Topics Started by rowan
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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.
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I am so proud of my son.
by Mig inmy dil called to tell me that she, my son and the children got dress to go to the meeting last night.
they have been somewhat irregular in meeting attendance.
she has been receiving constant pressured from her sister to attend.
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What Are "Unfair" Things JWs Made You Do?
by minimus ini was thinking how unnatural it is for most people to knock on stranger's doors and tell them that if they don't respond to what they were trying to get across, that they were going to be killed by god.
.....then there's the obligation to join the theocratic ministry school and go on a platform and give talks---even if you had a phobia!
.....or you're made to feel that you must answer at the meetings even if you're extremely shy.....are there other things that you can think of that made you totally uncomfortable?
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can they do something?
by rowan ini got reinstated some time ago.
to get back my family.
went to a couple of meetings, then called saying i'd be out of town for a while.
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If your child grew up and became a Witness?
by free2beme ini think we all think that our children would never do this, with us being so negative toward the faith.
yet in reality, these children grow to be adults and will make their own choices in time, as to what they want and believe.
i wonder though, would we spend all of our time with them trying to explain why we exited and why they should not believe, or would we just come to accept it?
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How did you treat your worldly relatives when you were a JW
by TallTexan ini had an interesting conversation the other day with a friend who is also an ex-jw.
this person is older than i am, and was a jw for a number of decades.
she was talking about worldly relatives that she basically ignored when she was a jw.