....for all your compliments. I'm enjoying all your photos as well. I could see that I am not the only proud parent of twins.
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Post your photos time!!!
by dobbie ini don't think we've had one for a while, i can't find the last one anyway!
so just to satisfy my curiosity it would be great to see some of your photos, of you, your family even your pets (they're family too!
) then i'll know if any of you do look like your avatars cos that's what i'm always wondering!
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Post your photos time!!!
by dobbie ini don't think we've had one for a while, i can't find the last one anyway!
so just to satisfy my curiosity it would be great to see some of your photos, of you, your family even your pets (they're family too!
) then i'll know if any of you do look like your avatars cos that's what i'm always wondering!
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How Many Have Written a Book? Or Are Considering it?
by AK - Jeff ini have the budded starts of maybe 4 of them in my hard drive.
i have been encouraged to finish them, but don't know if i ever will.
some of my writing was cathartic in purpose, and that cathartic crutch seems less needed these days.
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I had a second HD, which I used as a backup. Well, when my main HD crashed, my daughters boyfriend inadvertently took out the bad HD and the PC got sent back to DELL with the good HD and all my photos, files etc. etc. And since DELL receives ca. 500 PC on pallets everyday, they were not about to go and isolate mine just to get the HD out for me. Bummer huh?
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How Many Have Written a Book? Or Are Considering it?
by AK - Jeff ini have the budded starts of maybe 4 of them in my hard drive.
i have been encouraged to finish them, but don't know if i ever will.
some of my writing was cathartic in purpose, and that cathartic crutch seems less needed these days.
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HARDDRIVE? Burn it on to a CD. I lost things I typed up because of my HD crashing on me. I had a REALLY cool testimony typed up about my life as a JW and had all these facts to prove them wrong and now it's all gone *sniff* Maybe one day I'll find the time and try it all again.
LINDA
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What feels more liberating than burning your bra???
by loosie inpicking up 5 wt and awakes at your doctor's office and and tossing them in the trash after your appointment.. i tore them up so the garbage man wouldn't decide to become a jehovah's witness.. loosie (of the i didn't burn my bra but tore up mags instead class).
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The last time I picked up a WT/A mag. I looked at it, and thought to myself, they never change. I bet they still conduct their meetings the same boring way too. The last cong. I was in, the bro. who conducted the WT study, did so for the previous years. I was in that cong. from 96-99 and officially how long he conducted the study I don't know, but 3 whole years listening to the same guy was not only boring, but it made everyone wonder if he was the only one who thought he was deserving of it or the only one capable? BTW, he was considered one of the annointed. He apparently thought he was already in heaven no doubt.
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Untolerable, Unheard of and down right Unbelievable experiences
by REBORNAGAIN inhas anyone experienced something really outrageous among the jw's that you want to share?.
we once had a couple of jw's follow us (policeing us) as we were on our way to my (then, he's now my ex) husband's boss's home.
his boss wanted us over for an end of the year party and didn't consider it a christmas party because he knew we didn't celebrate christmas.
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I had to laugh at the stupidity of the JW's shunning us, specifically when you said you weren't allowed to talk to the JW's or the so called "Worldly people". Is that not a screwed up organization? I can't believe how much and for how long some of us have tolerated their crap. Btw, you can talk to me....I'm all ears.
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Faders-do you still enjoy old JW friends? Nothing in common?
by oompa inas a pretty new fader with no friendships other than jw's, i spend virtually all time alone, or with my jw wife.
i have little in common now with her or old friends.
at least the old friends and i liked biking (both kinds), golf, hiking, the beach, camping, tennis, boating, fishing, football (tv).
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In time it gets better. You become more like the others out there. You no longer preach to them, but rather talk about anything and eventually, you'll fit right in. I've been out since 1999 and I wish I had done it a lot sooner. But I now feel totally free of them and literally closer to God now than I ever have. As a JW, I NEVER spent 50 whole min. every single morning praying to God. I pray to him every morning on my way to work. Life out there is sooooooooooooooooo much better. I feel sad that the JW's are missing out on so much. I do have to commend them for their faith in sticking with the Org. but.....it's a faith in an org. and NOT a real faith in God. I can speak from experience.
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Do those of you "born into the truth" have problems with relationships?
by marmot ini'm a 4th generation dub and i was the epitome of a goodie-two-shoes elder's son.
i was taught/brainwashed that dating was evil and only for mature brothers (i distinctly remember a part on the assembly with a "demonstration" that said even 24 years old was too young to date and you should concentrate on becoming a ms or pioneer first) and went through so much soul-destroying guilt because of the society's utterly ridiculous stance on masturbation that it almost drove me to suicide.
didn't help that my father the elder had a massive porn stash.
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It's hard at first because you have to train your mind to accept all peoples. I thought I was doing good at it, but then a couple of years ago, someone told me that I needed to learn to accept people the way they are. ????????????????? Am I missing something there? I liked this guy a lot, and he was even Bipolar. I was accepting that about him. After him, another guy, a full blown alcoholic. That lasted 4 months after I realized I couldn't help him. He needed to help himself. In his case, was I supposed to accept his alcoholism? I don't think so.
I have concluded over my life time, that our lives are predestined. It was already planned out the way we lived it, and how we will die. I came to this conclusion, because there is no rhyme or reason for the things that happen in my life. They say, whatever we believe is true. Whatever we tell ourselves will come true and it happens to me everytime. I try to talk myself into the opposite, i.e. the way I want something to turn out, but the doubts are in my head therefore it never goes the way I had hoped, hence my reasons for my conclusions.
Besides all of that, I am glad I am allowed to interact with others in this world. At least they are not as the Germans say "Scheissfreundlich" which literally translated means, shit friendly, in other words, not your superficial, phony, wannabe Christians among the JW's.
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WERE YOU EVER A SUBJECT OF K. HALL GOSSIP???
by chuckyy inwhilst a jw, one thing that was evident to me was the constant gossip and backbiting.....being nice to someones face and then talking about them behind there backs.were you ever a "victim" of this sort of behaviour???
is it as common as i suspect from cong.
to cong???.
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I experienced a real doozy. I had a really nice bathing suit, purchased in Germany. It was a bit skimpy, but really cool. I felt that at the time I didn't really look that good in it (I actually did) anyway, we were living in Maine at the time. I gave it to a sister, thinking she would like it and appreciate it. What did she do? She past it around as a joke for the new baptismal candidates. I was really hurt by that. Years later, I realized how dumb I was for getting rid of it. GRRRR! Now I wish I had it. Oh well, now I have bikinis that I PROUDLY wear, even without a t-shirt to cover me up, as the sisters did in Maine. Too many JW's have this Puritan blood that I cannot tolerate. Hey, I've even gone nude bathing in Germany. (even while I was a Witness) *heehee* I just didn't go with any witnesses to the pools, lakes, saunas, etc.
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My Cong- "Large Witness Gatherings are Banned!! And fancy dress? Why?
by Witness 007 ina year ago in my cong, an elder who must be hitler's love child, gets up and tells us how some brothers are planning a fancy dress party, a large social gathering.
sounds fun i though!
"brothers a sincere christian would not attend such a gathering, we are warning you not to go near it.
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Let's plaster the Dingdumb Halls doors with Hot Stuff. He's the one....you got it right! Cool pic. THX!