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  What effect did, being called "Brother or Sister" have on you?

  by JH in

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  i remember a month ago, receiving a slip at my door, saying that the memorial is this coming sunday, and it was signed by an elder, saying "your brother" elder so and so.

  it was as if he and i were at the same level by writting "your brother".

  the first reaction i had, seeing "your brother", acted as if we had a special bond, with a responsibility attached to it.. do you think that being called "brother or sister" is a way of manipulating you, a way of getting more out of you?

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  It always embarrassed the crap out of me if another jw called me 'sister' in front of a worldly person.
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  Do you really want to see JWs wiped out?

  by ScoobySnax in

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  PurpleV

  Thanks Sabine & TonyT

  Scooby: How do you feel about the responses you've gotten so far?
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  Do you really want to see JWs wiped out?

  by ScoobySnax in

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  Wiped out?

  No. JWs are really nice people who have been deluded. Many of my best friends are exJWs. I wish only that those who have not yet escaped the mind control could come out and enjoy life. I wish no good to the WTBTS, I wouldn't mind seeing that crumble. I would get some beloved family back.

  But for the rank and file, I wish them nothing but peace and freedom. So many people are living oppressed lives, minimum wage, working their a$$es off to spend as much time peddling literature out in service and attending meetings that they get no joy at all.

  Wiped out? The greedy publishing company that hides behind the laws protecting religions from taxes and reaps in multi-millions? The greedy publishing company that enslaves people and keeps that damn carrot (the new system TM) just far enough away to keep them slogging away? The greedy publishing company that protects pedophiles? The greedy publishing company that joined the Scarlet Wild Beast? The publishing company that lets children die without blood? The same publishing company that wipes out any pleasurable activity in life? (Holidays, birthdays, etc.) You mean, that same publishing company that insists that it is your mediator between Jesus and God?

  That same publishing company that promises dates for the New System (TM) and blames the R&F for "misunderstanding" when the false prophecy doesn't come true? You must mean the one that tells you that you can covet the mansions you see when you are peddling literature out in service, imagining the crows picking out the eyes of the infants and toddlers that lived there.

  Or maybe you're talking about the JWs who tear families apart, shunning people until they commit suicide, all in the name of them trying to "save" the DF'd person by making them see the error of their ways by leaving the publishing company God's organization. Parents torn from children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, MARRIAGES, all torn apart because when one chooses not to participate in the mind control theocratic arrangement they are as good as corpses.

  NAH, Scoob, I don't want to see JWs wiped out. I just wish the "organization" that is torturing them would go out of business. That would do it for me.
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  Resignation letter

  by PurpleV in

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  reportedly an actual letter of resignation from an employee at zantex computers, usa, to her boss, who apparently resigned very soon afterwards

  dear mr. baker,.

  as a graduate of an institution of higher education, i have a few very basic expectations.

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  PurpleV

  Damnit... looks like another Urban Legend...

  http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/zantex.asp

  LOL, duped again

  Maybe so, but from the same link: "Even we adults need our fairy tales"

  This made my day today anyway.
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  Resignation letter

  by PurpleV in

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  reportedly an actual letter of resignation from an employee at zantex computers, usa, to her boss, who apparently resigned very soon afterwards

  dear mr. baker,.

  as a graduate of an institution of higher education, i have a few very basic expectations.

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  Reportedly an actual letter of resignation from an employee at Zantex Computers, USA, to her boss, who apparently resigned very soon afterwards

  Dear Mr. Baker,
  
  As a graduate of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my coworkers and me during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.
  
  Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "copy and paste" for the hundredth time.
  
  You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.
  
  You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle. Since this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation, however, I have a few parting thoughts.
  
  1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.
  
  2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favorites list", which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favorably by the administration.
  
  3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your Mother's birthday," you neglected to mention that you were going to take pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a sauce bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please; I hate having to correct your mistakes.)
  
  Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody, and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never f*** with your systems administrator. Why? Because they know what you do with all that free time!
  
  Wishing you a grand and glorious day,
  
  
  Cecelia
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  Hi Im new here!

  by New Castles in

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  im new to the website and farely new to the idea of leaving the jw's.

  for a long time i've had doubts, questions that dont have an answer.

  i was an ms and reg pioneer for about 5 years.

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  Welcome and congratulations. How wonderful for your little girl that she doesn't have to grow up a JW with all the attendant horrors that entails.
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  What's The Most Traumatic Thing That's Ever Happened To You As A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  when you look back at your witness life, you probably can see that you were regularly exposed to traumatic conditions and situations because you were a jw.

  thinking back, was there anything that stood out in your mind that especially wounded you?

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  When I was 5 I was bitten by a vicious dog out in service and had to go to the hospital. The "householder" took his time producing the dog's rabies certificate so I was THISCLOSE to having the rabies series.
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  Do You Feel Embarrassed That You Were Ever A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  i do.

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  I was embarrassed being a JW while I WAS a JW.
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  Interested In Learning More About Jehovah Witnesses

  by T3nd3rl0v1n in

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  my name is latasha and i attend paine college in augusta, georiga.

  for my religion of the world class we were assigned a research paper comparing our religion to another.

  also, we must present to the class a little information about our experience with the religion we choosen.

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  One of my questions is about The Pledge of Allegiance and why Jehovah Witnesses don't participate during the event.

  Because they claim to be no part of 'this world' and abstain from politics, military service, voting, etc.

  Second, what is the reason why Jehovah Witnesses don't celebrate holidays?

  There are lots of reasons, mostly due to pagan origins. They don't celebrate birthdays because John the Baptist had his head chopped off at one.

  Third, how is the church service? In other words, when does the service start and end? Do you meet every sunday like Baptist, Methodist etc.

  There are 5 hours of mind-numbingly boring meetings a week, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, but they're not service or worship. They are a study of Watchtower publications and serve to brainwash their adherents with constant repetition of the same material over and over, i.e. that their organization is being used by God and only JWs will survive Armageddon (which has been coming "any minute now" for over a century), and that anyone who rejects the message preached by JWs will be killed after the Great Tribulation and have their eyes picked out by birds. Oh, when they go door-to-door to preach they fantasize about what house they'll take over after it's all over.

  Do Jehovah Witnesses take communion every first sunday each month?

  Communion is reserved for "special" JWs only. Rank and file are forbidden to partake of the bread and wine and instead pass it around without touching it. BTW they only do this once a year at a special Memorial.

  Is their a church choir?

  Ummmm, no. They play pre-recorded music and sing the lyrics.

  Fourth, I read at one website that Jehovah Witnesses certain themselves Christians, but at another website it stated that Jehovah Witnesses aren't and far from it.

  JWs claim to be Christian, but then again they believe that Jesus was only an archangel so that really doesn't make any sense. JWs are violently opposed to the Trinity.

  Do you certain yourself Christians? If not why? if so why?

  I was a JW from birth until about 20 years ago. I became a Christian after I freed myself from bondage to that organization.

  Good luck with your paper. I'm sure many others here will give you more good info.
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  Would You Return To The Organization If You Were Given Total Amnesty?

  by minimus in

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  if you knew that the policy was that there would be no more witchhunts, no more disfellowshippings or shunning of any kind, would you be tempted to go back?

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  Would you?