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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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  Encouraged NOT to have kids

  by JustTickledPink in

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  i was just thinking about the publisher stats and the birth rate, that was mentioned.. do you all remember in the 80's at the assemblies everyone was encouraged not to have children, to spend their time pioneering, because at armeggedon and in the time of the "tribulation" that it would be difficult with small kids.... to wait until the new system.. i remember a couple that pioneered and she really wanted kids, so her husband made her a deal that they had to pioneer for 5 more years and if the "end" hadn't come yet, they could have kids.

  i think they were reaching 30. i do remember 5 years went by and they had a son, that was probably 15 years ago.

  can you imagine the people that followed the advice and now are too old to have kids, but spent plenty of time pioneering?.

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  What? He's not in the truth???!!!!

  by gerbils in

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  2 1/2 years ago i met my non-jw boyfriend, and i received a shepherding call from two lovely elders who told me that i was mixing good with evil, and didn't i know the man i loved was going to die at armaggedon?

  they left me in tears...not as though i left my boyfriend of course.

  i've made sure that things like that don't get to me anymore.

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  Go Figure

  by redskymedic in

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  so, after browsing through this website and then taking the search for the real 'truth' about the wts into my own hands, i decided to confront my jw mother.

  i stuck with the date-changing (1914, 1975, 2000) and asked what the explanation was since i have been gone for over 10 years now.

  she was quiet for a minute, then told me there was an explanation but she would have to look it up.

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  Playing Dumb

  by redskymedic in

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  i had this bizarre urge the other day to walk into a kh (i am df-d by the way) and play dumb .

  not tell anyone that i ever had any affiliation with the witnesses and lead them all on.

  oh, to see the looks on the faces of some when they came to find out they were associating with a df-ed person (gasp).

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  Hi I'm new here

  by embeth2525 in

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  i am so glad that i found this site.

  i have been reading these posts and they have made me feel so much better.

  my family was "in the truth" when i was little, and i feel like i really had a messed up child hood.

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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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  *~Intro~*

  by redskymedic in

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  my husband actually found this site and had me check it out.

  it's funny that i never though to go looking myself.

  a little background on me~ i was raised from birth as a jw .

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  Depression & Jehovah's Witnesses

  by minimus in

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  is it me or does it seem that nearly all jws go through depression in varying ways??

  i'm not talking about what the average person could deal with because of a loss of a loved one or a job termination, etc.

  i'm referring to being depressed because you're a jehovah's witness.

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  Are You Surprised As To How You Are Now That You're Out of The "Truth"?

  by minimus in

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  since we were indoctrinated that those leaving the organiztion had their lives turn into sh*t until they "returned to jehovah (the organization), how would you say things have turned out--so far?

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