Topics Started by be wise

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Looking Forward To Ur Free Life Or Stil Reflecting And Living A Bitter Past
by m0nk3y in
1. jw
2. friends
having grown up in the jw teaching till the age of 21 and having an alcoholic/abusive father not to mention other f*%$ed up past elements of my life .. i have to say i am overall looking forward to my future as i'm now free of jw oppression.

but what i have notice a great deal in this forum is there alot of x-jws that are very bitter about their past lives and seem completely focused on how f*%$ed up their lives have been.

they don't seem to have an ounce of positveness to their attitude and this concerns me.
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Blessings or our Imagination
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
as a jw, we were always told that god was blessing us, because we were doing his will.

jw's saw god's hand everywhere in our lives.

if we had good news, a good job, good health, it was because god was blessing us.
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Starting my own congregation
by Huxley in
1. jw
2. experiences
isn't it great to wake up on sunday morning and not go to the meeting!

i love it.

no hurried underlining of the wt study so it looks like i studied, no stifling ties and lame-ass suits.
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Am I helping?
by be wise in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was brought up as a jw and i always thought it was full of small mindedness, in it's simple, simple explanations for life.

i was the youngest in a family of 5 brothers and sisters, and i am very proud that i am the only one out of my family that has had the guts to really question everything i've been taught for well, all my life, because my family are pretty hardcore about it, as most are.

we're not a close family, most are not because once the religion is taken away no one views you the same, this makes me sick just thinking about it.
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The State of the Union
by Marvin Shilmer in
1. jw
2. friends
i am an american, and so is my president.

this is an iron no speech can hold.

it can only be experienced.
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Did you want to...
by shera in
1. jw
2. friends
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when you were told you were going to be df,did you really want to be?

(before you found out the dirt on the wts?
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Deep virgin talker
by be wise in
1. jw
2. friends
when i read things on this site i just cried because it reminded me of the extreme attiutudes of such people that i haven't been exposed to in such a long time.

i've been through as much shit as the next person but i am not bitter.

a lot of it comes down to individuals perceptions of their beliefs.
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Just WHO Are These Girls?
by Englishman in
1. social
2. entertainment
keep seeing 'em on classic fm tv.http://www.bond-music.com/.

i mean, wow!

all that violin stuff whilst they are stood in the sea...... .
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WTS Secret Police
by Pleasuredome in
1. jw
2. experiences
heres a story of what happened to me at a district convention this year.. an unbaptised publisher and i travelled to wolverhampton district convention in england.

this wasnt our district but id been on holiday and had missed my own district convention (how unspiritual of me).

so me and this friend decided to go to this convention and was also hoping to meet a friend there.. on the saturday morning we were delayed in traffic and we eventually arrived at 11.30am, paid our 3 for parking (i wonder if they had the use of car parks for free?
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Any students in here?
by jelly in
1. jw
2. experiences
hello everyone, i was just wondering if anybody else was in college and if so what classes they are taking.

i am currently a senior and will graduate in 3 semesters with a degree in information systems.

i am a little older than most of my classmates since i didnt go to college directly after highschool, this decsion was based on the fine spirtual food provided by wtbts.