Because they oztersized me and rejected the woman I loved and married. Because they DF'd my mother with no JC meeting, no contact whatever. They are the foulist of hypocrities and love no one.
Quentin
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Why did you leave?
by greendawn inif someone asked to state briefly why you left the jw brotherhood what would you say?
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Sexual advances from JWs.
by greendawn induring your time as a jw were there any instances where other jws of the opposite sex young or old, attempted to sexually seduce you?
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Quentin
Har...Har...Har!! Not in my lifetime...In or out of the WT. I wasn’t sex starved it was malnutrition BIG TIME. Will say when I married the love of my life...................now scuse me while I go wipe the tears from my eyes. Seduced? Heh...Heh...not me. Maybe it was my breath....
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Quentin
On the mark.
Didn't destroy my view, just thought I was better than the rest of humanity. Thankfuly that small voice in the back of my head kept saying: this isn't right. One day I paid attention and meet some good people along the way.
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Was The Ministry Ever Rewarding To You?
by minimus ini only know of a few witnesses that believe that.
did you feel that the ministry was especially rewarding and gratifying to you?
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Quentin
Enjoyed it in my mid-teens because sometimes I got lucky and knocked the doors with J girls I had crushes on. As I got older dodged it as much as I could. It was not my fav weekend activity.
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WHAT IS INTELLECTUAL HONESTY?
by Terry infreud said:.
"if it were really a matter of indifference what we belive, then we might just as well build our bridges of cardboard as of stone, or inject a tenth of a gram of morphine into a patient instead of a hundredth, or take teargas as a narcotic instead of ether; but the intellectual anarchists themselves would strongly repudiate any such practical applications of their theory.".
intellectual honesty requires a match between the real world; the practical world where things either work or do not work at all.....and the state of mind inside your head.. if there is any mismatch at all the blurred line fuzzes out into failure to recognise what is real and what isn't.. jehovah's witnesses replace the real world with an artificially constructed one.
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Quentin
Just as Prophecor said: " I will always believe in a creator, an Almighty Supernatural." I too accept that. There need be no convulsion of religious doctrine in order to see God’s work. It’s there. It’s simple. For me that’s where God ends and I begin. He’s there. I’m here.
I think of it as intellectual discernment as opposed to honesty. Either way, words, or phrases are subject to a wide range of interpretation. One comes to a point in their live where they decide what their worldview will be. Someone else telling them what it should be (JW’s) is not needed.
I came out on the other side a hard core skeptic and deist. I examine everything, question everything, enjoy it too. Enjoy what other’s have to say as well. After all, how can you gain any knowledge if you don’t listen, observe and examine.
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Share your talent with us!
by Terry inwhat do you do that shows your talent?
share it here.. here are three of my music compositions.
three different styles for your delectation.. http://trex.rfsoc.org.uk/home.php.
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Quentin
Thank you Mary. Whatever talent you may have, if it's in you let it out, don't hold back. It'll make you feel good and that feeling is great. Should have closed that post with: You got it, learn it, use it, it's never to late.
Example: I have Flash 5 an animation software, given to me several Xmas' ago by a friend. I tinkered around with it, even created a few crude animations. Then it set on my desk top gathering dust. Not anymore. Thanks to this board ( everyones been an inspiration ) and re-connecting with an old friend I've been invigorated. Spent last night searching the net for Flash tutorials, several of which are now in my favorities. Going to spend the rest of the holiday going through them. Damm it's good to be alive.
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Share your talent with us!
by Terry inwhat do you do that shows your talent?
share it here.. here are three of my music compositions.
three different styles for your delectation.. http://trex.rfsoc.org.uk/home.php.
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Quentin
Yes indeed. I have talent, which I was NEVER encouraged to develop. In fact it was forbidden. Watchtower first, nothing else mattered. My artwork, my writing is simplistic, no depth. I'm a person that needed guidance, training and more than anything encouragement. Never happened.
To those of you who have natural abilities and need/needed only in depth study to hone your skills, I raise my glass. For those who have talent and need only to develop that talent, especially if you?re young, don't let anything stand in your way.
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Dunce Dating
by Quentin inthis weekend past terry and i got together and had our own micro apostofest.
we just relaxed and conversed about our jw past.
one thing we talked about were our dating adventures.
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This weekend past Terry and I got together and had our own micro apostofest. We just relaxed and conversed about our JW past. One thing we talked about were our dating adventures. We both dated those few and far between J girls that tried to wear you like a coat, from the time you picked them up and dropped them off. In all the dating stories we told each other one thing we agreed on we were not studs by a long shot. We were dunces who more often than not embarrassed ourselves. Naive to the bone.
So, how about it? How naive were you? Did you embarrass yourself? Were you a dunce?
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Why did you get married?
by pratt1 in.
1. because you were in love?.
2. you were afriad you would commit fornication and be disfellowhipped.. 3. you did not want to die before armageddon as a virgin and never experience sex.
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Love...the look accros the room kind and know that's the one for you...33 years later and still perkin.
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Your Most Embarrassing Injury!
by whyamihere ini want to know for a good laugh!.
onetime(in band camp) i was rushing to get to work and i was really late.
i got there and i forgot my hand bag in the car.
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Quentin
Once after Saturday field service I wound up at a casual friends house. Jimmy was in the process of rebuilding a late forties flat bed Ford. He had gotten far enough along to take it for a test run so he offered to take me home. I put my book bag in the floor board and for some reason was holding my NWT. When we got in Jimmy warned me to shut the door hard since those old trucks had a double door latch. Gave it a good bang and told him we were good to go. Sure you shut it good, he says? You bet I said. So off we went.
First intersection we came to Jimmy made a hard left. When he did I bumped the door. Open it came and out I went. Rolled head over heels along side the truck a good 50 or 60 feet. When he stopped I stopped upright. It drew a crowd, some people thought I'd been run over by a crazy teen. Funny thing was I still had that bible in my hand. It was unscathed. My colths were filthy and somewhere along the way my clip on tie came off (never found it ). Jimmy laughed so hard he nearly threw up. He said I looked like a beach ball rolling down the street.
Another time when I was about 13 or so went to a friends house. We went into the back yard. He had a dog. That dog hated me. I had gone through the gate first and the dog attacked me. Got a hold of me right in the crouch and proceded to drag me around the yard. Randy managed to pull the dog off, when he did, at the top of my lings I ran screaming down the street to my house and locked myself in the bathroom. This too drew a crowd. Randy's mother came down and wanted to examine me. The damm dog manged to take a nick out of my, how did they say it on NYPD, oh yeah, johnson.
I blubbered like a two year old with Randy's mother standing outside the bath room door saying over and over: I need to take a look at you. My grandfather was came in and examined me. When he told the crowd crammed into the living room what happened all I could hear was oh my, how terrible, goodness, Randy's mother was the loudest. I could have hung myself from the shower rod. Geez, some of the shit that happened to me it's a wonder I wasen't cripple before I was twenty. By the way Randy's mother was a looker. The dog bite would have been the least of my problems. Being 13 and all.