It's the same here in South Africa. Divorce among the JW is very high.
Mrs Smith
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Divorce rates among JWs higher?
by AK - Jeff indo you believe that divorce rates among jw's is higher or lower than the averages now?.
in the us - at least recently - it was said that about 50% of all marriages will end in divorce.. for decades as a jw - i believed that jw's were immune from this statistic.
among the older married couples divorce seemed almost unheard of - and still, among the older crowd, that holds true i believe.
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Birthdays and Job
by emptywords inthe societys stance on birthdays is either blatantly a lie, or a lack of bible knowledge on the part of the governing body!
while still attending at the kingdom hall i read job 1:4 where jobs childreneach had celebrations in his own day.
then read in job after his kids died and all his possession were lost where job cursed his own day.
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Mrs Smith
It's just anotherway that the WBTS make the rank and file feel unworthy. We receive undersered kindness from Jah and we are not worthy enough to celebrate our birthday. We are not worthy enough to receive gifts from friends and family to celebrate being alive! What a lot of bs.
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Talk about a lazy way to go in field seervice!
by NikL inso i am at home by myself.
my active jw wife is in town.. i hear an engine running out front and peek through a window.
some car i don't recognise.
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Mrs Smith
Same thing happened to us. When the False Religion tract was been handed out we saw the JW walking up our street. We couldn't wait for them to knock at the door so we could ask them a few questions. The youg man knocked gave his presentation my husband replied "Oh good we've heard about this tract and were wondering when we would get our copy." He smiled said thank you and left as fast as possible. I could not believe it. If a householder reacted like that when I was still putting in time I would have been happy to chat. Seems like they would rather just place whatever they have and run.
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A lurker says hello
by Madame inr. f. wondered how many lurkers there are on the board.
i don't know the answer, but i will admit that i since a few years am one of them.
i read here almost every day.. like many others here i am an ex-jw, left the organisation about 25 years ago and never regretted it.. .
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Mrs Smith
Hello Madame
Welcome and enjoy!
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Is anyone trying to go back to the K. Hall that lives in Philly.
by ladyofsmiles ini am a disfellowshipped j.w.
single mom that needs a ride cause i have to walk with a stroller with my 4 yr. old toddler to the oakland congreations on oakland st. this is a very dangerous area of the city and because its blocks away from frankford ave. and lights and stores we could be attacked.
please email me at: [email protected] if you are going to the same hall and also trying to be reinstated.
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Mrs Smith
Hi Ladyofsmiles. Welcome to the forum. Most of the people here were very hurt by the witnesses and are trying to move on with their lives. Some have realised that you can have a relationship with God without the influence of the WBTS. I hope you find happiness and unconditional love. Help when you need it instead of been told your too bad to be part of a group.
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It hit the fan tonite...
by beaker ini picked up my kids from my ex (still jw) tonite.
she wanted to come and get them back off me on sunday morning so she could take the meeting and every sunday meeting.
of course i wasn't going to agree to that so she said that she wanted them every second weekend so they could go to the meeting.
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Mrs Smith
Hi Beaker. My heart really goes out to your children. Your x sounds very abusive, why not try get custody of the children?
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I'm starting to really get into the New Testament. This is great!
by MichaelM instuff i never really touched much when i was a studying with the witnesses.
i'm in awe.. amazed.. at the things jesus is saying/doing.. some of it is even putting me in tears.
one chapter that i really love so far is i'm in luke and i'm reading about the woman who came into the pharisee's home and started kissing jesus' feet and jesus told the story of the two people that owed money.
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Mrs Smith
It really is great when you read the bible without someone telling you what you should read into it. Enjoy.
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I'm starting to really get into the New Testament. This is great!
by MichaelM instuff i never really touched much when i was a studying with the witnesses.
i'm in awe.. amazed.. at the things jesus is saying/doing.. some of it is even putting me in tears.
one chapter that i really love so far is i'm in luke and i'm reading about the woman who came into the pharisee's home and started kissing jesus' feet and jesus told the story of the two people that owed money.
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Mrs Smith
It really is great when you read the bible without someone telling you what you should read into it. Enjoy.
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Why do KH's not have any windows?
by jibberish inwhat is the real reason why kingdum halls don't have windows?
to people on the outside looking in that is just too wierd and very cult like like they have something to hide.
wasn't in the 80's when they started to build them without windows?
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Mrs Smith
All the KH in South Africa have windows cause it's a building regulation. I think it's to cut costs. I don't think it was part of the mind control freaky stuff, just about good old money.
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"I'm going to Tar and Feather you two"
by whyamihere ini swear to god, i've gone absolutely insane!.
my kids!
will the fighting stop?
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Mrs Smith
My two are EXACTLY the same!! Do you want to swop kids for a while maybe they'll behave if they are not with their own parents? People always tell me how well behaved my kids are. I wouldn't know cause they sure are litlle #@$%&* with me. What's the age difference between yours? My son is turning 14 in Aug and my daughter is 9. I told my son I was going to put him up for auction on e-bay the other day.