Posts by Gwydion

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What is the real purpose of attending your JC?

by StarTrekAngel in

i was compelled to ask this question because i have seen several of the youtube videos on jcs.

on striking similarity among all these videos is that most of the people bringing the arguments to the elders are pretty much atheists or have turned to another religion altogether.. i can easily see that the common concern in most of the people involved, is their ability to keep in touch with family and friends, which by all means would be my concern as well, when and if i ever end up in one.. however, i can't help but to notice something.

it is difficult enough to think of the day that the wt would accept a loose canon in their ranks, let alone someone who openly claims to no longer believe in god.

Gwydion

The only point to ever go to your JC is if you're seriously considering trying to get back in. There really isn't a point other than that because you're not going to talk any sense into them, they're not there to listen, they're there to council you and interrogate you and put you on trial. It's a one sided discussion and not worth your time or trouble if you have no intention of ever going back.

Some folks might want to try to get some audio or video with the intent of posting it on youtube or something as a record if you will to show others how wacko it can get. To each his own I suppose.

In my own experience, I don't even know if they df'd me or not. If they tried to set up a meeting or anything. Never sent a letter, never went back for any reason. I did more than fade I vanished. I know that isn't an option for most, but it worked well for me.

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MY BEST FRIEND

by compound complex in

jw
friends

he walked right past me, looking straight ahead.. years before, hal and i walked the same path, the best of pals.

laughing and joking while endeavoring to maintain some level of decorum during our serious work of being a theatrical spectacle to men and angels.

although we hadn't seen each other in years, hal must have gotten word .

Gwydion

Church tribunal? Doesn't sound like any JW lingo I can remember. Maybe they changed the lingo over the years

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JWR usernames list

by StarryNight9 in

jw
friends

i created this thread so that jwr members can list their old jwr username with their username for whatever site they've moved to.

i apologize if this has already been created somewhere else.. jwr = starrynight.

jwd = starrynight9.

Gwydion

thereishope, for some reason I was hoping your new name would be "therainisgone"

JWR = Taythan

JWD = Gwydion

I was actually here first about 12 years ago. went through a long period of time not thinking about my jw past at all. and recently because a friend of mine was fascinated by the topic it resurfaced and I found JWR. When JWR went down I discovered that this board still existed and it was quite the password recovery process because I couldn't even remember the password for the e-mail address I used to sign up here let alone the password from 12 years ago.

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Another traveler from JWR

by StarryNight9 in

hi everybody, i'm starrynight from jwr.

that's it... .

Gwydion

Greetings Starry. I was Taythan over on JWR. welcome.

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Memorable Regional Conventions

by pale.emperor in

i still have my convention to "look forward to".

looking forward to see/hearing some of the things of the things i've been reading about on here.

i've already seen the cultish vids on youtube.

Gwydion

I haven been to a convention since 1994. Was in attendance at every convention from 87 thru 94 at the old McNicols arena in Denver. Not one of them was memorable in anyway. Total sleep fests. Like a meeting but 10 times worse.

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hidden image: JwFairyTales 5: teh end of this System of Things

by goingthruthemotions in

so i sometimes go back and look at jw fairtales videos.

he such a good story teller and his video are heartfelt.. anyways i saw a hidden image at the 37:04 point.

does anyone know what book this is from?.

Gwydion

Jwfairytale has always been one of my favorite exjw youtubers. Tons and tons of stories. Like most of us that have been out for awhile he got out of the sharing recovery game for a spell. He still makes videos with Jehovah bear he's just J-Bear now and he doesn't talk about The witnesses on his new channel Kansas Adventures. He's still entertaining but none of the good old stories.

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Jehovah's Witness Recovery is no more...

by TimeBandit in

jw
friends

i just tried to go to the site and there is a goodbye message.

i was a member there since 2010. i was really surprised.

i had just started posting there again after being away for a while.

Gwydion

Discovering that JWR shut down surprised me. Not that I frequented the boards there. To be honest they were pretty stagnant. It did however inspire me to go through a bit of a password recovery process for this account. I was never a frequent follower of these boards either but I did have a flurry of activity here 12 or 13 years ago. It's been interesting to discover that I could see my old posts. See the mind set I had a decade ago.

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Your favorite poems (or song lyrics)

by Love_Truth in

it would be interesting and insightful to have an idea of what poetry or song lyrics each of us feels to be the epitomy of the art, something that stirs us and has deep meaning.

this is one of my (many) favorites:.

ithaca.

Gwydion

And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

The Beatles song called The End on the Abbey Road album. It's short, It's sweet and it's to the point. Lyrics and a quote all in one.

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MAPLE LEAFS WIN STANLEY CUP!!!!!

by iiz2cool in

can you see the headlines?

toronto maple leafs win stanley cup!!!!!.

yonge st. will be closed after the all night victory bash, the first such bash since 1967!

Gwydion

I can see it now Maple Leaf's swept by (insert some average Eastern Conference team) in first round of the playoffs.

The Maple Leafs have been overachieving this year and that will all end when the tougher playoff style hockey begins.

Still a Detroit Toronto finals would be a great thing for the NHL with the possibilites of a lock out next year.

I just don't think the Maple Leafs have what it takes to make the finals. Even if that were to happen Detroit would beat them badly. There isn't going to be a fluke like Anaheim in the West this year look for Detroit and Colorado to take care of business this time around.

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Home school

by Globetrotter in

my son told me the other day that he and his sister are just about the only kids at the kh their age that go to public/private schools.

almost all the other kids are home-schooled.

i was rather shocked.

Gwydion

My three youngest siblings were taken by my parents out of the JW cult and into a secluded new hideaway home where they were homeschooled for awhile, and now that they have experienced a year and a half of public school they are considering homeschooling again for the youngest two who are in 10th and 8th grades. My siblings are considerably lacking in social skills. My younger brother who is 15 gets so embaressed in public situations that when he was asked his birthdate by a cashier at a Target store, when they visited me last summer, he turned beat red stammered and couldn't even provide the correct answer. My brother who is now 21 can't even decide for himself what he wants to eat at a restaurant. Home schooling and the JW cult are detrimental to a kids psycological ability to interact as a normal person in society. There is so much I wish I could do for them to undo what has been done to them but the process is ever so slow. I sometimes wonder if my parents feel guilty about what they put our family through. In any case we are all paying for it now.