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  i need help

  by avishai in

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  2. friends

  due to a nasty custody case i am broke and i need to move in the next 10 days can anybody help me.

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  Pickler

  I hope things get better for you soon,
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  Then (1960) and now (2013)

  by theron ware in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was raised as a jw from the age of 7. i was df'd for apostasy in 1971 at the age of 23. it has been 42 years since i have had contact with any jehovah's witnesses, including my family.

  last year i moved to tucson.

  when i read that a district assembly was coming to town, and that it would be at the convention center only minutes from my house, i decided to check it out.

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  Pickler

  I love it! You look pretty young....a walking advertisement for apostacy, good for you!
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  Is there any taboo on certain genre of music in the JW nutshell

  by DilemmaGF in

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  2. beliefs

  eg.... country music in particular?.

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  Pickler

  There were certain songs that were considered demonic, like Queen - another one bites the dust, and of course anything by Stevie Nicks because we all knows she is a witch!

  Rap is from satan, as well as anything metal.
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  2013 Drama: "Show Yourself Attentive"

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the first of three "dramas" this dc, and i have to say, it was one of the weirdest dramas ever.

  i won't go through all the details.

  maybe someone else wants to throw in their 2c.. it starts out with two men standing on the "beach" talking, but it took me awhile to figure out what in the hell was going on.

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  Pickler

  I can't watch it, comes up video is private......and now I want to because it sounds so bad!
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  Flashback to the sixties Seatle

  by Tater-T in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so while making a you tube video of my dad today, i came across this in a dvd of home movies from way back, i didn't even know about it... originally shot on super 8 film, shot off screen with camcorder in 1992, with open mic, transfered to dvd in 2010 .. made to you tube in 2013.... check out the food service, without paper plates no less .. it's only a couple minutes on convention then, a little seatle conventions were a family vacation when we were growing up ... .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teslivkoak4.

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  Pickler

  It shows how dull and boring our JW kid lives were that we actually thought an assembly was something to look forward to, hahaha
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  Brothers told to pack an "Armagedon survival bag."...bid gossip in Aust!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so my mum excitedly calls and tells me how the brothers are now told to pack a survival emergency bag, so the tribulation is coming!!!

  talk about clutching at straws.

  shes packed her bible of course and the some non essential stuff like food...he he.

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  Clarity & rebel yes, yes, yes! Me too!

  this was done in the 70s.

  seems funny, now, but this is a horrible thing to put in the minds of little children. Don't forget the JW parent tells their 3/4/5 year olds this stuff. And it's so damaging. I remember constantly being afraid as a child. We had hills across the road from us & I used to look for places to hide all the time.

  I also felt constant guilt over everyone who was about to die.

  I also felt fear, because even at 5 I knew the great Jehovah was not going to protect the JW whilst destroying all the worldly people, why would he? All around me JW were getting cancer, having car accidents etc etc in the same way as everyone else.

  By the time I was a teen I developed a lot of behaviours which I later found out were related to anxiety.

  laughingly, my JW parent in one of her reminiscent moments commented once about what a carefree childhood I had!!!!!!!!! It really is child abuse to tell children these things.
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  Feeling Guilty

  by naazira in

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  2. friends

  i am feeling gulity because i will not be going to the summer convention.

  i just can not sit through the talks they are sooo boring.

  im cutting off all contact with the witnesses.

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  Pickler

  There's no guilt just such a relief in not having to sit through that boredom. There is such a sense of freedom in walking away from attendance. It's amazing. Week nights, weekends they all open up for you.....free time!

  The hard part I found is, that if you have been raised as a JW it is actually hard to adapt to having free time, being able to do what you want. You are not used to it. You don't have hobbies, or friends (they were all JW) no history of socialising, because your social life came from the JW. That's what is hard to establish.

  No guilt though, when you leave JW, you leave guilt behind as well!
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  Powerfully heart-wrenching experience by FORMER BETHLITE

  by Black Man in

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  2. friends

  just wanting to post an experience by a former bethelite.

  the first part was just published with the other two coming overt the next couple of weeks.

  click the link.

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  Pickler

  Wow, I dodged a bullet by not getting married as a young JW.

  Great story.
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  My Story - a (kinda) newbie from the UK

  by wizzstick in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after lurking for 7 and half years (is that a record?!

  ) its time for me to say hello.. so who am i, and whats my story?.

  im a born in jw, with all my siblings, mother, wife and children in.

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  Pickler

  Hey wizzstick, welcome!

  Oh my goodness! I remember all that 80s rhetoric so well. That's why we never got to do anything. Well, why would you plan anything? Armageddon will be here any day. ANY DAY! Luckily I was out before these changes.

  You know what's funny though? People in the 70s must have gone through a similar experience with 1975 came & went. But by the time we grew up in the 80s it was never, ever mentioned.

  Look forward to hearing more of your story!
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  Anyone here tried the PALEO DIET?

  by StAnn in

  1. social
  2. physical

  hubby and i are getting ready to start.

  looking for some input, if you have any.

  thanks!

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  Pickler

  Hey obs, thanks! Making vegetables into "pasta" is something I've long wanted to try, I'm going to search that brand that you mentioned in your post.

  i read your previous comment about Crossfit, I had almost an identical experience, it is "culty". In the end I chose not to go with Crossfit, because I knew fast reps of weight bearing activities are not for me. Their rhetoric is so forceful though. I also experience cult like rhetoric in Bikram yoga, but I still practice and tune it out.

  One good thing about paleo is that you can make an amazing Thai curry. Find a good paste with nothing artificial added. Paste, coconut milk, tiny bit of fish sauce & any meat, it's spectacular.

  I make a Thai yellow curry with salmon & veg. If I'm feeling virtuos I make cauliflower "rice". If I need stodge I make sweet potato (kumara) chips. A curry over hot chips is heavenly. Don't forget to squeeze lemon on top.