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  Circuit Leasing.Com

  by teenyuck in

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  i am trying to locate the corporate information on this..... i recall threads saying that this is an entity of the wtbts.. can someone direct me to that thread or help me get some information?

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  zenpunk

  The page below lists all the businesses owned by the WTS. There are links to these businesses' WebSites.

  http://www.geocities.com/ekron3551/link4.html
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  Same story, just different names

  by zenpunk in

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  i guess i've lurked around long enough - it's time to join my new family and tell the condensed (thank goodness) version of my experience.. my parents came into the org.

  when i was 10. it was a scary congregation in a small town.

  the po was my dad's boss and he had complete control over everyone.

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  zenpunk

  Hi Funky -

  This was in County Donegal in the early 90s. (I'm not that old yet!). I read about the "great apostasy" of the 80s, but thought I could handle anything. Ha.

  And, BTW to Celia -

  That elder is a grown up Wallkill Farm boy now, making pennies per hour!
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  JW Dating Service :)

  by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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  http://www.jwmatch.com/welcome.php .

  "um, i like serving jehovah, and going to the kingdom hall... and um, serving jehovah, and bookstudies, and serving jehovah, and meeting beautiful sisters, and serving jehovah of course.

  " [8>]

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  zenpunk

  SAAAADDDDD! What hypocrites! Maybe they should set up an "arranged marriage" site so that there's never the temptation to fornicate.
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  Q for Everybody, So let me get this str

  by Legendary U.2.K. in

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  nobody here wants to lived in the new earth aka the coming earthly paradise?

  nothing in the bible is symbolic, because saying things that are symbolic in the bible, is like calling jehovah a liar, god would not write something like in the bible, then out of no where, it really means something else... example: 144,000, some people said's that's symbolic, lol yea right.... .

  anyway it seems like no one here wants to lived in the new earth, my question is why?

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  zenpunk

  Nobody really knows - so why waste time worrying about it.
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  My Theory about wild X-JWs

  by zenpunk in

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  i was pondering this theory this morning - what do you all think?.

  a few months ago i went to visit someone from my last congregation who is now also an x-jw.

  what is interesting is that, though completely straight-laced within the congregation, he became absolutely out of control once he left and is now trying to figure out how to get his life together.

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  zenpunk

  I was pondering this theory this morning - what do you all think?

  A few months ago I went to visit someone from my last congregation who is now also an X-JW. What is interesting is that, though completely straight-laced within the congregation, he became absolutely out of control once he left and is now trying to figure out how to get his life together. I've noticed this to be the case with quite a few X-JWs. So, being so analytical, I thought of a theory about this.

  The unfortunate thing about the organization is that they make all the rules for you. Thus, when some people leave, they haven't a clue about their own personal "rules system" since everything was always decided for them - with the threat of the big DF to keep them in line.
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  Same story, just different names

  by zenpunk in

  1. jw
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  i guess i've lurked around long enough - it's time to join my new family and tell the condensed (thank goodness) version of my experience.. my parents came into the org.

  when i was 10. it was a scary congregation in a small town.

  the po was my dad's boss and he had complete control over everyone.

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  zenpunk

  I guess I've lurked around long enough - it's time to join my new family and tell the condensed (thank goodness) version of my experience.

  My parents came into the org. when I was 10. It was a scary congregation in a small town. The PO was my dad's boss and he had complete control over everyone. You were either "in" or "out", depending on who you were. It was a scary dynamic.

  I tried so hard to fit in but I was always "just a little bit different". I was never invited to socialize with the other girls. As time went on and I entered my teens it only got worse. But, I felt I just needed to "wait on Jehovah". I was baptized at 14 and became a regular pioneer instead of going to college (my dream). Still I was constantly teased and ostracized. I was always called into the elders for rediculous accusations from other girls.

  When I was 18 a farm brother from Wallkill, NY became interested in me. The other brothers told him it was a very bad idea - that I was "strange" and not to be dated.

  Now, in this congregation, the sisters got married at 19 and became hairdressers. The "farm boys" were swamped with the girls clawing at them. I wouldn't play the game and I wondered why I was always alone.

  At 20 I went to Ireland to serve where the need was great. I thought this would change everything. It did. I was placed in a completely apostate congregation that was disbanded. When I came back to America over a year later I was completely disenchanted. I drifted aimlessly for two years and then drifted right out...to the horror of my parents.

  But then, over the years I realized why I never fit in. I was too smart for it and, as a woman, intelligence and independence of the JW man is not tolerated in the "Christian Congregation".

  I didn't waste any time after leaving. I went to college and now am 11 credits away from finishing a B.S. in Computer Science from a good private college. I've worked as an engineer for the past 4 years. I travel around the world, installing equipment, inventing equipment, and lecturing.
  
  A few months ago I got a baby shower invite from one of the post 19-year old hairdressers. I chuckled inside as I threw it out. I stopped by my parents one day and an elder and his wife were over. My father was looking at a specification sheet for one of my projects. The elder asked me if I was the receptionist at the company. My words came back like a whiplash and his mouth dropped, "I was the primary engineer for this project".

  Best wishes to all.....
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  WTS CONTRACTS NAVY'S WAR-FIGHTER MOTOR

  by deddaisy in

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  copyright 2001 pr newswire association, inc. .

  pr newswire .

  december 6, 2001, thursday .

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  zenpunk

  That's scary - and to think my JW father got laid off for refusing to do military contracts (machining parts).
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  Relieved or gutted, which are you?

  by sleepy in

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  is finding out that jehovahs witnesses are not the truth a relief for you as you no longer have to go to meetings etc or does it make you gutted as there is no everlasting life and no new system?.

  i started of relieved , then gutted , and whent through cycles of both now i feel that it has to be relief.. though i will probably never get over the fact that for 26 years of my life everything i believed was wrong and i will allways have a small longing for that new world, but the relief that i can live my own life outweighs that.

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  zenpunk

  I usually feel relieved and gutted - all at the same time.
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  Lookin for love in all the wrong places

  by pad in

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  i had previously posted here, got some great advice, now i need more.

  my first post is at :.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=27194&site=3&page=1.

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  I know this may sound cruel, but run before you're seriously mindf*&ked! He is being disloyal to his beliefs by deep-down wanting a relationship with you. You may be able to win him to you but, more often than not, he will feel guilty about his disloyalty to the JW's and one day say that he cannot even ever speak to you again because his conscience is starting to bother him. And then, where does that leave you - brokenhearted I'm sure. It's best to tell him to get lost for all the previously mentioned reasons. If he later decides to choose you over the JW's, then you can always go back. Never underestimate the power this religion has over people!
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  Do your parents still talk to you?

  by scootergirl in

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  just curious if your parents still have contact with you after you have been df'd/da'd.

  mine have stood by w/strong convictions not to have contact w/me.

  they have to have some being that i have kids that they want to see (but that is very minimal).

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  My relationship with my father has been non-existent (he holds a position of "authority" in the congregation and my relationship with my mother has been strained since I walked away. However, things have actually changed somewhat since the Dateline airing. My father inquired about the show to the elders and was told that they had a big meeting about it at the Farm (Wallkill) and a letter will be distributed to those in the congregation who ask about the show. My mother called me tonight and said that, because of the response my father got regarding the show, she wants to come over Thursday night and watch my copy of the show. One day at a time....