my observation has been the opposite of agb's in this regard.
i have known of precisely 0 who have turned to gangs/drugs/prostitution after abandonning the lies known as jehovah's witnesses.
most seem to lead lives of quiet hope outside the mainstream religious community once they leave - but far from dangerous lives [even from the jw perspective].. just thought counter-point might be fairplay here.. do xjw's live like jw's?
I watch tv sometimes; read a lot of books; surf the internet; drink a lot of coffee.
I went to community college and worked part-time and was a single mom, graduated from community college with honors; just got accepted into a "public ivy league" university; and now I'm working at one of the best child development centers in the state.
Yeah, like someone else here said, "major fail," all around, as an ex-jw, LOL!
anyone noticed how the act of shunning is accompanied by a lack of manners and sense of human decency ?
i get shunned by the school lollipop.
who is a dub and who used to be my friend.
videotape it.
guilty of being poorby eric ruder / april 23rd, 2009. the jailers of the 19th century even in the pre-civil war south largely abandoned the practice of imprisoning people for falling into debt as counterproductive and ultimately barbaric.
in the 1970s and 80s, the u.s. supreme court affirmed that incarcerating people who cant pay fines because of poverty violates the u.s. constitution.. apparently, though, some states and county jails never got the memo.
welcome to the debtors prisons of the 21st century.. edwina nowlin, a poor michigan resident, was ordered to reimburse a juvenile detention center $104 a month for holding her 16-year-old son, the new york times wrote in an editorial.. when she explained to the court that she could not afford to pay, ms. nowlin was sent to prison.
disgusting
another one of my second cousins killed himself today.
he was 42 and still a jw.
he called 911 and shot himself while talking to them.
I'm very sorry for your losses. I am sad to hear of this. Hugs to you and your loved ones.
the witnesses like to call us "disgruntled" and "unhappy" and "miserable" because we left the truth.
do you think others view us in this way?.
Some people do. Some people don't.
and after they are bored with picking fruit..... do you think they will make us into something they like better?.
when i first saw this elaborate chapel of skull and bones, my reaction was that this had been intended as a mockery.
surely these friars know the statutes and levitical laws that death and handling of the dead is considered "unclean".
I'm all for recycling. Recycling is natural, anyway. Nature recycles our bones and everything else about us and we have no choice about the arrangement of atoms then.
So, if you become a bone sculpture, why not? Even it it is some kooky monk deciding for you . . . nature might do worse for you, you know.
And even if you wouldn't choose it in life, why would it matter when you're not conscious to worry about it in death?
As long as people aren't being killed to make the art, I'm okay with it, though I would not choose to display it in my living room.
ok...im not divorced just separated.
i just last year started a job but im part time hopefully going on full time, and certainly cant afford to live on my own.
i have the two youngest kids with me.
3 Words: GET A LAWYER
anyway, i can't get "i'll go no more a-rovin'" out of my head.... .
mark well what i do say,.
- i'll go no more a ro -oovin' with you, fair maid!.
A few antidotes:
Rolling Stones: "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Mother's Little Helper."
Beatles: "Eleanor Rigby"
John Lennon: "Imagine"
anyway, i can't get "i'll go no more a-rovin'" out of my head.... .
mark well what i do say,.
- i'll go no more a ro -oovin' with you, fair maid!.
never, but the only song I remember ANYthing about is: "from house to house, from door to door, jehovah's word we spread," which actually happened to be my least fav activity.
I am getting too old and senile for any of those crapsongs to haunt my mind anyway, LOL.
hmm?.
i don't hate religion, personally.
it may sound like i hate it on this forum, but nothing could be farther from the truth.
Pretty much.
