The Grudge

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  "Dear God"

  by The Grudge in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was driving in my car this morning, listening to the radio and i heard a song that i remember hearing when i was younger.

  this song really bothered me when i heard it back then.

  it made me mad that someone would say these things about god.....when i heard it today, although i liked to believe in a god, i actually agreed in many ways with the lyrics describing the biblical god.

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  People in other religions...

  by boa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a thought occured to me today about a formerly held view as a jw regarding people of other religions and people who left the 'truth'.

  the first view which had bothered me for many years and for some time hotly disagreed with, was the ol' bro or sis who comes back into the service car and remarks on how the householder was catholic and how they must be so stupid and blind!

  the second view i actually believed before was that all people leaving the org must certainly be hopeless and lost spiritually and obviously would never go to another religion.

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  Amateur Organized Crime (In the organization.)

  by The Grudge in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a memory was triggered in my head the other day that i hadn't thought about since i was an active jw.... in the early to mid nineties (i would have been about 14 or so) i remember a situation that was going on with someone i know (details cut to remain anonymous) and her jw friends.

  this person involved would have been about 17-18 and her "friends" or people she hung out with ranged from 16-21. they were a group of kids that went to meetings, in service, and were considered somewhat exemplary.

  most of them came from what were considered ?strong?

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  We're speaking to folks in your neighborhood

  by new light in

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  2. beliefs
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  Are You Dealing or Dwelling?

  by pettygrudger in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  desib's arrival thread got me thinking (along with some kind words from special k).. when i first came here, i was so happy to see so many others with shared experiences and issues of the jw's, yet sad at the same time to know that there were so many.

  i spent alot of time here in the beginning.

  even though i had been out of the jw's for almost 16 years at the time, i found the time i was spending here i was "dwelling" or going back to my own painful experiences.

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  A Letter I Want To Send To My Brother

  by ZeroKool29 in

  1. jw
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  most of what i read was the book of ecclesiastes.

  i don?t think it would.

  i remember having a ton of those books lying around, and some of them i never read.

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  My silent ongoing fight against the org.

  by The Grudge in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i?m posting today to get some things out that i haven?t been able to share with anyone else.

  because they don?t want to hear it.

  i?m living in a world of jw?

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  I'm New Here.... Part 2

  by ZeroKool29 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i got home from my tryst and sure enough, everyone knew all the details.

  so a judicial comittee was set up.

  i was accused of coercing a happily married woman to drive 8 hours to spend 4 days with me in various hotel rooms all at her husband's expense.

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  Should I be worried.Or am I just paranoid?

  by The Grudge in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well,to explain that,i haven't posted on this site in a while and obviously since this is my first post,it was a different screen name when i did.

  my last post was about 6 months to a year ago.my status is, im a "fall away jw".i started having doubts about 2 years ago and they've done nothing but increase since i've been out.this isn't due to a spiritually week state of shutting "god" out of my life as a strong jw would say.instead,i've seen more shit go on in 2 years being away but still associated, then i care to list.yes,i am still associated through my wife and family,and have managed to stay at piece with everyone by keeping my mouth shut when it comes to my doubts, and now disbelief.

  everyone has pretty much left me alone about not going to meetings.it wasn't that way at first, but i think they just gave up.my wife still believes its the truth but she would be considered a week jw since she doesn't go to the meetings alot.. as a 24 yr old newly married couple who just stopped going to meetings,we lost most of the "friends"we had.

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  All Time FAVORITE Singer Or Band

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  who or what is your all time favorite singer or band?

  even if you never saw them, if you could---you'd spend big bucks to see them.

  i love anita baker.

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