Posts by ex-nj-jw

It's never too late to go back to school. Take a few minutes to regroup and see what you really want out of life, career, self growth, self esteem and confidence. You are young and still have a full life ahead of you.

You can work and go to school, there are so many programs out there for you, you just have to get motivated, Dig a hole for all that JW crap, and start living!!!!!

I hope you stay here and get some much needed support and advise for your friends at JWD. FYI I went back to school at age 38 got my Nursing degre, Masters in Nursing and I also hold a radiology degree and license!!!

nj

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Did You Feel "Good" When You Were Being Persecuted?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i know that as a youngster, i felt pretty good about myself because i remained "faithful" and didn't eat birthday cake while everyone else was enjoying it.......i know of wives that came into the hall with a black eye "for jehovah" and were almost deified because of their "stand".

were you persecuted for righteousness sake?

how did it make you feel????

ex-nj-jw

For Holloween, we had to roll up tracts or magazines and put them in the trick or treaters bags when they rang the bell, imagine the torture we got when going to school.

After the first year my mom made us do this, most of the kids remembered and wouldn't bother to ring the bell!!

Sick, sick, sick!!

nj

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Did You Feel "Good" When You Were Being Persecuted?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i know that as a youngster, i felt pretty good about myself because i remained "faithful" and didn't eat birthday cake while everyone else was enjoying it.......i know of wives that came into the hall with a black eye "for jehovah" and were almost deified because of their "stand".

were you persecuted for righteousness sake?

how did it make you feel????

ex-nj-jw

It made me feel like a worthless piece of garbage and is the main reason why I grew up having no self-esteem. I hated it and certainly never felt "good". Probably because even as a child, I never understood their warped logic for banning all these things

Mary, Hit the nail on the head!!

nj

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Installment # 3 - The Indoctrination of Certainty

by AK - Jeff in

our little town of 600 people was but a dot on the map.

but that year was great.

i saw great mountains, camped at elevation, redwoods, tasted pomegranates and olives from the trees they grew on, dodged black widows, explored and conquered the streets of a little town named patterson.

ex-nj-jw

Hey, I remember being at the convention in 1973 at Yankee Stadium!!

nj

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I need some help....I don't understand

by confusedCatholic8 in

i recently started dating a woman that has stopped practicing the religion of jehovahs witness.

i am very confused on so many things that this religion believes.

i would like some input from anyone out therer that can help me...i am a catholic and i have certain things about my religion i don't believe but i dont understand the whole idea that if you leave the jehovahs witness and have been baptized you are no longer allowed to talk to your family and friends of this religion.

ex-nj-jw

Welcome to the board.......

I agree with the other suggestions... Let us know more about you and spend some time reading others posts!!

Good Luck with your fiance

nj

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JW are total Bullies

by sandy in

my grandmother passed away the other night.

it was expected; she's been sick in/out of the hospital for a while now.

most of us are more relieved than anything else because she has been so miserable these last six months or longer.

ex-nj-jw

((((((((((((((((((((sandy)))))))))))))))))))

Sorry for your loss!!

nj

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WTS letter regardong Franz's book

by rosa in

dears, .

my friend told me that there is a letter to elders regarding the ray franz's book "crisis of conscience", how to handling when elders discovered a brother reading this book, etc... .

rosa