Posts by Sofi

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Memorial

by TOTH in

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the memorial is back and i know i am going to be harassed into taking my father in law to it.

i refused last year and i have every intention of not going this year too.

it is just so frustrating to me that he has a pioneer for a supposed wife who can take all the other sisters to doctor appointments and shopping and gets high praise for this by the congregation even as she neglects her sick husband.

Sofi

Go and buy yourself and the gentleman these memorial outfits: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/223789/1/1914-Commemorative-T-shirts-Available-Now

Makes a great gift!!!!

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NYC Dept. of Education Wants The Word "Birthday" removed from tests for JWs

by garbonzo in

http://failblog.org/2012/03/29/homework-class-test-school-of-fail-lets-not-insult-people-who-dont-believe-in-birthdays-or-anyone-ever-about-anything/#comment-1635032.

this guy makes a valid point:.

if they dont want to offend anyone then i suggest a few more words to be removed:.

Sofi

that's so ridiculous.

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How Many Here Were Ever "Hit On" By A JW?

by minimus in

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friends

did you ever get hit on by a member of the " christian congregation" ???.

ever get hit on by an elder, pioneer or ms?.

Sofi

I was hit on several times... the most undesirable one, i was 16 and in the "i want to marry" stage (i wanted sex, but that's the decent way to express it) anyway, a "brother" who was old enough to be my father told me he knew a nice guy, well established (understand $$) and available, which is a rare find within the witnesses. he told me to go to a park far away from my house, and then he told me, after waiting close to an hour for "the guy" that he was in love with me and all he wanted was a kiss. i told him he was too old for me, married, with two kids and one on the way. I never said anything since his wife was my friend and she was 9 mo preggo. real piece of junk this guy. i should had said something, his daughter was around my age. you believe that?????

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1914 Commemorative T-shirts Available Now!!!

by 00DAD in

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friends

jwn member cedars is fast approaching his 1,914th post.

as of this posting, he is on his 1,909th post!!!

in honor and recognition of this momentous event, we are very excited to be offering to all jwn members your very own 1914 commemorative t-shirt!.

Sofi

hi, i'll get mine in theocratic black and white, and with the message " 1914 - Millions Then Living Are All Now Dead " so i can go to the memorial this year. two please, one S (medium is probably too unflattering) and one onesie for my daughter that says: I was sleeping but now i'm AWAKE!

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has anyone tried to "study" and get baptized again in a far away congregation?

by Sofi in

....so you didn't have to go through the process of being reinstated?

please, share your experiences!

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Sofi

Why would you want to go back?
In spite of the question, I do understand why someone might do such a thing, especially if they wanted, or needed, to get back in and didn't fancy all the ass-kissing it would take to get reinstated.
You could have a fresh start without the DF/DA stigma and it would be easier; I've seen "new" ones come in and get baptized in as little as 4-6 months, but reinstatement can take a minimum of 6 months and sometimes years.
If you had to go back, which route would you choose?
i don't know how to quote, so i don't know if i got it right
in my original congregation, was soo easy. they would reinstate anybody fairly quickly. pretty much everybody that was out, was because of fornication, so it was just a common thing. here they don't know me, i'd have to prove myself and subject myself to the elders and pretty much all the congregation judgement. and yes, the df'd stigma stinks. why anybody has to know your deal? your past sin don't remain a secret, everybody gets to know why you were df'd. i don't want that shame on my daughter and husband, since i got df'd for something i did before i met him. i don't know what way to choose, but i'd really like to come clean and do what i have to do, put my head down and take all the bs that comes along with showing "humility", i'll let you guys know how it goes...

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has anyone tried to "study" and get baptized again in a far away congregation?

by Sofi in

....so you didn't have to go through the process of being reinstated?

please, share your experiences!

.

Sofi

first of all, thank you everybody for your responses. Hard to aswer everything... I'm not a sexual predator! jeez. i'm a new mom, new to the country and so lonely. the thing is that, wherever i go, the witnesses find me, lol. i was living somewhere else before i moved again and my aunt was taking a study with the witnesses. one day she was trying to hide from them, so i had to talk to them. somehow, i have that "witness"personality, magnet for people that want to indoctrinate me. anyway, i started attending and a sister told me right in my face: "you were df'd, weren't you?" i broke into tears and told her the deal. she told me to go someplace else and get reinstated. my boyfriend talked me out it it, but when i was pregnant, another jw got me while i was walking to the supermarket. it's a year from that, i'm "taking a study" playing dumb but wears me out sometimes. i have gone to some meetings, but wearing jeans and taking forever to find a text in the bible. I want to be low profile, but as i go with my daughter, who is a little smiley sweetheart, i just don't stay out of the radar as i'd like. i'm not married and for reasons outside of what i can do right now, i can't marry (long story) but i live with my daughter's father, we are a loving family and he calls me his wife and has told everybody i am (except his family, who knows the deal). I guess i just want to belong to something familiar and long for my old congregation. i'm going through postpartum depression, not the best time for me to be ignored by a whole auditorium of people. defeats all the purpose for what i attend in the first place. i can't say i believe in everything they teach anymore, actually some stuff sound like a load of crap. i believed blindly it when i was younger and more easily influenced, and i was some of those "example"kids that were just waiting to be 19 to fill out the application for bethel..but that's for another post

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has anyone tried to "study" and get baptized again in a far away congregation?

by Sofi in

....so you didn't have to go through the process of being reinstated?

please, share your experiences!

.

Sofi

....so you didn't have to go through the process of being reinstated? please, share your experiences!

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How many times can you be rejected for reinstatement ??

by Pitchess Co-Gen in

ok lets say you get disfellowshipped and because of a disagreement with your "home elders"; you move to another congregation ( i already know about the "rule" where your publisher card stays with you old congregation ).

now lets say you want to come back, but your old congregation keeps rejecting you request for reinstatement ( 3 or more times ).

is there a rule that says that after the fourth rejection the decision to reinstate goes to the new congregation ?

Sofi

hey hoser, did you get baptized again? i was dfd in another country, and now playing dumb 'studying" only because it's familiar and haven't made my mind up completely about doing the "shame walk" which totally defeats the purpose of going back for me, which is, enjoying the companionship of the people in the congregation. i just don't know how to go about it...

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Here's a "press release" written by an anonymous source that can be sent to the media about the thinner magazines

by AndersonsInfo in

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friends

march 26, 2012. news item:.

jehovah's witnesses to reduce pages in watchtower & awake!

magazines.

Sofi

The funny thing is that the "slave' is always changing stuff around and never, never takes into consideration what the members of the cult may feel about it. Changed the letter of the songs (i feel stupid singing now, wanting to sing the ones i know instead of the new versions) i actually liked the study of the book, that's gone. And as "the light gets brighter" you just have to accept whatever nonsense they want to climb down your throat as the new "truth" I actually like the witnesses, love the attitude of many sincere people that attend and really want to do the right thing, but all that other mind control of the "society" makes me sick.

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Things you did to pass the time at meetings/service/assemblies/conventions/memorials

by OneDayillBeFree in

i'm currently at the meeting again... i'm always in the back working the sound cause everyone else can't seem to work it and i'm mostly on my phone reading jwn or writing, or doodling or sometimes i just stare at the audience to see who's falling asleep or daydreaming.

its really the only way i can still sit through these things.. but i remember getting the number of a girl i used to like at one district convention and we would text each other during the program and talk about how boring it was.. i also remember sneaking out of a circuit assembly and going to see a car show that was going on right next door.

that was fun!.

Sofi

last meeting i atttended, i went to "change"my daughter's diaper and stayed almost the whole second hour in the basement. i couldn't stand anymore hearing the overseer and his grandiosity complex. everything just sounded like a bunch of crap. seriously. taking about the "slave" and feeling so full of himself as if he was the 'slave's" voice taking and how privilegded we were to be hearing all his bs. feels sad to see how brainwashed everybody seems to be (although i saw a lot of sleepy and daydreaming faces)