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Sex before marriage. feeling guilty
by frigginconfused in
1. jw
2. friends
heres the situation.... met a girl i am tottally infatuated with.

i could just hang out with her and not have sex but she has not been in a relationship in a year and shes pretty horny.

im a normal dude so i dont want to refuse her.. i cant decide if im rationalizing my feelings.
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Danish movie on JW's : To verdener (Worlds apart)2008
by yalbmert99 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there is this danish movie made in 2008 : "to verdener" (worlds apart).

based upon a true story, the film is about a 17-year-old jehovah's witness girl who struggles to reconcile her faith and her secret romance with a non-believer boy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/worlds_apart_(2008_film)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp0grwoif-w trailer with english subtitles.
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Top 5 Flawed Teachings
by MrFreeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is for all of you out there who post wells of information on the doctrines of jw's.

let's say you had to present your top 5 arguments for why jw's are not the true religion, which five would you choose?

i'd like to hear all of your thoughts.
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Mourning the living dead- Hard to not wish they were actually dead though
by hopeful4eva in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
google_ad_section_start back ground: been da'd for 17 years, bio mother and step father uber jw's, step father elder.

since da'ing my mother has always sorta kept in contact with me...until recently.. three years ago i started dating a guy, my bio father and step mother did not approve of.

my mother loved it, she fed off it.
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To DF'd people: have you gotten your yearly visit? Ever?
by daringhart13 in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm really curious how many of those df'd have ever received a yearly visit........ .
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What percentage of JWs have been disfellowshipped?
by JWoods in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was just thinking about people i knew - and i come up with around 15% who were disfellowshipped.

some got re-instated, some left for good, i even know a few who were disfellowshipped more than once.

it may be even higher than that - certainly it is pretty common in jwland.. i know that other religions have a theoretical state of disfellowshipping - the catholics have excommunication, for example.
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"High-Control Groups"
by Consfearacy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/similar-religions-to-jehovahs-witnesses.php .

"it is important to understand that in most bible-based cults, although the member is aggressively taught doctrine, it is not the doctrine that holds him in the group.

it is the sense that the group is god's true people, a feeling cultivated by techniques of mind control.
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ex-jw-uk
by bigmac in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.

i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?

i've already found several by reading older posts..
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Have your JW Relatives Explained about Generation/Overlap Change to You ?
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
after reading on the way out's thread about his mom explaining the generation overlap to him it kicked this idea into my head to make this thread .

i thought it would be helpful to see if anybody here has had jw relatives or friends try to explain this " generation overlap " theory to you as a faded or inactive witness and what happened in the conversations.

so please feel free to post your experiences.
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If you felt/feel that you had/have good, close "friends" in the org, how did/does it feel to just give them up?
by Crisis of Conscience in
1. jw
2. friends
this is my biggest dilema.

although mentally i really feel i could walk away from the org right now, i still have genuine love for the people i have come to know over the years.

i love people!.