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Warm and fuzzy
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. friends
today i was blessed with the joy of having a person ring me to see how i was doing....purely because i hadn't been posting and they were worried about me.

kelpie, that was just the nicest thing and i spent the rest of the day feeling fantastic.

yep our very own kelps took the time to look up my listed number and give me a call :) it was great to talk to a net buddy and hear her voice (and it is a very sweet voice indeed) and i just wish i'd had more time to chat.
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Trying to look up ex elder Jack London
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. experiences
after a catch up phone call with a friend who left the wt around the same time as me, i learned that an elder from my old cong has since left as well and considered apostate.

i would like to catch up with jack london and his wife nacy, so if any of you aussies know him or his whereabouts please email me at [email protected] it would be greatly appreciated.
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Life, death and other musings
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. friends
i have been absent from here for afew days.

on thursday my hubby got a phonecall from his dearest and best friend's partner that the tumour in his brain had agressively spread and it was looking like time is just about up.

we have known that this was coming for about 2 years since he was diagnosed with the cancer but even now it is a shock and very numbing to know you will lose a dear friend soon.
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I "won" COC in ebay auction
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. friends
i am pretty darn happy, i got the book for $13aud which is about $6.50 in usd, so i am looking forward to getting it and having a read.

i talked to my mum about it today and she is interested in having a look too.

(she is still in, but largely inactive) i know many here have read it, is it worth the look?
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A year in the life of a JW - Getting personal
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. experiences
well march and april passed, more witnessing, placing mags and going on calls.

the odd whinge about being a teenager lol i still had the major crush for stuart.

i was really starting to "bloom" and those hormones were rampant.
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A year in the life of a JW - February highlights
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. experiences
witnessing for 6 hours, worked with aafke in morning then calls.

then nh in davistown with stuart and dannie.

stuart made me sit in the front so e didn't have to sit next to me.
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What was the worst outfit you wore?
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. friends
remember going to conventions during the mid 80's?

sisters all dolled up in lolly-wrapper dresses of sparly taffeta with balloon sleeves and brothers strutting about with shiny grey siuts with narrow lapels and black leather ties?

ooooh what a look that was!
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A year in the life of a JW
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. experiences
having posted my account of growing up as a jw and subsequent departure, i decided to go back and read my diary from 1988...my pioneer year, i turned 16 lol .

it has been quite a laugh and i thought it may amuse some here, or at the very least provide some light relief from the mundane realities of life for a time :) so here are the best bits of january 1988 for your reading pleasure.

(for the sake of privacy i will only use first names) .
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Some blurry recollections
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. experiences
having 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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Newbie with question
by outbackaussie in
1. jw
2. friends
been 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.