Crazyguy, I'm not, but I did dissociate from the organization. In case you are wondering, I did nothing wrong, just came to a disagreement with their teachings, and felt I could no longer belong to something I disagreed with.
Tameria2001
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It feels really odd
by Tameria2001 ini was searching through the net and i came across something i was not expecting to see.
i just found out that my cousin passed away at the age of 34, in 2014, and no one even bothered to tell me this news.
https://www.ashevillemortuaryservices.com/notices/raymond-pringle.
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It feels really odd
by Tameria2001 ini was searching through the net and i came across something i was not expecting to see.
i just found out that my cousin passed away at the age of 34, in 2014, and no one even bothered to tell me this news.
https://www.ashevillemortuaryservices.com/notices/raymond-pringle.
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Tameria2001
I was searching through the net and I came across something I was not expecting to see. I just found out that my cousin passed away at the age of 34, in 2014, and no one even bothered to tell me this news.
https://www.ashevillemortuaryservices.com/notices/Raymond-Pringle
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Door-to-door preaching as surveillance
by john.prestor ini wanted to share some thoughts about jehovah's witnesses and their door-to-door preaching.
door-to-door preaching is supposedly about gathering converts, but in fact, as we frequently discuss, doesn't actually bring that many "sheep-like ones" in.
i want to suggest that a second meaning (what we call the latent meaning in academia) is facilitating surveillance of the congregants who attend some congregation.
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Tameria2001
They are a nosey bunch, aren't they? I remembered something that happened to when I was engaged to my husband. Before we were married, I made a few trips to his home, we lived 2 hours from each other. Each of these trips resulted in me bringing down a carload of my stuff (mostly books) to his place. At the time he didn't live to close to any of the other JWs, but this one day they came knocking at his door. I was putting up a bookshelf and putting away a whole bunch of books. I had books dating from the early 1950's all the way through to 1993 (that's when we were married). Years earlier an older sister had given me most of those earlier books. I'm so glad I don't have them anymore, it's a real pain lugging those things around.
Back to what happened, I was putting the books away, and my future husband was in the bathroom taking a shower. At the time he worked at a poultry processing plant, and let's just say he did not smell very nice after his shift. I heard a knock at the door, so I quickly knocked on the bathroom door, and told him he had a visitor. I hid in the bathroom, while he went to see who it was. All he had on was a bath towel wrapped around lower part of his body, It was a JW, and a ministerial servant, who came and stopped by when he saw my car in the driveway. He asked where I was at, and my future hubby told him that I had gone for a walk, while he was in the shower. I can't even believe the number of hoops that we had to jump through.
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Role Call!
by new boy inhow many here have been active here on this site in the the last seven days?.
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Movies that make you cry?
by new boy inthere have been many but i had a total melt down at the end of sophie's choice.
i hadn't cried in years before i saw that movie in in 1982. i was still very much a jw at the time.
i have no idea where the pain and sorrow came from, maybe it was the fact there are things people have gone through that we have defied all reason logic.
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Tameria2001
Movies that made me cry were:
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (2008)
- Into the Forest of Fireflies
- Wolf Children
- The Wind Rises (2013)
- Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
- My Girl
- Steel Magnolias
- My Dog Skip
- Million Dollar Baby
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Dreading the new system of things
by Addison0998 inwas i the only one who secretly dreaded the new system of things a little bit when i was a believing witness?
of course i felt very guilty, because of all the sick and heartbroken people who needed a perfect world to live in.
but there are a lot of nice parts of life i was going to secretly miss.
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Tameria2001
To tell you the truth, I was not looking forward to it one bit. The thought that was going through my head was all the cleanup, and not the clean up of the dead, but other stuff. All those government labs where they work on all those nasty viruses, nuclear waste, nuclear and chemical plants, junkyards, and all those huge @$$ buildings. Even if they did collapse, there would still be that huge mess that needed to be cleaned up.
I asked my mom about that stuff once, and her answer was, "Oh Jehovah will deal with all that stuff." I'm thinking where in the bible did it ever say he was going to do it?
Then to top it all off they kept talking about the slave class at the meetings, it made me feel like "paradise" would be not a pleasant place for those of the slave class.
Even with all that, I didn't like the idea of thinking that God would kill off everyone who was not a JW because I knew some JWs who were not on the up and up, and looking for ways to cheat their fellow man, and fellow brother (I personally knew of a couple of crooks). While there were those who were not JWs and they were good people, doing their best in caring for their families and fellow man.
When I was a JW, I also never felt like I was good enough to survive Armageddon, even though I was doing a lot of stuff for the organization. Pioneering at 90 hours a month, working on the kingdom hall projects as part of the electrical crew, doing those 5-minute parts at the meetings that they gave the sisters, going where the need was greater; those where you go for two weeks at a time, and a whole lot of other things.
Eventually, I got to where I didn't even want to be in the new system, because of all the crap that goes on inside those congregations.
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When you were still a JW, or if you still are what was one of those wild or crazy thoughts that went though your mind
by Tameria2001 inbefore i left the organization, i remember having this thought go through my mind, it was not something that i dwelled on too much.
i was thinking of an interesting way i could get away with something, especially with my anal jw relatives, my brother-in-law was the worst.
i didn't have this idea pop in my head until after i had moved into a duplex, and then it went off like a light bulb.
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Tameria2001
Before I left the organization, I remember having this thought go through my mind, it was not something that I dwelled on too much. I was thinking of an interesting way I could get away with something, especially with my anal JW relatives, my brother-in-law was the worst. I didn't have this idea pop in my head until after I had moved into a duplex, and then it went off like a light bulb. It was this, I had this thought of living in a duplex, but both sides of the home. One side would be for when the JWs came over, and have the appearance of what you would see in any typical JW's home. While on the other side, with a door that would connect the two sides, but a hidden doorway. The other side would be for all the "worldly" desires, you know things like Halloween, Christmas, video games, questionable movies, research on the Watchtower, and so on.
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Dating another Woke exJW or no?
by caves ini find that the people here speak in a way i can understand because we have one thing in common if nothing else.
so my question is , would it be easier to date someone that has been a jw and woke up or not?.
i would love for someone to 'get it' without having to explain much.
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Tameria2001
caves- I totally understand how you feel super guarded, I am the same way. If it were not for my husband leaving when I did, say I did it on my own, I would be a total recluse, I'm not far from being that as it is now. It's something I've been working on, but after what I've been through, and I'm pretty sure that most who been in our shoes can and fully understand. My husband, on the other hand, he is a total social butterfly and makes friends easily.
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The Biggest Issue Is Not Guns—It Is Mental Health!
by minimus incrazy people shoot up places and kill people.
take away guns and they will find knives, poison, bombs , etc.. seriously, there are a lot of mentally unhealthy people!
they need professional long term help..
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Tameria2001
On a serious note, the former marine guy who killed those 11 people in California lived with his mother. I bet his morale was in the dumps because he had to go live with his parents again. I wonder if his so-called friends made fun of him because he was still living at home. It's hard to pick up chicks at the local country western bar when they find out you live with your mom still.
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I was briefly watching the news and they were talking about this man. One thing they said that he was assaulted by some men at that bar earlier. It sounds like he decided to give out some retribution.
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Dating another Woke exJW or no?
by caves ini find that the people here speak in a way i can understand because we have one thing in common if nothing else.
so my question is , would it be easier to date someone that has been a jw and woke up or not?.
i would love for someone to 'get it' without having to explain much.
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Tameria2001
It depends on the person's view of the JWs. Have they completely moved on, or do they think it is the "truth"? A few years back my sister (she left the JWs as well), started to get interested in a guy. There was something about him that caused them to click. Then one day I got to meet him, and instantly I picked up from the way he was talking that he too was a former JW. I even asked him, and he said he was. So I asked him about his views on the JWs and the Watchtower. His response was that he still felt like the JWs were the truth, and eventually he was planning on going back. When my sister learned this (she was there for the conversation), she decided to break it off. She had no plans on ever going back, and she didn't want to be tied down to someone who was planning on going back.
Now on the other hand, if the other person feels the same as you, it can be a good thing. My husband and I both were raised in it since we were both 4 years old, both our parents became JWs for the same reason, that was to survive the end of this system of things back in 1975. In his heart, he never believed them, but got baptized because of peer pressure from everyone in his congregation, including his parents. We both officially left the organization at the same time, and I will say it was very nice to have someone close to me that I could talk to about my feelings, and he could do the same with me.