Topics Started by ConcernedMom

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So you think you know everything? (random facts)
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
a dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

a cat has 32 muscles in each ear.. .

a crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.. .
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DOCTOR CLEARED IN DEATH OF JW -SUPREME COURT-
by orbison11 in
1. jw
2. friends
i just got the local paper for chilliwack, there was a supreme court case here regarding a jw, i will do a bit of the first few paragraphs, for more go to www.chilliwacktimes.com and you should be able to find the whole article.

doctor cleared in death.

supreme court judge has determined a release form signed by a local jehovah's witnes woman who died following a hysterectomy is enough to clear the doctor in the case from paying damages............ btw.
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financial distress caused by Jehovahs Witnesses
by Gaynor in
1. jw
2. friends
i dont know where to post this but i just want to blow off some steam, i was baptised as a jw in february 1994, in september of last year i was disfellowshipped, this was for allowing my partner from america to come to live in my house, they said we were committing fornication, we werent.

my disfellowshipping occured just 1 week prior to my marriage, and despite breaking my heart and sobbing to the elders they remained convinced of our fornication and disfellowshipped me.

i appealled and had to endure 2 hours of interrogation by 6 elders, again my heart was breaking, again they disfellowshipped.
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wierd JW sister experience
by AuSet in
1. jw
2. friends
i was walking in uptown mpls on hennipen ave....last weekend, with my jw sister, her jw boyfriend, and my fiance..... there was this lady sitting on a park bench reading what looked like a new awake rather conspicuously , i was about to yell out to her "are you counting your time or what?

" when i noticed a small table she had set up on the sidewalk with some very old jw wts on it, and some other old literature..... my sister sees it and quickly sidesteps it as though she had been shocked...and she said to her jw bf while sucking in her breath loudly "ooooo....that's apostate literature.

wait a second...i said loudly....am i to understand that you just called the jws own literature apostate?
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES & Book BURNING (CDs TOO!)
by Smoldering Wick in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, i admit it...as a jehovah's witness, i burned a book.

when i was about 10 years old, a sister gave my mother a box of books.

i had been baptized for over a year and was quite the "little witness.
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Another question from the new guy...
by SwampThing in
1. jw
2. friends
i have another question if you all would be so kind as to enlighten me.

after reading hundreds of posts here, i understand now why some people stay in the wts even though they would like to leave.

the loss of friends, family members and such from this bizarre practice of "shunning" could be devastating in the lives of some people.
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I'm waiting to have this experience.....
by Frannie Banannie in
1. jw
2. experiences
a jdub (or pair of 'em) comes to my door with the mags......i ask them..."are you from earth?".

they look bewildered, saying, "yes...".

i say, "sorry, i don't trust earthling men/women.
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Baptism
by ConcernedMom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what is the usual age for someone raised as a jw to be baptised?

is the belief that you must be a baptised jw to survive armageddon?
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Another request for help in understanding...
by SwampThing in
1. watchtower
2. bible
good day all,.

i have another request:.

please help me understand how to decipher the code where references are given, such as:.
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A Million Questions
by ConcernedMom in
1. social
2. family
hi, i have been lurking at this site and a few other jw or xjw sites in search of some clarity but i am just getting more confused...

my 15 year old daughter has been dating a 17 year old jw for about 2 1/2 months.

he seems like a very nice kid--very shy (he is just starting to talk around me now...still not too much to my husband).