Posts by bittersweet

Seriously though,the last picture was a little disturbing.The dead bodies looked a little too real!Glad that one wasn't out when I was little.....the Paradise Lost book was enough for me!

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Self-Esteem and Stress Level Tests - Wow!

by RevMalk in

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i scored 96 out of 100 for stress - ouch!.

click here to take the test

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Not only am I stressed(score 56),but apparantly I have no self esteem either(score 49).Oh well,you live,you learn!

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Anybody here ever go on chaperoned dates?

by unbeliever in

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i use to get the biggest chuckle when the elders insisted that when going out on a date that someone older and mature had to go with you to make sure you don't fornicate.

how imposing!!

i have a friend (did the fade) that was stuck with her brother being the chaperone a couple of times when she was dating her then boyfriend.

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I always hated the stupid chaperone stuff.My younger brother was the one who got the pleasure of coming with my now husband and I.He loved it though because he got free food and movie tickets.

The first time we ever got to go out unchaperoned was the night we got engaged.

Silly religion,silly rules!

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JW Picstures on line Google Images

by blondie in

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no scanner but need to illustrate your point?

try google images, then select jehovah's witnesses: .

edited by - blondie on 30 january 2003 14:9:4.

When I was little and we didn't have the Bible Stories book yet,the Paradise Lost book was what I looked at all the time.I used to stare at those pictures above for hours,and I would feel really sad for the people in the picture.I would also feel scared for myself,thinking that at Armageddon that could be me falling through the earth!Ahhhh,such happy memories....

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Do you feel safe where you live?

by Beans in

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i was just driving back from the store on a street where a young man was killed a few years back, as he was murdered right on the street i often think of this every time i drive back from the store.

his house was about 100 feet from where his body lie in the street and blocks from my house.. i actually feel safe where i live and do know where to go and not to in toronto but crime happens everywhere no matter where you are, you can live in the quietest neighbourhood and right next door the worst can and has happened.

do you know where to walk at night and where not too in your town?

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I feel relatively safe in my town.The biggest crimes that happen here are probably shop-lifting.It's actually funny reading the police reports in our local paper(that comes out only on Fridays).A lady called the police around x-mas time to report that someone had rearranged the reindeer decorations on her front lawn into sexual positions.That's probably the worst of it.High school kids and drugs are a problem though,but that's like any other town.

I do get nervous sometimes because we have a military base in our town.My youngest started attended kindergarten on the base the month of the terrorist attacks,and it was a little frightening sending him out there.Just to get out there you had to go through the third degree.I think it's one of the only bases in the country where civilians attend school.Listening to all the jets flying overhead can be a bit disconcerting.Like Auntiem said,you know somethings up when you hear an increase in that!

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Assembly mammaries

by joenobody in

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gotta love 'em!

spent many an lunch hour searchin' em out.

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LOL Scully,that's what I was thinking!

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JW attacked by Ram sues owner

by IronGland in

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from this link: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5876608%5e662,00.html.

ram butts bible man.

by christopher salter.

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Zev,Paul and Al were discussing that on 94HJY? I wish I had heard it,lol.

I can't believe the cong said witnessing is voluntary! How come I didn't realise this when they were chasing me down for my hours,and telling me I didn't go out in service enough?

I think the witnesses who sued the homeowners had ____ for brains.Maybe they should have heeded the advice of the signs that said Keep Out.

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they are coming to get me

by Curious Mind in

a bit of background first.

i was raised a jw and baptized at 15 although to say i was dedicated was stupid, anyway began to fade with my wife after we were married and finally broke away about 10 years ago although we were not da,d or df,d.

three years ago i decided to do what i had always wanted to and joined the airforce which i am immensly proud of and enjoy greatly ,somrthing i could never say about being a jw.

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It amuses me to see what mind control these elders under.For years they don't bother you,then suddenly the society tells them to reach out to inactive ones,and BOOM,they're at your door!

I just found out yesterday that the elders came to my door a few weeks ago.Thank god I was sleeping! I don't quite know why my husband didn't tell me this until yesterday,but that's beside the point.He told them at a meeting that I wouldn't welcome a visit from them right now,maybe not ever,lol.Thank goodness for small favors.

If they come to your door,don't answer it.If they call,don't talk to them.Like others said,whatever they decide to do with you,it will all be based on gossip,not your words.

I wish you well.

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Do we come here to "convince" ourselves?

by bittersweet in

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ok...so the other day my husband(he is still an active witness) starts questioning me about why i come to x-jw sites.. he said the reason people come to these types of sites,is to convince themselves that they made the right decision to leave the"truth".i told him i come here to get support from others who feel they were tricked into believing something that wasn't true.he knows i feel my life has been taken away from me because i wasted so many years following their doctrines.i told him it helps me to know i am not alone in my feelings.he is still convinced that people are afraid they are wrong,and just come here to keep finding reasons to stay away from the "truth".he doesn't understand that we know what the real truth is.. i was just curious what everyone else thought about this.do you feel we are "convincing" ourselves that we made the right decision to leave?

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Thanks for all your responses!

I decided long before I found this site that I wanted out.I've been out for 4 1/2 years,and I only just found this site last August.I told my husband that we weren't going to see eye to eye on this issue,so we should just agree to disagree.

As many of you said,why does he continue to go to the meetings?I'm sure it is to convince himself that he has the truth.Maybe some day he will actually come to this site and see the "truth" for what it is.Whatever he does,it isn't going to change my outlook!

Take care all!