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  Did you become more antisocial after waking up?

  by paradiseseeker in

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  2. friends

  i've been shy my whole life, but during my teenage years and early 20s i managed to be more comfortable socializing and made many friends in different parts of my country (jws of course).

  that was before i woke up, because i saw myself being a jw for the rest of my life and thus i made an effort to meet new jw friends.

  however, after i woke up, i lost interest in meeting new people because knowing that when i leave they will be gone... feels like a total waste of time and energy.

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  I also am on the introverted side. I had older sisters as friends but not really the younger group.

  When I left, I felt like I could go out and meet lots of people and find friends. I thought extended family who had left, would now bond and be close. Those two things did not happen. So now I am basically alone. I haven't found any group I want to meet up with. There is one or two ladies I chat with at the the thrift stores, my sister, one guy at work, some present JW's at work who pretend that they don't recognize I don't go to meetings and so chat with me.

  I end up working and then going home to watch the computer.
  
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  They still manage to find me.

  by blisterfeet in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i grew up a jw, left at about 17 years old..(i'm 33 now) a little over a year ago i moved 1000 miles away from where i grew up.

  today i "ran" into someone in the same congregation as my dad... like how is that even possible?!?!?

  he was very kind, mentioned the borg but only in ways that related to his life.. his daughter is a pioneer, my dad gives "the best" comments at the meetings, my sister is awesome.. blah blah blah... .

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  days of future passed

  Coincidences do happen. Just don't let them tell you it was "jehovah" calling you back.... I don't think alot about JW stuff at the moment, but as soon as I go over to my mom's house (who will die as a JW ) various annoying thoughts come up about how my life was sucked away by this religion. Oh well.
  
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  One day the Nouns were clustered . . .

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  one day the nouns were clustered on the street.. an adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.

  the nouns were struck, moved, changed.

  the next day a verb drove up, and created the sentence.. -- kenneth koch, "permanently".

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  days of future passed

  My sister might like this thread. Hahaha, I failed in 9th grade to grasp what these mean. Somehow I did manage to "structure" a sentence but I don't know how I did it. I'm more of a "punny" person.
  
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  My 13 YO opened up to me about her memories of attending a memorial service

  by nonjwspouse in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  she was only around five when she last attended.

  it was just when i began the "for real" investigation about the jw and watchtower, previously believing the public face.

  i would agree to go with my husband so his mother could show off her grandchild.

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  days of future passed

  Good for you also, on showing respect for your husband's possible baptism. People make decisions on all sorts of things that we may not agree on but things are far better if we recognize it's their choice and respect it. (something I'm a little behind on)

  My mother was a JW from when I was 5 and often showed disrespect for my father. She made her religion a point to feel superior over him and made us look down on him too. Not that he didn't have any faults. She never had to work an 8 hour day because of her worldly husband and enjoys all the benefits his lifelong hard work gives her. I'm regretful that now when we are out, his mind is going and it's very limited on how we can a deep conversation with him.
  
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  Try this on a JW

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is not intended to expose wrong teachings etc, just to promote thinking and asking questions.. 1) ask if imperfection and death automatically follow sin.

  jw will answer yes.. 2) ask if satan is imperfect then.. 3) sit back and watch them try to work out what the right answer should be.. sf.

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  days of future passed

  Because of his sin, he is no longer perfect and will eventually die. God has allowed him to live this long so that he can use the suffering and death of countless millions of humans,to prove his point to Satan. Once his point has been made, Satan's sin will be followed by death.

  Yeah, and since he was a superhuman angel, he just gets to live longer than a human before he would die a "natural" death.
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  WT studied by all congregations 4th Feb 2018.

  by skin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from the wt dated dec 2017 - study 1 para 11 studied by all congregations 4th feb 2018. the question asked on this paragraph is:.

  what did the physician luke report happened to a young man, and how did that affect others?”.

  paragraph 11 in this wt reads:.

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  The Word Perhaps makes it True! Perhaps the Physician Luke was the first to reach Eutychus......

  It would be fun to search how many times that word is used to make new light true! Or anything else for that matter.

  used to express uncertainty or possibility.

  synonyms:maybe, for all one knows, it could be, it may be, it's possible, possibly, conceivably;
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  Have you ever gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

  (perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).

  with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.

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  days of future passed

  The last few meetings I went to, my eyes were rolling out of my head over the pompous, self adulation of the GB.

  If I were to walk into a hall now, it would seem like I've walked onto a set from a tv series. A place like the twilight zone. I wouldn't be able to stop myself from laughing in disbelief or saying "that's crap".

  So I don't think I'll be going.
  
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  "‘Alien’ manuscript from 15th-century decoded using AI"

  by glenster in

  1. social
  2. current

  voynich manuscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/voynich_manuscript.

  scientists have harnessed the power of artificialintelligence to unlock the secrets of an ancientmanuscript that has baffled experts.. discovered in the 19th century, the voynich manuscriptuses “alien” characters that have long puzzled crypto-graphers and historians.

  now, however, computingscientists at the university of alberta say they aredecoding the mysterious 15th-century text.. computing science professor greg kondrak and graduatestudent bradley hauer applied artificial intelligence tofind ambiguities in the text’s human language.. the first stage of the research was working out themanuscript’s language.

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  days of future passed

  I often wonder, hey, maybe a mad person made this.

  Some of it seems to represent the female reproductive system. Pretty crazy botany going on too. Lots of naked females that are poorly drawn. Even tho the flowers and the plants don't look familiar, they have their own style and are better drawn than the people. It gives me the impression of a medical/herbal/spell/these plants represent people parts kind of thing. Add a lot of poor advice too.
  
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  Using Watchtowers Own Reasoning Against Them RE: The Governing Body

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  something occurred to me today.

  quite randomly as i was working away at my desk i remembered an illustration from the bible teach book in which satan claimed he knew better than jehovah about ruling mankind.

  here's the illustration from chapter 11 of that book:.

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  days of future passed

  When I read that section from the bible teach book, I realize that once again the WT skews the perception of any that question and labels them as "rebels" Korah the rebel, students as rebels. What if the student was a genius and did have a better answer?

  Of course the WT wouldn't let anyone question them. They yearn for the days of the Israelites when you could stone someone.

  Funny tho, I placed that book with a teacher. Never found her at home again.
  

  
  
  
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  Couldn't the GB have foreseen "spiritual endangerment" taking hold with Internet approval?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  having listened to the two gb helpers (and cedar's interspersed commentary), i was somewhat taken aback at the comments on the widespread availability of smartphones and such at bethel.

  of course, in the congregations, too.

  br.

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  days of future passed

  Thats like saying it is, in part, IBMs fault for the spread of child sex abuse because they made it easier for pedophiles to solicit children by inventing the personal computer and putting one in everyone’s home.

  The absurd and intellectually lazy depths some of you stoop to so to discredit jws is amazing. bobby2446
  

  How very interesting that you used such an extreme example. And it has to do with pedophiles too. This must be on your mind because no one else is talking about it here.

  The subject is just whether or not the GB assessed the danger of the internet in regards to spiritual health. As LisaRose said, they probably knew that they couldn't stem the tide so to speak and hoped that their website and their position would keep things under control.

  Really, you should have been more careful when you read the topic.