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  Do you care that you offend JW's?

  by wholewheat in

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  this is a sincere question.

  do you worry about offending active witnesses?

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  Follow up on KJV

  by gravedancer in

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  i lifted this from the "other" board.. you say we will never know the answer?

  i have the answer.

  my sister, who met, and liked farkel, was so turned off by ***(the fighting and the picture of one poster's penis) she is going back to the hall.

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  JWs @ My Door !!!

  by Francois in

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  my door!

  can you imagine that?

  don't they know i'm a filthy apostulater!

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  USA Pride / Euro Concerns

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most of the criticism of the usa seems to come from our european brothers and sisters.

  i call them such because they primarily settled our continient and are our ancestors.

  i have noticed some trends in this and find some fair things on their part for americans to consider.

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  For the Board

  by D8TA in

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=31348&site=3

  so, i see there are people that wish to say i wen't off in to a mindless rant eh?

  thanx for filling up my e-mail btw with some of your opinions btw.. 1) i stand by what i first said.

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  Witness teens /mental health probs in future?

  by termite 35 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  there was a very interesting programme on radio4 this afternoon-dealing with teenagers and their possible problems.. i feel that many witness teens maybe heading for mental health problems due to the issues raised today.. we all know that jw teens are encouraged by the society to follow the leadership of the org.regarding the problems they may face during this difficult time.. the society has made it seem as though it is facing these problems by producing books and magazine articles especially for teens; but how useful are they?.

  apparently to grow a healthy teen you need many things.see if you think the points i remembered(there were many more)could explain mental health problems for witnesses in later life.... 1.it's not rebellion that makes a healthy teenager; the most sucessful ones question and are allowed to question.. 2.in doing this they 'find' their own wat in life and learn to be comfortable in their own skins.. 3.teenagers understand the world and how to survive in it by exploring it in their own way.. 4.telling a teen 'these are the rules you should follow' make for unhappy teens...and unheathy mental health.. 4..when parents realise that a teen is preprogrammed to need to discover who they are; they can stop taking it personally and remember that the teen has to find their own path for their own mental growth.. 5.stunting a teens natural tendancy to 'strike' out on their own actually harms their coping abilities in the future.. 6.teenagers who have not been allowed to follow their own thinking for a while end up not having enough self esteem to even start thinking about theses things.this is where the problems start.. they will lack the life coping skills that other sucessful teens have; they will be more prone to depression; self harm;mental illness and suicide.. .

  self harm is a classic example of a teen who has'nt questioned and therefore has'nt learnt to cope on their own, mentally.the cutting satisfies and releases feeling that are incommunicable due to repression in those years.. so please; all you witness parents- just because your child want to question, don't think they are rebellious in a bad sense- if they do question it proves you have brought them up well so far.don't spoil their future mental well-being by stopping them on their last stage of growth in to adult mental health.. let them question and speak openly without fear of reproach from you;help to set them up for adult hood..

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  Yea, Me too....

  by flower in

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  i'm grateful for the friends i've made here and hope to continue relationships with them however this board has reached the 'more harmful than good' stage for me as well so i'm going to have to move on.

  i've recently began re-question my decision to leave the jw's and have been wondering if we arent all really screwed up as is believed to be the case by jw's.

  i need to go back and re-read all the exjw literature to prove to myself all over again that we are normal and ok and victims of a fraudulent cult.

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  Cygnus is in bad shape

  by Cygnus in

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  just so i don't miss anybody who is interested.... my results from the ekg and the echogram showed a severe leak in a heart valve.

  i am going for an angiogram on the 15th but the cardiologist says the liklihood is great that i will need open heart surgery.

  rare for a 30 year old but if necessary, it is necessary.. no word yet on the results of the blood work for liver enzymes and hepatitis.

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  What do JW's Do on the 4th?

  by Double Edge in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  pardon my ignorance, having never been a jw, but what do jw's do on the fourth since they don't believe in flag and country?

  can they go to friend's bar-b-ques?

  is it ok if they go to a parade or firework display?

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  WW: Let's Get Something Straight About Jehovah

  by Francois in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wholewheat:.

  jehovah is nothing more than the very primitive concept of who and what god is that was held by a primitive, savage, illiterate group of nomads inhabiting the middle eastern lavant five thousand years ago.. jehovah is on a par with other middle eastern gods of the time; no more no less.

  and we now discover through archaeology that jehovah had a wife.

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