Tameria2001

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  Any teens that are still “in” that live in Oklahoma?

  by huniepie in

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  was wondering if there were any kids my age (17) in my area that are still in the organization because of their parents but want to get out.

  would be nice to know somebody in the same boat as me

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  I was going to say the same thing as smiddy3, there have been predators who will say they are a teen just to trick a young person.
  
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  Do Any Of You Dream About JW Friends You had ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  what prompted this topic was a dream i had last night where i was engaged in a conversation i had with an old friend where i was trying to prove where the jw`s were wrong from their own bible.. and this is not the first time i have had such dreams.. often times i have had dreams about people i have known in the religion .. remember i have been away from the religion for more than 26 years now and in a totally different part of the country .. i now wonder if any of them ever dream about my wife and i ?

  but that`s something i`ll never know.. do any of you have any such experiences ?.

  maybe i`m spending too much time on this site lol.

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  I don't dream about JWs that I use to know, but I do think about them from time to time and wonder if they eventually left as well. There was one sister (also a regular pioneer) that I use to know, and she raised her son alone. He did have a father, but he was not living with them. I had learned that her son eventually came out of the closet so to speak, she decided to disassociate herself instead of turning her back on her son. She was not the only one from that family who also left either.
  
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  Teenager Advice

  by Wagurl in

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  what advice do you have for a teenager that is being raised as a witness but not baptized?

  everyone is pressuring her to get baptized how to avoid that till they are 18 and they are 16?

  how to stay sane in a household of religion you don´t believe in.

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  Totally agree with Onager on this. It depends on the family members and friends of this young person. Take for example my husband's cousins, they were all raised as JWs. Two got baptized, while the other three did not (all siblings). One is still going strong as a JW and has a very typical JW mental attitude about the rules do and don'ts. The eldest never got baptized, she would have been disfellowshipped for fornication if she was. She had a good relationship with all her JW family until her death due to cancer. The second did get baptized, but she did a successful fade, she too has a good relationship with all her family, including the JWs. The third girl also was baptized, and she is the die-hard JW, who doesn't have an issue shunning those who leave or are kicked out. The last two never got baptized, and don't even attend meetings, both of them lived with their partners for many years not married, and one even served in the military in Desert Storm. The active JW still has a very good relationship with all her siblings because they either never got baptized or managed to find a successful way in fading. Yet on the other hand, if my husband, who did make the mistake of getting baptized, even though he did not want to, but because of peer pressure, later dissociated himself. This same JW I am talking about grew up with him and spent quite a bit of time with each other as kids, does the typical JW shunning with him. He never did anything that would cause him to be disfellowshipped, he just disagreed with their teachings, and always has. The biggest mistake he has ever done was getting baptized, he said.

  Me on the other hand - My mother told me that she would still shun me even if I never did get baptized. The witch would love to stone me to death if the law of the land would allow of it, and yes she told me that a few times and that was even before I left that cult.
  
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  Teenager Advice

  by Wagurl in

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  what advice do you have for a teenager that is being raised as a witness but not baptized?

  everyone is pressuring her to get baptized how to avoid that till they are 18 and they are 16?

  how to stay sane in a household of religion you don´t believe in.

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  As others above mentioned, if certain individuals in the congregation are really pushing the matter of baptism, just have her tell them that getting baptized is a serious and life long decision and that they are not ready to make that decision just yet, and leave it at that.
  
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  Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

  you can't write this stuff.

  right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

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  For those who don't see a problem with TM purchasing that quantity of alcohol, or alcohol in general. One must remember that those who are leaders of a group are held to a much higher standard than those they lead, especially when they preach against the dangers of what they caught at doing. TM claims to be of the anointed, and he will come back as a spirit being to kill off people at Armageddon, yet, on the other hand, is preaching about things people do what will cause them to miss out during the big A, and alcoholism being part of it. How many people have gotten disfellowshipped, and their lives ruined for this very offense? I can actually see lawsuits started because of this unless the Watchtower decides to throw TM under the proverbial bus.
  
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  Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

  you can't write this stuff.

  right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

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  I wonder if he is going to be removed as a GB now? The Watchtower will have to try to save face.
  
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  If you were a fly on the wall at HQ right now...

  by burnedout in

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  what would you be hearing about topshelf tony's liquor run?.

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  To be a fly on the wall with a recording device and the ability to hack through their video feed, for all at their meetings to see.
  
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  is it possible to merge old account?

  by orange poppy in

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  i posted here years ago under another account, but am unable to log in anymore under the old name.

  is it possible to merge accounts?

  or is it best to just start fresh?.

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  Tameria2001

  I found it easier to just start fresh. I too had originally posted here under a different name, but because of other things (life has a way of taking over) and moving, I forgot my log in information. One thing I did though was in one of my earlier post under my current username, I let others know who I was previously.
  
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  Greetings to all

  by Dmitry in

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  my name is dmitry!

  (i apologize for my english.

  i am from ukraine and wanted to expand communication with exjw.. well, what about yourself?

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  Tameria2001

  Dmitry, welcome to the group, and nice to meet you. Your written English is very good. I live in the southern middle part of the United States. Was baptized in 1987 and officially made my exit from the Watchtower back in 2001, just one month before everything went a little crazy that year. I remember how the local JWs in my area all thought that it was Armageddon happening because of 9-11, but what I was thinking why because horrible things happened all over the world but they never gave it a single thought until it hit close to home.

  I never got a chance to read the book by R. Frantz. I want to, just haven't had the opportunity to. What actually woke me up to it all, I had some personal things going on in my life, that forced me to really take a hard look at this religion that I was raised up in, and realized that they were nothing but a bunch of liars. It all started for me when they told my mother that if she became a baptized witness back in the early 1970s, she would be reunited with her baby girl (who had died) when this old system of things would pass away in the fall of 1975.
  
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  Idiotic Comment

  by FedUpJW in

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  i was just enjoying a you tube video clip of george carlin explaining euphemisms.

  one of the ones he commented about is how people try to soften the fact someone is dead by saying, "they passed away.

  " noo...they died!.

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  One of the terms I was raised up with was when an animal's life ended (usually by my dad's 22) he would use the term "put down" meaning for their death. There for a while, I also used that term, but not anymore, and for this reason.

  I have two sons, and when they were younger this was a term they also associated with the death of an animal. Then one day one of the cats jumped up on the table, and I told my youngest to put the cat down. He looked at me with the most horrified expression. No mom, I don't want the cat killed. It took me a moment to get what he was thinking, and I had to clarify, "Not put the cat down but put the cat down on the floor." lol