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  Hi I'm new here

  by embeth2525 in

  1. jw
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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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  Beachbender

  Thanks! Hey Tam, I`m a Tam too!! and we`re the same age, and we live

  on opposite sides of the US!
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  Haven't seen a KM in a while, but this blew me away!

  by Nosferatu in

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  110 input householder$.

  140 input householder$.

  150 if householder$ = "not interested" goto 200.

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  Ahh yes I remeber pioneering days, you were always cold and hungry and very poor!

  Barely had the time outside of FS to hold down a job. What the F**k kind of reality

  does the WTS see??? How do they expect their people to survive not working but

  ALWAYS going door to door?? God was I so blind! Those days I was living with

  my parents STILL at 18 in Virginia. It was to damn cold there for me I headed back to

  Florida where we were from originally.

  Who here was dragged on to stage at District asemblies?? My Dad loved to volunteer

  our family for that, I hated it!!!!
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  Hi I'm new here

  by embeth2525 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  Beachbender

  Thanks codeblue! You`re right I think he`s pretty amazing myself!

  He stands up for me in everyway, he even to Mom who once told us

  both we were going to "hell"! Hmmmm..... I thought us JW`s were

  taught there was no such place!!

  I`ve told myself I have forgiven her through the years, but some how I

  just can`t forget what she did to me, coming from as a Mom myself

  now.
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  Question for Christians on this board!

  by Greenpalmtreestillmine in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you believe the bible is the word of god?

  i ask because i believe it's important for searching jws who come here to not only learn if there are christians here but also to hear from them personally what their thoughts on the bible are.

  i believe the bible is the word of god, do other chriatians here also believe that?.

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  Beachbender

  I agree JustTickledPink, I believe that we are here to appreciate LIFE and

  try to be the best person we can be, have faith that there is a loving and

  caring God who just wants us to enjoy being alive and appreciate what he has

  given us.
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  Go Figure

  by redskymedic in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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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  Beachbender

  But that`s what the Bible is is a historical record written by men!!

  Who we know are imperfect! So how much of the Bible is factual,

  and far from what really happened??? All organized religions today

  have manipulated the book to fit their own beliefs.
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  Are you a JW Hater?

  by MelbaToast in

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  reading a topic in here, i came across a conversation regarding jehovah approved(tm) sports.

  i noticed that two of the posters were insensed at the amount of ex-jws in this forum.. they started ignoring everyone else that had put their opinion in on the subject....and decided that everyone in this forum was a jw "hater".

  i myself take offence to that, for i don't hate the jw's.

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  Beachbender

  I don`t hate my family, who some are still JW`s, I just wish they would

  have respected me as an individual that could make her own choices, and

  maybe lightened up on th noose they kept around my neck especially when

  I was older. I couldn`t handle the control they wanted on me daily, I know that`s

  a parents job, but not at 18 and 19...!! After I left only then did I realize just how

  brainwashed and controlled I had been. I had good friends thru the KH, whose

  parents were "somewhat-normal" acting and to this day I believe some of them are

  still active members beacuse I know they were allowed to make their own decisions.
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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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  I HATED being the kid in class that didn`t participate in all the school functions,

  be it holidays, saying the pledge to the flag, sports. I was very shy and this only

  added to it more! Thank God the friends I had had known me since kindergarten

  and knew my situation. As I grew older I learned to just do what I wanted and just

  never let my parents know. My step-mom would have been a great dictator!
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  Hi I'm new here

  by embeth2525 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  Beachbender

  Thanks Kenneson! I feel much better now!

  Can anyone tell me how to correct my spacing in this? Why am I

  getting this double spacing???!
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  Corporal punishment

  by JustTickledPink in

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  my opinion is that jw's are into corporal punishment more than the general population.

  maybe it's my imagination, maybe not.. do you remember being told "not to spare the rod" in disciplining children?

  do you remember being that kid that got beat?.

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  Beachbender

  I was brought into the "truth" at an age of 11 or 12 at that point I had always

  been beaten for wrongdoings. Joining the JW`s only worked in my parents favor!

  My brothers and I were beaten till well into our teen years. We were even so lucky

  as my step mom would think, as to go and handpick our own switches from the trees!

  If we brought one back that wasn`t to my mom`s liking we would get beat harder.

  I do not hit my kid and don`t see the need, he is 13 now and never been hit by his

  father or I. It`s a matter of teaching I believe and respect.
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  Hi I'm new here

  by embeth2525 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  Beachbender

  Howdy! I`m a newbie. I posted earlier I guess no one noticed.

  I`ve been looking for some where to go where I could relate to others

  who`ve been where I have been.