Posts by siegswife

I used to feel that some of the younger people were somewhat standoffish. At the time I thought it was because I wasn't a lifetime member so there might have been some suspicion that I wasn't "strong" enough (even though I was a gung ho witless).

Reading the stories here, I thought that maybe it was because they didn't believe it themselves and were living a double life. It's interesting to realize that there was even a degree of jealousy that they never got a chance to live outside the borg. I never would have thought that in a million years at the time.

You're right about filling a void. I'd been feeling so bad for so many years that finding "the truth" *gag* was like getting a second chance at life. To be honest, becoming a JW and subjecting myself to the control of the bOrg did help me gain some self discipline. I guess it's the same sort of effect the military has on some people.

It really broke my heart when I realized I was deceiving myself once again, but as the saying goes "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

Lea

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A question for those of you who were raised in the cult

by siegswife in

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when i was a jw, i often found myself wishing that i would have been a jw from birth.

that way i would've avoided many of the mistakes i'd made in my teenage years.

now, after reading so many of your stories i've realized that many of you didn't really believe it when you were young.

siegswife

When I was a JW, I often found myself wishing that I would have been a JW from birth. That way I would've avoided many of the mistakes I'd made in my teenage years.

Now, after reading so many of your stories I've realized that many of you didn't really believe it when you were young. So I wonder, what did you think of people like me, who joined as an adult? Did you think we were whacked or just gullible?

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If Jehovah's Witnesses Weren't So "Cultish," Would You Have Remained A JW?

by minimus in

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i see that millions of people belong to a religion yet may be non-practicing.

there are home baptists, catholics that go to church just once a year, and others that are not considered "devout" but still are members of a certain religion.

if the witnesses were much more relaxed in their approach as to how they enforced their views and gave people more "normal" rights so as to believe or not believe certain things, could you see yourself totally out of this religion?

siegswife

I don't think I would have. What you've identified as the cultish behavior didn't really bother me at the time. My problem with them was doctrinal in nature and I just couldn't continue to adhere to lies.

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Where'd you sit in the KH?

by DblOSmith in

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our hall has 3 sections of seating, we always sat in the left section all the way in the back if possible heh.

it's funny: it seemed like all the foreign people, immigrants, etc, sat on the right side, all the "goody goods" sat in the middle, and all of the um "shady" people... all the people i would think would become defectors sat on the left.

hehe.

siegswife

Me and my boyz usually say...ummm..to the left or the right or the middle about 3 or 4 rows from the front. I'm so thankful that we didn't work our way up further...

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Is it Possible to Love More than One Person?

by Robdar in

i think that love takes on many facets.

i think that admiration is one of these facets.

sexual desire is another.

siegswife

I love alot of people. I don' t make love to alot of people (anymore). It's quite possible to love more than one person...I think it's preferable.

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"I don`t hate the witnesses BUT......

by Sparks in

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hi gang, i took my new girl-friend last night to a country club for a quiet drink and dinner.. it was a good oppertunity to really get to know her.after an hour or so, our conversation went off .

the mundane sex in the city type of conversation :( she`s into the hot candle wax and the sniffin $bills.

thing zzzzz snore...) and into the more personal and philosophical....when i happened to mention.

siegswife

Golden Girl, I know I don't know you, but you are an inspriration. I feel so bad that you've lost your love...how can anyone know how to console you? You shine, lady. Believe that because it's true.

I'm sorry. xxxooo Lea

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Isaiah's Prophecy- Light for all Mankind??

by joe_from_kokomo in

i don't know if anyone else has posted this yet, but i must say, that the isaiah's prophecy books are the most boring drivel i have ever had to endure.

i don't know which member of the writing department or the gb wrote this 2 part set, but i have to say that it is super-duper-dull beyond words.

perhaps the author suffers from alzheimers and forgot that he wrote the same thing again and again and again... .

siegswife

AMen joefromkokemo, amen.

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My Crackpot Theory of Life ......Help!

by metatron in

i have a crackpot theory of life --- which you can help me confirm!.

let me explain:.

years ago, a nut named mekmet ali aja shot the pope.

siegswife

I'm going to tell you (and everyone els in the exJW community) something I never told anyone else.

When I was a child, my mother raised us (me and my siblings) in the ways of the occult. I can do your chart, baby. Anyway, my sister was/is a medium, and we had alot of seances when I was a kid.

One of them was different, in that my sis was "in" and said she was on a spacecraft...it was weird. Different, because usually we connected with the ''dead", not the extraestrial "living". On the way home that night (we were at my sis' boyfriends) we all saw a quarter sized light go UP into the sky. There were 5 of us there and we all saw it, and we all will testify to this day that it scared the s**t out of all us. We RAN home that night.

I believe that I don't have a clue as to what is possible.

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So What's Your Porn-Star Name? (Fluff, BTW)

by Englishman in

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you take the name of your favourite pet as the first part of your porn-star name, then you take your mothers maiden name for your porn-star surname.. which makes me...george bennet, hmm fairly ordinary i suppose... but her ladyship becomes...poppy male...ah, it works sometimes then!.

this could be good.

englishman.

siegswife

If I use my favorite pet it would be "Bandit Ludy"

Using my other pets: "Princess Ludy" or "Vishious Ludy" (I know it's not spelled that way. The pet is a fish..ious). I think I'll chang the "Ludy" to "Lady" and pick the porn name of "Vishious Lady". Kinda kinky but not as stinky...LOL