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  Hello

  by EyesOpened in

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  my parents became jw's in 1972 - i was 6 yrs old.

  i followed their lead, baptized at 15, regular pioneer at 19, ms at 21, elder at 27. have given district and circuit talks, tms overseer yada, yada, yada... .

  last september i stopped and haven't looked back.

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  EVERYONE...PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING OUR NEWEST MEMBER

  by jaredg in

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  welcome kimberb.....it was so great to rediscover you!

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  Please don't take offence at this ...

  by Joe Grundy in

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  i'm not a jw, never have been, and in no danger of becoming one.. having read several of the wt mags and publications (and many more extracts on this and other sites) they come across to me as being very patronising in tone and full of pseudo-scholarship, misquoted (or unnamed) sources, references taken out of context, mis-translations, etc.

  i'm aware of jw 'teaching' on the subject of higher education for its members (i.e.

  not a good or necessary thing) so i can understand why many jws raised in it may not challenge the publications.

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  Los testigos de Jehová una amenaza al marco social familiar

  by nandokano in

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  hola amigos,.

  se a traducido un articulo del ingles al espanol.

  el articulo es de victor escalante .

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  Were any of you ever...

  by LaCatolica in

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  ...teased, harrassed, tormented in school because you were jw and couldn't participate in what other students participated in?

  how old were you when it began to happen?

  how did you feel and how did you react to it?

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  Studying with JWs

  by I-follow-the-narrow-path in

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  i have just started studying with jws, (on a regular basis) about a month ago, and i really enjoy it.

  - i am wondering what will happen in the next couple of months, knowing i will continue going to the kingdom hall and studying.

  will i go door to door sometime?

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  High School Graduation

  by Jim_TX in

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  okay - since larry isn't gonna ask it... i will.. did you attend your high school graduation?

  cap & gown stuff - the whole nine yards?.

  it wasn't even a consideration, either.. heck... i wasn't allowed to go to senior 'honors' night - where i was elected to receive some sort of recognition.

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  The Story of Adam & Eve

  by LaCatolica in

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  i learned that the story of adam and eve was exactly that, 'a story'.

  i remember learning that in my religion class in high school.

  i learned that the old testament was filled with tales and that none should be taken literally because these were stories of oral tradition.

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  What are your reasons for not joining another religion?

  by MARTINLEYSHON in

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  i am going to start this debate of by saying that those of us who were raised in the so called truth, and i being one of them, can only come to terms with our past by accepting that our parents infected our minds like a virus infects a computer.

  we wouldn't categorise children according to their parents' political stance, since they are too young to make up their minds about such matters.

  but they (jw) segregate them from the world.

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  Judgement Day

  by LaCatolica in

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  *it is believed that everyone will get judged on judgement day...not as a group, but individually.

  why are jws so freakin' concerned with what any one person does with their lives?

  why do they care if one of its members "smells the coffee" and thinks for themselves?

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