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  Were You Always Feeling Guilty & Unhappy During Your Witness Years?

  by minimus in

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  were you ever really joyful as a witness?

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  Woofer

  Only when I realized I got away with a fake illness so I wouldn't have to out in field service as a kid.
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  Wacky WT article to 'scare you'

  by Smiles in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  its a wt article on their official website called the "the danger zone".

  "the danger zone"... isn't that an old kenny loggins song for the top gun movie soundtrack?.

  here is the wt "danger zone"... .

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  Woofer

  I was thinking the same thing "some 12 year old wrote this".

  It's almost like they article was directed towards someone who wasn't educated or could hardly read.

  If I had no prior knowledge of the dubs and read this article I would think "what a bunch of wacko's" (oh wait, I already think that )
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  shouldn't we wait till we're 30+ to be baptized?

  by annalice in

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  i believe we were taught that jesus was around thirty years old when he was baptized.

  now i was always told that the bible mentioned specific things like times and dates for a reason .as a guide for us to follow.

  so by telling us his age this would seem to be very important for us .

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  I agree 100%

  I was baptized at 16 to basically make my parents shut up. In my congregation if you were any older then 17 or 18 and wasn't baptized that meant that there was something wrong with you.

  I remember kids as young as 9 getting baptized!
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  SUMMER CAMPS FOR KIDS A BIG NO-NO

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i guess i shouldn't be surprised at this, but my dub sister told me this morning that at the meeting last night, they had a "local needs" about whether or not "christian" parents should enroll their kids in any summer camps, or recreational activities that colleges and universities offer each year.

  the list of activities the kids can do are numerous and to me, they are an excellent source that could really help develop a child's talents, expose them to the wonders of science, art, engineering, etc., develop skills that would obviously be of benefit to them both now and in later life, and give them a chance to meet new friends from other schools in the area.

  anyway, while not out and out forbidding it, these activities are being very much frowned upon.

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  They were discouraging us from anything that would take us away from summer pioneering years and years ago. Can't they think of anything new to say?

  Oh I forgot . .the "new" light. . . silly me.
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  I'm back!!!!

  by RichieRich in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello again from sunny north carolina!!!.

  our state lotto started today, and i won 15 dollars, and only bought 1 $1 card.

  so whoop whoop for gambling.. i was in miami florida last week for the photoshop world conference, but i also got to tour the everglades, where i took some beautiful pictures.

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  Woofer

  This has been a real "eye opening" for me.

  Parts of this made me want to cry . .seeing their reasoning on how they handled my molester. He was my brother-in-law and a MS at the time. His priviledges in the hall were revoked.

  My sister (not his wife) told me recently that he was up for MS again but because I was underage at the time of the molestation, that he couldn't be appointed again. But notes made from The Flock book states that if he were to be appointed again that his molestation record should be destroyed.

  Now I am wondering if what my sister told me is true.
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  New here!!!

  by Saiera in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello, i am new in this forum.

  i have been trying to find a lot of things since i have a lot of jw around me and always wanted to find evidences to prove them wrong.

  i hope to find myself good and find enough information in this site to be able to talk with them.

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  Woofer

  Welcome!

  Finding evidence to prove your JW friends wrong doesn't seem to be too hard to do since there is so much of it.
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  What Things Were You Deprived Of Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  i think back at some of the simpler things we couldn't do or have because we were a witness.

  i hardly know my father's (worldly) side of the family.

  didn't know my grandfather, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins.

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  I just wished for once I could have been like everyone else . .celebrating Halloween . . Christmas . .my birthday.

  I also missed out on hanging out with some good friends from school because they were "worldy".

  I also wish I had the chance to date a few people before being pretty much forced to marry the first guy I ever went out with. I often wonder where I would be today if I had that choice.

  I wanted to go to the prom and also go to college. My dream was to become a nurse.
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  So for you...

  by KW13 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so for you what made you leave?.

  what helped you stay out?.

  did you have support from friends or anyone (online included .

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  Woofer

  What made me leave? I got married way too young (19) to a "brother" that I hardly knew. Of course there wasn't much of chance to get to really know who he was deep down because we were never allowed to be alone. I felt a great amount of pressure to marry him since we were dating and dating is "only for marriage". I married him exactly 11 months after I met him. I was miserable in that marriage and I felt it was unfair that I had no way out just because I made a mistake and got married. I felt the only way for me to get out was to have an affair and thats exactly what I did. I did not however count on him forgiving me.

  What helped me stay out? I will admit that I miss my family terribly, but having the FREEDOM to think for myself and make my own decisions was such a breath of fresh air for me. I wasn't willing to give that up.

  Do I have support of friends? I actually work with a disfellowshipped girl. (she got disfellowshipped for falling in love with a worldy guy and she left her husband). She has been my support when I need someone. Her family does not shun her (my family shuns me) so I feel she is extremely lucky in that regard. Also having on-line support helps sooo much. The people on this site REALLY know what you went through.
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  Hindsight is 20/20: What were your signs?

  by divejunkie in

  1. jw
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  what i mean is now that you are out of the wt; do you ever think back at something you innocently said or did when you still believed or you were little that now feels like a sign that you would someday get out of the bullsh*t?

  for me, growing up in the jw's, i feel there were signs of my "goat hairs" even way back then.

  ** even as a child, every saturday morning i would spend at least 10 or 15 minutes trying to figure out what to say to get out of going to field service .

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  I ALWAYS hated field service. . on Saturday mornings I would fake a stomach ache or something like that (staying in the bathroom for 1/2 hour just to "prove" I was sick). I was embarassed to be a Witness . .never wanted anyone at school to know. In elementary school I would make up stories about celebrating Christmas or my birthday just to try and fit in.

  I remember thinking all the time "if ALL the religions out there . .why did my parents pick THIS one?"

  I never studied . .only fake studied . .highlighting every other sentence seemed to work well.

  As an early teen I would tell my parents I was going to the mall and I would really meet a worldy boy out somewhere (never did have sex before marriage though).

  I remember once at the bookstudy the conductor made a comment that some people haven't fallen into serious sin yet because they haven't been given the "opportunity". . I felt like he was talking to me.
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  Rules Created by the Body of Elders and an Off Topic Question

  by XJW4EVR in

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  2. friends

  in my latest post in my story, i recounted how my dad and another elder made attendance at high school sports events a no-no.

  in retrospect, i don't recall anything in print that made attendance at local sporting events a shepherding offense.

  maybe my memory is faulty.. did your boe make rules like this?.

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  Woofer

  Man, I was just remined what a sucky childhood I had.

  Never could have any fun . .no organized sports, no dances, no worldly friends, no smoking, no sex (lol).