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  Hey UBM's - good things about being in a commited relationship with a JW??

  by Why Georgia in

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  in the spirit of jgnat's poll's.... let's name some good things about being in a commited relationship/marriage with a jw who actually follows wts doctrines.

  i know there will probably be a lot of sarcastic responses.

  i'll start.. because of my husbands faith and actual belief in the way he was raised - i know he won't cheat on me or be out in the bars.

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  I get to watch what I want on tv tuesday and thursday night.
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  What are you Plans for New Year's Eve?

  by codeblue in

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  just wondering........ please tell!!

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  Probably going to a party at a friends house. Most of the people there will be inactive jws, except for my wife. Probably lots of drinking and playing pool, grilling steaks and watching fireworks. I'm looking forward to it except that I know my wife will probably feel not as comfortable as me, and she wants to get up early to make the meeting on Sunday. Life has gotten weird.
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  will someone please pull me out of this funk......or at least come join me

  by kittyeatzjdubs in

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  i wish i could just lock myself in my office and sleep this away.

  i feel like there's this heavy boulder around my shoulders and it's just pulling me downdowndown...i think it started last night when i tried to play my guitar...but i'm no good at it...you know that feeling where you know how and what you want to be...but you can't b/c you just suck at it...i want to be an accomplished musician singer...but i can't sing and i don't have an ear for music.

  i feel like i have no talents...i can't sing, can't play music, can't draw.

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  I'll join you in your funk. This last week has sucked for me. But seriously, don't give up on guitar. I'm not very good, but I still play every day, even if it's for ten minutes. I just know short little parts of a million songs and I get frustrated when I try to write my own stuff. But even so, I think it is a really good stress outlet. Just the chords you know will let you play more popular songs than you would ever have time in your life to learn. Just the A D E chord combination alone will give you hundreds of choices.

  If you want to be lazy, put a capo on your guitar, move it to any spot that sounds good, and still play the A D E combo. Depending on where you put the capo, you can play in any key you want. If you put the capo on the third fret, you are actually playing C F G, fifth fret you are playing D G A, and so on, and you get to keep the same chord pattern with your fingers.

  Anyway, try to think about what's good in your life. That works for me sometimes.

  Cheers.
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  I'm going to give you one more chance.

  by LDH in

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  i hope all of you genx-r exjw will get a kick out of this story from my childhood.

  i was just talking to jt and he says i should post it..... my daughter is studying wwi history in school.

  i told her that when i was in 10th grade, i had a social studies teacher named nancy galbraith.

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  I turned in short paper in seventh grade about evolution/creation. I used the jw creation book, of course, and I pulled a quote in that book from Carl Sagan. I made that quote the focal point of my paper, and it got ridiculed by my teacher. He was an atheist and believed in evolution, and he asked me why I would quote an atheist who believes in evolution to try to support a paper on creation. I felt stupid, and I couldn't figure out how using the creation book had earned me scorn from my teacher.

  Now I get it!
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  What could I say?

  by pennycandy in

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  let's say you go back to your hometown for a family funeral.

  you're not df'd or da'd, but most haven't heard from you for many years.

  you know you'll get the inevitable "so are you going to meetings?

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  My new tactic is to make a joke that makes their question sound silly. My favorite, "Well, I'm just struggling with this serious heroin problem right now, so I only miss meetings when I'm high or selling automatic weapons to support my habit."

  They usually laugh and say something like, "right, right. How's the family (work, house, whatever)?"

  Of course, I've never been good friends with someone who would ask about my meeting attendance, so when I get that question it's only from people I don't feel obligated to discuss my situation with.
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  Just thinking out loud.....

  by schne_belly in

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  i was born and raised a jw.

  however over the last year my husband and i gradually have faded away.

  several times weve had discussions with my parents, whom are both in, regarding our disgust for the org and the reason for our decision to leave.

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  Sorry to hear about your situation. I agree with Dave, it is very unlikely that your mother's love was based on sharing the same faith. It's just that she has been taught to believe that your life is in grave danger if you are not a witness. This is obviously very upsetting to her, because she loves you. In the end, that love may be the catalyst that lets her finally question the watchtower corp.
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  How much written in this Forum can be believed?

  by Spectrum in

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  i want to turn this forum on its head for this thread.

  i'm here on this forum to find as many truths as is possible relating to jwism.

  i'm not really here to stick the boot in although once in a while my emotions might get the better of me.

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  I think the most important thing to do is to first put the personal experiences on the back burner, and look closely at the policies and rules made by the society. Research for yourself such issues as disfellowshipping, the faithful and discreet slave, does the bible point towards a governing body, etc. Once you have a firm grasp on the basic issues, it becomes easy to see where the behavior of individual jws comes from. The individuals themselves are probably ok people, but they are influenced by the policies of the governing body, which leads to shunning, judgmental attitudes, and so forth. Thus you end up with many, many horror stories of personal bad treatment that people on this board have been through. The fact that a few of them could be exaggerated or made up doesn't change the fact that this stuff does happen, and it happens for a very explainable reason.
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  2034...

  by Tuesday in

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  i'm sure this has been posted about but can someone link me the old thread or something, i'm interested if this is still being pushed..... .

  http://www.jwfiles.com/2034.htm.

  that's a link to an online article about 2034 being the new end date, is this still going on?

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  They're toying with the witnesses, in my opinion. They have mastered the art of "saying without saying". They will manage to get people in a frenzy when that time draws close, and then when nothing happens they will say that they never pointed toward that date. It's old hat by now.
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  small children seeing ghosts and hearing voices

  by moanzy in

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  does anyone have any experience with this or know what is happening?.

  moanzy

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  I personally had several occasions growing up where I thought I saw some type of spirit. The truth is, though, at least in my case, that I heard about the dangers of demons from the second I came into the world. I heard tons of scary stories about dancing smurfs, porcelain dolls that could throw a grown man across a room, pictures and books that wouldn't burn, mirrors that reflected faces of demons, demons holding down witnesses in their bed so hard they couldn't breathe, etc. As a tiny child, nothing I heard made a deeper impression on me than those stories. I grew up morbidly afraid of demons. I was afraid to climb the stairs by myself.

  Looking back, I resent very much that I grew up in fear, and I have no doubt in my mind that any "spirit" or weird happening was just my impressionable mind working overtime. I'm not saying that is the case here, but don't underestimate the power of suggestion. If I were you, I would at least try to mentally go over how much your child has heard about spirits, ghosts, or whatever.
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  Warning to the Watch Tower - Mirror of Truth

  by phoibos_2 in

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  they will never prevent the truth about their satanic religion.

  http://watchtower-quotes.ath.cx/ .

  keep cool .

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  atypical

  Ok, thanks. Someday soon I will be up on all the internet lingo!