fresh prince of ohio
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breakup guilt
by fresh prince of ohio ini recently broke up with my girlfriend of four years.. she is 40 years old, with health problems, financial problems, little family/friend support, and facing an uncertain future.
i gave her some money.. the guilt i am experiencing right now is absolutely anguishing.
she had very, very high hopes about our relationship and loved me very deeply.
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Accepting my own mortality, and the naturalness of death - the final step in my JW recovery.
by fresh prince of ohio infor people who have a paralyzing fear of dying, to where it seems like it's this horrible, stalking monster, jwism is a powerful sedative.. but really, the idea of living forever, in human form, is nonsense.
living forever isn't about living forever, it's about not dying.. death is natural.
it can be painful, sudden, or both.
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missing the JWD glory days
by fresh prince of ohio indon't get me wrong, this forum currently has plenty of interesting discussions and posters, but, for those of you who weren't on the old jwd board in the early-to-mid-00s, man...i'm sorry but you really missed out on the glory years of this forum.
it was really a special, unique place then.
again, not dissing the current, but, that huge exciting wave of ex-jw internet activity that occurred in the early part of this century seems to have leveled off.
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breaking up is hard to do
by fresh prince of ohio inbackground: i joined the jws when i was 21, left about 11 years ago.. up until recently, i had never been in a relationship that went longer than a few months.
and that was just one.. i've been with my current for the past 3.5 years.
she's, just, okay.. i've never felt like, oh, i love her so much.
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Oh I thought JWs were just a "normal" religion
by fresh prince of ohio ini have found that, since leaving jws, that few "wordly" people seem interested in hearing my escape story (although some certainly have shown great interest).
when i've mentioned that i used to be a jw and that i left, the reaction i've gotten on more than one occasion is a "oh i thought they were just a normal religion", and not only that, it's like they just weren't at all even open to the idea that jws could be a really strange and cultish group.
on these occasions, i felt a little lost for words trying to explain to people just how crazy jwism is, because there's so much crazy to tell about, where do you even start?.
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Found this gem in a coffee table book from 1947
by fresh prince of ohio incontext was a discussion of anti-war groups.
the caption for the pic described the jws as "pathetic" (probably reflecting the victorious postwar mood).
outlaw could probably have some fun incorporating this pic into his comments!
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The (modest) success I'm having in the world feels so weird
by fresh prince of ohio ini left the jw's about 10 years ago.
in the time since, i've managed to advance a bit at my place of employment.
i went from customer service representative level i, to data quality i, to data quality ii, and now i'm business analyst i, which pays about 50k per year.. i don't have a college degree.
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Is Satan confused? (Persecution™ of Mormons in Russia)
by fresh prince of ohio inno satan, mormons are not the same as jws!
you're using your invisible yet ever-diabolical influence to turn russian leaders against the wrong 19th-century-spawned american religious sect-cult!.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/09/russia-s-anti-mormon-campaign.html.
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Is this photo from the Watchtower or Awake?
by fresh prince of ohio inyou may recognize the photo if you frequent the site reddit.com.
it has become a popular "meme" pic to which various funny captions are added.
the overall style and feel of the pic got me wondering whether it came from one of the society's rags, in some clueless anti-internet article.. .
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Pyschology reveals the comforts of the apocalypse
by fresh prince of ohio inhttp://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/12/18/psychology-reveals-the-comforts-of-the-apocalypse/.
don't know if this was posted here when this article was current (2012).. .
although i have left jwism far behind me, i still live with very strong, sometimes almost unbearable, fears of catastrophic events leading to complete societal breakdown..