outbackaussie
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Told my JW Story at AA Meeting
by COMF ini was invited to be a guest speaker at the saturday night aa speaker's meeting.
this meeting usually has a large crowd and they get somebody with longtime sobriety to come up and tell his story of "what i used to be like, what happened, and what i'm like now" as an example for others.
i'll have eight years in january, so i guess that makes me fairly longtime.. i told them:.
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Some blurry recollections
by outbackaussie inhaving now read some other people's accounts of their life with jw, i thought i would be able to share my recollections, albeit blurred with the passage of time.. i wasn't always a jw, i celebrated xmas at the age of 4 in 1975. in 1976 my mum had joined the truth so we didn't have xmas that year.
mind you it didn't really seem that big a deal, my parents had divorced when i was 3 and mum didn't have wads of cash to buy presents with anyway.
we (mum, my brother and i) found shelter and comfort in a new "extended" family of brothers and sisters and life was good.. until my mother remarried when i was 10. a series of life-changing events rocked our world, but through those events the jw were still our "rock".
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A joke with an Australian flavour
by why144000 inthe ceo of ingham's chickens manages to arrange a meeting with the pope at the vatican.
after receiving the papal blessing, he whispers, "your eminence, we have an offer for you.
ingham's is prepared to donate $100 million to the church if you change the lord's prayer from "give us our daily bread" to "give us our daily chicken.
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My new toy
by Princess ini see lots of people posting threads about their new toys.
mostly male, trucks, motorcycles stuff like that.
this afternoon while making lattes for mulan and big red, my espresso machine became quite rude with me.
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Huh? Watchtower necklace charms?!!
by DanTheMan in.
on page 105 of her book awakening of a jehovah's witness, diane wilson writes that she knew many witness women "who wore a charm of a watchtower on a necklace as an outward symbol of the organization, the source of their salvation".. i have never heard of this practice, and i find it difficult to believe.
can anyone verify that this indeed is true, that at one time it was common for jw women to wear watchtower charms?
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My JW story
by Aztec ini don't think any of this is really all that unusual so i'm sorry if you find it dull.
i was raised in the jw cult from birth, a third generation member to boot.
my family was full of elders, ministerial servants and overseers of all sorts.
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Newbie with question
by outbackaussie inbeen browsing around...and i have to say it is alittle difficult to tell if this is a pro or anti jw site.
any takers on filling me in on what the attitudes are around here?
it seems there are quite afew inactive and df or da people but then there seems to be alot of chat about meetings etc.. for the record, i was raised jw from age 5, baptised at 15 and df at 17 and reinstated at 18. i would call myself inactive...most of my family are still active but talk and associate with me.
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England on the ropes
by refiner in200 behind the ozzies first innings leads, england stand at 2 for 20. .
trescothic went for a duck.
butcher lasted about three balls i think.
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What do you fear the most about the WT cult?
by Claudia Kittel inwhen i was a jw, i think what i was most afraid of was being hurt.
i did everything to keep myself from getting hurt.
i banged on doors with the best of the pioneers.
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Monty Python and the British
by thewiz inwhat do you brits have to say about monty python's flying circus and the inidivdual actors?.
do you take offense?
are you proud?