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Before You Leave The Witnesses, You MUST Make New Friends!!!
by minimus inmy advice to anyone that is thinking of leaving the "organization" is to make friends (real friends) with people other than jehovah's witnesses.
the sad truth is that jws are only conditional "friends".
they will drop you like a hot potato if they think you want to leave.
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What's the word?
by bagpuss inif you could sum up your time in the borg with just one word, what would it be and why?.
for me it would be guilt.
guilt about not doing enough ministry, not enough study,doing too much secular work, the list seems endless.on the odd occasions i felt i'd done quite well you can bet we'd have a talk saying more,more more!.
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What are the first things you notice when you enter a JW home?
by JH ina) you'll find no ash trays.
b) no lottery tickets laying on the counter.
c) a jw calendar in sight for everyone to see.
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Did they ever make you giggle?
by bagpuss inmy son who is 20 was remembering a few of the more amusing visits to the kingdom hall.
his favourite was when a brother announced.
"the new magazines are in brothers and sisters.
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The Grape Cure (Cancer) WTS
by blondie inwhen i was growing up, if a jw was diagnosed with cancer (or a non-jw family member) they would start eating grapes.
being a jw born in the 50's, i had never read anything in the publications on this (or the danger of aluminum--another story), so asked where they had read it.
if anyone has the golden age or a scan of the endorsement by fred franz, that would be nice.. http://www.premier1.net/~raines/ruthoccult.html.
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I've got a bun in the oven!!
by bagpuss inwell a cake actually - a christmas cake!.
this is the second year i've made one since leaving the borg and it's one of the main things i missed during the dark years when i pretended that christmas was humbug and i never really liked it anyway!.
what if anything did you miss most about christmas?
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Anyone for mischief?
by bagpuss ini grew up in east yorkshire and november 4th was mischief night.
we would do all kinds of crazy things like removing peoples gates and hiding them, knocking on doors and running away - you know the kind of thing!
the great thing was we never got into trouble, after all everyone knew it was mischief night and expected to get up next day and find their garden gnomes missing!!!.
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I quit smoking, wish me luck
by dedpoet inyesterday i quit smoking.
its something i have been thinking of trying for a while, and i finally got round to it.
it was a tough day and a sleepless night, i probably had a couple of hours, and i am under no illusions about today being any easier.
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"Witness Humor" *or* "Jehovah Jollies"
by GetBusyLiving indid you guys ever find that dub's laugh their heads off at the corniest stuff?
sometimes during the meetings they would all just burst out laughing at the lamest jokes or comments.
for the life of me i could not understand what they found humorous.