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  did you escape BEFORE baptism?

  by kid-A in

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  i am of the "born into it but got out of it before baptism class"......listening to so many of the horror stories on this site, i often feel like we are the 'lucky ones'..... we realized at a very young age how wrong and absurd this belief system was and ran away before making the psychological investment of baptism while simultaneously avoided the disastrous consequences of getting df'd......are we the minority here???

  just curious!

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  Got another one here. Born into it from day one but never took the plunge. Thankful everyday that I didn't, it has made family life so much better.
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  The God Who Wasn't There

  by tetrapod.sapien in

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  http://www.thegodmovie.com/dvd.php.

  bowling for columbine did it to the gun culture.

  super size me did it to fast food.

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  Never heard of it but I am going to check it out.
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  You Can't Get It Back

  by Big Dog in

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  the higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.

  i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.

  i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?

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  Joel, yours is another sad story to add to the list. I wonder if there is one person who was raised in dubland that has left that doesn't feel their childhood was jacked.
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  You Can't Get It Back

  by Big Dog in

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  the higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.

  i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.

  i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?

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  Excellent post Darth. I have done what I can to move on and not be a whiner and I have had a good life and filled in as much as I can. But try as I might I can't ever truly fill that hole that was my childhood, its like an old wound, healed yes, but there is a scar there. My life isn't screwed because of that, but the fact that it happened still sucks.
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  You Can't Get It Back

  by Big Dog in

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  the higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.

  i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.

  i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?

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  Tetra,

  I hear you. Man do I hear you. I remember sitting on the side of a hill that overlooked the athletic field by my house, watching the kids, all the kids I went to school and grew up with having practice for pop warner football bawling my eyes out because I couldn't join them. And you know what the real kick in the butt was? It was a meeting night so I couldn't even stay and watch the game that followed the practice.

  The caulksuckers, I hate em.

  BD
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  You Can't Get It Back

  by Big Dog in

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  the higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.

  i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.

  i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?

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  Chris, I think its worth it to get your Ph.D. After all, especially if the atheists are right, all we have at the end of the line is the sum of our memories and accomplishments, build as many as you can in my opionion.
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  Interview on JWs on National Radio Program Sept. 14th

  by jschwehm in

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  hi gang:.

  i got a call from the producer for al kresta's radio program on the ave maria radio network.

  they are going to interview me about my journey from the jws to the catholic church.

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  Give 'em hell Jeff.
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  You Can't Get It Back

  by Big Dog in

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  the higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.

  i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.

  i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?

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  I hear you guys, its like you want to climb mountains? Fine let me check for the closest moutain climbing school. College is a given if they want to go. Whatever they want to try I am behind 100%. Then it hits me how different that is from the way I was raised, and the way that I see my siblings (all dubs) raising theirs. Two of my nephews are at Bethel, neither have ever been on a date, been to a dance, taken a college class, played a down of football or an inning of baseball. Just makes me sick.
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  Losing My Mind

  by joelbear in

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  i feel like i have been slowly losing my mind since the age of 10 or so, maybe before that.

  the process seems to be speeding up.

  it may just be an inevitable fact of my existence.

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  Do whatever you have to do to take care of yourself.
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  You Can't Get It Back

  by Big Dog in

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  the higher education thread got me thinking about the thing i loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the wbts, namely, the loss of my childhood.

  i remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that i wasn't allowed to do at the end i would always get the same final reply, "when you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want.

  i can go back and play pop warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc?

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  The higher education thread got me thinking about the thing I loathe, despise, hate with the intensity of a thousand suns about the WBTS, namely, the loss of my childhood. I remember when engaging in blistering arguements with my parents about being able to play sports or take up an instrument or dream of being an astronaut, or whatever thing the society frowned on that I wasn't allowed to do at the end I would always get the same final reply, "When you are 18 and out of the house you can do whatever you want."

  Oh really. I can go back and play Pop Warner football, or little league baseball, or play in the school band, etc? And the worse thing is, even some of the things I could do aren't the same as they are when you are a child. Sure I can go play slo pitch softball now with the guys from the office, but that isn't the same as it is for a kid playing little league baseball when he can devot his whole being to it and dream of being the next Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays, its a bunch of old guys with creaky knees and beer guts goofing off. The magic that accompanies the activities for a child is gone as an adult, the dreaming of what could be when life is still largely unlived and all possibilities are all still wide open.

  You can't get it back. That's why we punish crimes against children so harshly, once you strip a child of their childhood you can't give it back, they are forever changed and scared and the innocence is gone. The WBTS stripped me and so many others of the dreams and joy that should have been my right as a child and I hate them for it, because I can't get it back.