i often wondered over the years what happened to a lot of the old posters from this group.
going back to the late 1990s a few of the names i recall...blacksheep, gypsywildcactus (i know she's ok as we're friends on facebook still), onacruise, minimus, veniceit, flower, prisca, bendrr, refinersfire, kent, englishman, shit...dare i say it evilforce lol, snittlesnacks (what a twat), scully, mouthy, talesin from nova scotia, xenawarrior.
littletom (from glasgow in scotland), outlaw, goaty, bisous, uncle brucey (australian character who loved his wildkife photography) - struggling now to remember more names.i know there are many more.
I am around and still kicking. Uzzah aka Kismet and ForumDirector2 at H20 for those that go that far back.
Not active in exjw stuff anymore but come back here on occasion to see if any familiar names pop up. Gainfully employed, rehabilitation from a recent leg amputation but am moving well with the prosthetic.
Life after the JWs rocks. I am so very content in all elements of life.
i find that the people here speak in a way i can understand because we have one thing in common if nothing else.
so my question is , would it be easier to date someone that has been a jw and woke up or not?.
i would love for someone to 'get it' without having to explain much.
I was attending a business conference in Michigan recently and started a conversation with a lady who sat next to me at the hotel bar. Somehow the conversation turned and I commented about being raised a JW. Found out she was also a born in now out witness. There was a great connection and immediate bond. However it is somewhat artificial. We both were excited due to a shared upbringing but that is not the basis for a 'hook up" or relationship. It is an artificial connection.
It can be a good starting point but really shouldn't be the foundation of any kind of relationship beyond an acquaintance with a shared background. Anything more needs to be deeper.
the first part was all about the the evils of higher education.
i couldn't stand it and left.
was anybody there today?
Anyone know where he is speaking tomorrow (Sunday). He and his wife entertained me in their room for a glass of wine pre-lunch while visiting their Branch Office many years ago. Would enjoy catching up and telling him of my path since then. But I would have to put on a suit and shave my beard. Bah.. Not worth it
here in spain we have just had a special visit from the central branch representative (well i'm not sure what his position is) and in his talk he mentioned an episode in which an apostate and his supporters were expelled from bethel in the early 30s under rutherford's rule.
i didn't catch the name, it was something like "shutter" or "shulter".
this event was mentioned to bring attention to a woman who was very close to this apostate and just because of that she was unfairly expelled from bethel as well, but she was "humble" and "content" enough to leave the matter on jehovah's hands and she was reaccepted in bethel after a while.
Alex Reinmueller? Wow he has moved up in the Org. He was a non-entity when I was at the Canadian Branch
i think this would be a noble endeavour..
Farkel, Norm F, Alan, JanH did so much of the heavy lifting years back that laid the foundation for many mentioned in this thread. There have been so many individual efforts that it is of very little value to make it 'the best of'. Thank you to all that did the research, created the arguments and pushed people out of their cognitive dissonance. Past current and future warriors, named and unnamed, are deserving of praise and thanks. It isn't about any individual
curious what the canadian take is on all this .
i also understand he compared islamic state terrorists to greek, vietnamese & italian migrants?
that one i haven't confirmed yet but sounds wacky if true.
Trudeau panders to his audience. This alleged joke was his attempt to win over a particular segment of society. It only became a 'joke' when he realized (or his staffers realized) it was not acceptable.
He will always include women, girls, LGBTQ2, and other special interests whether they are relevant to the conversation or not. I agree there are issues that need to be addressed with each of these groups but it is his apparent mandate to make everything somehow about these groups.
I prefer a leader that focuses on all of Society not just special interests. That said one group that deserves a lot more of his interest and passion are veterans. His focus on refugees versus those that made a country safe for refugees is despicable!
jehovah's witnesses cover-up.
http://www.ucobserver.org/justice/2018/01/jw/.
Interestingly I had a Bethel Legal Department lawyer poking around my LinkedIn account yesterday.
jehovah's witnesses cover-up.
http://www.ucobserver.org/justice/2018/01/jw/.
I was VERY impressed by the journalist's approach which is one of the reasons I agreed to be interviewed by her despite being an ex-JW is really no longer a part of who I am.
She did a great job on the article
"Mark"
i posted on another thread about a couple of my experiences of meeting the governing body while i was in brooklyn.
i wanted to see if anyone else had any experiences along these same lines.
i met most of the ones that were current during the 2001-2003 years.
I had a chance to meet Knorr, Jaracz multiple times (his wife was Canadian), Sydlik, Franz, Barr, Losche (before he was GB) had dinner with him and Jaracz in Poland (1989) and wine in his Bethel room while visiting their branch.
Franz was entertaining. The rest other than Sydlik were boring and unimpressive. The only point of agreement I had with Jaracz was his taste in scotch.
“the first episode will be about jehovah witnesses and another episode will be about nxivm, a controversial self-empowerment group, according to the source.”.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/leah-remini-returning-to-ae-to-investigate-other-cult-like-religions/amp/.
amnesian.
please contact me if you know the producers or have contact info for this program. I would like to help.
