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  I didn't get to play School Sports :-( ...did you?

  by tresdecu in

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  just started watching 'friday night lights' .... great show, but it's making me a little bitter!

  17 years after high school, i am still bummed i didn't get to play football or baseball.

  i knew my elder dad would get busted from the others in the elders club.

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  mercedes_29

  I played field hockey in High School. I wasn't baptised as a teenager so there wasn't much they coud do about it.
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  She jumped off the dam...

  by TimeBandit in

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  back in 2003/4 when i was living in truth or consequences, new mexico there was this sister and her non witness husband that moved into our area.

  it was plain to see that the sister was suffering from serious mental problems.

  she was a very nice lady, but was unstable a lot of the time.

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  Someone close to me committed suicide so reading about stories like this always break my heart. I am so glad that there are people in the world who can recognize when others need help and try to reach out. Sometimes it isn't enough tragedy happens. Women are always treated like second class citizens in the WTS especially ones with non-Witness husbands. Elders like Ted make me sick. At least now Patricia isn't suffering anymore.
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  I actually loved field service

  by gubberningbody in

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  that might seem odd, but it really suited my personality.

  even before i became a jw i was annoying people with personal questions.

  the thing is that it's sort of ok in normal land to do that as a cult member, but not as a "normal citizen".. .

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  I did not enjoy service at all. I always felt like I was imposing on people. The territory was so overworked that some houses were getting visits once a week. I was out in a very Italian/Catholic territory so most people were not happy to see us. Service also cost me a lot of money because the drivers would expect gas money and with the constant coffee breaks things got very expensive.
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  It makes me sick that Jehovahs Witnesses Kids cannot play organized sports but it is okay for them to watch others play.

  by Iamallcool in

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  mercedes_29

  I played field hockey in high school and caught hell for it even though I wasn't baptised. It used to really irk me that playing sports was taboo but spending hundreds of dollars to go watch football or baseball was alright. There were even a few elders who hosted wild Super Bowl parties and no one thought twice about it.
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  Do you still keep WTS literatures?

  by umadevi in

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  i was cleaning my bookshelf earlier this week and got rid of all the wts magazines.

  as for the books i haven't decided yet.

  what about you?.

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  I have the Revelation Book and a a few Bibles and Reasoning Books in French. I look at the Revelation Book when I need to be reminded how freakish the JW beliefs are.
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  Fistfights for seats at DC?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

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  I remember conventions in Providence and the women there would always grab seats, saved or not. Later we had to go to the Coliseum in New Haven and the attendants started roping off areas so we all had to sit together down in the front rows.
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  8/15/12 WT--Naughty Elder's Wife Teaches Students "The Deep Things of God"

  by sd-7 in

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  page 28, paragraph 13:.

  "an improper romantic relationship could develop within the congregation.

  daniel and his wife, sarah, were regular pioneers.

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  This happened in my old congregation; elder worked and did WTBS duties, wife cheated with his study. She married the study she cheated with but they ended up getting divorced too. The study was husband number 3 or 4.
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  I think many of you will return to the religion one day

  by free2beme in

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  i don't mean this as an insult, more of a life experience thing.

  i saw a lot of people leave in my years there and a lot were angry with the religion and the people, and some even protested the kingdom halls and wrote things in the newspapers.

  a lot though, came back in time, as it was just the comfort zone they felt at ease in.

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  mercedes_29

  I wouldn't go back for anything. The WTS has nothing to offer me but misery and self loathing.
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  Emergencies: What Do They Hope To Do?

  by metatron in

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  some congregations are giving publishers lists of items and procedures for unnamed emergencies.. and what do these naive people, bereft of critical reasoning, hope to accomplish?

  are they fantasizing about living, enmasse, in the kingdom hall?

  do they have large food supplies stored there?

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  We used to be admonished from the podium to get along because we may have to share a jail cell with another witness when the beast turned on the harlot. I remember being worried that my Dad and my real brother and sister woud turn my mom and me in to the police. This disaster plan is another scare tactic. I'd stock up silver, booze and Spam - things you won't find in a JW survival plan.
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  Introduction / My story

  by theBGB in

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  hello all, i've just discovered this site and i cant begin to describe how happy i am to have come across it.

  i stumbled across this site purely by accident...seriously i was looking at arkham city walkthoughs and a few jumps later i end up here.

  i though it was a legit society page at first and thought 'what the hell, this will be good for a laugh', but after reading a few posts well...i couldnt stop reading.

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  mercedes_29

  Welcome BGB! Always a pleasure to hear about someone coming to their senses.