13-year-old thread! But the OP was interesting. Perhaps the taboo on college made everyone believe they personally missed out on it even when they may not have.
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55College and EX-JW Discontent....Questions and Stats
by teenyuck in*many* ex-jws say that they were robbed of an education due to the wtbts and as a result, they feel that their families and the wt screwed up their life by depriving them of the opportunity to go to college and therefore, earn a high salary at a job they love.
here is a link to the us census which shows that approximately 26% of the us population graduates college.
page 5, towards the bottom, shows the college graduation stats.
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Evolution is a Fact #17 - Belyaev's Silver Foxes
by cofty inin stalin's ussr the science of genetics was deemed "reactionary and decadent".
scientists were sent to the gulags or simply disappeared.
dmitri konstantinovich belyaev lost his job at the at the central research laboratory of fur breeding in moscow because of his commitment to classical genetics.
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rebel8
Pretty amazing!
The same selective breeding has been done with things we can now eat.
Unfortunately we've had people like Bush jr. putting genetic research to a stop because of religious ideology that is clearly not in line with truth...a lot of misinformed, sincere people believing false conspiracy theories about the food revolution that's safe and saving millions from starving...etc.
Scientific illiteracy is dangerous!
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My First Bad Strawberry Festival Day-3/3/13
by Loi_241 ini wish that it was not my day.
oh, god.
why was that happen?
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rebel8
Dipped in chocolate or marinated in booze
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Daily Mirror article about JWs destroying evidence
by Tornintwo ini can't see another thread but maybe i missed it:.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jehovahs-witnesses-paedophile-sex-abuse-7278824#comments-section.
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rebel8
Tried for 10 minutes to load that page, after answering 9 repetitive survey questions. Had to give up.
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Disturbing how Christians Feel about Non-Christians
by LaurenM inso i posted a question on yahoo answers asking about what christians feel god feels about non-christians.
the overwhelming answer was that he feels they must convert to christianity or risk hell/death/distruction (john 3:16).
i just don't understand how this could be!
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rebel8
There is a question discussed in many basic philosophy courses that is profound: The question of evil.
A loving god could not be all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good. The things preached by the creator and his son in the bible are inconsistent with being omnibenevolent.
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Did you go to your ASSIGNED congregation?
by Zoos inthe rule was (is) that you go to your assigned congregation.. growing up, i think our family was in our assigned congregation only one of three times.
the family made two major moves when i was a kid and each time my folks would visit the various congregations in the area and pick the one with the most kids.
given our association restrictions with the world, they wanted to make sure we had plenty of friends.. i have to give them credit where due.
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rebel8
It would be interesting to know if their fear is correct--is attending a non-assigned kingkongregation associated with subsequent inactivity?
I think they may be a bit off though. It's not always a causal relationship. Sure, the lights can turn on once you have a fresh perspective, or the pressure to participate is interrupted while you're moving. But...sometimes it's because people are trying to stay in despite serious concerns that they change kingkongs.
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Olympics--Speaking in Tongues Competition
by rebel8 in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szwaf8zgang.
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Hey ya'll! My first post. Please help. In need of advice/comfort.
by Stepford Wife inhey ya'll!
i have been lurking for years on this site and others but never had the courage to post anything.
actually i was afraid of posting on an apostate site in the event i was wrong.
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rebel8
Welcome.
Maybe you can avoid saying stuff and just listen. Keep placating and thanking them, "You've given me a lot of spiritual food to digest."
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Just got an apology from an exJW
by Village Idiot inso i'm back from the store walking to my apartment, over a hundred units in the complex - all jws and ex-jws - and i see someone talking to an ex-jw neighbor of mine.
she turns around and says "now there's some else i have to apologize to".. she identified herself as an old neighbor who used to play as a jw child right by my place.
she had told me how she was raised to consider me and all the ex-jws in the apartment complex as evil and thought she had to apologize for that.. made my day.
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rebel8
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Just got an apology from an exJW
by Village Idiot inso i'm back from the store walking to my apartment, over a hundred units in the complex - all jws and ex-jws - and i see someone talking to an ex-jw neighbor of mine.
she turns around and says "now there's some else i have to apologize to".. she identified herself as an old neighbor who used to play as a jw child right by my place.
she had told me how she was raised to consider me and all the ex-jws in the apartment complex as evil and thought she had to apologize for that.. made my day.
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rebel8
This post made me remember something I had forgotten. After leaving, I tried making amends to those I harmed as a result of being in the cult. I apologized the RC church for writing a DA letter. I apologized to many worldly relatives and others. For the most part, they seemed totally uncomfortable when I brought it up. A few felt relief.
I don't know if any of these apologies made anyone feel better overall, come to think of it.