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  Did field service ever scare any one.

  by life is to short in

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  i was always scared somewhat by who i might meet at the door.. where i live we just had a mom murdered with her two young sons.

  it is really sad, from what i just read in the paper the husband and wife took in this young man he was 22 years old and needed a place to stay.

  he had been with them for months and had celebrated christmas and thanksgiving with all the family, etc.

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  p.s. I don't mean I feel lucky to have done service. I mean it could have been worse.
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  Did field service ever scare any one.

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was always scared somewhat by who i might meet at the door.. where i live we just had a mom murdered with her two young sons.

  it is really sad, from what i just read in the paper the husband and wife took in this young man he was 22 years old and needed a place to stay.

  he had been with them for months and had celebrated christmas and thanksgiving with all the family, etc.

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  I experienced the same attitude by people in congregation as you did with the young girl in the bathroom. About 8 JWs were standing by our car eating fast food and there was a man with a naked child in a van next to us. They talked amongst themselves about how they were doing something sexual but they seemed to consider the child just as wrong as the man. Nobody ever said it was wrong to do that to a child and nobody intervened or called the police. I was about 8 and didn't know the police could be called for that but I was still confused why they were acting like the child was so grose.

  Anyway, I wasn't scared going door-to-door because it was in an upper middle-class neighborhood where many people were college educated and had manners, etc.. I feel lucky I did service in that area because it was a nice environment. Sometimes people would get mad at my parents for using me for the purpose of preaching. They told them I shouldn't be doing that.
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  Was anyone basically 'imprisoned' as a teen by JW parents?

  by myusername in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  so in my mid teens i finally refused to stop all jw activity naively thinking i may be able to live a more normal life.

  (i was already taken out of school at 14.

  ) after this i wasn't allowed to go outside even a few feet in front of the door by myself.

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  p.s. my parents would have fought it anyway, so I'm not sure it could have really happened.
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  Was anyone basically 'imprisoned' as a teen by JW parents?

  by myusername in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  so in my mid teens i finally refused to stop all jw activity naively thinking i may be able to live a more normal life.

  (i was already taken out of school at 14.

  ) after this i wasn't allowed to go outside even a few feet in front of the door by myself.

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  How did you move out at 15? I had a few offers to let me live with people I knew but I was already warped in my thinking. I guess I didn't think I deserved help and had very low self esteem.
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  Was anyone basically 'imprisoned' as a teen by JW parents?

  by myusername in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  so in my mid teens i finally refused to stop all jw activity naively thinking i may be able to live a more normal life.

  (i was already taken out of school at 14.

  ) after this i wasn't allowed to go outside even a few feet in front of the door by myself.

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  P.S. The environment inside had no enrichment either. Books were discouraged in general and heavily censored and there was low availability of food.
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  Was anyone basically 'imprisoned' as a teen by JW parents?

  by myusername in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  so in my mid teens i finally refused to stop all jw activity naively thinking i may be able to live a more normal life.

  (i was already taken out of school at 14.

  ) after this i wasn't allowed to go outside even a few feet in front of the door by myself.

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  So in my mid teens I finally refused to stop all JW activity naively thinking I may be able to live a more normal life. (I was already taken out of school at 14.) After this I wasn't allowed to go outside even a few feet in front of the door by myself. I only went out with an abusive parent if they wanted me to tag along for an errand or something. I was basically imprisoned.

  Most of the stories I read on here seem to be people who were shunned or kicked out instead of being kept inside, so I'm just curious.
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  Pre-emptive shunning - a growing reality

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm scanning through some of the results from the 2012 jw survey as they're coming in.. the most populous of the six voting categories with 76 voters so far is my own category, for those who are inactive, or "faded/fading" (not disfellowshipped or da'd, but no longer reporting time on the ministry).. one statistic already leaping out at me surrounds the question "do you experience 'pre-emptive shunning' from active witnesses, who view you as 'bad association'?

  " of the 74 who voted on this so far, 76% have answered "yes" to this question.. it's early days, and obviously i will have a clearer picture of the extent of the problem once the survey closes at the end of the year.

  however, the results already in suggest that pre-emptive shunning is widespread among inactive ones, despite this not being an "official" policy of the society.. i was interested in your opinions as to why this may be?

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  This is probably a dumb question, but is someone rich from all of these publications since it's basically a publishing/sales company? Who's at the top?
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  The great Christopher Hitchens.

  by whereami in

  1. watchtower
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  i sure do miss the guy.

  what a great voice for reason.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoh95titic&sns=em.

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  he has an interesting video about mother theresa on youtube
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  Pre-emptive shunning - a growing reality

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm scanning through some of the results from the 2012 jw survey as they're coming in.. the most populous of the six voting categories with 76 voters so far is my own category, for those who are inactive, or "faded/fading" (not disfellowshipped or da'd, but no longer reporting time on the ministry).. one statistic already leaping out at me surrounds the question "do you experience 'pre-emptive shunning' from active witnesses, who view you as 'bad association'?

  " of the 74 who voted on this so far, 76% have answered "yes" to this question.. it's early days, and obviously i will have a clearer picture of the extent of the problem once the survey closes at the end of the year.

  however, the results already in suggest that pre-emptive shunning is widespread among inactive ones, despite this not being an "official" policy of the society.. i was interested in your opinions as to why this may be?

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  I don't know if this is interesting, but many human resources use shunning as a way to fire people. Well, they don't call it shunning but they try to make work life unbearable for the person so they quit their job. This is just to prevent lawsuits and is a very common way to fire people. I've seen it many times and I think it was even done to me once. I even saw a person's cubicle moved into the basement. This technique involves coworkers ignoring/not including the person.
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  Pre-emptive shunning - a growing reality

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm scanning through some of the results from the 2012 jw survey as they're coming in.. the most populous of the six voting categories with 76 voters so far is my own category, for those who are inactive, or "faded/fading" (not disfellowshipped or da'd, but no longer reporting time on the ministry).. one statistic already leaping out at me surrounds the question "do you experience 'pre-emptive shunning' from active witnesses, who view you as 'bad association'?

  " of the 74 who voted on this so far, 76% have answered "yes" to this question.. it's early days, and obviously i will have a clearer picture of the extent of the problem once the survey closes at the end of the year.

  however, the results already in suggest that pre-emptive shunning is widespread among inactive ones, despite this not being an "official" policy of the society.. i was interested in your opinions as to why this may be?

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  erbie, I agree because there will always be cults and corrupt organizations. Why focus on just one?