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  Graduating from collge next week

  by NYCkid in

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  i just wanted share that i am graduating from columbia university next week with an undergraduate degree in sociology at the age of 39. see, it's never too late, for anyone out there considering attending college.. my partner and around 10 of my closest friends will be there to cheer me on, which is overshadowing any disappointment that my family will not be there, or as of today, yet to acknowledge this accomplishment that means so much to me (i sent grad announcements a few weeks ago along with an invite).

  in all honestly, they live across the country so it is an expensive trip.. anyway, despite the student loans, hard work and sacrifices, it has been well worth it.

  i remember back in h.s in the late 1980s, i begged my parents to let me attend college, but of course, the end was coming and it was a waste of time.

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  White Dove

  White Dove is...

  39

  BA in sociology in two days

  Much more enlightened and wonder where my brain was before starting community college in 1999.

  So much in common!

  Grats, Grad!
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  How long did it take...

  by Honesty in

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  for you to get rid of that 'new personality' and get back to normal when you left the jw's?

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  Same as Wha happened. The struggle in being a conservative, self-denying X-ian just took it's toll. I couldn't keep doing it. It would surface many times from kidhood through adulthood. Just couldn't be that good and conforming all the time. Now, I can't bear a second of conforming to anyone else's mould.
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  What's the dumbest thing you've ever heard a JW say?

  by Renegade in

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  alot of you maybe stuck for choice so you can say as many as you want.

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  About two weeks after my husband left me, I was at my grandmother's house and crying over it. She, an elderette, said, "Are you still pining?!" She said it very accusingly. I said no.
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  JW's & JW sympathisers please help! Bed bugs!

  by Mr Ben in

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  2. beliefs

  i would like to know how jw's reconcile their world view with the fact that there exists creatures that live solely on blood.

  bed bugs are in the news at the moment so they serve as a good example.

  bed bugs live solely on the blood of animals.. ok, please explain to me how you reconcile the belief of creation by jehovah with the existence of bed bugs?.

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  White Dove

  I'm going to have to start writing these down. People get cancer. Dogs get cancer. Cats get leukemia. People get sick because of inherited sin. Animals get sick because of...nature thrown out of wack because of humans' sin???

  That's the way I heard it.
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  How Were You Treated as a Jehovah's Witness if You Had Depression ?

  by flipper in

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  most of us who were in the jehovah's witnesses for some time realize that for years the watchtower society had always discouraged it's rank and file members from going to see therapists, or professional counselors if they had depression, or serious chemical depression.

  the watchtower society always told us to go out in service more, do more personal study, be more regular at meetings - and essentially we would lose our depression , and everything would fall right back into place.

  the old, " don't worry, be happy " cliche.

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  My brother, still in, is suicidally depressed and in and out of hospitals for it. Bipolar, I think it is, although I've never seen him manic.
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  Where do atheists' morals come from?

  by dorayakii in

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  many theists believe that atheists have no morality at all.

  they argue that because atheists dont believe in the laws, limitations and boundaries that god has set up for us, there's nothing stopping them from becoming violent, lying thieving sociopaths.

  there have been many stories of people who have "found god" and changed their life, giving up drugs, repenting for past crimes.

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  White Dove

  I do truly believe this: The devine lives within each one of us and speaks to us through our guts. Listen to your gut feeling on things and you will most likely be right most of the time. Listen to your inner goddess/god and you will have peace.
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  Noah's ark - Can't believe I once actually thought it was true

  by sam_sane_now in

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  when i was a jw i didn't even question that the noah's ark story might not be true.

  i didn't realise that it wasn't achievable for a handful of people to gather literally millions of animals - two of each kind - and fit them into a boat where they would all survive for many days.

  i didn't think about the fact that if the highest mountain was covered with water then how could plant life like trees and flowers come to exist again, especially so soon after, with the raven grabbing an olive leaf was it?

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  That kind of temperature on Venus isn't only because it's closer to the sun, either. That cloud definately has something to do with it.
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  Noah's ark - Can't believe I once actually thought it was true

  by sam_sane_now in

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  when i was a jw i didn't even question that the noah's ark story might not be true.

  i didn't realise that it wasn't achievable for a handful of people to gather literally millions of animals - two of each kind - and fit them into a boat where they would all survive for many days.

  i didn't think about the fact that if the highest mountain was covered with water then how could plant life like trees and flowers come to exist again, especially so soon after, with the raven grabbing an olive leaf was it?

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  White Dove

  Yes, fresh water diluting salt water and killing all of the fish. Yet another thing to use to explain the impossibility of the flood, besides the 900-1000 degree Farenheit atmosphere within that all encompassing water canopy, just like Venus. Venus only has a cloud and look what it's doing to the surface!
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  Ghost caught on CCTV?

  by Sirona in

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  http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb9_1210435814.

  bottom right corner.... this is not one of those vids where something jumps out.. sirona.

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  Big Tex,

  This is exactly where I am in my search for the spirit realm. I hope it's real, but don't know yet for sure. I don't jump to believe it yet I don't discount it, either. I just loooove the idea of ghosts! I wanna be one when I die
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  "Even if it isn't true" - how many of you heard this one recently?

  by hamsterbait in

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  i remember first hearing it after the generation change of 95.. a sister answered up at the wt and said "even if armageddon isn't coming, its still the best way to live.".

  i have heard others say: "even if it isn't true, it's still the best way of life.".

  my mother said it a few weeks ago!

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  White Dove

  "I can do better!" Line from Stepford Wives.