joannadandy, unfortunately that's not my beagle. I love beagles, but don't have one, they are so cute! That's a picture of Porthos from the tv show Enterprise.
Ok, back to welcoming Sens!
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by sens injust thought id say hi.... my name is sens, ive been out almost 3 months...(da).
i only know 2 other ex.jw 's ... so feel sort of isolated...(not that i didn't when i was still in the org but anyway...lol).
i actually have one question....whats the deal with the un thing?.
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Hey people, its a pleasure to meet everyone.....
by CETME inhey guys, thought i'd introduce myself...... my name is lars, and i'm 22... i'm majoring in education here in florida........ i was brought up as a jw, but i never really got into it... because the political side was so corrupt.... right now i'm just trying my best to be a good person, for myself and for god..... .
i'm a little rough around the edges... i shoot guns, race cars, ride bmx..... etc... so i guess my lifestyle didnt suit the jw's as well...... .
anyways, i searched around for a picture of myself, but i really dont have any "normal" ones......... .
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Welcome Cetme!
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by sens injust thought id say hi.... my name is sens, ive been out almost 3 months...(da).
i only know 2 other ex.jw 's ... so feel sort of isolated...(not that i didn't when i was still in the org but anyway...lol).
i actually have one question....whats the deal with the un thing?.
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Hello Sens! And Welcome.
As you can see already you've been given some good information on the question that you have asked. This board is such a wealth of information. I'm sure as you read more you will have plenty of other questions.
I understand to well about feeling isolated, but this place helps so much in that we are not alone. There are so many like us. You are indeed lucky to know 2 other XJWs, I know no one from my area.
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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #61
by ozziepost inowyergoin?
how's the weekend for you?.
mrs ozzie and i have been enjoying being out for a drive in the highlands in the bright spring sunshine.
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#1 My JW husband. But he won't talk with me anymore about my doubts.
#2 My non-JW family. But they don't understand why I couldn't just leave the religion. I explained the best I could, but they still don't get it.
My daughter was brought up in the lie, but she doesn't want to talk about my doubts either. She claims that she is over it. (I hope so)
#6 So no-one pretty much sums it up for me right now.
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Bad Association
by Nosferatu inwere you ever marked as bad association by a particular person or family in the congregation?
did you ever find out the reasons for being bad association?
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Oh yes, I was a Bad ASSociation!
Low meeting attendance, I was irregular in field service, didn't comment at meetings, dropped out of the school. But I did clean the kingdom hall.
I felt bad for my hubby and daughter, my being marked affected them too. My daughter was left out of alot of things because of me. I blamed myself when my daughter left the jw religion. I was unable to perform like I was suppose to, I felt so guilty all the time.
Even though I believed it was the "truth", I just couldn't keep up with the JW expectations, no matter how hard I tried, it was such an ordeal for me to get to the meetings and out in field service. Because I was marked, I felt bad about myself, I have a low self-esteem anyway, but during my low points in the borg, I hit bottom.
I feel much better now :-), I'm actually proud of my Bad ASSociation title.
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As a witness did you secretly celebrate holidays?
by Dimples inwhen i was a witness i knew of many who would either celebrate certain holidays in secret or make up for them some other way.
such as, family day ( christmas ) costume parties ( halloween ), i even knew several who made it a point to go see the fireworks on the 4th of july.
my mother told a wife of an elder that she always felt weird on mother's day for not sending a card to her mom, because her mom expected one.
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My hubby, daughter and myself would get pretty lonely around holiday time. The congregation that we are in, pretty much everyone was related to everyone else (gotta watch who you marry), and they would all get together. So, most of times we were left out.
So, my family being "worldly" would celebrate all those pagan holidays, and of course we would go over to visit, you know just because we had the day off :-)
For Birthdays, we would just leave the room when it came to singing "Happy Birthday" , then come back and eat some cake.
Christmas we would arrive after they all unwrapped their gifts, would drink egg nog the whole bit, we did everything but the gifts. I loved driving around looking at all the decorations and lights. Watched the Christmas movies.
Went to 4th of July fireworks, had barbeque's. Always had Thanksgiving dinner with my family.
I was pretty lenient with my daughter in school, I let her sing the winter songs. With art projects in school, I said if something is "real" you can participate. For example if the teacher gave her a bunny or a Christmas tree, pumpkin, she could color it like it occurred in nature, but no Santa Clause. Her kindergarten class was featured in the local newspaper for their Thanksgiving celebration. So on the front page of the paper was a picture of my daughter participating in the celebration. There she was dressed up in a Thanksgiving costume that she had made in school, sitting at a table that the kids had decorated with turkeys and pumpkins, with their "feast" in front of them. Oops! None of the jws ever said anything to me about that.
I guess not growing up in the "truth", I really didn't understand the big deal the jws made concerning holidays.
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Gettin' Personal here.......
by Frannie Banannie inthanks to little toe's piquing my interest on this subject, i hafta ask it...... .
has anyone here had any personal spiritual experiences and is anyone here brave enough to describe/relate any personal spiritual experiences they've had, whether pre-borg, during being borganized or post-borg?
to be more specific, have you ever seen any angels or spirit creatures, been made aware of their presence in any way, interacted with or communicated with them, or had dream/visions...etc?
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Frannie, what an interesting thread.
I enjoyed reading all of your interesting experiences.
While in the Borg, I had a closed mind of this phenomenon , if anyone had a spiritual or an ESP experience, I would blame it on Satan, and tell them that (my Mom had several). But since leaving the jws, like everything else, I have re-elevated this.
I haven't had an ESP or spiritual experience thats been real profound. But I have had what is called Deja-vu, like this is real familiar. Or knowing that something is going to happen before it does, nothing big though, just small things. Or just a feeling about a certain situation, like vibes, both good and bad. My Mom claims that my Grandmother was clairvoyant, I wonder if that is inherited. Anyway, I am now open to the possibility that this is very real, and not caused by demons.
I feel that there is a fine division between the spiritual world and the physical.
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Whats you favorite drink?
by Gadget ini just had a really bad day at work.
apart from what you'd normally expect from a 15 hr shift, tonight vitually everything that could go wrong did.
when i got home i decided to have a drink(the first since emans barbie!!!
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Gopher I loved those frosted glasses of A & W rootbeer. I agree, they tasted the best at those drive-ins (ours had car-hops). Nothing better on a hot summer evening.
But as an adult, coffee, white wine, beer, margaritas with Mexican food.
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Watchtower Centennial edition 7/1/79- 1879-1979 Keeping Watch for 100 Years
by truthseeker ini recently 'stumbled' on an old wt magazine from 1979. it's been ages since i've seen an old 2 color copy of this magazine.. it just happened to be their centennial issue, the july 1st edition.. the cover title is.... 1879 - 1979. keeping watch for 100 years.
any of you old timers remember it?
anyway, here's some info.... .
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garybuss, isn't that the truth! I remember going to some special day assembly that was held in Pittsburgh, PA at the hockey arena to celebrate this blessed event. Anyway, the local news reported it as the Watchtower celebrating its 100th year birthday. Boy were the local witnesses ticked off. "Like no, we don't celebrate Birthdays, it's really an anniversary".
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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #60
by ozziepost inowyergoin?
today's been a blowy day on the east coast of oz.
here's tonight's news report from associated press:.
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#5 Too many.
For the three publishers in our family, we didn't pick up alot of magazines ( a really thin stack of them). But we always ended up with left-overs somehow. When they started to stack up at the bottom of the closet we used to leave them at not-at-homes, laundry mats, hospitals, wherever we could just drop them off and run. Some of them were real old, too. If that didn't work I just threw them out. I think the magazines must multiply when your not looking.
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