It took me about 4 years to truly find myself a good path to live. It all started when I was newly 14 and I needed a break from my parents controlling attitude. I had zero true friends and I just couldn't handle it anymore. I went to a somewhat party school where pratically everybody there drank, smoke and did drugs. So it was no time before I started hanging around the "wrong crowd" and started to smoke weed after school and many times during lunch. Every Single Day! It's rediculous once I think about it but I was just trying to escape and feel what fun can really be (not a good excuse). Anyways after things became seriously heated with my parents from their suspicion that I was smoking from me smelling like smoke every day and whatnot. Well anyways right when school came back from the winter break (3 days infact) I had a good smoke out with a few buds at this gal's house. Well it was some of the strongest marijuana I ever had so I knew this was going to hinder my ability to function right in school. Well anyways I went back to school and I was in gym and this lady came in and looked straight at me. Anyways long story short she brung me to the police office in the school and they found some stuff on me. Found out later that my "friend" Robert ratted on me about selling him ciggerettes (which I would never do) so all this mess with down.)
Anyweays I got arrested and had to go through a year and a half of of probation, alternative school, one of the worse schools in the whole city and it was pretty crappy but I endured. All of this has a point (sorry if it's kind of not the right topic to talk about), through all this I experienced what a lot of "the world" can be. To be honest it was exhilerating. I wouldn't do all this again to save my life but I met so many differnet people. I've met the future criminals of America and I could see the human aspect of them. Sure they weren't the most moral of people but I still saw human in them and wanting to be accepted. Seeing all this and how my parents handled it really changed me. I felt so sorry for putting this through my parents but just how they put even more attention towards "spiritual matters" and how this didn't help out real life problems. Creating controversity with my parents (even though it was somewhat emotionally devastating to see them through this) really showed how much the religion was missing. It didn't give my parents anything and I just wanted to hand them the world and take away their problems but they wouldn't listen to any of my advice. They just looked to the religion that didn't offer them anyways. Well after I went to a good school my junior year and the whole case was sealed my parents just blocked it out their heads. Didn't ask me how I was doing with the situation, or when I asked them how they were dealing they just isolated themselves and shoved more of this religion my way.
This lead me to start researching my way of life, really through away my ingrained belief systems. I just wish I could make it up to my family for putting them through this. But outside of doing chores and acting like a good witness, there doesn't seem to be much I can do.
Posts by Daunt
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8Ingrained Belief Systems.
by Blueblades inwe all know how hard it is to transcend an ingrained belief system.
that is something that many people are not willing or able to do.
at least not quickly or easily, if not at all.
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JW funeral for atheist
by littlerockguy ini just got home from being out of town.
i went to my uncle's funeral who died early this week.
he professed the other day in his deathbed when a nurse asked him if he believed in god and he answered, "hell no!
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Daunt
So sad... should have went with dignity with people knowing how he really was. Crazy.... I wouldn't be able to sit there without cracking a few heads if i went there and listened to it.
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It's too hot!
by talesin inoh ... my .... gawd!
it's been over 100 the past two days, and i can't take it anymore!
i know y'all from texas are used to it, but i'm not!
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Daunt
Blame global warming. But ya texas is unbareable these days. We had a record dry summer also so that just made folks more crabby.
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Convention Drama, an example of Anachronistic Propaganda
by VM44 inthe recent 2005 "godly obedience" convention drama is an example of an anachronism!
and of propaganda!.
so why is the dram an example of anachronistic propaganda?.
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Daunt
The whole drama was just idiotic. The thing that made me fustrated though was just how people were freakin crying about how great it was. WTF!! it was bad acting, bad dialouge bad everything, sheesh. Control is crazy. And who the heck is Jonathan?
I'm hoping your wife will see one day.
And another thing, the congregations here love my sister so much they would never talk down to her, but I can just imagine what kind of opposition this will cause to kids that are going to college. There are so many elitist dubs that will degrade even their own members if they see a speck of something bad in them. And obedience and school were way up there in this convention. Can just imagine. -
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do JWs believe in dinosaurs?
by tsunami_rid3r inthe bible doesnt mention them at all.
so what the hell?
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Daunt
I'm not going to try to dispute that because it's pointless. But I just feel it's funny that you kind of supported our claim in this. The seas are very very VERY salty and it takes many many many (more than your bible teaches time a thousand) millenia to do this. Yet you still used it to support your case.
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Theocracy: When religion has its way.
by Spook inhttp://direland.typepad.com/
the murder of homosexual teens in iran.
sad and disgusting, yet i have little faith that a bible based theocracy would long avoid similar tyranny and oppression.
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Daunt
Atheist are a serious minority in this country, however most of the country do seem to be lukewarm religious persons. Just rememeber that there is a large bible belt so I don't see religious views going away from the US anytime soon.
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Theocracy: When religion has its way.
by Spook inhttp://direland.typepad.com/
the murder of homosexual teens in iran.
sad and disgusting, yet i have little faith that a bible based theocracy would long avoid similar tyranny and oppression.
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Daunt
I feel that most people complain about America's mishaps because it greatly affects them more. But anyways ya that's how it happens. When things aren't based on reason things go array.
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The Morality of the Future!
by Daunt ini've been seriously taking a step back lately and criticizing and analyzing my beliefs, especially during meetings since there's nothing better to do.
however, every time i do this i can't help but think of the future.
how do you guys view the general moral bases of the future?
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Daunt
Very nice Terry. My thoughts exactly. Morals should always be based on reality and nature. There shouldn't be debate about certain things like homosexual marriages and whatnot. The only arguement against something like this is their own prejudice and it's amazing how people will admit their prejudice and not think it's prejudice.
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do JWs believe in dinosaurs?
by tsunami_rid3r inthe bible doesnt mention them at all.
so what the hell?
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Daunt
He's showing you an example of a bold baseless claim which you have been saying ever since you joined this board.
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Venus Does Yoga
by rocketman ini was watching the new williams sisters "reality" show (abc family, 10 pm) and in it venus was in a session with the sister's personal trainer.
venus was instructed to do yoga while she and the trainer got tips from a video.
in the video, the instructor was doing various chants and uttering various phrases, and venus is shown saying "some of it is ungodly and against my christian beliefs, but i have to do it anyway".
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Daunt
I think it's a good reflection of most Witnesses put into the situation that they're in.