One friend wrote in my high school annual: "I really enjoyed playing with you in grade school. Then it seemed like you kind of disappeared in high school." Looking back, kids from school were started to hang out at my house and invite me to parties until my parents put a stop to it around sixth grade. I then felt more awkward around the other kids when I was at school. I definitely think my growth as a person was stunted. But I always played sports at lunchtime. In grade school it was pickup football games and in high school it was pickup basketball.
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JW Middle Schoolers vs Non JW Middle Schoolers - what was your middle/high school experience?
by Julia Orwell ini'm a secondary school teacher and i've spent a lot of time at school this year since i've left jws simply observing student dynamics.
i do a lot of playground duty and have the opportunity to observe the kids at play and in the classroom.
i've especially had the opportunity to observe middle school kids, that is, kids between 12 and 15 in my state.. my observations of these 'worldly' children are:.
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A JW husband emailing his ex-girlfriend after his wife reveals her apostasy
by JimmyPage ina woman i've known for years recently confided in me.
she told me she found out her jw husband had been secretly e-mailing his jw ex-girlfriend.
he was telling his ex about how difficult it had been for him since his wife was now basically an apostate.
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A woman I've known for years recently confided in me. She told me she found out her JW husband had been secretly e-mailing his JW ex-girlfriend. He was telling his ex about how difficult it had been for him since his wife was now basically an apostate. She confronted her husband about these e-mails and the husband and ex seemed to no longer be in contact.
But then a year later she said they had been in contact again! She said there were numerous e-mails but none of them were romantic in nature except one that said, "You have been on my mind today, all day :)". She also said he had been wanting to talk with his ex on the phone and skype with her (although he said it wouldn't involve video skype, just instant messages). He even hid her skype name under the name of a family member to deceive her. When she confronted her husband about it again he insisted they were just friends. She wanted to know my opinion on the situation (and I definitely had one!)
But I'm curious what the board would tell her as well?
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And not just the ethnic congregations. The English hall my mother attends is like an old folks home. They're not all this way, but more and more all the time.
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U.N turning on Religion...sounds like those nutjob survivalists...never happen!!
by Witness 007 inamerican survivalists and cults believe in "the new world order".
a world government will take over and we will all have barcodes on our arms etc... how did this nonsense get into watchtower lore with the whole u.n thing.
the org.
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I watched the pilot episode of "Escaping Evil- My Life Inside the Cult" and was fascinated to see the Children of God and Family International had an eerily similar teaching to that of JWs when it comes to this.
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Un-friending JW Facebook Friends-Therapy
by nicsfreedom init may sound harsh but i am finding it therapeutic to unfriend my jw friends today on facebook.
i just can't live in the past anymore.
so sick of the drama, spying and having to pretend to be something i am not.
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I had a JW friendly account and I just couldn't take all the governing body worship anymore. I deleted most of my JW friends including some relatives. The only ones I kept were the ones who had DF'd friends or who didn't constantly make me want to puke with their pro WT posts.
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Boston marathon bombing suspects in firefight with police!
by JimmyPage inhttp://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/19/17817173-one-boston-marathon-suspect-dead-another-still-on-run-officials-say?lite.
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I love all the hilarious responses to this thread. But I'm going to go serious and say Joyce Meyer. I know, I know... but if I was forced to listen to a preacher she'd be the one I could tolerate the easiest.
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JW mother charged for death of her toddler
by JimmyPage init's a bit of semi-old news but i don't know if this ever got its own thread:.
http://www.koamtv.com/story/19067909/toddler-dies-of-methadone-overdose-charges-pending-against-mother.
this woman's brother is an alleged child molester as well.
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"Hey, the press wants to say this happened in a church. Should we correct them and say we don't want to be lumped in with Christendom and that our buildings are called Kingdom Halls?"
"Um, no, in this case let's just let them call it a church. No need to be sticklers."
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JW mother charged for death of her toddler
by JimmyPage init's a bit of semi-old news but i don't know if this ever got its own thread:.
http://www.koamtv.com/story/19067909/toddler-dies-of-methadone-overdose-charges-pending-against-mother.
this woman's brother is an alleged child molester as well.
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The link doesn't say she's a JW. But trust me on this.
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JW mother charged for death of her toddler
by JimmyPage init's a bit of semi-old news but i don't know if this ever got its own thread:.
http://www.koamtv.com/story/19067909/toddler-dies-of-methadone-overdose-charges-pending-against-mother.
this woman's brother is an alleged child molester as well.
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It's a bit of semi-old news but I don't know if this ever got its own thread:
This woman's brother is an alleged child molester as well. He has freely roamed from congregation to congregation.