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Your great deep secret
by greendawn in
1. jw
2. friends
tell us one of your great deep secrets that you are willing, and don't mind, to share with other people.

one of my secrets is that when i was 14 years old (and before becoming a jw) i had sex with a girl my age and also her sister who was one year older than me.

fortunately their mother didn't find out though i think she was suspecting that something fishy was going on.
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What Are Words Or Expressions Peculiar To JWs???
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
jws have their own terminology.

it's a characteristic of a cult.

here's a few: "new system", the friends" and the "body".......can you think of more?
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Did the Witnesses you know, see "Fortune Cookies" as evil?
by free2beme in
1. jw
2. friends
i was in a few congregations growing up and like many things in the organization, rules were often regional.

one of those issues i remember and it was something i always got a kick out of, was people's reaction to fortune cookies at chinese food restaurants.

i had not run in to it as a child, and then i moved away as a young adult and was studying with witnesses to get baptized and they would try to make me feel more welcome, by inviting me to meals with other witnesses in the congregation.
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Another JW Suicide
by orangefatcat in
1. jw
2. friends
yes last thursday a young brother who was in the same hall as me but in the other cong.

and he was 29, a newborn baby and a 2or 3 year old and young wife committed suicide.

was killed here in our town of newmarket by a train.
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Give your experience of hypocrytical elders, here`s mine!
by dido in
1. jw
2. friends
i will feel better once i get this off my chest, i don`t know whether it`s ok to mention the cong, but anyway, it`s hayes cong in middlesex.

what happened, i stopped going to the meetings, and was trying to `fade`, but who should appear on my doorstep, 2 `busy` elder`s (who had nothing better to do, obviously!

) anyway, they said `oh sister, we miss you bla bla bla`, got the bible out, tried to make me feel guilty by reading some scripture`s out loud, brought tears to my eyes, etc.
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So why all the guilt over sex???
by Satans little helper in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was reading a post on here recently from some young guy who was never a witness but wanted some advice about a romantic situation and what struck me was his real guilt trip about sex, porn and masturbation.. .

what is the reason for attaching so much guilt to sex?

is it because we attach emotion to the closness of our sexual relationships?
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Loss of Elders
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
large numbers of jw congregations are going to be trouble long before they lose their last elder to death or resignation.. most congregations i know have at least one - and often several - elders who can barely function at all, due to illness, old age.

or just plain inability to accomplish anything.

the society seems loathe to remove these men, despite their 'elder in name only'.
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How old were you when you were baptized?
by moomanchu in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
.

reading hellriders topic made me wonder about this.. i waited till i was 21 because i was drinking alcohol as a youth and didn't want to get baptized while breaking the law.

man that is screwed up, seemed reasonable at the time.
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Do you REALLY want to know?
by serendipity in
1. social
2. relationships
is it important for you to know how many sexual partners your love interest had before you would consider him/her for a long term relationship, leading to marriage?

why would that info be important to you?.

that's a question i don't think i'd ask, or answer.