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  Have you a POSITIVE JW experience??

  by ScoobySnax in

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  ok sometimes i feel it's good to maybe not redress the balance, but at least can you say something positive that you gained from your jw experience.

  so thats what i want you to do, if you so feel inclined.

  can you say or mention something that had a positive effect on you when you were a witness?

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  scotsman

  Ozzie

  The point is though, is it what it claims to be, you know "the Troof". It wouldn't matter what jolly times we had, if it was a lie, then it'd be a sheer waste of time.

  Is that the point? Some believe that most religions are a lie, and that they are all a sheer waste of time. (I'm not trying to debate with you!) I basically don't care what JWs believe, but I do care that they shun former members. People are entitled to all sorts of cookie beliefs but the JW policies on how they treat former members is, in my opinion, their most harmful.

  Congratulations on your 10000th post!
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  Have you a POSITIVE JW experience??

  by ScoobySnax in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok sometimes i feel it's good to maybe not redress the balance, but at least can you say something positive that you gained from your jw experience.

  so thats what i want you to do, if you so feel inclined.

  can you say or mention something that had a positive effect on you when you were a witness?

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  scotsman

  Made friends with some utterly wonderful people that i wouldn't have met had we not been Witnesses. Sadly, them remaining Witnesses has made them unable to be friends with me. I'm still glad to have had them in my life, albeit temporarily. I've also got some fantastic exWitness friends and we wouldn't have met had it not for being Witnesses.
  

  I'd also say that being forced to be "friends" with people that I shared nothing in common with apart from the JW tag has possibly made me more tolerant.

  Scoob, you always start these type of threads in the wee, small hours - is it to sh*t stir or out of a sense of loss/loneliness?
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  What does your Avatar say about you?

  by jt stumbler in

  1. jw
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  this question has most likely been asked before but i must've missed it.

  any hoo, just wondering.

  as for mine, it shows that i am a good for nothing smurf who loves boobies i guess...

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  scotsman

  LoL Killing Kittens aren't for eating, it's what the WT likes to call self abuse. But then again, maybe you do eat...
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  What does your Avatar say about you?

  by jt stumbler in

  1. jw
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  this question has most likely been asked before but i must've missed it.

  any hoo, just wondering.

  as for mine, it shows that i am a good for nothing smurf who loves boobies i guess...

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  scotsman

  That I like Matthew Barney's work.

  EF, bring back the hat (when you're not killing kittens while killing the planet !)
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  misc goofy witness stuff

  by joelbear in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  we had a house near the kingdom hall where we always started out time when i was a pioneer.

  there was never anyone home.

  we always left a back copy.

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  scotsman

  one of the sisters in our congregation tried to make the news reports from around the world usually given at the first of the service meeting more interesting by going in the annex and reading them in fake foreign accents.

  This one really made me laugh. Before things got so slick there was a certain charm about things like that. I remember the magazine counter was actually a drinks cabinet donated by one sister. WT&A cocktail anyone?
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  Know any Victims of MORE than One Cult?

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  ever heard of anyone leaving the jw's and becoming, say, a scientologist?

  or a morman?

  or a member of any other crazy cultish org?

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  scotsman

  Yes, I know of two Witnesses who left to join the LDS and have subsequently moved on from that too. They weren't complete mugs...
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  Smoking

  by Es in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why do we continue to do it even tho we know its bad for us?????

  i gave up bout a year ago but still have one occasionally i dont even know if i enjoy it all that much but i still do it.

  ive seen three of my family members die as a result of smoking and yet i light another one up!

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  scotsman

  Abaddon said

  I don't like getting utterly monged-out.

  Do we believe him?
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  Not an elder anymore?

  by ivy in

  1. social
  2. family

  i just found out from my son that my father is not an elder anymore.

  he has no idea why.

  of course i called home, but no one is there, probably at a meeting.

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  scotsman

  I quit too despite them trying to persuade me to take a break. They did ask for it in writing but I said I felt the words were enough.
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  Greeks win Eurovison Song Contest

  by ozziepost in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  there's one consloation about being an invalid - i get to (have to) watch television.

  isn't it awful?.

  anyway, mrs ozzie and i settled back to watching the euro song contest which is in its 50th year.

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  Ozzie

  Assuming you were watching BBC, the Irish voice over is none other than Terry Wogan, a national institution.

  Quite a year for Greece, the World Cup, the Olympics and now this. We thought Switzerland's rock chicks should have won, although Israel's entry was the best looking and, surprisingly, a real woman.
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  When do you tell them------------

  by vitty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ive been fading for a year, we moved, so i am starting to make new friends (still feels a bit strange) anyway, when or if do you tell them you belonged to a religious cult, in my case over 20 years.

  should i bother, is it more important to me than them.

  will they think im wierd if i do tell them, or if ive been friends for a long time, will they think it strange i never mentioned it.

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  Vitty

  You tell them whenever you want. It's really not a big deal. Everyone has some sh*t in their lives.