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we have all fantasized about never having been jw's, how would your life of been different (better or worse) if your family(parents) would of never joined the jw's.. hypothetical question i know.
but fun to think about it.. for me, i might of actually had a family, instead of being ignored and critized for not going to meetings.. for my family, it goes back to my grandmother (who is now 100), who started the crap line going.
I would have accepted the full scholarships I was offered. But that's OK, I'm putting myself through grad school now, only $15000 to go.
I would have had children. But that's OK, I have my three spoiled Abyssinian cats and one spoiled Tortie.
I wouldn't be posting on exJW boards, but that's OK, I've met some wonderful people because of it.
uhuuu, yep i am going to the meeting.
tonight...
i want the newest watchtowers, i feel deprived of all the new light, lol.
I felt the desire to stand up and leave, right there and then.And I did.
no more.
Congratulations.
nosferatu has inspired me.
i got two of those stupid things in my e-mail this morning.
i just said up a hotmail account in the name "richard head" i think i'll have a little fun with them.
LOL @ everybody
i feel that my education was stunted due to the jw belief that education is not important.
as a result i have not been able to follow my dreams, or follow the career i?m sure i was put on this earth to do.
does anyone else feel this way?
One thing I realized that the organization doesn't help parents to see, is that it is better for your kids to be in college with kids their own age, than out in the workforce from high school--working with adults who could corrupt young minds before they are prepared for it. That is.....if your kids do not want to pioneer which I'm glad my mom let me have that choice. I did pioneer for a year but went back to working. Not that everybody is bad in the workforce, but I think the association there makes them grow up faster sometimes than what would happen naturally. I know it happened with me at my first job, when I started working right out of high school. People looked out for themselves and didn't care about young, naieve people just starting out
Amen to that. I was a 17 year old born 'n raised jw and pretty hot stuff when I went to work in an office as a secretary after turning down scholarships. I was also totally clueless and way too trusting. They chewed me up and spit me out for breakfast. It was awful.
i was doing some cleaning this weekend and ran across a drawer with a few of my old calculators, including my very first one.
today they have ones that are credit-card sized that do more.
but i remember getting it when i was about 12 and in 6th or 7th grade and at that time in the late 70's a calculator this size was still sort of a gadget.. for some reason the first thing that bounced into my mind when i pulled it out and looked at it was my old hall at the time.
I used to study the maps in the back and front covers of the green NWT. I also used to read it, since the Bible was more interesting than what was spewing from the platform.
looks like the letter writting campaign has paid off !!!!!!!!!!!!
the jw's have dropped costs, and there will be no exchange of money.
(which, yes, means i still will not receive my huge $5000.00 judgement) (thanks judge molloy!?
I could NOT be happier.
What an utter sense of total relief this must be. Sure, you have your lawyer to pay, but to NOT have to pay those bastards corporate lawyers must feel SOOOOO good... I'm crying in happiness.... I was so sick for you, I thought about how I would feel if I owed the WTS money and it did not feel good.
CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYONE ON PURPLEV!!! The catch is yoy\U have to come to NYC to get it... oh, is someone complaining about fine print? GET GLASSES!! lol
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here's an extract from an october 15, 2003 watchtower article on self-control:.
can anyone say: "same ol', same ol'"?
Does everyone here really think that this person in the article is a real person?
Just another example of brainwashing coming out of the Writing Department.
remember when you were in the troof, and had the thoughts of paradise erf continually being pounded into your head?
you'd be able to pet lions, eat fruit, and smile, but there were things that were going to be destroyed at armageddon.
what were you going to miss in the old world?
How boring was it gonna be without worldly people?
for as long as i can remember i think i've always fought for the underdog in most situations i've come across in my 33 years of life.....right from back at school, i would be-friend the looser in the class, because i felt sorry for them, and maybe because they were different.
i guess i stood out as different at the same time and maybe that was the case why, not going into school assemblies, us witnesses would sit in the "enterance hall" and have to go in after the whole school had said the lords prayer and hymn, in we'd file past all of the school all 9 of us, and i can remember other kids hissing "jo-bo" "jew" "jo-vo" etc etc at us as we filed past whilst everyone sat down.
i'd still hold my head up.. in my teens it sort of got worse, and of course i was coming to terms with my own "what direction am i gonna take in life" scenario.....this too created conflict, not just with my peers, but later with my family with all the "haven't you got a girlfriend yet" "whats wrong with you" comments....still i'd steel my resolve.. in my 20's, i started my nurse training believe it or not after being pushed into a building and construction course that i quickly abandoned (suprise it wasn't quite me, despite sticking it for a year) 1994 i qualified as a r.n despite family and friends looking at me in a strange way (you're a man, you can't possibly be a nurse!!
but some learn to find an inner strength in themselves that helps them overcome all that
Many people must go through a very understandable period of anger and adjustment before they can get to that point. That is also part of healing.
