Yes, I watched part it last night and recorded the rest, but it is a re-run, it was the pilot episode...so you should be able to watch the full episode on line....
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Nowman
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Did anyone else watch the new show on FoX "Lie to me" about a devout Jehovah's Witness family?
by StoneWall ini only got to see bits and pieces of it cause i had a hectic day yesterday ... but even on my satellite dish under info it listed it as a devout j.w.
family show/drama.
just curious what others thought and if anyone watched it in entirety.. then i did a google search under "lie to me" jehovah's witness and got some reviews on it.. on one site a active j.w.
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Hello everyone
by Wordlygirl ini have been lurking on here for some time and i finally decided to join the fray.
i am 25 years old and was raised in the society.
fortunately when i was 8, my father left the organization and this allowed me to see the wrold from both angles, the jw (mom) and not (dad).. at first, i was strongly on the side of the witnesses and i even allowed myself to be convinced that getting baptised at 11 was a good idea.
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Nowman
Welcome, and your story made me cry...I just am so sorry, but at the same time happy you got your little girl out of it!
Nikki
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Were you a good witness in school?
by keyser soze ini have to confess that i really wasn't.
it wasn't that i was bad.
i just didn't do all the things that were expected of me.. i remember being envious of those kids they would interview at meetings and assemblies; the ones who could stand up in front of all their classmates and talk about "the truth".
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Nowman
It was so difficult being a kid & being a JW! By the time I was in 4th grade, I had gone to 5 different schools do the elders advising my mom that we should go back to our abusive father/husband. When it got bad, mom & I would go, that meant changing schools. I longed to be normal secretly in that aspect, to just stay put. I led a double life from the standpoint of girlfriends & boys...I just loved my friends at school...and the boys too-LOL.
I joined facebook recently, and found so many of the girls I went to school with, and their response back to me on average was "where have you been"? I can't tell you how much that means to me...but these worldy people I went to school with actually someway helped me get out of the org young too...
After freshman year of HS, my parents had me home schooled...it actually made my life easier...at least until I could escape!
Nikki
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My neighbor's daughter hung herself
by frozen one inwhen i got home from work tonight i was told my neighbor's daughter had commited suicide.
the daughter lived several hours from here and i had only met her a couple of times over the years, so i didn't know her at all really.
from what i understand the daughter had struggled with substance abuse problems for a long time.
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Nowman
I am so very sorry to hear this...having gone through this with my husband's uncle 2 weeks ago...he hung himself in his mom's garage...everyone is still so stunned...I do find it peculiar that he tried to get his anti depressants refilled but because he could not pay, he could not get them...so he had been off of them for a few days...then he does this...I wonder.
Again, its so sad to hear...
Nikki
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Were you a good witness in school?
by keyser soze ini have to confess that i really wasn't.
it wasn't that i was bad.
i just didn't do all the things that were expected of me.. i remember being envious of those kids they would interview at meetings and assemblies; the ones who could stand up in front of all their classmates and talk about "the truth".
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Nowman
Wow, I feel like this question is directed at me-LOL, how selfish of me-LOL
You see I tried to be a good JW girl, but I loved school for the main reason of getting away from my very strict parents. I lead a double life. I also got into alot of trouble with my parents because I went to school with othe witness kids. I was not a bad kid...I just wanted to be normal.
In fact, I got in so much behind closed doors that the counselors at school and some members of my family that were not JWs inquire into child abuse. In my freshman year of highschool, this JW kid saw me kissing a boy and told his elder dad. I got home to a surprise that day, the biggest beating I ever had. I had bruises on my fingers, my mom cut 8 inches off my hair.
Want to hear the kicker? This kid who told on me, a year later he murdered his parents, and my dad found them.
Craziness!
Those poor JW kids! ***Nikki****
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Have you forgiven your parents for bringing you up in the JW cult?
by Gayle ini had to sort through that for some years ago.
i concluded my parents were victims of the watchtower society too.
dad was a prisoner of war, under nazis at 19 yrs of age, almost died there due to no medicines or antibiotics and lost almost half his weight, his nerves were shot and he was drawn to the jws promise of a new world without war.
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Nowman
Yes, I forgave my parents. In regards to Renia's comment, I have to diagree with for my case. I have three children, 12, 10, & 2. I do not practice any religion and my kids know it. But, I do not tell them to stay away from religions, or what they want to believe in. We just talk when they have questions. I do not raise them with my way of thinking, because I am agnostic, they know I am but I do not encourage them to be agnostic, I encourage them to think for themselves when it comes to this and they need to learn for themselves. I do not think religion is something I can teach my children, nor do I want to.
This comes up because their dad is Lutheran, not a true practicing one, but that his affliation. My older two have asked if I wanted to be Lutheran, I said no, but that its their decision if they want to be Lutheran.
In the end, if they chose to be JW though, I would warn them...but they know what happened to me...so I doubt that they will go that way...but I will always be their mom no matter what, will always be there for them no matter what religion.
Nikki
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Did you like 80's music?
by John Doe ini was unaware that don johnson was a singer.
i came across this, and couldn't help laughing.
there was certainly a lot of emotion in this genre, but this is intense enough to border on comedy.
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Nowman
Dr Hook's "Sharin the Night Together" was my favorite song when I was 8 in 1982. To this day, I am 35, when I go out with freinds to a bar, I look for that song...I have it on my IPOD.
Nikki
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The young ones are leaving in droves!!!
by 1914BS ini hear that many congos are loosing all their young dubs and now only very old dubs are left.
it seems the jws religion is dying out because there are no youngins to replace the aging ms/elder/cos .
the young dubs are very internet savy and would rather play warcraft than go out in the field circus.. i remember a wt study article a couple of years ago that was entitled" when a young person rebels" or something like that - anyone know that mag?.
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Nowman
There was a thread here recently-I think more than one about my area, Northern Illinois, mass DFing of teenagers!
I do not know who has repented since...but I do find it fitting to this thread...
Nikki
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Did You Personally Believe "The End" Was Going To Come In Your Lifetime?
by minimus inhonestly, i never believed in the chronology.
"no man knows the day or the hour" was pretty clear to me..
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Nowman
Yesterday, I was with my former pioneer witness mom...she mentioned she never believed that our family (non-JWs) would die at Armagedon, it was after I was talking about how I used to cry at night thinking about my aunt Colleen & aunt Donna dieing on Dooms Day...I had never known my mom did not believe it...
I was not sure yesterday how I felt about that comment, of course my mom and I do not have the best relationship...but maybe I was just shocked because growing up I really thought my parents were die hard JWs and here my mom had these thoughts...
Nikki
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Nowman
Wow troubled mind...I never head of Silvis, but I know Moline, thanks...maybe I was hoping I would have met you before....:)