Thank you for sharing that. Is your pseudo-father a JW?
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About my fathers
by Funchback ini was born in 1970. .
growing up, i was raised by a man i proudly call father.
he showed me he loved me.
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Should I just tell my parents
by BlackWolf inlately i've been feeling just so fed up with this stupid religion i really can't take it anymore!
i'm starting to think that maybe i should just tell my parents how i really feel.
if they treat me too badly or kick me out i could probably stay with my non jw aunt.. ive just reached my breaking point, i don't really care what people think of me anymore.
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Stuckinarut and others, BlackWolf is homeschooled by her parents.
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Should I just tell my parents
by BlackWolf inlately i've been feeling just so fed up with this stupid religion i really can't take it anymore!
i'm starting to think that maybe i should just tell my parents how i really feel.
if they treat me too badly or kick me out i could probably stay with my non jw aunt.. ive just reached my breaking point, i don't really care what people think of me anymore.
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What Faye said about developing a relationship with your aunt. Maybe she can take you in after you turn 18. Just enough to get your bearings straight and not make any major mistakes.
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Why Are You Here?
by Believer ini'm wondering why believers remain members of this forum which is clearly hostile to believers.
as one member said, nonbelievers pounce on any semblance of belief like piranhas on prey.
as former jws we should have had our fill of judgmental know-it-alls, but here we are.
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Believer, I've been out of the Jws, physically and mentally, for 35 years but I still drop in for two reasons.
First, to keep up with what they're doing. I should not really care but I live in an apartment complex of over 100 units virtually all of them JWs (and many df'd and inactive ones).
Second, this is an excellent forum for discussion on non-JW social/political issues.
As an atheist I do see that there is no respect by some and threads started by believers get hijacked. I have seen threads posted with the title asking that only believers participate but that doesn't keep the critics away.
Maybe Simon can create a special sub forum for believers only or moderators can enforce certain rules. That might attract more members like you to this site.
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Did anyone see that JWR closed?
by supernerdboy inno early warnings or anything, just gone!
anyone else notice or are members there?
any info would be nice.
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People named after Jesus ? / people named after Jehovah /Yahweh ?
by smiddy inin catholic dominated countries many people are named after the messiah jesus , are their any that are named after his god jehovah / or yahweh ?
anywhere in the world ?.
i have only come across one , in america of all places.. his name was yahweh ben yahweh , and i don`t think he would be used as an example by the wt society.. google him.. has their been anybody else ?
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I've known two Hispanics named Santos which means saint in Spanish and no, they weren't saintly.
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Life of Brian
by berrygerry ini was a younger dub at the time of this release, and stopped watching this movie near its beginning, when john cleese was stoned with the huge rock for saying jehovah.. this was despite having been (and continuing to be) a major john cleese (and monty python) fan.. any fans of this film?.
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slimboyfat:
I never understood that joke.
The joke started with 'Pilate' mentioning that he had a friend name Biggus Dickus. The centurion had to control his laughter while Pilate was speaking. Realizing the discomfort of the centurion Pilate then mentioned his wife's name "Incontinentia Bottuck" to see if he would break down in laughter.
Biggus Dickus married to Incontinentia Bottuck = A big dick and a woman who cannot control her defecation presumably during anal sex..
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Do JWs still leave literature in the door?
by Wild_Thing ini came home to a watchtower in my door.
i thought i had heard a while back that they had stopped putting literature in doors except for tracts whenever they had one of their campaigns.
why am i so special?.
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I Didn't Belong
by Nihilistic Journey ini remember an art project when i was six years old.
the teacher handed out felt pine trees that we glued to burlap sheets.
everyone then attached little pieces of colorful material to the felt trees.
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I remember the same thing going out in service with a brother in the parking lot of a department store at night. We were scaring off women as we approached them by their cars. He didn't have a clue as to how inappropriate it was. An anxiety - more like a panic attack - gripped me and made me withdraw from the situation.
I told the brother I was with that there was something wrong about what we were doing. He said yes but he was thinking that I was the one who had something wrong with him. I think that was the last time I went out in service.
I didn't belong either.
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How long can this cult remain with only kids becoming members?
by Crazyguy init's become clear that very few from outside the religion are joining anymore.
if only the kids of the people that are already in are the one replacing the members as they die off and 50% let's say of the kids leave then how long can they realistically last before the downturn becomes obvious?.
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How long did the religion remain after the Rutherfordian purges of a hundred years ago? Estimates are that they lost 75% of their membership in a couple of decades. They can survive anything except, perhaps, a leadership that runs off with the money to the Cayman islands.