All I knew was that I was unhappy and the borg was making it worse. I could see that my kids weren't happy, and Just ROn wasn't happy. I was too tired to care about eternity. I began looking on the internet for answers to some of Just ROn's questions, and found this site. He was far more attuned to inconsistencies and bull than I was.
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  Why the "worldly" thought of heaven is more comforting than Paradise

  by kneehighmiah in

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  one of the worst and best things about waking up is realizing that despite what you've been taught as a child, you are going to die one day.

  that was easy for me to handle, as i've had near death medical emerigencies.

  the hardest part is the thought of losing your parents.

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  I like the idea of my conciousness rejoining the universal energy grid. Perhaps I can still watch my family, or perhaps I will simply be the breeze that dries their tears.
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  Our 10th Wedding Anniversary today.

  by quellycatface in

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  hello everybody peeps.. i got married out of the troof.

  they said it wouldn't last etc.. hasn't been easy.

  my hubs is still my best buddy.. and i ain't a jw no more.

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  Happy Anniversary! When Just Ron and I got married, some of our friends were making bets on how long it would last. No one gave us more than 5 years. We've been married for 22 years now, and are still happy and in love. Our JW years in the middle of our marriage were crappy, but we are out and free again!
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  How often do you see the Witnesses out on the ministry?

  by rory-ks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i only ask because i hardly ever see them out on the ministry.

  it is a very rare sighting to spot them actively engaged in the house to house ministry.

  or out on the street work, in the marketplace, etc.. the other reason i ask is because they are constantly pictured as being on the preaching work.

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  they haven't hit our house since right after we quit going. I guess we've been written off entirely!
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  Any advice?

  by InChristAlone in

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  i was told a very heartbreaking story last night.

  one of my childhood friends adopted two kids from africa several years ago.

  these kids have had very severe anger management issues and have been in regular therapy.

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  that is truly a heartbreaking story.
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  It's not fake... I'm crazy

  by Angus Beef in

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  trying to fade... using the mentally depressed, bi-polar, etc.... was eating out with husband.

  nice evening chatting and relaxing.

  ready to head home and chill for the night.

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  we sat right next to an elder and his wife at the Pizza Hut last Friday night - awkward!
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  I feel sorry for just about everyone else.. even the elder's wife

  by ohnightdivine in

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  i've been busy with with being busy after knowing ttatt.

  after this sunday's meeting i was invited over by one congregation elder's wife to an afternoon coffee.

  we're not very close because of the age gap but we've "known" each other for so many years now, being in the same congregation.. she is like the anchor of the group.

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  I knew an elder's wife in that situation. They had agreed to not have children, but it was clear that neither of them was happy with that decision later on. I guess it was too late though, she's several years older than me and I'm 43.
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  At what point did you destroy your Blood card?

  by BU2B in

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  i know for me it was soon after lurking here for awhile and reading some threads on the issue.

  i remenber when i tore it into little tiny pieces.

  it felt so liberating..

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  I carried it for a while after I left, but I had marked it up as "Void" and thoroughy defaced the elder's contact information who was the secondary POA. I thre it away probably about a year after i left, when I finally felt I was completely off the local dubs' radar.
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  Are You Comfortable With Who You Now Are?

  by minimus in

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  many jws are misfits and many that were raised as jws find it difficult to be "normal".

  are you comfortable with yourself at this point in time?.

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  for the most part. I never fit in at the hall, and I have friends now who don't get all freaked out over a dirty joke or a swear word. I'm a lot more comfortable in my own skin.
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  JW uncle in hospital

  by finally awake in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just found out that my uncle, who is a staunch jw elder, has an aortic aneurism and is in critical condition.

  he's in his late 70s and he probably won't survive.

  he lives several hundred miles away, so i don't see myself making the trip for his funeral..

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  My mom had spent the afternoon at my house. WHen she got home there was a message on the answering machine telling her that her brother had died. I thought that was kind of crappy, instead of putting out the effort to try her cell phone or call me. In all of this, I haven't received a single phone call.