While I never actually attempted it, I thought frequently of suicide while I was a jdub. Now it never crosses my mind. When I was a dub I had constant back problems. I tried various types of treatment. A reflexologist told me my muscles were the tensest of anyone he'd ever treated. An osteopath told me I was so tense that he was afraid to do an adjustment for fear he'd do me damage. Since leaving the dubs eleven years ago I've had little or no back problems. Not that life has been perfect, but I now have options. Something a dub doesn't have.
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Depression, Suicide, Abusive Parents
by kitties_and_horses_oh_my! inthis is my first time posting...i've been lurking for awhile.
i "faded away" in september and my mental health has greatly improved, although i still struggle with a somewhat-controlled eating disorder.
i have a long history of mental health problems, from the time i was about 20. i was raised "in the truth" and my parents were very emotionally/verbally abusive.
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I did it
by La Capra ini finished my first year of law school last month.
grades arrived at the end of last week, which was when i found out i am first in my class.
i was not trying for it or expecting it, so to say i was surprised is an understatement.
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Congrats!
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The Bible is a very mean spirited book.
by libra_spirit ini remember at one point in my life believing that the new testament taught love as the greatest command.
for the last week i have been rereading the new testament.
mathew, and revelation so far.
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The Bible was created to manipulate the masses. It is not possible to truly love a god who will kill you if you don't. It is possible to controls those too dumb to see this.
Very well said. As long as we have religion we'll have hatred.
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What if...
by ChrisVance inhave those of you who, like myself, have been cut off by family because of the troof thought what you'd do if a family member asked for your help?
at this point it seems like it would be easy just to tell them to get help from jehovah, but i suppose if one of them truly needed help i might feel differently.
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As long as it was not money then I would. I feel that if the other person can't show what love is then I will, then maybe it will make them think.
The trouble is JW's don't think or they wouldn't be shunning us in the the first place. Very sad.
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Are you emberassed about being one???
by shamus inseriously now - are you emberassed because you used to be one?
do you dodge the topic?
or, do you tell it how it is when people ask you?
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I'm not proud of having been one, but I'm not embarassed either. I do enjoy telling people all the dirt about the dubs.
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What if...
by ChrisVance inhave those of you who, like myself, have been cut off by family because of the troof thought what you'd do if a family member asked for your help?
at this point it seems like it would be easy just to tell them to get help from jehovah, but i suppose if one of them truly needed help i might feel differently.
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Prisca, I agree with what you said. It's been my intention to do just that. If I don't exist when they don't need help, then I don't exist when they do.
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What if...
by ChrisVance inhave those of you who, like myself, have been cut off by family because of the troof thought what you'd do if a family member asked for your help?
at this point it seems like it would be easy just to tell them to get help from jehovah, but i suppose if one of them truly needed help i might feel differently.
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Brummie,
But you know they wouldnt ask anyway
I think if money were involved my family wouldn't hesitate to demand help.
Onacruse, enjoyed chatting also.
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What if...
by ChrisVance inhave those of you who, like myself, have been cut off by family because of the troof thought what you'd do if a family member asked for your help?
at this point it seems like it would be easy just to tell them to get help from jehovah, but i suppose if one of them truly needed help i might feel differently.
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Have those of you who, like myself, have been cut off by family because of the troof thought what you'd do if a family member asked for your help? At this point it seems like it would be easy just to tell them to get help from jehovah, but I suppose if one of them truly needed help I might feel differently.
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Did you cheat on your monthly report?
by JH ini was always honest with my field service reports, until the time when an elder came over to give me hell because i had only 1 hour that month in the field service.
i told him that i was working 50 hours a week, had a 4 day district convention that month and couldn't do miracles that month.
he never accepted my explanation.. .
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ChrisVance
I took the rule "from the first door to the last dorr" literally. If I sat in the car during the last half hour of the morning while someone else was doing a return visit I didn't count that half hour. What a dumb-dumb.
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What's YOUR favourite quote?
by Dansk inhere's three beauties:.
the sayings of u. g. krishnamurti .
"a messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.".
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ChrisVance
"I'd rather have questions I can't answer than answers I can't question."
"With or without regligion there will be good people do good things and bad people doing bad things. But for good people to do bad things, that takes religion." --a scientists whose name I can't remember.