Topics Started by Soapydish

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Memorial
by Soapydish in
1. jw
2. experiences
this is the first year in my life that i won't be going to that thing with the bread and the wine.

you know what i'm talking about.

even though i gradually stopped going to meets since i was 21
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Whoo hoo . . .I finally signed up
by Woofer in
1. jw
2. experiences
after a few months of lurking i decided to register.. was raised a dub all my life .

.got married at 19 (biggg mistake) because as you know "dating is only for marriage" (obviously not for trying to get to know someone better) and was married 11 months after i met my ex-husband.

i felt a lot of pressure from both families to get married.
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controlling circuit overseers
by primitivegenius in
1. jw
2. friends
got a story for yall.

new circuit overseer came to my familys cong.

hard ass about working at night or basicly any time a meeting is being or could be held.
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Another Newbie :)
by merfi in
1. jw
2. friends
it's hard to know where to begin, so i'll just... begin.. i had my first encounter with jw in high school when my now ex-husband moved into our small town.

(you're doing the math already, aren't ya?

:) ) after finding out he was a jw, i did a little bit of reading into it, which he discouraged... told me that that stuff is "apostate" (i had no idea what that meant) and that he'd give me stuff to read.
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VEGAS BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by whyamihere in
1. jw
2. friends
i am leaving in 15 minutes......... i promise to send many pics like i always do!

(i am a pic whore).

love you all miss you!.
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Many thanks to Simon!
by Elsewhere in
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2. friends
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if it were not for all of the very hard work that simon does behind the scenes to keep this forum up, much of the other work others are doing could never have happened.. this site serves as an excellent central location for us all to communicate and exchange thoughts and ideas about how to expose the evil ways of the wts.. simon, thank you very much!
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KH construction in Mexico
by flag in
1. jw
2. friends
i recently went to mexico for vacation and my sister in law told me that they were constructing a new kh.. i questioned her on how was it done, and this is what she told me:.

they saved the money for long time, then they sent the money to the wt.. wt then bought the land and the materials (but everyting is under wt name).

all brothers and sisters will work for free.. after everything is completed they still have to pay a "suggested contribution" to the wt for the use of the kh.. i think the law in mexico recently changed and now the wt can own property that is why they are pretty active building kh's.
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What about the Children?
by seek2find in
1. jw
2. friends
something that's really been eating at me latley is how during my growing up in the orginazation and now my childrens growing up in it, nothing has been done on an organizational level to benifit the children.

why has there never been any organizational focus on the need for congregations to sponsor activities for young people.

many churches and church groups have extensive ministrys to reach young people.
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Thee absolute Vicious, Hateful, Malicious comment......
by whyamihere in
1. jw
2. friends
yesterday, i was having a horrible day....(some of you may know).

well i was given the 2 hour long conversation on "how i am a evil unacceptable person".

as in my last thread, i stated that my sister went threw my house and found pictures of my children in their halloween costumes.
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Hello
by Soapydish in
1. jw
2. friends
hello....found out about this forum last year when i was starting to go back to the meets.

i found real encouraging words that spoke to me at the time.

they helped me realize that i was going to the meets just to make my family happy again!