I have a sense of humor in that I can laugh at other people's jokes easily, but I'm horrible at telling jokes of my own. Sometimes I think I'm quick-witted, so I'll say something that I think is just hilarious, but no one else laughs. I guess I just crack myself up.
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Do you have a sense of humor?
by Maverick inin the movie 'my blue heaven' steve martin's charactor claims, "everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, even when they don't!
" do you laugh easily and often?
i am always looking for new material and have about 150 jokes at my disposal.
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All hell has broke loose
by Yesterdays Child inwhen i got home from work last night my son was there and i was suprise to see him because it was meeting night and everyone else was gone.
then his mother comes in hmmmmmm "did your son tell you what he has done?
" nope well he has been having sex with his girlfriend the baptized pioneer elders daughter yikes my son (not baptized) and her were girlfriend and boyfriend untill her daddy stop them from seeing each other.
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I feel so awful for your son and the girl. It's so horrifying when you have to tell your parents that you had sex. I know because I was forced to tell my parents when I lost my virginity. I was mortified.
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My Becoming a JW
by Juliana ini was raised non-religious.
i don't call myself an atheist as such because i don't like to label anyone, but i don't actually believe in god (though i am christian in background, and several branches of family family are roman catholic).
my fiance knows this.
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Charmed
I was raised as a JW, but married a worldly man. He considered converting me and jumped on a site like this to learn about the religion. Then he came to me asked me all sorts of questions that I could not answer. At first, I was really upset because I kept thinking that not only did I fall in love with a worldly man, but I fell in love with an apostate! Eventually, I opened my eyes and began to see the cult for what it is, but that's been an unbelieveably difficult road. I think if you just tell him about this site, that should start off a good discussion for you guys. He might be upset, but maybe he'd do what I did and come here to try to give an answer to your questions and he'd open his eyes.
I'm so sorry you are going through this.
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How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???
by minimus inafter reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.
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LOL! Those cartoons are great!!
I think I actually turned out pretty good despite being raised as a JW. Both my parents came from abusive homes. My mother's mother and father were neglectful and mentally abusive. My dad's dad was physically abusive. That's actually the reason they started searching for religion after they had my sister in the first place. They wanted to learn about the Bible, so they could raise their kids right. They were so worried they'd turn out like their parents. And, if you look at all my cousins, I have turned out better than them. Maybe some people need a strict religion to tell them what to do and how to do everything all the time. I don't know. I don't blame them for trying to be good parents. I just wish that they thought they'd done a good job on me too. I'm 24 yrs. old. I married my first love. I got my bachelor's from a private university that I put myself through with the help of scholarships. I have a good job. I try to be a good person. Yet, all they see is that I'm not active in the "truth," therefore they must have screwed up raising me somewhere. It hurts that they are so disappointed in me.
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MORE TIPS FOR ASSEMBLY TIME!
by Mary infor those of you who weren't here last year, here is my original list on "tips for keeping awake during the assembly
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/31016/1.ashx
do you really not want to go to the assembly this year??
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I wish I had thought of all those fun things to do! Instead I was just either bored or infuriated the whole time.
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What if...
by ChrisVance inhave those of you who, like myself, have been cut off by family because of the troof thought what you'd do if a family member asked for your help?
at this point it seems like it would be easy just to tell them to get help from jehovah, but i suppose if one of them truly needed help i might feel differently.
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I think I would help. Partly because, I want to be able to say that I always took the high road and tried to recover the relationship. Partly because I would hope that my helping would soften their hearts again. And partly because I'd want to demonstrate for them clearly what unconditional love really is.
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Do you think its unfair to pull the rug from
by Brummie inunder a jehovahs witness and tell them the truth about the wts?
or should we leave them to it?.
on a personal note, i'm glad i got the rug pulled, i came down with a good ole bump but it sure was worth the injury.
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Reborn, I think that's really interesting what you say about those who are independent will eventually find their way out. My parents have been telling me that I'm very independent all my life. Even in my high school yearbook on my senior page, they wrote, "You've grown into an independent young woman- Sometimes too independent" I remember thinking, how great that they'd lecture me on independence in my yearbook where everyone could see it. Everyone else's parents put down words of love and pride in their kids, but I get a lecture?
I wish I could pull the rug out from under some JWs, but I'm just not ready for that kind of confrontation. More power to the rest of you though!
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Does Everyone Leave For The Most Noble Of Reasons?
by Englishman in.
some of us left simply because we didn't believe it any more.. some us couldn't stand the hypocrisy.. some of us left so's to have more sex.
some of us saw another light shining brighter.. some of us wanted more material possessions.. some of us needed more control over others than the borg would allow.. what do you think?.
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I left for a variety of reasons too:
1. For Love
2. Because I couldn't stand the hypocrisy anymore
3. Because I couldn't stand the idea of spreading the hypocrisy to more innocent people out in service and ruining their lives and their relationships with their families
4. Because I just didn't believe any of it anymore, and
5. To have more sex!
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District Convention
by Charmed inmy mother sent me a letter the other day asking me to go to the assembly with them next weekend.
everytime they talk to me now the conversation always seems to be the same.
we are good.
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Thanks everyone. It really does help to know that others have been or are currently in this same situation with their families. I wish I could just shake some sense into them sometimes.
Shamus, I had thought of that actually, but unfortunately, they know I never have to work on weekends, so I can't use that excuse if I decide not to go. I'll have to come up with something else.
Pete, I'm sorry your family is doing this to you too. You give good advice though. Maybe I will say that to them and then decide based on their reaction. And sometimes I think like you that I don't want to cause a bigger rift in our relationship and other times I sorta wish they'd happen upon this site and realize I am Charmed and then they'd just know I wasn't going to be a JW anymore w/o me actually having to tell them someday.
BluesBrother, you are right, I would hate a day at the assembly. I haven't been to a cult gathering since last year's assembly. I didn't even go to the Memorial this year.
Austrian, I have been trying to get closer to my husband family thinking that they will help fill the hole in my heart, but it's just not the same. We have no history. I miss laughing with my family at my Dad's dumb jokes, and I miss my little sister and I saying things at the exact same time because we knew how each other thought so perfectly.
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District Convention
by Charmed inmy mother sent me a letter the other day asking me to go to the assembly with them next weekend.
everytime they talk to me now the conversation always seems to be the same.
we are good.
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My mother sent me a letter the other day asking me to go to the assembly with them next weekend. Nothing ever changes. Everytime they talk to me now the conversation always seems to be the same. It's always, "How are you. We are good. Do you want to go to a cult meeting with us?" The thing is that I haven't seen them in a few months. The last time they visited, they asked if I had "turned my back on Jehovah." Well, that started a pretty stressful discussion. I don't want to lose them. I miss them so much, but I don't want my life to be dictated by them either. Does that make sense? At that time they asked me if I would start going to a few meetings again. I said I would think about it, but in my heart I knew that it was out of the question.
Part of me dreads the thought of going to the assembly. I do not want to sit through hours and hours of talks about how awful the world is and how the end is right around the corner. I don't want to listen to all the hypocrisy and have to bite my tongue the entire time around my family.
On the other hand, I really kind of want to see my family again, especially my little sister. (sigh) I don't really care to see my older sister because she's such a horrid b!tch, but I wouldn't mind seeing my nephews. And there are some people that I grew up with that I would love to see again. Would the misery of having to sit through an assembly balance with the joy of seeing my family and some old friends?
Does anyone have any words of wisdom to help me decide? I wish more than anything that they could just love me for me and get to know who I really am. I've told them before that I just want to be their daughter and their blood sister, and maybe not necessarily their spiritual sister, but they can't differentiate. It blows my mind that I used to be just like them.