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  Another JW Suicide

  by orangefatcat in

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  yes last thursday a young brother who was in the same hall as me but in the other cong.

  and he was 29, a newborn baby and a 2or 3 year old and young wife committed suicide.

  was killed here in our town of newmarket by a train.

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  moanzy

  As a witness I struggled with depression , suicide attempts and eating disorder. My parents didn't want to get help for me because of the advise from the Society's literature. Psychiatrists apparently can leave you open to demons!!!!

  After some time I sought help through my guidance councelor and finally felt strong enough to get help for myself. Finally my parents decided I needed help and booked me into a hospital to begin a program to recover from my eating disorder.

  I agree about the drugs. They did less to help me than the councelling. Through councelling/therapy, I learned self-esteem, how to reason for myself, and healthy coping skills and life skills that will serve me throughout life. The problem is that my parents lost control of my life. To them it looked like the devil took over because I did rebel. I can't say I made very good choices for awhile, but I finally realized that I can choose anything I want provided I understand I am responsible for the consequences.

  I believe my suicide attempts were directly related to my life as a witness. My homelife sucked terribly and to top it all off there was a rigid witness life we had to live. There was virtually no creative outlet for us and anything that would foster a healthy self-esteem was deterring us from God's organisation. No wonder many kids grow up into adults hating life and wanting to die. I was one of them.

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  What do you do for living?

  by averyniceguy in

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  i am america sign language teacher and a caretaker of a house near the beach.

  what do you do for living?

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  Right now I am being a mother, but starting in September I begin college. I will be studying for Child and Youth Care Worker. By the end I will be able to councel children and youth for abuse and do group therapy.

  Moanzy
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  REPOST: For those without Mothers

  by Lady Lee in

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  mothers day can bring up many issues for some of us.

  for some their mothers have passed away and the opportunity to say i love you in person is forever lost.

  for others our mothers are lost to the borg.

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  moanzy

  mom,

  I would like to wish you a happy mothers day, but I know you would look at me in disgust. I know you loved me when I was little and didn't want to hurt me. I am also beginning to understand how you could justify how we were treated growing up. I won't pretend to agree with your choices in raising us and making us live our lives totally scared instead of protecting us and getting us out of there.

  My hope is that one day mom, you will be able to see that I love you and I am not evil. That our family has been needlessly destroyed by the Watchtower society. Until that happens I will send my love to you in thought.

  Moanzy
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  What do you consider yourself?

  by poodlehead in

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  i have wondered how each of you classifies yourself.

  as regards to religion.

  this is for my own person interest.

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  #6----I am leaning toward believing that this life is more of a type of school or something that we must experience and learn from. I also think that when we die that life goes on in a different form.

  Moanzy
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  What nice, interesting thing did you see today?

  by Lady Lee in

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  so often we are stuck in the negative part of life and see so much of the bad.

  the news is full of it.

  i look for the things that are nice.

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  My little girl made me laugh today. First, my 3yr olds panties fell down so my husband says to her "what's that?" . As she bent over to pull them up, my 4 yrs old answers, "it's the MOON!".

  Moanzy
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  Say something Philosophical and Deep

  by JH in

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  say something philosophical and deep so that we can all benefit from what you're going to say.

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  Is the cost a dozen eggs worth the wear and tear on a chicken's ass?

  Moanzy
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  How it affected my family

  by KW13 in

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  have the society affected your family while you were a witness or while you were not?.

  i remember i was sat at my grandma's.

  my aunt was also there.

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  This religion destroyed my family. My parents are divorced because of it. From there it all went down hill, from bad to worse.

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  Is it true? Are adultery or death the only scriptural escapes?

  by Cabin in the woods in

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  we have so many wise and well read people here on jwd so i thought that i would just toss this out and see if i could get some new enlightenment on this.

  are there any other references that i have not seen in the scriptures ( and i have looked pretty hard for this) that would allow divorce that are considered 'acceptable' ?

  am i just spinning my wheels in that foolishness still?

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  "till death do you part"---Now does that mean "physical" death or could it mean death of who you are. I personally think that if the person you married is killing you inside it is enough to get out.

  Moanzy
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  ELDERS AND PARANOIA

  by Es in

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  hehe i hope thats how its spelt.. if you had family members that were elders did you ever notice the paranoia they had????

  or maybe its my dad in particular?????.

  they things he accused me off was unbelievable, we were never allowed to do anything to ruin his standing as an elder.

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  My step-dad was an elder and assumed that whenever kids got together that fornication would happen. We always got the 3rd degree whenever we made plans. By the time our parents got done with us we felt like we had already sinned.

  My parents went through my mail and listened on phone conversations. I never kept a diary because I knew my mom would go through it. They did this to my brother too.

  At one time my step-dad told us we were the reason he wasn't an elder.

  To this day my parents will sware they never did these things.

  I always wished I could talk to my parents about how I was feeling, but couldn't trust them. I knew they always looked for sins in everything we did. So how can we talk with our parents about the important issues if they have either accused us of them or are continually checking to see if we have?

  Moanzy

  Oh ya, when I was 28 and had my first daughter, I stayed with my parents during the district assembly. They gave me a curfew!!!!! (my brothers meanwhile, still living at home were out getting pissed every night of the assembly)
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  ymca and christianity

  by aoxo in

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  ok so when i was leaving i wanted to check out the local y and do some classes but i was always warned by so many people and articles in the w&a that they were tied in with churches and paying for a membership would be like giving money to other churches.

  i tried to look up that info from the quotes in older w&a's and couldn't even find the book that was quoted.

  i even grilled the people at the y and repeatedly asked if it was or ever had been affiliated with a particular church.

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  I haven't any experience there, but I asked one time why we didn't help a starving child in another country?

  I was told because the people would be taught by churches about God and not the truth and we don't want to support that. I guess that is suppose to be a good enough reason not to feed a starving to death child. Wouldn't Jesus be proud!

  Moanzy