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  Bumped Into One Of My Best Friends On The Carts This Morning

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so this morning i'm walking to my office and there's the jws on their carts outside as usual.

  and old sister, a brother in his 20s and an elder i instantly recognized from my jw days.

  one of my best friends of about 20 years.. i genuinely just wanted to say hi as i havent seen him in 3 years.

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  Oh, and i forgot to add, the Awake! magazine he was holding was called "12 Secrets Of Successful Families".

  Irony overload.

  
  
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  Bumped Into One Of My Best Friends On The Carts This Morning

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so this morning i'm walking to my office and there's the jws on their carts outside as usual.

  and old sister, a brother in his 20s and an elder i instantly recognized from my jw days.

  one of my best friends of about 20 years.. i genuinely just wanted to say hi as i havent seen him in 3 years.

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  So this morning I'm walking to my office and there's the JWs on their carts outside as usual. And old sister, a brother in his 20s and an elder I instantly recognized from my JW days. One of my best friends of about 20 years.

  I genuinely just wanted to say hi as I havent seen him in 3 years. Walked up, he saw me coming and his posture shifted. I said his name with a smile and stuck out my hand and asked how he was. He kept his hands by his side and said "I cant talk to you". I said "cummon, lets leave religion aside for a sec, I just want to say hi". He then said "come here a second..." and took me aside away from the cart.

  What followed surprised even me. He was always the elder I pointed to when I wanted people to know what elders should be like. He was always warm, approachable, friendly and kind - today he was the opposite.

  "There's only one way back isnt there? And you know it's the truth!"

  Nothing more infuriating for me to hear that last sentence. I replied "no it isnt. Anyway, how are you?"

  "You've destroyed your family and upset a lot of people - how do you feel about that?"

  Me: "No, my ex-wife and I and her partner are all good friends. My daughter is happy and healthy and lives with me."

  "No. I mean your real family. Your mum and brothers and sisters in the truth".

  Me: Real family? I haven't heard from them in three years.

  "And who's fault's that?"

  Me: Well, the Watchtower society obviously. Anyway, I just wanted to say hi. You know I love you right? Do you guys still do door knocking?

  "Of course we do!"

  Me: I haven't had a knock in 3 years, and i've moved twice.
  

  "Come back to Jehovah and fix your life"

  Me: It is fixed. My life is actually perfect right now. I have real friends, real family and no reason to shun anybody.
  

  I stuck my hand out again, he refused it. I was raging inside but tried to stay calm.

  I ended it with "cummon I'm just being friendly. Who's being christlike here?"

  And with that I walked away.

  Such a shame what the cult has turned him into. It was like a whole other person. But you just know he's gonna put on his smiley cheerfull front to everyone else as soon as im gone.

  Watchtower really does train them to put on the "new personality" after all.
  
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  Ancestery.com— I Got My Results! Very Surprised

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i got my results in on sunday and my bloodline is mostly from great britain and italy and greece!

  not what i expected at all but it does explain my love of italian and greek foods.😎.

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  Im tempted to do mine. I traced my tree back to the 1680s but that took about 15 years! It's nice to get messages from people i'm distantly related to who's tree's overlap.
  
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  "We don't do that" - Serena Williams talking about celebrating birthdays

  by vivalavida in

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  2. entertainment

  i guess you can be physically out, like in a huge way, but definitely mentally in.. serena williams claims she won't be celebrating her daughter's first birthday.. i did know people like that, raised as a jw but never actually baptizing.

  that didn't mean they were not messed up in the head though..

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  I cant believe how backward that is. Thinking Jehovah is ok with her having a baby before marriage, but loses his shit over a birthday celebration.

  Wonder how many JDubs will lap this up regardless?
  
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  German businessman registers "Watchtower" and "Awake!" trademarks, expects offer from JWs

  by processor in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  seriously.. https://www.wuv.de/marketing/unternehmer_sichert_sich_marken_der_jehovas.

  businessman felt harassed by jws, so he found that word marks "der wachtturm" and "erwachet!

  " (german versions of "the watchtower" and "awake!

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  Brilliant!

  Since waking up from this cult I find it highly ironic that there's a Jehovah's Witness magazine called Awake!
  
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  Eldub BIL, and Df'ed Kid's!!!!

  by DwainBowman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my super fine eldub bil, has a son that's been df'ed for a long time.

  last month he deeded off 1/4 of an acre of land in the back of his pasture, bought a small local built used tiny house, and got it all set up, for his son to live in.

  to everyone of the jw's in this area really look up to him and his stand on having nothing to do with his df'ed kid's or grandkids.

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  This is actually good news. Hopefully he'll wake up rather than being a hypocrite though.
  
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  Strange first names among jw's

  by fulano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  do you remember those families where all the sons and daughters had weird biblical names?.

  i recall a " machlon" , "eunice" , even a "jehosafath".

  can you believe it..

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  I know what nutty couple who called their kids Temperance and Ziba. I get that some countries might have funy names but these were a white English kids living in the north of England.

  Temperance and Ziba... what were they thinking?
  
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  1980s Brochure/magazine on demon possession?

  by caves in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  does anyone else remember a brochure/ magazine from the early 80s with stories of demon possessed individuals and spiritism ?

  i dont think i saw it around very long.

  it had a story about some lady having her head snapped around by a demon.

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  Another Christian woman kept a handbag given her by an aunt who was a fortune-teller. Using the handbag in the ministry, she experienced powerful thoughts of "Go home!"

  Oh I had those thought's all the time... In fact, I had them every time I went out on the ministry and every time I went to the meeting.
  
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  Cognitive Dissonace on full display at JWtalk over evolution research

  by Sanchy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a user over on the jwtalk forum recently shared a warning over his research on evolution in preparation for an assigned talk.

  after detailing a couple of the tidbits that he learned of during his research, he went on to say:.

  this i found to be useful especially when talking ot others in the ministry.. but and it is a big but.....

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  Talking donkeys, talking snakes, living inside a fish... impossible!

  God did it!

  Ah, that explains it.
  
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  I am happier when i am out

  by IamWhatIam in

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  2. experiences

  fellows.

  finally find a place to share experience for jwers.

  i am also a ex-jwer and left the ´truth´ on jan. 2018. i live and work in midt jylland in denmark.

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  Great to hear you're out IamWhatIam, welcome from England!.