La-Bellamargarita

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  What if JWs had never been part of your life......?

  by Scully in

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  2. friends

  prisca's topic about personal responsibility vs blaming the jws (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/56286/824979/post.ashx#824979) got me to thinking..... where do you think you'd be if the jws and the wts had never been part of your life?how would your life be different from what it is now?what do you think you might have accomplished or done differently without the encumberances of the jws in your life?what kind of relationship would you have with your family?who would you be?.

  there are no right or wrong answers, but think about those what-i-want-to-be-when-i-grow-up ideas you had as children and whether those dreams could have become a reality.. .

  love, scully

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  My first "Wordly" Funeral...

  by confuzcious in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey guys, .

  i just attended my first "worldly" funeral since i've been out of "the truth" tm.. anyways, i thought it was nicely done.

  it gave honor to the deceased, it drew me closer to jesus and it evoked emotions within me.. i'm just contrasting this to the jw funerals which always seems like way to peddle products rather than honor the dead.. no thoughts in particular for me, but anyone have any similar thoughts???.

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  What works for me?

  by Anne in

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  i remembered something that was in my consiousness from back in the day.

  i went to the door of a very nice home and was greeted by a nice person.

  i presented the usual rehearsed salespitch and she said the oddest thing, "i tried jehovah's witness once, it just didn't work for me.

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  Forget your JW history and move on...

  by Brummie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  within the first couple of years of leaving the wt quite a few people told me to forget it, get over it and move on, it wasnt like i kept talking about it, in fact, as much as i needed too, i seldom did.

  its just that they observed my interest in talking with exjwsan interest that ive never tired of.

  i used to feel like i owed people an apology because a lot of my best friends were exjws!

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  JW's that tried to Blackball my Hubby in work , since D/A

  by LyinEyes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  many of you know that my husband's work is fixing hail damage in cars, and that we have traveled for 10 years from colorado, texas, ok, kansas, etc.

  but those mainly were his best contacts , and also all jw's in the business.. last summer one of our best contacts who lives in co, called to tell my husband that he had a hail storm hit that very day, and said that since he has d/a himself he will no longer work him.

  i understand that some may not let their conscience do that being firm jw believers.

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  What are the benifits of DA? Should I DA?

  by zucker in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i'm wondering if i should just "come out of the closet" and tell my family i don't believe it anymore and da myself or don't make any noise and fade out?

  what are the benefits or problems with either choice?

  additionally, some have expressed concern over da.

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  Lurkers - Confused

  by Mystery in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a newbie and apparently very naive.

  i in reading different threads, lurkers have been mentioned.

  my initial thought was "lurking" meant people like me reading for awhile and eventually posting.

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  Happy about having been a JW?

  by Brummie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  are you happy to have been a jw?

  is there a constructive side in it all for you?

  or do you wish you had never seen their culty smiles?.

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  How many out here.....

  by tazmaniac in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  how many out here know a loved one or know of someone who suffers from depression and it is from being in the borg and never feel you are doing enough.

  my ex wife would always lapse into a few month state of depression right after a visit from the c/o and getting pounded on about f/s hours or not enough studies or not enough pioneers yadda yadda yadda.

  i know with my ex that the constant fear of armageddon and feeling inadequate was a depression trigger ready to be pulled at any instant.

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  no thanks to the tower

  by kilroy2 in

  1. jw
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  i have nothing but greif and sorrow from the mind sucking cult, i will never give them thanks as thay have done nothing for me.

  to me it would be like thanking a rapist for making me more aware of the dangers on the street.

  am i bitter.

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