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Oprah & Sexual Abuse & JW's - an interesting episode?
by Princess Daisy Boo ini was watching oprah today and a thought crossed my mind... based on the recent sexual assault case in sa at her school, and her reaction to that situation, this is obviously an issue close to her heart, so wouldn't her show be a perfect forum for an expose on the jw/pedophilia issue?
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Obsessed Ex-JWs----Are You One Of Them?
by minimus inare you consumed by your having been a witness?
are you very angry all the time because of your jw past?.
have you ever thought about recieving professional therapy?
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Are you consumed by your having been a Witness?
No
Are you very angry all the time because of your JW past?
I used to be because I felt that I was robbed of a normal childhood and how the elders and organization was involved in so much of my childhood disipline. It also is responsible for almost every bad choice I made growing up, because I tried so hard to prove that I was NOT a JW and that the only reason I was associated with the organization was because of my parents and I was a minor. I made alot of bad choices that could have caused serious harm to myself. I lucked out and none of my choices caused any serious or life threating harm.
Have you ever thought about recieving professional therapy??
I did but not specifically due to leaving the JW's - I went through therapy for something unrelated and found out that being raised JW was the root of most of my problems. My crazy JW mother was the reason I went to threapy.
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What the bad Witness kids called each other...
by wanderlustguy inwe called our fellow bad brothers and sisters "itnesses"...not quite there...
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Just the mention of my "family name" was enough for people to say "bad association". All my siblings and I were always in "JW" trouble, in other words we did stuff ordinary kids did, we had fun, we fooled around, partied - only difference is, normal kids got in trouble with their parents, we got in trouble with the elders and our parents.
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MY Story. Escape from a pack of wolves.Thrown to the lions.
by cluless inearly christians chose to be thrown to the lions rather than renounce there taith.
my story is the opposite i observed my congregatioon as a pack of wolves.
and i observed the big bad wolves were usually the elders.
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Welcome to JWD clueless.
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Observation of WT during Assembly
by Robert7 inso i recently attended an assembly day, and this added ammo as to why i am turned off:
- they did a very good job saying how anything that is not 'of jehovah' is worldly and from the devil.
so black & white.
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have to admit, on the other hand it is so nice to be a blissfully content follower and part of me just wishes I could be like that. You have good friends, a strong faith, and live a clean moral life. Deep down I just don't buy it and I just can't force myself to do it, which is why I am here
You can have those things without organized religion and especially without the JW's, imho. Oh and your good JW friends will totally ignore you and cut you out of their lives if and when you decide to not believe in the same religion as they do, just in case you have forgotten or did know.
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Moles - How do I murder them? Will you be an accessory?
by AK - Jeff ini speak of the furry kind that burrow under my yard and destroy it.
this year in our area they were terrible.
i do not lie when i state that nearly every square foot of my front lawn was tunnelled this summer, some of it three and four times after i pressed down the tunnels with my feet and mower.
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My Black Lab - he hunts them, plays with them and then drops them off at the door as a present Now to figure out a way to keep him from digging holes in the yard, murder is not an option
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Edited: He also like to bring the babies in the house (hidden his mouth) and drop them in the toilet
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For any who were raised a JW...
by rache31 indo you find that most of the ones you grew up with left?
i looked around while still active and saw numbers dwindling from my generation.
i pioneered while in late teens/early twenties and several from my class that were friends of mine left years ago.
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I often wonder about this. I left at 18 and I have no idea if anyone else left or not. I never kept in touch with anyone except for 1 friend that I ran into a couple of years ago. He's still in, loyal dub but seems to be a liberal dub Just when I think I've said something to make him think, he comes back with "where else would I go"? *said with a whine and a pouty face* And then I just want to slap the $&%# out of him.
Something about hearing "where else would I go" from a 48 year old man just irritates the crap out of me. Sorry for the rant, back to topic now
I would like to know if any left and where they are in their lives now
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What Was Your Standing In The Congregation?
by minimus inwere you "loved"?
well respected?
considered a "loser"?.
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"bad association" I never conformed to the rules
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Confused and upset
by Matilda Wormwood inbehind me is a beast .
composed of doubt .
it is huge and mighty .
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(((((((((((((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))))))))))
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Sorry?
by RichieRich inover the past few days... someone who i'm no longer associated with has been out on vendetta to discredit me.
it started with a mass mail to my myspace friends, which caused nothing more than a few eyebrows to be raised.
that was the reaction of people who know me in real life.
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There is a place in the service for aaaallllll; It is the work Jesus did you'll recaaaaaall;
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah;
Keep standing firm for righteousneeeeeeessssss!!!!
Thanks a million, I just got that song out of my head from months ago when someone brought it up That'll teach me to check in on a thread again! Is my above addition correct? Jeez I hope not!
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