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hmm...not sure what to do...
by wizardca in
1. jw
2. experiences
the wife and i found out today she is preggo!

we aren't going to share the blessed news with family until the end of the first trimester later this year...if we can hold out and keep it a secret until then.

but i don't know what to do with my jw fam.
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My first cigar
by LivingTheDream in
1. jw
2. experiences
my first cigar.

not soon after i faded, i was on a company shindig and they were providing hand rolled cigars to everybody there.

i watched in amazement as this dominican guy rolled them in front of my eyes with great care and skill.
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Dropping itty bitty bits of Truth About The Truth to other Witnesses!
by OneDayillBeFree in
1. jw
2. friends
this'll probably get me disfellowshipped eventually but it's been hella fun!.

so lately every time an opportunity arrises while speaking to other jdubs at the meetings or assemblies or even just overhearing their conversations about new light or new publications, service, anything really i drop little things that pass unoticed by most but make some stop and think for a minute.. for example, after one sunday meeting, a brother came up to me with about 5 other jdubbies to poke fun at me saying, "i thought you said you never sat at the front?!

huh?
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What is your experience when you stop turning in time?
by gingerbread in
1. jw
2. experiences
for the past year or so, i've been turning in just one or two hours of service time.

it has been mentioned to me from an elder "friend" that i'm never seen at any meetings for field service.

i get his implication.
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MIL letter to my wife
by AggieNostic in
1. jw
2. experiences
background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .

our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.

my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!
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POLL: How long did you remain a JW from point of baptism to leaving the KH
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
i was baptised --1963. left in 1978. fifteen years.

pre-baptism, another 5 years.
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What were your favorite assembly foods?
by NoRegrets in
1. jw
2. experiences
so i'm young enough to not remember having hot prepared meals at assemblies, but heard all about it from my parents and the like.

but what i do remember were all of the cold sandwiches and institutional snacks and soda.

remember the food tickets we started to use?
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birthdays and baby showers
by wizardca in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my dad is turning a milestone number this month and decided he needed to celebrate a bit so the wife and i are putting together a birthday party for him.

two of my siblings are jws and 1 is not; nor is dad.

invited everyone to the celebration and of course got the "we don't celebrate birthdays" rsvp.
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Quick question, did you feel lonely at the meetings even though you were part of the action?
by Theocratic Sedition in
1. jw
2. friends
just curious, something i've noticed only lately.

i'm in the mix within the congregation, stay late after the meeting is over, converse with quite a few people afterwards, make plans for saturday and sometimes sunday service and yet i feel so awfully alone walking to my car afterwards.

i feel lonely when i'm talking and laughing with people after the meeting.
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The quickening has begun
by trujw in
1. jw
2. experiences
ok is it just me or does there seem to be a surge of new brothers and sisters on this site?

do tell where are you from?

i am from northern california anyone from around here?