Topics Started by Smoldering Wick

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Crystal Blue Persuasion
by Smoldering Wick in
1. jw
2. friends
although i'm too young to remember tommy james and the shondells...i've heard "crystal blue persuasion" many times.

i also heard rumors from witnesses that tommy wrote this song about the "truth" book.

i can't seem to find any information online connecting this song to jws.
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES & Book BURNING (CDs TOO!)
by Smoldering Wick in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, i admit it...as a jehovah's witness, i burned a book.

when i was about 10 years old, a sister gave my mother a box of books.

i had been baptized for over a year and was quite the "little witness.
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JEHOVAH SAYS..."Please Pass the Tortillas!" Y MUCHO MAS~
by Smoldering Wick in
1. jw
2. friends
it's old news that the watchtower bible and tract society has been trying to convert as many spanish speaking people as possible.

i remember how the watchtower gradually added more and more mexican people into their illustrations as the years went on.

as this family in 1999 awake photo.
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Did Being a JW Make You a Bully VICTIM in SCHOOL?
by Smoldering Wick in
1. jw
2. friends
i read this article in the montreal gazette that talked about a young witness kid being bullied in school.

it made me think back to all the times i was treated differently in school for being a jehovah's witness.

i grew up in a predominately mexican community and went to public school there from 1st-12th grade as a jw.
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I'm NO Longer a JEHOVAH'S WITNESS?
by Smoldering Wick in
1. jw
2. friends
ok....it's been a while since i've posted.

i've been playing it cool...not really thinking about religion, just living life.

got a visit from my older sister & her husband.
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Did Being JW make YOU a Social Misfit or HERMIT?
by Smoldering Wick in
1. jw
2. friends
as i sat quietly in my apartment...staring at the computer screen, i got this overwhelming feeling of being totally alone.

don't get me wrong, i feel comfortable alone.

but, how did i end up this way?
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Do you Remember the Moment you Stopped Being a JW?
by Smoldering Wick in
1. jw
2. friends
"it only takes a moment.

a moment of sanity.

clarity.
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REPENT! The End is (more or less) NEAR!
by Smoldering Wick in
1. jw
2. friends
the armageddon watch - repent!

there is so much hype on the internet actually everywhere about the end of the world and the new world order.

there are.... books printed on the subject: .
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After JWs--NOW WHAT???
by Smoldering Wick in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, it's been four years for me since i left the jws.

i have been so busy trying to recover from the blow of leaving and losing friends, religion, a social group etc., that i haven't considered (too much) about what's next.

i mean, i've tried to be open minded and listen to other people's beliefs hoping that somewhere/sometime/something would click.
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Brother Where Art Thou? PART II
by Smoldering Wick in
1. jw
2. friends
when i first came to this discussion board, i posted a thread called "brother where art thou?

" http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=21053&site=3 in which i wrote a personal letter to my brother.

although, i have been away from the jws for about 4 years...i had just discovered that my older brother had also left the jws and was posting on this forum.