Years ago after I divorced my jw husband I was buying a latte b4 boarding and working a flight. My ex was outed to the elders but expressed repentance (actually he had been outed 2 yrs bfor and the elders said since he was repentant I would not have biblical bases for divorcing him. So in my shock and hurt I stayed. It was never the same after that and I soon found out from workmates that his encouters were becoming more open. I also finally learned that he's always had a secret life but besides being shocked out of my gourd that he had been using the money I made..I handed over my paychecks....good jw wife...and put us in deep debt. I am sorry he lived with such shame...he has his own story..but deceit was not what I wanted in a husband nor the likelyhood of aids being given to me). No one in the Cong knew why we got a divorce...the elders didn't want people to think badly of him. Soooo needing a scapegoat people thought badly of me. He was also a flight attendant where I worked. Soooooo, back to the main story. As my coffee was being made a pod of girl jws approached me. (Me--rolling eyes mentally) They asked me if I was a flight attendand for brand x. Their faces were so giddily happy. Do you know D..................... I said "oh yes, quite well". They asked if he was as nice at work as well as off work. I said, "I've known him since we were twelve yrs old and I know him more than any of you ever will because I was married to him for 18yrs." You would have thought I'd pulled off a face mask and looked like an 100yr old demonic Gary Busey. The all just froze. I took my coffee and wished them a good day then walked away getting back to real life. I bet that was a big story with many exagerations for months in the car groups. I hope they had a great time.
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Awkward, but kinda funny encounter with JWs today
by hemp lover ini live in a majority-minority neighborhood, so i get the double witness whammy of my street being worked by both spanish- and english-speaking congregations.
jws come to my door about four times a year, but i stopped answering years ago.
what's interesting is that about two years ago, they stopped knocking on my door or ringing the doorbell.
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did u know any jw self-made millionaires? any multi-millionaires?? how would u know???
by oompa inand what do you make of the overall social structures within the org?
and not just in the usa............................oompa.
it is not a caste system...you can move up the ranks.
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There IS a caste system in the borg. It only applies to the sisters.
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a mysterious and unexplained picture by the WT
by cedric1er inhow does the watchtower justifie bibliquelly this very strange " hand " ?.
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to see a few secondes !.
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What a patriarchial freak show. Boy, Jesus sure has aged and where are his blue eyes? Why do they look so honky when they are middle eastern?
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Editorial: Jehovah's Witnesses Spruce Up Sun National Bank Center Before Convention
by Bangalore ineditorial: jehovah's witnesses spruce up sun national bank center before convention.
http://www.nj.com/times-opinion/index.ssf/2012/07/editorial_jehovahs_witnesses_s.html.
bangalore.
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Oh so what. My mother went to the SanPedro Cong in CA. Every Saturday we'd go down to clean and especiall the entry. It was an old movie theatre with the little ticket seller in a glass box out front. It was a favorite place for homeless and bums to sleep and take a piss. Every Saturday was piss smell removal day.
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Who do you think will be on the Governing Body in the future?
by Iamallcool inif you know some possible candidates, tell me about them including their names.
thanks!.
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I vote for Rue Paul!
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Greetings! My first post
by BU2B inhello all at jwn!
i have been a lurker here the last few months and have been going through the process of researching both sides of the story of jehovahs witnesses.
i was raised in the borg, got married and now have a young child.. my wife is very much dedicated to the organization and will justify anything the "slave" does putting it off on the borgs imperfection.
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jgnaut, great advice!!!! As far as "drink the blood of Christ" you have to remember that drinking blood as a sacrement existed long before the Christianity version. It is just another copycat like adopting xmas, Easter, the epic of Gilgamesh/Noah's flood. None of it is other than man made.
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Just wondering, who here is still a JW? x
by snare&racket injust wondering who here still attends meetings, and lives the jw life?
i guess its interesting for the context of peoples comments.
also does anyone have a position such as pioneer, ms, elder etc ?.
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My neighbors made a comment that the dubs don't even attempt to come down my driveway. Perhaps it's the 6ft chain link fence with a lock on it, (which my friends call "the witness protection program") or the sign that says "dog on premises" or the sign that says,"nothing in this house is worth dying for". Or maybe because when my mother was dying they were nothing but a pain inthe ass trying to protect her from a blood transfusion. No help at all. When my brother died I told the elder that noone thought to pay respects, nothing. However who really came through for him and me was the United States Marine Corps. "The bible says you will know the truth because of the love that they have..." Quite frankly I don't see in at all in the organization. Not one has come back. I'm not DAd. I just stopped. I would not step foot in a KH ever again. I think it could really make me throw up.
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What was the weirdest thing ever said to you as a JW?
by falseprophet ini was about 8-10 years old and twice i had people tell me that i should not pioneer but to go to bethel because i "was governing body material".. one was a co and another a do.. i didn't even believe in god, never have so that makes it weird!.
what wierd things were told?.
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My ex-husband said, "In the new system we won't have to wipe".
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JW Principal
by dog is god inwhat does everyone think about the jw principal who wouldn't let kindegarters sing proud to be an american but chose jbieber's baby baby baby.
said the first song was culturally offensive..
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What does everyone think about the JW principal who wouldn't let kindegarters sing Proud to be an American but chose JBieber's BAby Baby Baby. Said the first song was culturally offensive.
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If you never have used the internet, would you have returned to the borg or stay in the organization?
by Iamallcool inif i have never used the internet, i would probably return to the borg by now.
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I left b4 the internet but had loads of guilt. I read Franz' C of C and could not believe how badly he was treated and how little money he got to go out with no job skills or work history (no social security). I wouldn't treat a dog like that. This website really helped me to see so much deception.