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  Your Most Embarrassing JW Moment

  by Sky in

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  im just curious about this:.

  mine is stupid, but thoroughly humiliating at the same time.. my mother made me wear high heels for the first time to an assembly when i was 15 years old.

  it was all snow and ice that day, but i made it inside fine without slipping.. during the first session, the naughty girl that i was, had gotten bored, so i decided to go to the restroom.. i guess the floors were wet or something, because i slipped and fell down about 17 or 18 steps.... head over heels, quite literally.. i landed at the bottome with my dress up over my head, showing off all my under "wares: lol!.

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  Roybatty-sorry for the delayed response-I had to shop!

  79th and Ashland was kind of cool. I enjoyed going up to the balcony. No one ever seemed to be up there. It was easy to fall asleep, eat, wander and just not pay attention. When we were forced to sit on the bottom floor, it was bad.

  The breaks were great. We (my sister and any cousins attending) would walk to the drug store at the end of the street. I had never seen Afro Cream before. There were always black people hanging around on the street, watching us. When I look back on it, 2-3 young, white girls wandering in the ghetto was not smart. The shop keeper was never too friendly. We would look at magazines and purchase gum.

  That cafeteria was horrible. Ate some chicken and got really sick.

  Ugh!

  Once they built the new assembly hall in Janesville, Wisconsin, we never went back to 79th and Ashland. I was glad!

  When were you there? I got dunked in 1975.

  "I used to be Snow White, then I drifted." Mae West
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  My story.. as written in 1995

  by KenUK in

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  whilst tidying up the ol' hard drive i came across "the purging of my soul", which i wrote as an intro to the philia group.

  sounds very raw (i probably was) and thought i'd share it.... .

  where do i start?

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  Powerful story. I hope you are better and your life is going on without the hurt.

  How are your children?

  Please let us know.

  Take care,
  puffs

  "I used to be Snow White, then I drifted." Mae West
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  Should I post here anymore?

  by Mindchild in

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  that is the question i've been asking myself.

  i'm not trolling for attention with this post.

  nobody has hurt my feelings.

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  Mindchild,

  Please keep posting. I, like yrs2long, enjoy the research you and others do. I have been out for 18 years. I have no literature. No bible. I came here to see if I was crazy or the dubs were. I am convinced they are. I know I did the right thing by leaving them....after reading numerous posts that had lots of research and information. I really appreciate the efforts of yourself and others who are trying to help people like myself.

  Your sense of humor is great also. You have put some lovely lighthearted stuff on that made me smile. That is great.

  Regards,
  Puffs, aka Tina

  "I used to be Snow White, then I drifted." Mae West
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  Your Most Embarrassing JW Moment

  by Sky in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  im just curious about this:.

  mine is stupid, but thoroughly humiliating at the same time.. my mother made me wear high heels for the first time to an assembly when i was 15 years old.

  it was all snow and ice that day, but i made it inside fine without slipping.. during the first session, the naughty girl that i was, had gotten bored, so i decided to go to the restroom.. i guess the floors were wet or something, because i slipped and fell down about 17 or 18 steps.... head over heels, quite literally.. i landed at the bottome with my dress up over my head, showing off all my under "wares: lol!.

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  Getting baptised....standing in a swimsuit, at the assembly hall at 79th and Ashland in Chicago. Myself and about 50 others. I was chubby and self-conscoius. All the women were in nice swim wear. I had to wear my mothers old one. She did not think it was worth it to purchase a new bathing suit.

  We lined up like cattle and some guy in a pool would call our name, bring us down and dunk us. After making us recite something-I cannot remember what.

  I wish I had never done that!

  "I used to be Snow White, then I drifted." Mae West
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  How Many "Householders" Did You Bring...

  by teenyuck in

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  just curious...after a long discussion with my mother on her 34 year career as a faithful jw, i asked her how many people she brought in, not counting my sister, myself, my father?

  4 in 34 years.

  since i started going door to door at age 5 until age 18, i never had a bible study with anyone.

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  Hojon-

  That is what I felt. I never really knew as much as the person at the door. Especially since they were adults and I was a kid. Stupid. I am glad I am out.

  "I used to be Snow White, then I drifted." Mae West
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  The indoctrination of CHILDREN

  by LDH in

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  did anyone catch primetime (or was it dateline) the other night about how the islamic militants build terrorists?

  the focus was on a special school somewhere in pakistan, i think.. the way the indoctrination was carried out was eerily similar to the way jw children are raised.

  the islamic children heard a constant chorus of how 'right' the muslims are and how wrong the rest of the world is.. when the reporter asked the children the simplest of questions, the brainwashing came through loud and clear.

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  Lisa-

  I did not see Primetime, however, I read the paper and news weeklies, faithfully. All have shown the Islamic schools you wrote about. They are learning Islam and nothing else. No science or math, etc.

  The girls are getting it even worse. Little or no education.

  There is a definite correlation. When I was in school, reading the newest Awake and Watchtower was more important than any school work I had. I could rattle off JW info, however, I could not (and still can't) do long division...without a calculator.

  What these children in these fundamentalist schools are learning is what we were taught as JW kids. Only JW's have the answer and everyone else cannot be trusted. It is so clearly similar, it is scary. I recall getting in a fight as a kid, because I said something bad about Catholics. The other girl cleaned my clock for my stupidity!

  "I used to be Snow White, then I drifted." Mae West
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  How Many "Householders" Did You Bring...

  by teenyuck in

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  just curious...after a long discussion with my mother on her 34 year career as a faithful jw, i asked her how many people she brought in, not counting my sister, myself, my father?

  4 in 34 years.

  since i started going door to door at age 5 until age 18, i never had a bible study with anyone.

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  Sky-I am so sorry you lost your friend. Hopefully she will see the light and get out.

  Mulan-You were crankin'!

  I am amazed at the amount of time we all spent for so little. Every Saturday, Sunday and Holiday we went in service. At least 2 hours. I should have been doing homework!

  "I used to be Snow White, then I drifted." Mae West
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  How Many "Householders" Did You Bring...

  by teenyuck in

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  just curious...after a long discussion with my mother on her 34 year career as a faithful jw, i asked her how many people she brought in, not counting my sister, myself, my father?

  4 in 34 years.

  since i started going door to door at age 5 until age 18, i never had a bible study with anyone.

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  Just curious...after a long discussion with my mother on her 34 year career as a faithful JW, I asked her how many people she brought in, not counting my sister, myself, my father? Her answer-4.

  4 in 34 years.

  Since I started going door to door at age 5 until age 18, I never had a bible study with anyone. 13 years and not one sole saved!

  Hence my question, how many did any of you bring in to the borg?
  Follow up, do you talk to those you brought in about any doubts you now have?
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  JW Education Status

  by Scully in

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  this was posted on alt.religion.jehovahs-witn, just thought i'd share it with you:.

  the following figures from an article in newsweek represent the number of college graduates within each religious group in america.

  can this be used to relate the intelligence of the membership of each religion?

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  I saw the ARIS study in USA Today last week. The study also showed that the JW's enrollment declined by about 4%. It was the only religion listed that had membership decline. That is good.

  That must indicate that the education level is going up. As more dubs become educated they will leave.

  I am very lucky that I had an enlightened mother who allowed me to go to college. It opened my eyes to the cult.
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  How Long A JW ( Baptised )?

  by hillary_step in

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  i frequently read on this board that somebody has 'been a jw for over 25 years' and then learn that they are in fact 25 years and three days old.. i am very easily confused, in fact i actually got inside a car of similar color to my own recently and spent at least five minutes with a furrowed brow trying to force my car key into its ignition, fortunately, i realised my error before i was arrested.

  so, just to humor me, can you all post how long you were/are baptised jw's?.

  thank you -- hs.

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  As Pricsa said, the childhood experience is strong. Grandmother's father-in-law a dub since 1914. He got her into it, then my mother in 1967. I was 5.

  Had it in the background from birth, with grandparents into it. I got baptised at 12. Left in about 1981, when I went to college. I just stopped going.