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  Help with

  by restrangled in

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  Restrangled---- I don't have any kids, but I am with my husband ALL the time when he is not at work. He is not very social, and seems to get mad when I try to do anything without him. So, while I don't know exactly how you are feeling, I do maybe a little.

  IT SUCKS!!!!! I have been reduced to trying to start female conversations in the grocery store! (The women usually just look at me like I am weird, people can't communicate like they used to, it is like everyone is scared!)it

  I am like you with an extreme JW mom. We used to be very close when I was in the ORg, but not so much anymore. We hardly talk at all nowadays.

  I feel horrible because I can empathize with how you are feeling, but at the same time, I can't think of any wonderful advice to give you!

  The best I can do is this----- When you get the time, (which is very rare, I am sure!), take a moment talk to a stranger, not a complete one maybe. I just struck up a "mini-friendship" with a girl that is in one of my classes at the university I go to. And while she is 8 years younger than me, we found that we actually have a lot in common, (I am 27, and she is 19, so 8 years is a big age difference to her!!!) I was so excited when I came home, I had to laugh at myself! Now, I don't know if we will be the best of friends forever or anything, but you just never know when you might find a kindred spirit! Even if it is just for a few minutes, (we went and grabbed lunch together in the school cafe,) it really does refresh you!

  I hope that this helps, even if it is just to know that I can emmpathize and I am thinking of you!
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  panty Hose at Meeting?

  by hamsterbait in

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  a friend of mine went to work in ny for a few months.. it was the middle of summer, and baking hot.. after the meeting an elder approached her and asked why wasnt she wearing panty hose at the kingdumb hell.. she said its too hot.. he said it disrespects jehoobie.. she said "so does staring at my legs during the meeting.".

  i have also heard complaints that a bra strap might be visible under a blouse, so cardigans should still be worn.. how do these creeps cope when sitting on a beach?.

  who was the gibbering buddy who sunbathed on the roof of beth hell showing off his packet in skimpy trunks?.

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  I think it is a matter of attention for the elders. They want all the congregation's attention on them when they are on the platform, and since there is a good chance that all the young virgin brothers may be distracted by some bare legs, they can't risk sharing any attention with these lowly, subhuman sisters.
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  The time left is reduced

  by hoser in

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  we had our special assembly day a couple of weekends ago.

  some of the highlights:.

  it is futile to store up material things they will only end up in the landfill.

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  Ha ha Mindmelda--- That was great!! I am so glad I don't go to those things anymore, so much more relaxed!!!! I was always just one big ball of stress when I went to assemblies and conventions. They always told us from the platform that it was supposed to be such a joy and so upbuilding. I just always came home feeling like nothing I did would ever be good enough! Yuck.

  We aren't supposed to TEXT now?!!!!! What is next? We can't poop because it takes too much time away from the ministry? We should limit our pooping to one time a week, otherwise we are putting our bowels ahead of Jehovah?
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  I dont regret joining but its painful....

  by Lozhasleft in

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  i love this forum.

  i find the discussions and analysis incredible.

  i think the humour in some of the threads is amazing.

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  Lozhasleft--- I feel the same as you. It is painful sometimes to discover just how duped I was, and all the years that I lost to that organization. I am glad to be out, but at the same time, I am sad that my mother is still in. The decisions that she has made based on her faith in that religion have caused her so much pain. I ache inside knowing that if she found out that I had changed my mind about this religion, it would cut her so deeply. I don't know what hurts worse, knowing that she would hurt, or knowing that she would hurt because of a bunch of false doctrines. A farce.

  It is not an easy road to follow, but I have a feeling that it is necessary for people like you and I, and all of the others who have found the truth about "the truth."
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  I have a question for you all......

  by its_me! in

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  my sister visited me a few months ago, and she was on a holy roller, 'save my soul' kick.

  she told me that i needed to get back to the meetings because armageddon was so near.

  i told her that if i serve jehovah, it will not be because i am afraid of dying at armageddon, it will be because i love him and have a personal relationship with him.

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  On The Way Out---- Ha ha! Good point, I have had tose same feelings myself!

  Restrangled---That had to be bad! That is right around the time that my mother came into the truth! Can you believe that she was not born in and decided to join that Org? Then she decided to have kids, and raise us in it. Thanks mom. I mean, I know that she was only doing what she thought was right, but my parents really stuffed the religion down our throats. They basically took away our personal decision in the whole thing.
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  A Visit From The Reformed Village Strumpet

  by snowbird in

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  after a nervous breakdown, i stopped attending meetings in 2005.. i still live in the same place, have the same phone #, and work at the same job.

  after about two visits by the elders to "encourage" me, i have been pretty much left alone.

  my college daughter is still very much a zealous jw, in fact she was on the circuit assembly program 2 weeks ago.. well, this rabid jw, who once caused a scandal by her most un-jw-like conduct, (i refer to her as a reformed strumped) is calling on the woman who lives across from me.

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  Sylvia- I am anxiously awaiting the day that I get brave enough, or sick enough of it to say those things!
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  What is the deal with the ORG, and the U.N?

  by its_me! in

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  i keep reading about it on this site, but i don't know what it is about, and i don't know where to look on the internet to find reasonably accurate information..

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  Wow, that all kind of made me sick. The biggest part that made me ill would be the apologist's name calling and mud slinging. It is like political mud slinging in an election campaign.

  I am now more convinced than ever, that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is not an Org. that is solely backed by God.

  I am so infuriated! I feel as if I have been taken for a fool all of my life, and it is true, I have!
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  What is the deal with the ORG, and the U.N?

  by its_me! in

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  i keep reading about it on this site, but i don't know what it is about, and i don't know where to look on the internet to find reasonably accurate information..

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  I keep reading about it on this site, but I don't know what it is about, and I don't know where to look on the Internet to find reasonably accurate information.
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  A Visit From The Reformed Village Strumpet

  by snowbird in

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  after a nervous breakdown, i stopped attending meetings in 2005.. i still live in the same place, have the same phone #, and work at the same job.

  after about two visits by the elders to "encourage" me, i have been pretty much left alone.

  my college daughter is still very much a zealous jw, in fact she was on the circuit assembly program 2 weeks ago.. well, this rabid jw, who once caused a scandal by her most un-jw-like conduct, (i refer to her as a reformed strumped) is calling on the woman who lives across from me.

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  Sylvia--- Ha! Your reformed strumpet sounds like my sister who came to visit me, telling me that Armageddon was just around the corner. (she might as well as had some revolving doors installed down there) She was also very bad to me all of my life. So, taking advice from her, even on the off chance that it may be good advice, is practically laughable! I love what you told the woman! I wish that I had the presence of mind to say those kinds of things when the opportunity arises!
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  I have a question for you all......

  by its_me! in

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  my sister visited me a few months ago, and she was on a holy roller, 'save my soul' kick.

  she told me that i needed to get back to the meetings because armageddon was so near.

  i told her that if i serve jehovah, it will not be because i am afraid of dying at armageddon, it will be because i love him and have a personal relationship with him.

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  Wow, good stuff everyone!

  Sylvia, I am going to check that thread out.

  Mindmelda- I just learned the term Cognitive Dissonance in my Psychology 101 class. I thought about the exact thing that you said! I never realized until that moment what I had been experienceng my whole life! I just thought that I was broken. That something was bad wrong with me.