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  Describe your first thoughts upon hearing the 1914 generation 'new light'

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  we all remember where we were and what we were thinking during highly significant events....(e.g.

  9-11, jfk, etc)..... if you can recall, what were the first thoughts racing through your mind as you sat at the 1995 d.c. at the infamous 1914 generation change announcement, was it "the final nail in the coffin of your wts beliefs or did you engage in mental gymnastics to try to assimilate the "fresh meat in due season" lol....... i was in such shock at this announcement, i think my mind just blanked out for 10 minutes followed by: "ok, this really is it for me......they have duped us all along", i then immediately started thinking of my 90 year old jw grandmother sitting in the stadium, and what must have been going through her mind......

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  C.T. Russell: a confirmed Pittsburgh Free Mason

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  there is overwhelming evidence that the spiritual founder of the wts, c.t.

  russell, was a prominent free mason in the pittsburgh community.

  he went so far as to declare: "i am a free mason" in several of his lectures.

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  did you escape BEFORE baptism?

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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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  Does your family still think you are coming back?

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  hope springs eternal in the wts.

  despite having left before even being baptized, i would have to say my parents still wholeheartedly believe i will someday come around, .

  get baptized, become active and maybe even become an elder !

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  Mental illness among JWs: cause or effect?

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  there is compelling, published evidence (see link below) to suggest higher rates of mental illness among jws compared to other religious sects, and the general population.

  what is your opinion, is this because people with "susceptibility" to mental illness are more likely to be attracted to the lifestyle and psychology of the wts, or after joining and being an active member for years, the jw psychology and lifestyle are simply enough to push any psychologically healthy individual into psychopathology?

  http://www.premier1.net/~raines/mental.html

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  how much money did you give the borg???

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  just curious....because i left before being baptized, my parents handled all the donations and i never gave them a penny.

  how many posters on this board actually gave large or not so large sums of money to the jws, either directly, or as 'gifts' to pioneers, cos, etc??

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  jeff foxworthy tribute: you might be a jehovahs witness if.....

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  if you wash windows for a living and own 12 suits.....you might be a jehovahs witness.... if you engage in "self-abuse" then pray 3 hours for forgiveness....you might be a jehovahs witness..... anymore?.

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  how do JWs justify having children "in the last days?"

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  in the years leading up to 1975, there was an implicit (if not explicit) discouragement of having children given the proximity of armageddon.

  for the most part, this seemed to have been ignored.

  my jw grandma now has great-great grandchildren.

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  who escapes more often, those born into it or adult converts?

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  what strikes me on this board is the number of adult converts that have left the borg, either fading out or getting df'd.

  from my experience (i was born into it, 2nd generation, left before getting baptized) most of the faders or escapees were also like.

  me, born into it, never really accepted it and just bowed out at the first opportunity.

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  book worth checking out

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  i highly recommend this book "the orwellian world of jehovahs witnesses" by the bottings.

  first published in 1984, but since updated.

  its available at amazon.. very well organized and scholarly.. cheers.

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