Topics Started by Tempest in a Teacup

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A Taxi Driver Gave Me 4 Magazines This Morning
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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as we had reached my destination, i paid him and was getting down when he handed me something.

then i saw it was the wt and awake.

i just had the time to say: "oh, okay, thank you!
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Sorry, But Your Sad Story Doesn't Make Me Feel Better. Is it supposed to?
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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i have very recently come out of a bout of severe depression which lasted for years.

i have ginormous underlying issues which i hardly talk about, especially to my family.. today my sister came in, wanting to force me to do something she wanted.

her strategy was to make me feel bad for feeling bad, just to show me that my problem (which she has no idea of but thinks she does) wasn't the biggest in the world.
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Mummy Dear Lies at Assemblies
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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my zealously fanatic jw mum is aware of my current "tourist-jw" life.

what she doesn't know for sure is that she's part of the ones who brought me to this.. my mum was a quite moderate jw, she even got publically reproved once.

in our house, there was no daily text, no family study, no eating together, no preaching together, no watchtower study...even though she regularly checked my wt to see if i studied it.. being a single mother, she had a quite busy work schedule, so from the moment she woke up to the moment she went to bed, you'd better not waste a single minute of her time needlessly.
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Elder Using Innuendos at Every Single Opportunity
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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there's this elder in my hall.

in his comments and talks, he loves to include the kind of details that would leave listeners wondering who his comment/talk is about.

he seems to see himself as a jw behaviour expert and drops titbits whenever he's behind the mic.
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Opening the Eyes of JWs Wasting Their Lives Away in Prisons Because of...Nothing
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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is there any practical way to let these people see the light?

has anything been already done to get the valuable information they need to them?

if yes, what has been the outcome?.
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What I Like About This Forum...
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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...is that it gives me insight into jw circles i'd otherwise never know.. my mother loathes gossip and derives a personal pleasure in shutting jw gossips up.

as a family, we belong to that boring side of the congregation which never hear any of the juicy stories on the going-ons in the hall.. this forum however makes it possible to have a real panoramic view of the whole thingy.

from the gb to bethel, to the elders and their families, to the ninja-pioneer army, and many other cliques in the congregations.
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JW Romantic Approach Techniques
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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of course these can differ from one culture to the other.

but some are found exclusively on jw planet.

like..." sis/bro, do you mind preaching with me on saturday?".
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Not Seating at the Same Place in All Meetings.
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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2. beliefs
i haven't heard this one in a while but it has been on my mind lately.

maybe it's because i'm noticing that these days people at the kh are going the extra mile to vary their seating places in all meetings.. having skipped meetings for a few weeks, i'm wondering if there has been a talk/article about that recently.

that's one of the most laughable rules they made and i never felt bound by it.
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For God So Loves the Western World...
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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...that only people from those countries can lead 'his organization'.. a few years ago, one conversation stopper people would often bring up to jws in my country is: 'you guys are an american religion'.

the standard answer we were formatted to give to shoot that down was that "god does not favor any nationality over others.

however some countries do possess some advantages needed for the advancement of the divine work.
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New Apostate: Tempest in a Teacup
by Tempest in a Teacup in
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first post on here.

i've been lurking for 3-4 years and i mean i've been a mega lurker, doing marathon reading sessions for months or weeks.. sometimes i proceed by researching specific topics, or posters; other times just reading current discussions.

i'm particularly fond of "old" post, i.e 10-12-15 years ago.. i have laughed, smiled, got mad, cried etc, just reading some threads here.. as you can see i suffer from some kind of "accute lurkitis".