I can tell you one thing: Being a JW kid and teenager sure teaches you how to be a great liar and sneak arounder.!!!!!!!
I was a master at it, and so were all my friends.
happy camper
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JW young people...on the move...to where?
by Gill inmy experience as a jw teenager was total repression and control from my parents and i know that the majority of my friends at that age in the congregations suffered the same.. now...what's happening?!.
i come home and find a regular full time pioneer smooching with my non jw son on the sofa.. i"m reliably told that jw youngsters are in the local pub after each meeting and have to be thrown out at chuck out time.. they seem to behave in a far worse way that some non bible believing youngsters that i know.. are they finally feeling their feet and the wtbts due a huge exodus in the next few years?.
i'm slightly embarrassed at the behaviour of some of these youngsters when i'm told what they've been seen getting up to.. or am i just getting old?
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Do you hate dressing up?
by Nosferatu ini can't stand wearing suits for anything.
i wore them so much while i was a jw that i prefer to never wear another one as long as i live.
hell, i wore jeans at my wedding!.
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happy camper
I hate to wear dresses or skirts. Yes, probably due to the fact that I was forced to dress up for the meetings all my life. I never wear dresses, unless it is an emergency that I have to.Not to mention pantyhose. Yuck !!!!!
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Surprise day/family day
by brutusmaximus indid you have the above instead of xmas?.
we did as a family with about 16 going to it and giving gifts normally feb time.
now though we have been banned from going as we had xmas this year and you can't have both it would seem.
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happy camper
Boy, consider yourselves lucky to have a surprise/family day. We never had any of them.
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Finish This Sentence....You Know you're a JW teenager If....
by doodle-v induring class the teacher asks "who all plan to go to college?
" and you shrink down in your seat in an effort to become invisible as everyone in the class raises their hand.
-doodle-v. your turn!
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happy camper
you have a paper to do for school and you do your research from bound volumes
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DO YOU KNOW THE KINGDOM SONG WORDS?????????????
by vitty inafter being in the org for 20 years, being regular at every meeting.
i must have sung the songs hundreds of times, but i cant sing the first line of any song off by heart..
i asked my husband, kids if they could, they also cant.. can you?.
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happy camper
when eyes of blind ones see again,
when ears of deaf ones hear again,
you too will see the dead arise, (excuse me, but I really dont want to see the dead corpses rise out of the ground, thats scary)
if you keep your eyes on the prize
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For those raised as JWs...
by Country Girl ini have found that while i can remember my childhood from ages 3-5, i can't remember much after that until i was 17 or so.
my mom came into the jws when i was 3, and i remember celebrating our last christmas.
it was a small christmas tree on the end table and it had a present for each of us (2 kids).
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happy camper
I have the same problem, there are whole years I dont even remember. I wonder if our subconcious blocked it for our protection.
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congregational cliques
by chuckyy init was my experience during my 13 yrs as a jw that congregations usually had a social clique.
in other words, there would be a group of people in a congregation that would only associate (and sometimes only go out on field service too) with people within that social clique.
if you were in the clique, fine.
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happy camper
I hope I don't get "shunned" by anyone here for telling this, but I happened to be in the "in" crowd as a JW. It is so very true that the "in" crowd does revolve around the elders families, and especially if your family has money. My dad was an elder (not anymore tho, inactive--haha), and I can tell you this, it's not it's all cracked up to be. So, here's what you missed out on by not being in the "in" crowd, a major "fashion show" competition at every meeting and service (and I can tell you that it was very stressful),not being allowed to be friends with some of the other kids at the hall, because they and their family weren't good enough(even tho I really wanted to be friends with them, I wasn't allowed), same goes for liking boys who weren't spiritual enough (and it was already pretty limited to chose from), having your father and the other elders in the "pack" cover up your wrongdoing (you would be amazed what I could get away with), and this one I mention because I got myself in some pretty bad situations as a result, which could have been prevented had they taken the proper action, having a mother who thinks that her s*!&%t don't stink, having a father who thinks hes gods gift to the world, (they are very stuck on themselves), having a terrible family life, but putting on an act in front of the rest of the world, especially the congregation, like having a family fight in the car on the way to the meeting, and putting on huge smiles when you get in the parking lot, feeling pressured to do "cool" things like smoke and drink with the other "cool" kids, having to go out in service all the time, and all summer vacation to impress people. I can't really think of all the other stuff, but there is lots more. The main point is this: don't think you missed out on much, because all you really missed out on was putting on a very fake act. and I feel horrible now to know how others felt at the time, I didn't realize I was treaing them this way. The JW's sure have a way of turning a person into an evil bitch. btw, I am happy to say that I no longer am that person I once was.
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I can't get to grips with being shunned
by chuckyy inmy wife and i have been disassociated for about 2 months now.
every day in our small town we are being shunned by former friends.
one in particular annoyed me today.
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happy camper
It will get easier to ignore them in time, I used to like to give them nasty looks whenever I got the chance. Generally they don't give dirty looks back, and it made me feel better to do it. I also lived in a small town, but eventually when they would see me at the store or somewhere, they didn't even stare anymore. I guess they were used to seeing me. One particular time I ran into a JW at Target, and my daughter who was 8 years old at the time, was with me, they were standing in line right in front of me, and I didn't notice until it was too late. So, they proceeded to carry on a conversation with my daughter, as if I wasn't even alive, I just flipped thru some magazines and didn't look at them. I didn't want to see their ugly faces.
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DO YOU KNOW THE KINGDOM SONG WORDS?????????????
by vitty inafter being in the org for 20 years, being regular at every meeting.
i must have sung the songs hundreds of times, but i cant sing the first line of any song off by heart..
i asked my husband, kids if they could, they also cant.. can you?.
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happy camper
yea, I think I still have some pemanent hearing loss, from being in front of her.......
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DO YOU KNOW THE KINGDOM SONG WORDS?????????????
by vitty inafter being in the org for 20 years, being regular at every meeting.
i must have sung the songs hundreds of times, but i cant sing the first line of any song off by heart..
i asked my husband, kids if they could, they also cant.. can you?.
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happy camper
speaking of singing, does anyone remember having that one sister who always sang really loud in a bad opera vioce?