do you consider being an exjw a hindrance to dating?
for example, do you find it difficult to bring up in conversation, lest you get stared at as if you have 2 heads or something?
or you might find it difficult to explain why you've had little sexual experience in the past?.
I've never dated an ex-JW. I always aspired to having someone who has never been so I could just be normal. In the end I got the ideal. I got married on June 16th to an non-JW who actually studied with JWs. She understands the religion but is independent enough to have never joined.
Isaac Carmignani
is he on this board?
does anyone know the reason he left?
what denomination is his church?.
Willis Bentley???OMG I still have stuff he gave me in Pioneer School. If anyone finds him....
maybe there has already been a thread on this.
billy the ex bethelite just mentioned this in one of his posts that it will be read this coming sunday.
just wondering if this is true.
My Mom says to sweeten the deal they will invite these 30 hour pioneers to the pioneer meeting with the C.O. if it happens to fall in April?
Isaac
Thank goodness you're okay! I heard this on CNN in my car earlier. Keep well.
Isaac
many people that post or lurk here at jwn are too young to remember some of the huge international conventions jws held many years ago, but probably have seen impressive photos such as of the 1958 eight-day convention held simultaneously at new yorks yankee stadium and polo grounds.
especially remarkable was the tremendous newspaper coverage of that assembly and other special conventions held in the 1940s and 50s in the united states.
yesterday, when i downloaded somebodys old scrapbook full of long-ago newspaper articles, http://www.archive.org/details/watchtowernewsscrapbook,reporting on jehovahs witnesses so-called international conventions, i couldnt help but remember what i wrote regarding extraordinary newspaper convention coverage in my www.freeminds.org article, how jehovahs witnesses watchtower religion impacted my family history, part 3 and thought id share the information here on jwn for those who are not familiar with how such wonderful coverage came about.
Wow, I learned something here for sure.
Isaac
belief: episode 1 - sacred ground.
belief: episode 2 trailer.
the video it looks better in full-screen version so click on "box" at right bottom.
This is an awesome documentary. I went to the initial screening and it was indeed moving.
Isaac Carmignani
dear friends,.
much of what we do on a daily basis is routine and of no particular, earth-shaking importance.
however, after reviewing letters of family going back to wwii, it is fascinating to read what dad was doing on board the aircraft carrier in the pacific on any old day, what mom was cooking on her ever-steaming range, how i was dealing with the roller coaster of emotion at bethel [mom saved all my letters], how nana wrote that she would not study with the witnesses [per my request] but 'here are some mittens i knitted for you when you canvass new york with your magazines.
CoCo from the time you started this I have journaled most every day. Now I'm at work browing and journaling. I always remembered your first post about your parents which introduced this thread. I always want my daughter to have something similar.
i recall being young and having a lovely solo pianist accompanying the singing in our hall.. in around the late 70's the obligatory (canned, sad) recorded music replaced live musicians.. anyone have any more detailed memories of live music and the subsequent changeover?.
We had a piano here (NYC), but most inner city folks don't get the chance to learn piano. But sometimes CO wives would come and treat us to their playing.
what was it that first got you thinking that the society was wrong in how they interpret the bible?.
for me personally, it was the way they always downgrade jesus to be an angel and are promoting the governing body in his place.. also when the society taught that jesus was abaddon/apollyon the fallen angel in revelation..
A close read of the Bible without referring to WT publications was all the proof I needed.
for example, if i stumble upon unmarried jw couple having sex, and i take them photos, could the photos pass as evidence enough to df the couple in a jc..
Officially elders are not allowed to listen or peruse electronic evidence. I had this issue come up in at least one case, and the reasoning the Service Department gave was similar to what OTWO states.
Isaac Carmignani
