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  Life for me as a jw (not really) teenager

  by DuvanMuvan in

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  hey i joined this thread recently and thought this was a good way to introduce myself.

  i am 15, still going to school and i live in the uk.

  a good chunk of my mum's side of the family are jws.

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  diana netherton

  Sorry to hear that you're going through such a time...I went throught exactly what you did years ago.

  Honestly, I would sit your mum down and just tell her outright what you said here. Tell her that you love her and your family and that you will respect their beliefs but that you have decided not to adopt them yourself. Assure her that you're not going to bust out on some major criminal, immoral spree, but that you just want to choose a different path. It's going to be difficult, especially with all of the people around you, and there may be emotion. Try to stay calm and stay true to yourself. I did...that was 25 years ago, and I don't regret it at all. Think about it and decide for yourself. You're very young, but very well spoken and you strike me as very intelligent.

  You can email me anytime if you would like to chat to someone.

  Stay strong....BIG HUGS.

  Diana
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  BOTR- Announcement

  by Band on the Run in

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  law school is obviously not the hardest program to follow.

  it isn't something that can be replicated on the internet.

  a first year student can find the law.

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  I have a law degree but don't use it as I make a better living doing what I've been doing for all of these years....I'm often hesitant to tell people. The reaction often is negative. I think that's the case because really one side is always going to be unhappy with any outcome in a court of law. That's 50 percent. Of course, you're more likely to talk about a negative experience rather than a positive one. I interract with attorneys every day all of the time. Some are wonderful, some are not, some are competent, some are quite horrid...but that's the same with any profession, I imagine. You always get a few bad apples.

  I don't think, BOTR, that you should be too hurt in my opinion. I am sure you've gotten into a lot worse tussles with fellow attorneys. I would just shake this off and continue on. After all, opinions are what you deal with all the time too -- the kind that come down from the courts. :)
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Say They Are The Most Educated In The World. How Would You Prove Otherwise?

  by minimus in

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  they claim their schools, literature and teaching are far more superior than any "worldly" education.

  how would you counter that belief?.

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  I'd like to know where they get that tidbit of info....oh, yeah. From their own writing department. Duh!
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  A funny little anagram.

  by quellycatface in

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  heard this in church on sunday.. bible = book of instructions before leaving earth.. cheesy?.

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  diana netherton

  How are you, Vid?? Look in your inbox. D
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  A funny little anagram.

  by quellycatface in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heard this in church on sunday.. bible = book of instructions before leaving earth.. cheesy?.

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  diana netherton

  Very
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  Do you pray over your meals? If so why? If not, when did you stop and why?

  by BU2B in

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  2. friends

  to answer my question, no i do not pray over meals anymore exept for when i am with other jws i do a 15 second head bow for appearances sake.

  i just came to the realization god had nothing to do with whether i ate or not.

  many believers are starving right now whilst many non-believers are eating like kings.. also why should god give me food while he lets little children in dprk concentration camps starve to death.

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  I guess if I believed in God, I would. I would rather thank the farmers that grew the food.
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  New awake up on jw.org about suicide

  by hoser in

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  they have printed a series of articles about suicide.

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  This is very troubling. As someone who battles with depression and negative thoughts regularly, I am disappointed and alarmed that their first words of advice aren't seek professional help. But that's not what they really want...because if a person does seek professional help and counseling, it just might open their eyes to what's really going on. Everything about this religion sickens me.
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  Purged songs of the Watchtower

  by LogCon in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my memory of singing the kingdom songs go back to when i was a child in the 1950's.

  they still hold a place in my memory and my heart.

  how can something that is so much a part of your childhood not stay embedded in your heart.?.

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  They couldn't even plagerize songs well...they still sounded awful. EVERYONE sang the soprano line badly. It was like listening to a cat fight! Ugh. That was pure torture. I think they ough to do away with waterboarding and other forms of torture and play JW toons nonstop to inmates!!!
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  No Reading,PA conventions this year

  by jdubsnub in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hope this isnt a repost.

  i tried to search a little but didn't see this anywhere.

  does anybody know where the philadelphia region of witnesses are going to be sent to this year?

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  I was up in Reading this past year for work when they had the convention....I went to pull into a car park near the courthouse and there was a man standing there with a big sign that said, NO JW PARKING. I chuckled.
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  Worst yb experience I have ever heard heartwrenching

  by Skinnedsheep in

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  he sold his bicycle.

  malachi, an elder who lives in burundi, earned his living by farming and by transporting loads on his bicycle.

  in order to support their kingdom hall construction project, malachi decided to be at the construction site every day.

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  diana netherton

  Can you really make this s*&t up?