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  They Push You In,,,,Then Punish You If You Go!

  by new boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  they brag about the fact that they the don' t baptize their babies because "how can a baby 'know' what religion it wants to believe in the rest of it's life!".

  but a 14 year old does?.....they put so much presure on their children to get dunked, that if your not baptize by 18 years old there is something really "wrong" with you.. so the poor kid does it, just to get everyone off their backs.

  legally a minor can't be held to a contract if they are under 18 years old and why?

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  lost_light06

  I was 18 years and 3 days old when I got baptized. Sure I was a legal adult but I had also been raised in the religion and had been pressured since my early teens to do it. When I finally told my mother, at the age of 27, that I would not be a JW anymore she said to me "but you made a dedication to Jehovah, a promise to serve him." I rebutted "I was 18, still in high school. If I had wanted to be married at that age you would have done anything to stop me, yet you let me make the supposedly most important decision of my life at that age".

  "but you made a dedication" she says.

  "I made a mistake, I can see that now that I’m older. Am I to be punished forever for that?"

  "but you made a dedication"…………

  Now she will not talk to me even though I am neither DF’d or DA’d. I "broke my promise to Jehovah" therefore I am un-worthy of her association. I made that promise when I was barely 18, still in high school. I had been such a sheltered JW robot that I refused to have a girlfriend through my school years. I never played sports or participated in after school activities. All of my friends were JW’s. I was socially retarded outside of the kingdom hall. Yet now, 11 years later I am held to that promise.

  Side note: My brother is not a JW. He was never baptized and walked away when he was 17. He too was raised as a JW and knows the religion well. He does all the things I do now that I’m out of the borg. Celebrates holidays, birthdays, etc. My mother and sisters don’t shun him, but they shun me. Why? Because I got dunked in a pool.

  ~LL06
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  Were You Ever Counseled Because Of What You Wore (or didn't)?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after reading the thread about what is acceptable to wear and not wear in a factory run by jehovah's witnesses, i wondered whether any here ever got counseled or in trouble because of their fashion sense or attire.

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  I got counseled by our CO that coloring my hair was considered to be a sign of homosexuality. I had dyed my hair brown with some friends for fun. Later I was counseled for cutting my hair too close, I had a buzz cut. Of course it was perfectly ok for the sisters to color their hair and the black brothers got no grief for completely shaving their head. But because I was white and male I could do neither as I would either be considered gay or a skin head.
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  Annoying JW Emails

  by LEOS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  long story short, i have been dfd for 2 or 3 years.

  i have not really been counting.

  best 2-3 years of my life.

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  I always hated the argument that "in Jehovah’s eyes it’s only been a short time". Well Jehovah isn’t the one suffering here is he (not that I actually believe living is suffering, but in JW logic….)? He isn’t the one dying from famine, war, pestilence, etc. He isn’t the one wasting an entire lifetime thinking the end "is near" only to die a slow painful death and wonder what happened. Sure, it’s been short to him but to "his creation", who he supposedly loves so much, it’s been an eternity.

  I like to think of it as if my children had been naughty, they are 3 and 5. When my three year old is bad I put her in timeout for 3 minutes, my five year old get’s 5 minutes. When they are older (tweens and teens) they may spend an hour in their room or be grounded for a week. Why the difference? Three or Five minutes isn’t long to me so why don’t I make them spend a long time, in my perspective, in time out? Because to them, since they are so young, three or five minutes is a long time and keeping them in time out for hours would be cruel. The same reasoning applies to Jehovah and his creation. So sure, to Jehovah it’s only been a little while, but you would think the "almighty, all wise, loving Jehovah" would understand that to his lowly creation his perspective on time doesn’t really apply.
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  What was your first car?

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  mine was an old fiat 127, i bought it 1983 and it was at least fifteen years old then!

  the seats were vinyl and there were no rear seatbelts so i could send my girlfriend and her sister flying with each bend in the road!

  it wouldn't go above 55mph and was rattling like rollercoaster when it finally got there.. the rear window fell out and it finally croaked in puff of blue/black smoke.

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  A 1984 Renault Alliance. To my knowledge they don't sell Renault in the states anymore, it was imported by AMC.

  
  
  I had to bang on the starter to get it started. Silly French. ~LL06
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  WERE YOU EVER A SUBJECT OF K. HALL GOSSIP???

  by chuckyy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  whilst a jw, one thing that was evident to me was the constant gossip and backbiting.....being nice to someones face and then talking about them behind there backs.were you ever a "victim" of this sort of behaviour???

  is it as common as i suspect from cong.

  to cong???.

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  lost_light06

  I have no doubt that I was/am, especially in my and my ex’s former hall. I’m sure that in their world of gossip me or my ex or both of us fornicated in wild orgies with groups of ravenous spider monkeys and elephant seals. I’m sure I am a cheating bastard and my ex is a slutty lesbian. Whatever the case I couldn’t care any less what those mindless droids think of me. In fact I hope they continue to gossip and their stories of how "dangerous" I am will get a nice 22 year old single pioneer moist with just the thought of me. Besides, their gossip is only partly true, the spider monkeys were very well fed.

  ~LL06
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  2007- Witness Meetings= Why can't women wear pants/trousers??

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when my mum went to her first meeting she was dressed to perfection, she wore nice ladies dress trouser/pants.

  the witness stuying with her told her it was "not apropriate" to wear this to the meeting...in 2006 i was in a congregation where a sister would put a skirt on over her pants she wore to work.

  it looked weird, but the pants ban still is in force 2007.

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  The last time I went to bethel with my wife (ex-now) and a group of 9 other people the "sisters" were told they HAD to wear pantyhose, no exceptions. My wife scoffed at that because she, being of Mexican origin, had dark legs and you couldn’t even tell she was wearing them. She did for the first 2 days then went without them. No one said a word, because they couldn’t tell. I thought that was the stupidest rule I had ever heard. God forbid a woman’s bare skin legs be shown in bethel. You might have bethelite "brothers" running to the bathroom to rub one out before their shift.

  ~LL06 of the "Loves women's legs" class
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  What "Unwritten Rules" Did Your Congregation Have?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i knew of a hall that allowed only white shirted speakers on the platform for sunday public talks!

  when a visiting speaker did not wear the official white shirt he was either told that he couldn't give the talk or he could change shirts,as the hall kept a variety of sizes, just in case of an emergency!!!

  i don't make this up.

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  In the cong. I was in while dating my future ex-wife the rule was 6 months of dating, no more, no less, until you were engaged. Then it was 6 months of engagment (again no more or less) until you married.

  Also the no sitting next to you girlfriend until you were engaged. I had a sister come and ask me if we were engaged because we dared to sit by each other. The elders took us back the next meeting and told us that it was a sign of being engaged. WTF is the engagment ring for then? Idiots

  ~LL06
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  SO ADMIT; SCALE OF 1:10, TEMPTED TO DRINK THE WINE AT MEMORIAL??

  by shell69 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  wasnt tempted myself during the acutal ceremonies; however: the sister whose husband used to supply the wine for the memorial in the 70's; well her son's would be round the back of the khell after the memorial supping it!!!

  they were only about 12/13!!!.

  always wanted a sipp myself after the annual ordeal but was scared mum and dad would find out.. shell.

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  9/10 to drink the wine

  1/10 to actually go to the memorial.

  you do the math.
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  Korn: Why Brian Welch walked away.

  by Guest with Questions in

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  while listening to gospel while doing housework i found this.. there may be some that scoff at this, but i found it very powerful.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlaodwjmsa&nr=1.

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  I like Korn, always have. I'm glad Head is clean now, and I'm sure his faith is real but..... He found Jesus while on a speed binge?!? Ooookay!

  ~LL06
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  REALLY Think about it before you post

  by avidbiblereader in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  there is a lot of threads going back and forth both ways, almost like a battle line has been drawn between believers and atheists.

  however, let's just say for the sake of argument, that all religions including the witnesses, are wrong but the bible in itself is right.. everything that it has foretold is going to happen and just as god told noah, in 7 more days i am going to make it rain, but this time he now speaks to all of us and says in just 7 more days i will wipe the earth clean of all those who have or are revolting/disagree against me.. how would you react then?

  how would you live your next 7 days?

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  If Dr. Seuss' books were correct I would want to box a gox and ring a gak.

  The problem for me is that no matter how many different ways I interpret the bible God still comes out looking like a tyrannical, egotistical, self-centered killer. If the bible was absolutely correct, and every human being was wrong in it’s interpretation what the hell was God’s point in providing it for us? Why was it so confusing? Wouldn’t he know that the confusion created from his word would cause millenniums of violence and wars over it’s interpretation? So his inability to provide coherent, easily understood instructions to his creation proves to me that he is neither all mighty nor deserving of our reverence. He should have written "The Idiots guide to Life" or "Living for Dummies", at least then we could follow his word. Also, why would he wait so long? Your question raises even more questions about God’s purpose. I think it might take me more than 7 days to figure it all out.