Jula74, welcome to the forum. I think you will be amazed and comforted by how many share your experience. We look forward to hearing more from you.
Big Dog
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My story.....
by jula71 ini was born into the "truth", so it is pretty much to only life i have known.
i have been studying the bible seriously since my teens, about 15+ years.
then it hit me about 6 months ago, i?m not really studying the bible, but rather the wt publications.
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Baptize 'em young, keep 'em outta Sports - My notes from the last assembly
by jgnat ini had heard of accounts of young baptisms, but i figured it was the exception rather than the rule.
now i wonder, after viewing the models of youth paraded at the last assembly.
i took note of the ages and age of baptism of the five young men (no girls this time) who were interviewed as models of jw youth at this last week's assembly.
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Big Dog
MZSweetz, welcome to the forum. The reason most here have a problem with the JW's and this thread if you read the title in particular is that they don't allow children to have normal activities which help them grow and mature socially in a normal way. Most here feel the WBTS is a high control religion that has undue influence over its member's lives, much more so that most other religions.
And many here are quite happy to be apostates, or non believers, it is not a badge of shame as you seem to indicate.
Stick around for a while and you'll get a little more of an idea of why people feel the way they do about the WBTS.
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The Memorials coming up......and ......
by ScoobySnax inof course i'll be there on thursday, its one of the very few meetings i go to.
i guess i'll make the same promises that i always do.
i must get back to the meetings soon, i'll see the po who always seems to make a beeline for me after, yes here's my number , phone me.
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Big Dog
The Memorial never did a thing for me, maybe it was because I never attended it as an adult. But it just always seemed like the most lame empty ceremony I had ever been to. I just could never get very worked up about it. I got more of a feeling for Christ's sacrifice watching a movie about the event than I ever did sitting through the Memorial.
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New Mexico or Amarillo Circuit
by Sparkplug inhey...is anybody on here from nm?
i have not seen anyone from the state post?
i wonder if nm has computers yet?
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Big Dog
My sister lives in New Mexico. Been there many times and no I didn't think they had computers there, but I heard running water and indoor plumbing was on its way.
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I've decided to disassociate myself tonight
by Dustin inthe kingdom hall where i used to go has the theocratic ministry school and service meetings on tuesday.
i have finally come to grips with my need to exit the jehovah's witnesses forever.
i told my parents today that i'm leaving the jw religion behind forever.
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Big Dog
Good luck Dustin, I'll be thinking about you.
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April 05 KM: Living w/ Soundness of Mind in an Electronic Age
by ithinkisee inkingdom ministry - april 2005
week starting april 18th
15 min: living w/ soundness of mind in an electronic age.
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Big Dog
Its like the old joke, are you paranoid if they really are out to get you? I think the WBTS has good reason to be very paranoid.
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2034 - A Future History of Jehovah's Witnesses
by slimboyfat ini don't know what i am talking about... read this post at your peril.
back in the 1960s there was, seemingly, a brief period of relaxation in authoritarianism among jehovah's witnesses.
those who have read raymond franz's 'crisis of conscience' will have heard the story about dan sydlik's remark about the need to 'open some windows to let some air in here'.
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Big Dog
Don't cry Slimboy, its early here on the east coast on my side of the pond and most of the rest of the yanks are still in bed, I'll give it a read after my next cup of joe.
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Am I a bad person?
by Nancy Drake intoday, i bought one of those nifty shower heads that come off the wall and have pulse/massage type settings.
well, i didn't follow directions and i ended up snapping it right off the pipe....oops.
so, i took it back to the store and said..."i don't know what happened.
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Big Dog
She does sort of have that I need servicing look doesn't she Preston?
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Am I a bad person?
by Nancy Drake intoday, i bought one of those nifty shower heads that come off the wall and have pulse/massage type settings.
well, i didn't follow directions and i ended up snapping it right off the pipe....oops.
so, i took it back to the store and said..."i don't know what happened.
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Big Dog
Okay Jez, that's enough of that huffiness, I've got a Red-Buns Model XL-2000 right here with your name on it.
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A Little Help Here -- Heard Something at Work Today about JWs
by Gretchen956 inour union rep at work said she was very sure that jws were not allowed to belong to unions.
actually i don't belong, but she'd really like to get me to join (i am not anti-union, i'm just ambivelent)... anyways, i have been out for 13 years, but i do not remember this being the case, nor do i really remember it being a topic here (please don't post a link, i'd rather just hear the answer!).
anyone know whether this is just an urban legend or if it is truly the case?
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Big Dog
Also as I recall if you belonged to a Union and they went out on strike you couldn't picket, but you could support them. I can remember my uncle talking about making coffee and donut runs for the picketers back in the days of the rubber shop strikes.