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  Missed oppourtunities as a JW kid?

  by kwintestal in

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  jw kids are repressed in every aspect of their lives, creatively, intellectually, atheletically...the list goes on.. what did you love to do as a kid, yet weren't permitted to do?.

  i personally loved football as a kid.

  other jw kids and i would play every weekend until the subject was brought up at an assembly as being competitive.

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  Yeah i take my final final later on today and then a short well deserved break until January.
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  Say Something Jehovah's Witnessy........

  by minimus in

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  i know there's no such word as "witnessy" but this can be a fun thread.

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  There are two roads...the wide road leading to destruction and the narrow road leading to eternal life......
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  What Are Some of Your Favorite Urban Legends About JWs???

  by minimus in

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  periodically, we post about what we realize were good fables that were spoken as "gospel".

  smurfs running up and down the aisles of the hall is a well known one......any you remember???

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  Heard one told about a elder/brother that was doing some unJehovah-like things but keeping it in the closet. Well brother so-so was giving a talk and Jehovah felt the need to let other elders know that brother so-so was doing some shady sh*t on the DL. So while brother so-so was giving his talk he started speaking in tongues but didnt know he was speaking in tongues because Jehovah was letting everyone else know that he wasn't right. I guess he was disfellowshipped or something. Never heard anything else about it other than the warning that Jehovah will bring to light anything that you are sneaking and doing.......This did kinda freak me out and I always wondered if Jehovah would secretly put a tattoo on my forehead that I couldn't see telling everyone I was having premarital sex....
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  Missed oppourtunities as a JW kid?

  by kwintestal in

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  jw kids are repressed in every aspect of their lives, creatively, intellectually, atheletically...the list goes on.. what did you love to do as a kid, yet weren't permitted to do?.

  i personally loved football as a kid.

  other jw kids and i would play every weekend until the subject was brought up at an assembly as being competitive.

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  Karategirl, your post sounds very similiar to the same situation I went through.

  I graduated #7 out of my class and was sent letters from colleges all over asking me to come there. But nooooooooo I was needed out in the pioneer ranks (and needed to clean stinky funky ass houses with my stepmom and her ideal JW job....HOUSECLEANING)....and my goody goody two shoe ass did just that....Now I'm trying to go to school and earn a degree and its difficult but not too difficult as to where I can't do it...But I constantly sit back and think about where I could be and what I could have avoided in life if I wouldn't have been under the JW brainwashing treatment.
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  Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries

  by steve2 in

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  does anyone know the history of celebrating wedding anniversaries within

  the watchtower society (i.e.

  in celebration of wedding anniversaries.

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  I also find it hysterical about the Christmas dinner at the Brooklyn Headquarters. Can you imagine being there to see that!!!

  Actually, I do believe there are photos of this. I've seen it in one of the publications, not sure if official or "postate

  Leoleia this can be found in the Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Proclaimers book(large green book)...I don't remember exact page or anything.....They put this along with one of the things they used to celebrate but they received the "New Light".......
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  JWs and voting. Is it okay now?

  by NikL in

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  i know there has been lots of discussion on this issue in the past year but i have been unable to find it.

  i need to know where to find the questions from readers that talked about it being okay for people to vote if their concience allows.

  i brought this issue up with a couple of people, one a rank and file dub and the other an elder.

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  I voted today for the first time....whoohoooo!

  I actually felt more liberated by doing so...Going into the booth (for only a second) I thought about Jehovah sitting up on his throne looking down on me saying,"Bad, Bad girl." But I felt much better after casting my very first official vote at the age of 27...I was actually thinking about not going...But what the heck..My single vote counts...And if complaints come about after the election is over..I can voice my opinion because I voted..Unlike the dubs that bad mouth all whats going on, but do nothing about it to change it.

  Jesus said Ceaser's things to Ceaser and God's things to God...IMO voting is just paying doing your duty to Ceaser...Just like you pay your taxes which NY doesn't because of the "big tax evasion" but it's all a part of living under the authority of the ones that Jehovah has given the authority to....

  Thats just my 2 pennies
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  But Jesus Would Approve of Disfellowshipping as being a part of LOVE!!!

  by Sweetp0985 in

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  how we learn to love

  love .

  is indispensable

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  The only thing I'm sorry about is that I ever got baptized as I mentioned before.....I'm not sorry I ever got df'd because that was the only way I found freedom...but just "certain" family makes me upset....It just makes me sick that all the ones that have been "around" the truth most of their lives but never get baptized and do whatever the hell they want to are still welcomed with open arms...Not saying that I'm an angel...but I don't do half the things that my dub family probably thinks I do...Just because I choose to live indepently and not show deep repentance (like they want me to) I'm labeled as rebellious and unloving because I won't tuck my tail and cater to the JW's rules...Even my half-way out the door himself dub dad wants me to come back...for what??? I've just been really frustrated with the whole situation lately and I chose to vent here...sorry
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  Dead Joke

  by Annanias in

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  this very wealthy lady has just lost her husband and is at the funeral home making arrangements to bury her husband.. "oh, and i don't want my husband buried in that blue suit he's wearing.

  " she tells the funeral director, "he always looked so much better.

  please make sure he's wearing a black suit.".

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  But Jesus Would Approve of Disfellowshipping as being a part of LOVE!!!

  by Sweetp0985 in

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  how we learn to love

  love .

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  I understand what you're saying..but they are again using certain scriptures to fit their judging people which IMO is wrong.

  Jesus said,"He said: "You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind. . . . You must love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 22:37-39)

  Jesus said these were the greatest of all the commandments. Why do they go and add all these other rules and regulations to fit their controlling purposes. I still love Jehovah and I try my best to love my neighbors as myself...but I'm still the evil one...I just wish I could go back in time and would have never gotten baptized...I think that would cure me....but that is also impossible....

  I just think they take what they want from the bible and use it just to control people and destroy families, but all this is still part of their christian obediance to Jehovah...All the love just kills me...If Jesus had shown this kind of love..Mary Magdelene would have surely been stoned for all the sins she committed...Even Judas ..Jesus knew he was the betrayer but he still broke bread with him....He was eating in the company of sinner...but I guess Paul's words later didn't include Jesus as an example.."Quit mixing with them..not even eating with such a one" ...Paul just had the new light I guess and Jesus was wrong....
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  But Jesus Would Approve of Disfellowshipping as being a part of LOVE!!!

  by Sweetp0985 in

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  how we learn to love

  love .

  is indispensable

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  I couldn't add this to the above post for some reason...How can they so strongly believe in love this way but if you do something that the elders say is wrong and disfellowship you...they show this love by not talking to you...and then not only that but your family can no longer give you this "love" either.....

  I'm confused....

  What is your opinion?