Their friendship might have seemed at times like it was deep but in the end it wasn't. It was conditional... Conditional on your being a JW. If you failed that, then you asked for any shunning or repurcussions. That isn't my definition of friendship. So there is no comparison.
Posts by Sassy
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8Your Friends in the JWs versus Your Friends Now....
by Sirona inthink of your friends in the jws and think of your friends now.
how do they compare?
think of loyalty, trust, being there for you.
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Should "Merry Christmas" Be Replaced With "Happy Holidays"?
by Kenneson init seems that some think that "happy holidays" is more politically correct than "merry christmas.
" they take offense to the word christ in christmas and want to replace it.
personally, i think we should keep the words.
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When we bought Christmas ornaments and decorations, Dave said "no angels, no Jesus".
Yeah.. I didn't put anything too religous oriented on my tree either. I bought snowfakes, snowmen, etc.
I guess I also am calling this time of year Holidays, because my bf who is Muslim actually makes a bigger deal out of the New Year. We will really exchange gifts more on New Years than on Christmas..although I did insist on a gift for him and it is under the tree... I told him think of it as a winter present.. (since he doesn't celebrate Christmas)
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worldy girl living with inactive JW, confronts his father about religion
by Mulan inmy jw friend has a son who is living with a very nice young woman, who has two little girls 3 and 5. my friend has no problem with this, because she is like all of us, but is playing the jw game to keep her family.
(large extended one) she has become very close to the young woman and her children.
the girlfriend wants to celebrate christmas.
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Sassy
well it doesn't make sense that one thing is wrong, and also another (according to the rules) and yet handled differently..
I am pretty sure my mother is more upset about my sister celebrating Christmas all these years than the fact she also has lived with a man. The reason I think is that the man is something workable, if she can find a way to witness to him, then perhaps she can bring him in to the 'truth' and thereby her daughter too.. Where as Christmas is to her an out and out Christendom activitity.
When I told her I was leaving the JWs I also admitted that a man was in my life who was not a JW. I had actually left the JW activities months before, however, I put off telling her until he moved in with me. Then I worried he might answer the phone one day and so I thought time to let her know all of it.. so I did.. but all she heard was "man I am dating" and wanting to know if I am telling him about being a JW. I told her yes he knows my background, he has to .... to understand me.. but all the while I see her mind churning.. Convert Convert Convert.. we can still save her.. all we have to do is convert him...
so that is why I think they overlook somethings more than others.. but that's just my opinion..
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My story
by ChimChim ini was never baptised because i was to young, i was in it until i was 5 years old.
but it ruined my life and still is because my dad, nanny, grandfather, my step nanny, my aunt and uncle...all on my dads side of the family are still in it, so i get lectured alot about things that have to do with the "truth" or i hear him talking about and all i think it, "what a bunch of garbage.
he never really yells at me, i don't think he can because he barely ever see's me, i try to avoid going there as much as possible.
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Sassy
We have a need to be loved by our parents. When we don't feel that love, it eats away at us. I'm 45 yrs old and I still need my dad's love and yet feel rejected by him. I have done so many things in my life to try and please my dad and find acceptance in his eyes and yet I still don't get it. My boyfriend asked me why I still wear my highschool class ring. I told him because it was a gift from my dad. Then I added that he really didn't want to buy it. I was whining that I really wanted it when he said we couldn't afford it and he got mad and threw the money on the table and left the house. So sadly it really wasn't a gift, but it was his money (his drinking money) that paid for it. It is the closest thing I have to a gift from him. I know this doesn't change our situation, but I just wanted you to know that others too need love and to feel wanted, but unfortunately we don't all get it. Sometimes it helps just to know that others understand.
(((((((((ChimChim))))))))))))
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On to the next stage of being shunned
by CruithneLaLuna inif anyone can be said to have "asked for it" by their behavior, i suppose it would be me.
not only did i turn my back on the organization and walk away, but i got involved with "false religion," and wrose yet with neo-paganism and the occult.
(oooh, creepy!
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Sassy
Its ironic that I am in the same situation only for the opposite reasons. Because I chose to be firm about setting a good example and staying a JW when getting divorced, my children discontinued having anything to do with me. But I was told I was doing the right thing and thereby lost them. Now that I am out, there is still much damage and scars from our broken relationship for so many years. There is nothing more painful than losing our children.
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Pictures of yourself as a kid
by Aztec ini'm starting this because i was chatting with someone this morning about pictures of ourselves as kids.
i realized i didn't have any of myself so i got my mother to email me a few.
i promised i'd start a thread about it and if that person doesn't post the pic they sent me this morning, i will.
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Sassy
Here is another one of me.. with my brother.
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Food in Due Season GET IT NOW - FREE
by Lady Lee inthe second jwd cookbook food in due season - the jwd holiday cookbook is completed and simon has posted it here.
this cookbook is a gift - free!!!
so enjoy.
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Troll dolls and Smurfs - oh my!
by Jim_TX inhow many here have in their possession troll dolls or smurf dolls?.
i am not sure about the rest of the world, but here in the states - these were considered 'demonistic' (oooohhhh!
), and were pretty much forbidden in the toyboxes of children.. since i have left, i have acquired a few for myself - one sits on the refrigerator - with a magnet - another on a shelf around here ... somewhere (he seems to walk around on his own *grin*).. sooooo... how about you?.
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Sassy
We have our very own Smurf right here..
MAC --->
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What should I do if the Internet goes down ?
by Simon inevery year we grow more and more dependent on the internet.
but would you know what to do if your connection suddenly went down?
no one knows when the internet will fail.
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Sassy
last night i kept getting for the jwd board"service unavalilable" . I went into crisis mode
yeah.. me too! and then I thought........SURE>. I go and post about JWD going down and how we should prepare for if it does.........
and what happens??? I must have jinxed it..
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Should "Merry Christmas" Be Replaced With "Happy Holidays"?
by Kenneson init seems that some think that "happy holidays" is more politically correct than "merry christmas.
" they take offense to the word christ in christmas and want to replace it.
personally, i think we should keep the words.
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Sassy
I personally sent out cards that did not have the word Christmas but instead referred to the Holidays... and I wrote a note in each and followed it up with Happy Holidays...
but it has more to do with the fact I know half the stuff about Jesus regarding Christmas isn't accurate, so I am not celebrating it persay as being about Jesus birth...
