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  Clawing out of poverty via (E)ducation, not education

  by MTSman in

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  okay, so i've been what i believe is called a, "lurker", on this site for about four years.

  i honestly don't remember how i stumbled on to it, but i totally get everyone here.

  i'm a, "born in", pinoneered for like six-teen years, servered where the need is great several times, and even went to the, as the name alludes to, mts before it became a watered down theocratic ministry school.

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  cobaltcupcake

  Welcome, MTSman! Great story, and you have a talent for writing. I enjoyed reading it.

  Of course I never went to college and have been toiling away at office-clerk-type jobs for my whole life. But, my unbelievably lucky brother, who was a Bethelite for 18 years, learned an actual lucrative job skill while he was in there. When he left he was running the water/sewer treatment plant at WT Farm. So now he's living in Maui and earning big bucks working at the Maui County water treatment plant. He has a beautiful house and a comfortable life, and I'm still out here (really out since I DA'd) trying to eke out a living with my meager skills and circuitous "career" path.

  Good for you, getting yourself "eddikated," and for getting out while you're still relatively young!
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  Disfellowshipped for PARTAKING

  by irondork in

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  i wonder if anyone has ever been disfellowshipped just for partaking.

  of course they would eventually tag it as apostacy, but the real reason would stand - and could get the attention of local media.. .

  the newsies tend to shy away from doctrinal entanglements, but the idea of a "christian" church disfellowshipping one of their own for taking the sacrament - surely that would raise someones eyebrow.

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  cobaltcupcake

  About 17 years ago I knew a relatively young brother who sincerely believed he was of the anointed and partook. The local elders, who were all in their 70s or 80s, treated him as though he were mentally defective and verging on apostate. His wife and I were close friends, so I knew this first hand. In my uber-faithful outrage I wondered out loud what Jesus would think of this treatment of one of his brothers. How dare they judge him?
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  Are the Family of a Disfellowshipped Person Told in Advance?

  by Eustace in

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  in another thread a comment by mamochan13 related this experience:.

  of course, after i was df'd my perspective changed.

  one meeting a couple of months into it they announced that a young girl, about 17, had been df'd.

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  cobaltcupcake

  Cold, cold, cold.
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  The official list of things for which you may be disfellowshipped

  by slimboyfat in

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  from the secret elders' book which states that the list "of course" is "not comprehensive".

  nevertheless here are the acts that they deem worthy of specifying as being possible grounds for chucking people out:.

  murdermanslaughter such as killing someone while breaking traffic lawsattempting suicidesexual intercourse with someone other than your spouseanal sex with someone other than your spouseoral sex with someone other than your spousesexual stimulation of the genitals of someone other than your spousedelay in reporting a rape?

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  cobaltcupcake

  Waaaiiit a minute, here! What the heck happened to skydiving and car racing?

  Now, this made me laugh out loud: Eating so much food that you feel sick. Who's gonna police that one? My guess is that no one has ever been DF'd for that since many elders are overindulgers themselves.

  Extreme physical uncleanness - Never heard of this one.

  Why so much focus on the breasts? What about male naughty bits? Is that okay?

  I don't see "sexting" mentioned. Hard to keep up, fellas?
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  The CO 'encourages' Julia to meet with THREE elders- the latest episode in the best-selling drama, The Fade of Julia Orwell.

  by Julia Orwell in

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  it was yesterday morning and hubby and i were having a huge sleep in.

  it was just after ten, and with me being a bit flu-ey i was quite capable of staying in bed longer.

  hubby was feeling it too, and we were pleasantly drifting in and out to the sounds of birds.. then suddenly, cloomp, cloomp, cloomp up the front stairs, then "rap-rap-rap" on the front screen door, that rapid-fire, strong knock of the practiced door-knocker.

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  Holy housecoat, Batman! What barefaced presumptuousness to keep you at the door when you're obviously not feeling well and try to pin you down to "meet" with the elders. "Rude" doesn't even begin to cover it.
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  Anyone here been Dfd for 'apostacy'?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  2. experiences

  just wanna know.

  i'm doing the fade but i reckon my big mouth could get me dfd.

  i know plenty who've been dfd for fornication/adultery, but never met one dfd for speaking the truth.

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  I laid the stinkiest fart (silent one) and blamed it on the chairman

  ISOT4 - LOL!!!! Now that's chutzpah!

  Mouthy - I'm so sorry your DF hit you so hard, but I'm glad you're still with us!

  In years past I would have said that practically nobody gets DF for apostasy, but this threat proves otherwise.

  I probably should have been 'cause I was spouting heresy at home, but my ex-husband never turned me in. I owe him one.
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  Are you Proud ?

  by Phizzy in

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  when we were jw's pride was usually cast in a bad light, linked with being "haughty" and coming before a "fall" etc.. but taking pride in certain things is actually a very good thing, i am proud of my children, they have grown in to fine adults who everybody talks well of, they had the sense never to be baptised jw's, i am proud of that too.. i am proud of my achieving a full education since leaving, i haven't done a degree course due to lack of funds etc, but i am now very well read.. i am proud that i am now a better human, kinder, more empathetic, less judgemental, contributing to the community, voting, donating blood etc etc.

  i am proud to be associated with jwn and with aawa, i am proud to know you all !.

  what are you proud of ?

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  I am proud of something everyone on this site should be proud of - breaking free from a mind-control cult, something that is very difficult to do.
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  Lili Boulanger (21 August 1893 – 15 March 1918)

  by Terry in

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  there are stories that cannot be written and shouldn't be told because the truth of those stories cannot be embraced on first hearing.

  our real life intrudes in every detail and we have so little time to give.

  yet, here i am proposing to tell you one of those stories.

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  cobaltcupcake

  What an extraordinary talent! I listened to the first piece - beautiful!
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  2014 Event

  by enigma1863 in

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  i know its a year away but i wanted to inquire about the hundred year anniversary of 1914. it would be amazing to have a world wide event reguarding all exjws.

  i am nowhere near capable of putting this together but i'd like to propose the largest assembly of exjws ever on october 1st 2014. can it be done?

  am i the first to bring this up?

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  cobaltcupcake

  I love the Cedar Point idea!
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  How many light bulbs does it take to change a Jehovah's Witness?

  by DT in

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  just one, all you have to do is turn it on and he will instantly adjust to the new light..

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  cobaltcupcake

  LOL! I think you need to use a dimmer switch and bring up the light gradually.