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  How did you treat your worldly relatives when you were a JW

  by TallTexan in

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  i had an interesting conversation the other day with a friend who is also an ex-jw.

  this person is older than i am, and was a jw for a number of decades.

  she was talking about worldly relatives that she basically ignored when she was a jw.

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  Would YOU Have Allowed Your Child To Die Instead Of Giving Blood?

  by minimus in

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  be honest.

  i believe there was a time we all would've done it or at least say we would've done it.

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  Ever meet someone in the field service who knew their bible better than you

  by JH in

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  once a brother told me that he knocked at a door, and it was a catholic priest who lived there, and that brother thought that he knew his bible better than that priest, so he showed him a couple of verses to prove that the jw's had the truth, but that brother didn't expect the priest to know his bible that well, and the brother didn't win his biblical debate.... wouldn't it be fun if more people knew their bible really well, and could use the bible to make the jw's go away... .

  gee, i hated that when i knocked at a door, and the person would go get their bible, and i saw that they had a decent knowledge of it... usually i left quite fast.

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  Who do they hate more--faders or DFd people?

  by rebel8 in

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  i personally am hated quite a bit.

  i've concluded it was because i rejected them personally.

  i quit associating with them because i realized they were hateful individuals with serious mean streaks and other personality problems.

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  As an Ex-JW what have you learned?

  by KW13 in

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  i have had to mature quickly after leaving the witnesses i was almost 'lost' and spent sometime being stupid.. i have learnt that forcing religion on to people is wrong, if they don't see something themselves then its not true or honest.

  they need to decide everything themselves.. parents are also in a position where they need to be careful, they take their child to a religion that affects the child in so many ways, it ruined my childhood and its now a rod for my mums back..

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  When did you realize that you were part of a cult?

  by JH in

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  as a jw, i never thought that i was in a cult.

  i thought that other religions were a cult, but not us.. what made you realize that the jw's is a cult?

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  How does Shunning feel?

  by DaveNwisconsin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just curious as i had never really been a true jehovah witness.

  i would think that you make friends and suddenly you don't exist.

  i would think a board like this is a true godsend.

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  Nightmares?

  by elliej in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don't know if anyone else has this problem or if i'm just crazy.

  i have been attempting to fade.

  my family recently moved to a new area and we have never attended the kh here.

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  All messed up, please help !!!!!!!!!!

  by Genesis in

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  2. friends

  ok this morning i wrote about panic crisis so i think i have one now.

  i was on the forum and in my mailbox there was a message that said me :.

  i could not help but feel for you very much.

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  A child's innocent questions about shunning

  by Esmeralda in

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  one night last week, my five year old daughter couldn't fall asleep.

  we could hear her upstairs as she tossed and turned a bit, then finally reappeared from her bedroom and crept down the stairs.

  "what's wrong?

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