Buck, just make sure you know what you are potentially getting into. I f you have ANY doubts about becoming a fully-fledged jw, don't do it. Even if she seems like the most wonderful g/f in the world, and getting dunked is the price you have to pay to get her, if you are in doubt then the price is way too high. Getting baptised into the jws was the worst mistake of my whole life, and I DID believe in what I was doing at the time. You are a young man, and the best years of your life are ahead of you, don't waste them.
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THE ULTIMATUM is about to be thrown.............
by Buck inwell, its been a while since i was made a unbaptized publisher.
now my hand is going to be forced and i will have to be baptized by the end of the year.
my gf wants my decision very soon, like the next couple of days.
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The Witness Kid Tries to Play Baseball
by wanderlustguy ini was 11, coming out of the 5th grade, my dad had just been to jail for having sex with a kid who was 14 at the time, he has been having sex with her for two years and everyone in the 1900 person town i grew up in new it.
i remember always being the last picked for everything.
i couldnt even throw a baseball or football correctly, it always looked like i was lobbing a grenade, no accuracy, no power, nothing.
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I really feel for you WLG. Reading that makes me so glad that I wasn't brought up in the jw religion, and even more glad that I got out of it.
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APOSTATES Have RABIES??
by orangefatcat inwere any of you aware that in the mind of ct russell, apostates were considered this as stated in the october 1 wt .
"they seem inoculated with madness, satanic hydrophobia [rabies].
some of them smite us and then claim that we did the smiting.
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dedpoet
(1) Cleverness (2) Lack of love (3) Prideful intelligence (4) Dishonesty in various forms...........sounds like the body of elders where I used to go
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I hope everything goes well Dimples. Get well soon
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Do you still use Jehovah's name in prayer assuming you still pray?
by JH in.
if you do pray, will you use the name that's above all other names....says the watchtower.. if not, what name do you use?.
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dedpoet
I don't pray at all these days. I did for a while when I first left, but I didn't address God by any name then, I guess I just wanted to put anything to do with the jw religion well behind me
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In Gratitude
by rawconscience inhey everybody.
i would like to say that this site has been a great source of support, resources, and common ground that i think is absolutely essential for positive healing/transformation when transitioning from jw mindset to a more inclusive and integrative mindset..
ive been lurking around for a couple of years now, journeying back whenever the jw's gained strong presence in my life/mind.
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Welcome to the board Raw, enjoy your stay
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Important Email Alert!!!
by Frannie Banannie inif you receive an email entitled "bedtimes"
delete it immediately.
do not open it .
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dedpoet
lol nice one Frannie
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No Jehovah Witnesses !!!
by JH inaround here, in my neighbourhood, there are many apartment buildings, and i remeber as a jw, how many people didn't want to be bothered by us jw's.. so, i took my camera this morning and went around in a few apartment buildings and took pictueres of all kinds of signs on doors, telling witnesses not to knock at their door, and go away !!!.
on this first picture, it's quite polite.
it says in french, no solicitor.
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A lot of houses around here have signs that start "We do not need", followed by a list of potential callers. The winesses are near the top of most lists
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As you got baptised a j.w., did you truly agree with all j.w. teachings?
by hubert in's that weren't born into the cult.. were there any teachings, doctrine, etc.
that you still had a hard time accepting, even though you were going to be baptised into the org.?.
which policies and teaching?.
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dedpoet
I believed most of it and accepted the rest. Now I believe none of it and find it hard to believe I listened to that bs at all. Oh well, you live and learn
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Do you think this is tacky and just plain pathetic (Watchtower) ?????
by run dont walk ini just returned from ontario, where a family member died, i was reading the obit, and i know its been said millions of times, but this really blew me away.
"a private family burial at ______ cemetery.
a memorial service will be held at the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses on saturday august 13, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. as expressions of sympathy, please send donations to world wide work of jehovah's witnesses.".
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dedpoet
I thought that nothing they did could shock me anymore, but this......well, it makes one wonder how far they really will go to line their pockets. I hope no one gives them a dime