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  Who is your favorite author?

  by Happythoughts in

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  ayn rand is mine.

  just wondering so i can find a new book or books to read *smiles*.

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  Stephen King & Disney
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  We did it, we got out!

  by MonkeyPrincess in

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  we moved out of my parents house last week.

  this was so difficult since im df'd and they were only talking to me since we were living with them.

  of course i was prepared for what was coming, the yelling, talking, and especially the guilt trip.

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  Mystery

  Unconditional - a word not in JW's vocabulary.

  Always keep that word foremost in your mind.

  Unconditional what a wonderful way to be!

  Good times and bad..... you have each other.

  (((all three of you)))
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  the elders may be gone but soon i will be alone

  by the mole in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the word has spread to my family that i questioned my sister and the elders came to my home..several of my aunts had called already and my one uncle from georgtown ca....they being so very concerned on my spirtitual wellbeing have forgotten that i have questions on why the organization does what it does.

  i finally confessed to my uncle sam that last year another m.s approached me and told me his crimes against a new sister's child while he watched them one night when she was at a get together with other brothers and sisters.

  i cringed at what my uncle has said but to argue with him would have been a brick wall.

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  The JW ways haunt us all. The first time I bought a Christmas tree ornament I had so much guilt that I threw it away. You can?t just discard everything you have been taught for 36 years overnight. You have to take small steps and take them one at a time. I have been ?fading? for over 20 years and I still can?t give anyone a straight answer about God.

  (((mole))) don?t try to do it all at once. In a previous post you mentioned that you had teenagers. Are they JW?s? Do you have custody or their mother? Are they late teens or early teens? If they are early teens you still have time to become very involved in their life; late teens will be a little harder but you can still do it. Find something you enjoy and the times that you are feeling desolate and alone make yourself do it. You only have a few years left with your kids ? make them count. You can always come and ?post?.

  I poured my heart out when I first found this site. I felt I was going crazy. I don?t post a lot, but when I am feeling like I am falling apart again, I come back here and read and read and read. I am also a 3 rd generation JW. I haven?t been DA?ed or DF?ed yet. Read Crisis of Conscience and the other publications put out by Ex-JW?s, you are not alone. I have met a couple of people because of MeetUp.com here. I am not from here, so I don?t know any JW?s or Ex-JW?s ? but I meet a lady thru an email address on Meetup and we are getting together, with a few other Ex?s she knows next month. I am really looking forward to it.
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  276,483 years from now.....

  by SanFranciscoJim in

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  2. friends

  jehovah's witnesses are taught that they will live "forever" on paradise earth.. let's say the year is 278,486 (assuming armageddon occurred in 2003).

  the millenium has passed, everyone has been resurrected, and earth has become the true paradise the jws predicted.. only one problem: you've done everything there is to do.

  you've gone every place on earth there is to go.

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  Without many JW's having an education how would this "world" continue to exist? Electricity? Running water? I was taught - it will be like in the days of Adam and Eve....... no "basic's" that we "have to have" now. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy camping outdoors - but i am happy to get home to my hot running water, bathroom and kicking back watching a movie on TV.

  Are there enough ?intelligent? (I am not being condescending) survivors that have the knowledge for the things we take for granted like electricity? My generation was not encouraged to have a higher education at all. All of my JW nieces and nephews are now being home-schooled and many others in their area.

  What will the world be like 276,483 years from now..... with the education of JW?s only?
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  My Disassosiation?

  by shamus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have been thinking a lot since i posted my experience about leaving the troof.

  if you haven't read it already, it's here:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/59152/1.ashx.

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  Mystery

  I would try to send a copy of the letter to any JW that I cared about, so that they can read the reasons.

  You said that you had moved; if you are close enough to drive, you could have flyers on everyone's car for all to see when they leave the meeting. All the brothers and sisters that make a quick exit would get to see one anyway. Let the elders, clean up and explain that. But I guess a more professional way would be to put it in the newspaper.
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  If you wanted to be cremated after your death...

  by FancyPants in

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  but could foresee the future and saw that your body was thrown into the woods to rot, would it bother you?

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  Like Fe2O3Girl I am a organ donor as well. Let someone take what they can use and burn the rest.
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  If you wanted to be cremated after your death...

  by FancyPants in

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  but could foresee the future and saw that your body was thrown into the woods to rot, would it bother you?

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  That is what i have ask to be done. My husband is dead set against it.

  Guess we have to wait and see who dies first.
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  Do XJW's contribute in our communities?

  by Phantom Stranger in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there was an earlier thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/58324/1.ashx that asked how we choose to contribute to the community, after having been raised as jw's.

  i was impressed by the efforts of many of those who posted.

  i was also surprised that so many didn't post.

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  Mystery

  I contribute:

  I argue with County Commissioners about Park & Rec. money distribution. (giving to the rich and ignoring the poor)

  assist in our local (run down) park and rec. center with making it a safe and positive place for all to enjoy.

  coach a rec. soccer team for the past 9 years.

  work the polls during voting periods.

  help at the Women's Crisis Center and the H***** Home for Children.

  At first - I think I it was guilt for not doing anything when I was a JW, like talking to two of my friends when they were disfellowshipped; I didn't help them when they needed it so much. Now I do it becasue it just feels right. After my boys grow up I will probably back out of the park, but I will probably continuing doing something.

  I feel I have contributed more in the past 9 years of my life than in the past 30+ years. It feels so much better than field service!

  Lady Lee is right - it takes awhile to leave the slavery life and decide what you want to do. If it wasn't for my kids I would probably have never have volunteered - i am just a sucker sometimes.
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  Young JW's

  by Mystery in

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  2. friends

  the topic of real extreme really has me concerned:

  what extreme issues are being discussed?

  i have 3 nieces and 1 nephew that i have been, little by little, giving them things to think about regarding the lies beliefs.

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  Mystery

  The topic of Real Extreme really has me concerned:

  What extreme issues are being discussed?

  I have 3 nieces and 1 nephew that I have been, little by little, giving them “things” to think about regarding the lies beliefs. All of them were baptized before they were old enough to drive!! All 4 home schooled. They have a hard time interacting to my sons (not raised JW’s) I honestly don’t know if they could function outside the walls of the society.

  And I am afraid that none of them will get out. 4 th generation JW’s. They are now between 13 yrs – 17 yrs old. My 17 yr old niece is a regular pioneer! My 16 yr. old is “following in her footsteps” when she graduates in Jan.

  What extreme measures are being talked about? Any suggestions on what I can say or do for them? I have faded for 20+ years now and moved “far, far away”; I visit and talk to them. Are the issues pointing toward “mass sacrifice”? or “cleansing the earth”? or what?
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  this is very funny

  by Ravyn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  too bad it says it can't be posted on other websites!

  i think it could benefit a lot of jw lurkers and doubters on this forum and other places who would not normally go to freeminds to read it there.. oh well here is the link...take a chance !

  go read it--it is hilarious!.

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  Mystery

  the sad part is that it is so true.