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  What was your funniest/weirdest door to door experience?

  by Steve Lowry in

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  everybody's gottem.

  i know i can remember a few.

  once there this guy who came to the door who looked like a muscle man, very big and tough-guy looking and it put me off a bit.

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  One I forgot about, was once when we were doing a ?tract?. You know how that goes; you don?t say very much just quote the given theme and move on. Well, this one tract?s theme was, "Could you use some good news?"

  My territory was this very economically underprivileged area and I came up to this lady?s door which was open (it was in the middle of summer). She was covered in sweat and sitting in a chair in front of a poorly operating fan with little kids pulling on her and some crying and, well you get the picture. So I ask her, "Could you use some good news? It seemed almost an insult (to me) seeing how what I was offering was no real help at all. I think she saw it that way too because she looked at me and then looked around her small crowded hot apartment and then looked back at me and said, " Sheeeeeit, man, you kiddin?" I felt like a total ass.
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  Where were you when you decided to quit being a JW?

  by Steve Lowry in

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  for me, it was at the hall.

  it was an evening meeting.

  i felt a kind of mental surge within me brewing and i got and went to the men?s room.

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  For me, it was at the Hall. It was an evening meeting. I felt a kind of mental surge within me brewing and I got and went to the men?s room. I stood there looking at myself in the mirror. While I didn?t actually speak, I stood there looking at my reflection while telling myself that this (JW life) wasn?t right for me. I don?t belong here. I splashed some cool water on my face and made the determination that I was going to walk out and never come back. I walked back over to where I had been sitting and told my then JW wife that I was going home and for her to catch a ride with her mom. I walked out the door and never walked back in again. Damn, but that was a great feeling.

  The best thing about being in a cult, is the day you make the decision to leave it!

  Steve
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  What was your funniest/weirdest door to door experience?

  by Steve Lowry in

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  everybody's gottem.

  i know i can remember a few.

  once there this guy who came to the door who looked like a muscle man, very big and tough-guy looking and it put me off a bit.

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  Everybody's gottem. I know I can remember a few.

  Once there this guy who came to the door who looked like a muscle man, very big and tough-guy looking and it put me off a bit. I went through my little speech as fast as I could. When I finished, he spoke and his voice was that of a little girl?s! Like Minnie Mouse (sp?) or something. Poor guy. Damn it was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud.

  Once a lady came to the door in a see through negligee, very sexy. I stumbled through my words and she just stood there smiling.

  One Saturday morning I went out with my brother-in-law. We rang a doorbell and when no one came to the door he insisted on keeping up with the doorbell ringing. I said to him, "Come on, let?s go". But he was determined to make them come to the door. He just kept ringing that doorbell. Well, the guy finally did come to the door and when he did he lambasted my jackass brother-in-law for waking up his wife who was in bed with terminal cancer. I have to admit that watching my pious JW brother-in-law get humbled that way gave me great pleasure.

  My best door to door experience came the day I that realized what I was doing was wrong. I was walking along and for the first time it hit me that I was trying to get people to join a way of life that I really didn?t think was any better than what most people had (and maybe worse), nor that I really believed in myself. It was a moment of clarity and self-realization. I stopped, turned around, and went back to my car and that was the last day going of door to door for me. It was the beginning of the end for me as a JW.

  Steve
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  Favorite childhood TV shows

  by Nosferatu in

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  now, i'm not referring to sesame street, mr. rogers, or any of the educational kids' shows.

  i'm talking about the ones for pure entertainment, cartoons and such.

  however, i can't really classify this as purely cartoons since some of you might have watched things like hr pufnstuf.. i grew up in the 1980s, when the magic of saturday morning cartoons existed.

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  Sunday afternoons (after the K. Hall) we would have family over (non-JW's) and we would all either watch the afternoon featured Shirley Temple movie or whichever Tarzan movie was playing. The Tarzan movie show always started out with jungle beat music and jungle sounds and someone saying (yelling) S-A-F-A-A-A-R-I! And then the actual movie would begin. After the movie (and very often during) people would fall asleep all over the living room. It was a nice time and a good memory. Thanks for reminding me.

  Oh, my favorite cartoon was Spiderman. I loved the theme song.

  Steve
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  Torn between worlds - How do you manage to co-exist?

  by truthseeker in

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  like many doubting witnesses, i am in (physically) and out (mentally).. .

  i have family in (physically) and i have family out (mentally).. some of my family are out (physically) but are somewhat still in (mentally) due to the mind control.. how do i deal with it?

  i don't know - some days go by and i just get on with life.

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  My grandfather once said to me, "Son, you don't cut off a puppy dog?s tail little at a time. You cut it all off at once." A strange little expression which has helped me at times in many aspects of life, where I have been tempted to unnecessarily drag out the inevitable conclusion.

  To have inner peace I think you?re going to have to make the decision to leave both physically and mentally. Anything else is only going to server to frustrate you further. The one thing I hear people exclaim once they make the complete leap out of the Watchtower Society is the freedom they feel!

  Maybe its time for you to "cut it all off at once?"

  Steve
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  New Contract

  by Yerusalyim in

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  i just re-enlisted in the army today.

  i now have an indefinite contract...i'm officially a career military hack.. salute.

  i am an american soldier.

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  I'm almost fifty years old and there are at least three things that I know I am proud of:

  I never called a soldier a 'baby killer' during the Vietnam War era, when it was in vogue to do so.

  I never called a cop a ?pig? back in the sixties and seventies, when it was the cool thing to do and most of my friends did.

  And I never called a black person a ?nigger? (possibly the ugliest word in the English language), although I was raised by a racist and that was a word commonly used in my house as I grew up.

  While there are things that I have done in this life that I'm not especially proud of I guess, I'm proud who I am and the stand(s) that I have taken through the years.

  Thank you for serving your country Yerusalyim.

  Steve
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  Personal Testimony of Carl Yarbrough

  by Tower Man in

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  i have a new testimony on my site from carl yarbrough.

  it's called "who do you trust?

  here's the link: http://www.towertotruth.net/testimonies/carl_yarbrough.htm.

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  A good testimony.
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  Please Help Me !!!! Desperate !!!!

  by Puternut in

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  i am in serious need of some direction.

  for those of you are df'd and have children in the borg, i am going through a crisis.. i have two daughters 19 and 17 years of age and i was privileged to have met with them last night for about an hour.

  i haven't seen them for about 7 months, and was able to convince them to meet with me.

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  Be who you are first. Then go from there.
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  Millions of Galaxies in the Universe with billions of Stars so why?

  by shotgun in

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  recently a public speaker noted that the earth and humans are insignificant in comparison to the universe with its millions of galaxies and billions of stars.

  my question to bible literalist's is... why did god confine satan and his demons to the vicinity of the earth with so many other uninhabited options?.

  why not restrict them to uranus with a bunch of meat puppets to beat up?.

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  "I hope that Steve's idea is correct although it is similar to what the Mormons hope as well"

  I knew I was at some risk of a Mormon analogy with my point of view. (Smile) But really, I don?t hold with any of their teachings (not knowingly anyway). If I understand their teaching correctly, it?s that everyone will become like little God?s ruling their own little worlds. Nah, I don?t believe that. It just seems to me that God is so generous with his creation to allow us to enjoy it with the five senses He has given us in THIS life, that it just seems logical to me that he would also provide a way for us to enjoy His greatest creation, the Universe itself, in the next life. When I die I hope I get the chance to fly through a Super Nova and enjoy all its beautiful wonders. And that?s just where I want to start exploring!

  Steve
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  Letter to Mom and Dad opinions wanted

  by freelife in

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  hello friends, i wanted to post this here and get some opinions on it before i take the big step of sending it to my parental units.

  dear mom and dad,

  dad i was surprised to hear from you the other day.

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  "They are the ones who cut off contact with me I am not going to just be a son of convinence to them. He also said some mean things about my fiancee and i don't think that I should have to accept them. I f they can act civilized and act like family then I would gladly keep them in my life."

  I?ll tell you what someone older and wiser than me told me many years ago when I was still in my twenties. If there is someone in your life that causes you more grief than pleasure, then its perfectly acceptable and appropriate to exclude him or her form your life. It?s sad that in this case that that would be your own parents, but the principle applies non-the less. I know you love your folks my friend, but there may come a time when you come to the realization that severance is a viable option. You?ve acted appropriately. You can?t expect everyone else to do the same.

  Steve