A woman I know invited me to Christmas Eve services a year after I left JWs. She told me it was a beautiful service. I had an immediate visceral reaction of revulsion at the idea of anything to do with God or religion. I think she was offended. Unless you've been a Dub, you don't get it.
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My neighbor invited me to Christmas services
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my neighbor invited me and my family to christmas services at his nondenominational church when i was shoveling fresh snow from the driveway this morning.
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is this humor or is it sad?
by stillin ina forwarded e-mail from a faithful sister:.
new classes for jehovah's witnesses .
meets 4 weeks, monday and wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 pm.. .
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cobaltcupcake
It's both sad and funny.
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The privileged Bethel speakers and the rest of us Jamokes.
by RULES & REGULATIONS incicero,illinois 1970's.
our four day assemblies in the 1970's through the 1980's were pure torture.. they were held at a horse race track in cicero,il in the smoking hot and humid month of july.
they charged around $2 for parking.
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cobaltcupcake
Yep, those 4- and 5-day (don't forget the international assemblies) conventions were torture.
The Odd Life of Jehovah's Witnesses - A Good Opportunity for Discomfort
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January 2013 warns parents to resist contact with df'd children again
by stuckinlimbo insee page 15-16. full of "straw men" like:.
* do not blame yourself it is the child that jehovah blames - parents do not care whose fault it is they just want their child not to be killed by god.
* it is ok for parents to hope their df'd child returns - was anybody really asking if that was wrong?.
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cobaltcupcake
Whenever I tell someone the reason that I have no contact with my mother and brother they are absolutely shocked. I nearly always get the comment, "What kind of religion would do that to people?"
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Your earliest doubt?
by Apognophos inthis might be an unfair question for those who have been out of the organization for decades, but i'm wondering if any of you remember your earliest doubt -- maybe something odd that occurred to you as a kid (if you were a jw then).
please try to limit to two doubts at the most :-).
i think my first "doubt" was simply realizing that at the time of the flood, every animal that wasn't in the ark died (well, besides the fish, supposedly).
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cobaltcupcake
Yea that Rev book study just got stupid after a while. With all the updates. The pouring out of the 7 bowls was hardly monumental.
That's for sure. My ex-father-in-law frequently said, "It's amazing how a bunch of old ladies sitting under the trees in Cedar Point fulfilled Bible prophecy." He died at age 82, faithful to the cult.
First doubt was at age 15 or 16 when I walked into the KH and an elder asked me what my ordination date was. I gave him my baptism date, and he said, "Well, somebody hasn't read their new Watchtower yet!"
Suddenly, the Society had decided that the only congregation members who were "ministers" were the elders and ministerial servants. The "Theocratic Ministry School" became the "Theocratic School," and "The Kingdom Ministry" became "Our Kingdom Service."
I remember feeling deflated and slightlfy ashamed that I had been so presumptuous as to claim to be a minister.
They reversed that a few years later with a stupid article that told us that once again we were all "ministers" and our "ministry" included things like mowing our lawn and washing our car, as the community would see that we're good people. Dude, really? Can I count my time for that?
I noticed that when they released the 1930-1985 (I may have the dates wrong) big burgundy index that I could find no references to those Watchtower articles.
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We want to wear pants
by recovering inhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/21/mormon-women-wear-pants-to-church-threatened_n_2346737.html.
morman women demand to wear pants to church.
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cobaltcupcake
I remember below-zero winter days in field service wearing a skirt. Ridiculous!
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An interesting YouTube experiment, JWs straying onto an "apostate" channel
by cedars insome time ago i uploaded a video to youtube that was a medley of different young ones singing "listen obey and be blessed.
" as you can imagine, it's rather creepy.. here it is.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou802omcnvq.
my intention in making the video was twofold.
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cobaltcupcake
Teaching kids to obey without question plays directly into the hands of child molesters.
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48 and just got my first bike!
by haboob48 inin your face wtbt$!..............and shamus?
you can play with my ken doll anytime!
hee hee hee.
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cobaltcupcake
Well, last year my wife bought me a Daisy Red Ryder BB rifle. I still haven't opened it though... I guess I'm afraid I'll put my eye out.
LOL!
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What does perfection mean?
by speargrass55 ini was reading the thread about inheriting condemnation from adam and eve.
i would like your opinion on what was before that.
we all know the earth is hundreds of millions of years old.
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cobaltcupcake
Ah, the infamous "dented bread pan" illustration. I always wondered what actually happened to Adam and Eve that made them start to age. How does sin change the body processes? Doesn't make any sense.
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Jack Klugman passed away at 90
by finallysomepride inactor jack klugman dead at 90http://au.news.yahoo.com/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/15709372/actor-jack-klugman-dead-at-90/.
sadly another actor has gone, sadly missed.
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cobaltcupcake
That's sad. I loved both "The Odd Couple" and "Quincy."
