Topics Started by rowan
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As lurkers, what kept you from posting? Fear? Was there a basis for it?
by What-A-Coincidence infor me it was the fear of getting 'caught'?
if that's the case, just don't give out names, places or dates.. i have been on jwd for over 2 years.
the only way 'they' can catch me is if i give out details on the forum.. so lurkers...come out and get empowered!.
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Circuit Overseer Complains Of Recieving HATE MAIL!
by minimus inthe co visited my mom this week with 2 elders and told her that she must continue forgiving persons that might hurt her.
he then went on to explain that he gets "hate mail" from various witnesses when he leaves their congregations.
he chalks it up to their being discouraged but admitted it does bother him......have you ever heard of such a thing?
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Did you ever get in trouble for....
by Fleshybirdfodder inreading the bible during the watchtower study when you should have been "paying attention"?
as a kid i constantly got repremanded for that.
guess even then i'd rather find out for myself.
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Protect your assets, use a JW
by startingover insubject: excerpt from book.
"how to protect your identity and your assets" by j.j. luna.. .
although they call their church buildings "kingdom halls" we look them .
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Southern Minnesota Meetup.com group
by Abandoned inhey, i've been looking into setting up an ex-jw meetup group on meetup.com.
according to their site, there is already 29 people within one hundred miles of rochester who have signed up to the site saying they would be interested in a meetup.
the problem is it cotst either: $19.00 for one month, $45.00 for three months, or $72.00 for six months.
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I'm protected by law, hurray!
by AnonyMouse inmy mom telling me i had no rights infuriated me.
it made me feel like all my attempts at freedom were useless (well, they were...).
but the un made a thingy protecting children that a freind of mine found.
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Girls/ ladies, were the sister`s competetive in your congs?
by dido ini don`t know about your congs, but the ones i were in became like fashion competitions between some of the sisters.
i noticed how some of them would look you up and down, very obviously, then the following week wear something identical.
i hate being the same as other people, so it used to p... me off, but i couldn`t believe how competetive they were.
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Statistical effect of disassociating the inactive
by AuldSoul init has been tossed around several times on the forum, and invariably someone pipes up that the wts will never do it because of the adverse effects on the numbers.
there is a glaring flaw in that reasoning.. the inactive are never counted as publishers.
the numbers that are reported are of active, reporting publishers.. if they disassociate every single person who is inactive and refuses to reactivate themselves, the numbers will not be negatively affected at all.
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Did Leaving the Organization Make you Feel *Alive*?
by Mysterious indid you have moments after you left the organization when you felt alive for the first time?
when you realized that you had just been drudging around with your head down, enduring rather than living.
when that huge burden was lifted from your shoulders and you saw the world not for the place of darkness and pain that the witnesses made it out to be but for all the wonder in it?
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SITTING ON THE BACK ROW..............NO, NOT AT THE MOVIES, AT THE KH
by vitty ini know we've heard a lot of horror stories about jcs and getting disfellowshipped.........................but what is your experiences of continuing going to the meetings to be reinstated.............what did it really feel like?.
did you mind being ignored or did you understand it and take it on the chin?.................................what were your familys treatment of you during the period of having to sit on the back row????.
when i saw ppl comming in late and leaving early .....................i just knew it was wrong, wrong , wrong to treat ppl that way.. in fact i got told off for smiling at a sister who i knew genuinly wanted to come back,( the pos wife told me ) i did it out of human feelings and was then blasted.. after she got reinstated, i was the first person she came upto and introduced herself.