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my story,my sins and their consequences
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1. jw
2. friends
with renia now gone i feel more confident to tell my story without being belittled.

i don't want to drone on and on, as having read alot of the experiances on here i find i have alot in comman with everyone.

so i thought i'd just give a short run down of the reasons why i've ended up here.
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is my baptisum as a minor vaild?
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2. beliefs
as a young minor, barely into my teens i was in a congo that had extreme peer pressure to get baptized.

in fact you were seen as a bad person if you didn't, and everyone else my age was, the threat was that if you were the last to get baptized of your generation then you would be seen as unspiritual.. this and some other things have troubled me since:.

when i came to be baptized i was suffering from an illness that greatly affected my concentration.. when it came to the assembly and i had to stand and answer those two questions i was shaking so much i didn't actauly say anything, in fact my mouth wouldn't open.. i am totaly sure that if i had waited until age 30 to get baptized as jesus did, i never would have got baptized at all.. so my question is: was my baptisum actualy vaild?
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my last will and testment
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i've just remembered, when i was 18 i made a will, leaving my entire estate to the wbts, obviously i have now changed my mind on that score.. .

what can i do?

help!.
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highdose has swine flu...needs cheering up
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2. friends
anyone help?.
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positive role models for ex dubs?
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by which i don't mean people to exactly copy, but rather inspirational ones who dispite the jw's have made a success of their lifes.. any suggestions?

examples?.
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Where did these unoffical beliefs/standards come from?
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i've been doing some reasoning about all the jw teachings i've been taught as i grew up.

one of them was the belief that if you were baptised young that it would be a protection for you.

i questioned this at the time as i thought that instead it would make you prey to opposition from satan at a young age.
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cheeseist chatup lines from JW's...
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2. experiences
my 2 personal favs are :.

" i'd love to take you on a date sometime, your so cheap and undemanding!

i'd take you to a macdonalds, order 2 cups of tap water, you'd have 1 sip and the date would be over!
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did you find JW's expected products/services for free from other JW's?
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2. friends
just wondering if i'm the only one whose experianced this?.
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my road to recovery, step1...getting my tits out!
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2. friends
...hahaha...not quite what you think;).

after the lovely encouraging posts i got yesterday.

i decided to take their advice and start bit by bit exploring my new free life:).
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newbie needs help
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this is a first timer posting.

heres my story which im hoping you guys can help me with, even if its just support ( i could sure use some!).

brought up in the truth, i spent 20+ years of my life having trauma after trauma in it.