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  A question for all women that were raised in the "truth"

  by codeblue in

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  do you feel like you have low self esteem because of being raised as a jw?.

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  What Regrets Did You Have Because You Were A Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one of the biggest regrets a person might have is that they let their children become involved in the whole jw "thing".

  you know---everything from the elders always cornering them to "investigate" something or even having the parents "turn in" their own kids......is there anything that you especially regret?

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  Was Paul really a woman hater?

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for the discussin i will set aside questions about whether paul was was infact a literary creation of the gnostic xtians.

  "paul's" famous words at !

  tim 2:12-15 and i cor 14:34,35 that insist women be silent in the congretgations have spawned hundreds of years of female repression.

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  JW's and Pubs/Bars

  by Heatmiser in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have noticed on past threads from posters from other countries than the usa that they would be hanging out in pubs and such while still jw's.

  in the us i believe that going to bars would pretty much be a df/da offense.

  in other countries is the policy different?

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  What do you disagree with the Disfellowshipping policy?

  by ClassAvenger in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what do you disagree with the disfellowshipping policy?

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  heard from the platform: "not all rap music is bad"

  by Lonestar13 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just last night i was thinking about the numerous talks, assembly parts and wt articles that repeatedly denounced such "debasing music" such as "rap" and "heavy metal".

  remember those?

  seems like every week during the 80's that phrase made its way into a public talk or wt study.

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  The "deeper things"...

  by Lonestar13 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as much emphasis is placed on study and research has anyone noticed that you if you engage a dub in a conversation about the deeper things of the bible (not the wt), that you will end up doing most of the talking?

  i made a personal decision to read more books, magazines etc, (of a secular, historical nature) becuase i do not wish to be that way.

  unfortunately i found that within the dubs i had no one to talk to.

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  The apostasy of 1980...want to know more!

  by Lonestar13 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  can someone fill me in as to what happened in 1980?

  i was only 3 at the time, and that is right around the time my family got into the org.

  also anything about the homosexuality at bethel too?

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  agape? I think not!

  by Lonestar13 in

  1. social
  2. family

  i am new...will try to keep this short and to the point.

  up until then, there was a bookstudy held in my home.

  i live with my jw aunt and cousin (more like "orthodox" jw if there was an official distinction) as well as my non-jw mother and brother with whom i am very close.

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  My trip to the Bethel library....

  by logansrun in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  towards the middle of my eighteen-month critical investigation of the jws and the bible i decided to pay a visit to my sister and brother-in-law at the patterson bethel complex in new york.

  perhaps it was a last-ditch effort to salvage whatever faith i had in the organization, or maybe it was the realization that i would not be able to see my sister under semi-normal conditions again if i left; i don't know.

  of course, the trip did not save my crumbling faith.

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