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  Consequences of being a JW

  by Regretful_J in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been thinking about what its like to be born and raised as a jw and the mistakes that parents make as an almost direct result of this cult.

  for one thing, the children are not allowed to think freely, and if they say or do one little thing their parents disapprove of, they are chastised and basically bullied into abandoning that thought or action.

  another thing is that no matter what you do, and no matter how good your reputation is among friends, teachers, administrators, etc if you don't want to go to meetings, and don't believe in this faith, they do what they can to make you feel lower then dirt for this and will often resort to verbal abuse, and sometimes violence to force you to believe in them and conform.

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  Opinions?

  by chappy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can't get this to woek as a hyperlink for some reason.

  copy and paste it to your browser.

  if this doesn't make you think i don't know what will.

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  Why i liked being a Jehovah's Witness...

  by digderidoo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are so many reasons why i liked being a jehovahs's witness.

  1. we got to count time when we share our faith with nonbelievers or our young children.

  2. we didn't have to go to college to get a good job as a janitor or a window washer.

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  A birthday in "bizarro world"

  by changeling in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sitting in the living room reading jwd on my laptop.

  my elderly parents are in the adjacent dining room having lunch.

  my mother pulls out the "daily text" and asks: "what day is it?

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  Question

  by Newborn in

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  do you still believe that jehovahs day and the paradise will come?.

  i still believe in god and the creation.. /newborn.

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  What to do???.

  by integ in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey folks,.

  just curious what your take would be on this.. i have a witness friend, who happens to be a radio announcer (dj) on a rock station ( yes i know, that is weird in and of itself).

  anyway, he wants to leave the "truth" but family keeps him in.

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  What JW teaching did you find hardest to defend??

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for me it was that god is killing billions of people just to prove a point.

  what about you?

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  My dad just came out... as one of the annointed

  by Pwned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know i don't post here that often but this just kind of blew me away.

  my dad just "came out" recently as annointed and i find it so weird.

  he's always been pretty level headed and he's been in for over 30 years.

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  Interesting phenomena regarding Witnesses

  by JamesThomas in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first, and most important: thanks to all those who read my introduction-post last saturday, and especial thanks to those who replied.

  like many who have been disfellowshipped (and especially those raised in the org) i've been dragged through icy waves of agonizing hurt and anger; often followed by times of peace and letting go; only to be hit by another turbulent and bitter bout of animosity and grief.

  the tides do run deep, don't they.

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  That They Might be Kings

  by Farkel in

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  dubs like to speculate.

  about almost everything: how life will be in the new world ordertm, how and when armageddon is going to happen, whether the latest newspaper headline really signals that armageddon is about to start, what the latest new lighttm is going to be, and on and on.. so heres something to also speculate about.

  suppose that jehovah paid a personal visit to the wts leaders and said, .

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