Posts by lancelink

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Amway

by bobld in

everybody has heard of amway but few are joining.everyboby has heard of jehovah's witnesses but few are joining.both use deceptive tactics to recruit new members.. bob.

lancelink

WOW,

My Dad was really into amway for several years back in the 70's, and then he progressed directly into becoming a JW with no problem.

what a messed up time that was, good grief !

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i celebrated christmas for 17 years before my parents became jw's.. when we became witnesses my dad got rid of decades worth of christmas decorations.. my grandparents came over from austria during ww 2 and ornaments from their parents were hung on our tree.. the tradition went on up to the mid 70's,, we had many old ornaments that were just thrown out when the wt society thinking.

took over.. now that i am in my late 40's and have gone full circle, we will be celebrating the ho;lidays this year.. .

shopping at target last night i fully realized what my family has lost.

lancelink

I celebrated Christmas for 17 years before my parents became JW's.

When we became witnesses my dad got rid of decades worth of Christmas decorations.

My grandparents came over from Austria during WW 2 and ornaments from their parents were hung on our tree.

The tradition went on up to the mid 70's,, we had many old ornaments that were just thrown out when the wt society thinking

took over.

Now that I am in my late 40's and have gone full circle, We will be celebrating the ho;lidays this year.

Shopping at Target last night I fully realized what my family has lost. Decades worth of memorable decorations were disposed of in

line with jw teachings.

I feel that a huge part of my youth is gone,with no chance of getting any of it back.

Yes, we could start over, but decades worth of those memories would have been nice, what a waste !

Did any one else have an awakening like this ?

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Horrid Perfumes and Nasty Nairspray

by Elsewhere in

jw
friends

why do people wear these things?.

don't these people know they make everyone else sick?

for those who wear perfume: please do not spray it directly onto yourself.

lancelink

Those feminine hygeine spray smells take me back to the KH when I was a young person Akkk !

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"Lovers of Freedom" Convention

by White Dove in

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friends

did anyone feel kind of perplexed as you read that title?

did it do a somersalt in your head while you tried to grab hold of the message it was supposed to convey?

when i read that some summers ago, my mind struggled to make sense of freedom while a jw.. i couldn't do it.

lancelink

I would get the feeling such as when an acute case of the flu hits you like a hammer to the stomach.

Then a massive headache as I tried to grasp the concept,,, never worked.

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chaperones

by rockmehardplace in

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friends

saw a topic on dating earlier.

made me think of chaperones.

i always hated having someone with us when we went to do anything.

lancelink

i ended up selling the two tickets and buying three to take a chaperone with us and the seats were horrible. the first seats i had were very close to the stage. the couple we sold the tickets to were in our congo and to this day, they still talk about how they were the best seats they ever had.

MY GOD MAN !

what the He** were you thinking at the time, and who did you go see ??

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Things you would like to do that you havent yet done

by carpediem in

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friends

as i am new this may have been asked before.

but it is something i have been thinking about since i left the religion.. .

things i havent yet done but would like to do include:.

lancelink

graduate from college

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WT Hypocrisy: Pick Your Jaw Up Off The Floor

by metatron in

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friends

from the dec. 15 "let's take a swan dive off the temple mount in regard to employment" issue, page 28.

"teenagers have experienced opposition from unbelieving parents.

some have even been ordered out of the home, but they were taken in by kindly witnesses.

lancelink

I know a witness who had his daughter leave the religion, and live on her own with nothing to do with jehovah!

The dad just cannot get his mind around the fact that he cannot even speak to his daughter.

Hopefully he will wake up in due time.

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The homeless sister and the $60,000 RV

by HappyGuy in

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friends

i was in a congregation once which had a large number of desperately poor people in it.

there was an elderly sister, she lived near me, a sweet woman, who became homeless because her ramshackled old house caught fire.

around that same time one of the overseers (imagine that using a slavery term), i forget if it was district or circuit overseer, came to town wanting a new rv/truck combo.

lancelink

Great story, thank you for sharing it

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Did you Exit the Witnesses Gradually - Or Exit Suddenly - Your Reasons ?

by flipper in

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friends

i thought it would be good to discuss it to understand what caused some of us to exit suddenly, or some to exit gradually .. myself , i had been in 44 years , had mentally had doubts for years before exiting - but injustices by the elders and my doubts about the " generation " doctrine led me to exit suddenly one night before a meeting.

the elders pissed me off , i went to my seat, picked my books up and walked out - never going back.

so what is your story and reasons ?

lancelink

I had doubts for two years, viewing all the hypocracy in the hall drove me to the edge.

But family ties and "friends" kept me hooked.

My Mom died in Sept of 08 and i was just morified by the complete lack of concern by my so-called friends.

A month later i wrote my DA letter and never looked back.

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One year and counting

by lancelink in

if you look at the previous post, i wrote down what the final nail in my jw carreer was.. and i'll tell you right now, i have absolutly no intention of returning to this religion,,,, but several things have happened and i would appreciate your personal thoughts on the matter.. when my mom died, about the same time my wife became baptized as a mormon, she was a witness for 20 years before.. she was satisfied spiritually so i left her to her own beliefs.

besides i was in no mental position to continually argue about it.

she developed lots of new friends, and i focused on myself, dealing with the death of a parent was alot hard than i thought it would be.

lancelink

If you look at the previous post, I wrote down what the final nail in my JW carreer was.

And I'll tell you right now, I have absolutly no intention of returning to this religion,,,, but several things have happened and I would appreciate your personal thoughts on the matter.

When my Mom died, about the same time my wife became baptized as a mormon, she was a witness for 20 years before.

She was satisfied spiritually so I left her to her own beliefs. besides I was in no mental position to continually argue about it. She developed lots of new friends, and I focused on myself, dealing with the death of a parent was alot hard than I thought it would be. So I attended a grief support group at a local hospital and it helped me tremendously.

But now that it has been a little more than a year, I find myself getting angry at the fact that my wife seem to have carved out a whole new life with the mormons,, and I seem to be an afterthought many times.

Lately I have gone to services for different religions, but 30 years of jw thinking really dull the edges of anything new I hear or learn.(remember EVERYTHING outside the jw world is evil.

I have always been a spiritual person, and i have done a lot of work helping abused large animals, when i was a witness many times this aspect of my life was looked down on. I get much satisfaction helping something that cannot speak for itself, I feel a great sense of spirituality in this. yet, there is an area in my life that almost seems to need an organized religious system.

My wife is very happy with what she is doing, but there is no way I will get involved with a religion that has such a weird/screwed-up system of beliefs.(I've do my homework regarding the Mormons, and it rivals the witnesses in many ways)

Whenever Iam invited to a get together with them I get the jw "so your not a fellow believer" feeling. And there is an awkward relationship there.

So,,, has this feeling of not being attached to anything happened to anyone who left the witnesses, how did you deal with it, and what did you focus on ?