Bonjour George and welcome to the board!
C6H12O6
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Hello everyone..
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my name isgeorge.i'mfrench.i'mglad iregisteredhere.iama jehovah's witnessfor 27 years.iamhappytoknowgod.. george..
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Your Age at Baptism (into JWs, not Catholics or Baptists - duh)
by undercover inleavingwt mentioned on another thread the age of his wife when she was baptized.
she was a child.
how can you expect a child to make such a decision?.
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18 ... but the pressure came at 16
(I wasn't a born-in, but a teenage Bible study)
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Were You Ever Treated "Differently" Because One of Your Family Members Was Disfellowshipped?
by Was New Boy in"by their love"...... shunning in the "borg" many times has effected not just the person that was dfed but other family members too.. my father was dfed in 1962 for "rebeliousness against the organization" he wanted to go to a different kh than we were assigned to.
needless to say that decision was later reversed.. that was strange, but how the witnesses treated my mother, sister and myself....was even stranger.
it was as if.... we now had some kind of leprosy.
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More like I knew some witnesses who's relative or family member was DF, and it afffected the witnesses too.
There was one explemary family. Both parents are pioneers. The Father was a MS. The son was doing very well. They volunteered their house as a field service meeting spot. All this lasted until the son DF'd. The Father was stripped of his MS title. Their house was off the list for field service meet ups. Suddenly they're like the black sheep of the congregation. The mother was clearly showing symptoms of depression, but one sister called her lazy.
There was another family who's dad DF'd then reinstated, then older daughter gets DF'd, then mother gets DF'd. So that leaves the son and younger daughter, and they were treated like second class citizens.
When there was still a home book study night, one kind elder even admitted that witnesses do get treated negatively because of a DF'd relative. He said that they tend to get ignored and excluded, and sometimes they end up changing congregations or leaving all together.
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I didn't, this is my first time I'm missing the Memorial. I have been attending the Memorial since I was a preteen.
I was given plenty of reasons to go: car ride to and from the Memorial, dinner at a restaurant afterwards, meeting the "friends" again, make my parents happy, etc.
Instead, I stayed home and declared myself an atheist. It was because I can never go back to such an unloving "cult" that publishes lies to its members and break up families.
Since I don't plan on going back to the WT and missed the Memorial, there's a chance of me being evicted from my parent's house. I think I should celebrate.
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The first thing I did when I left the WT....
by sherry123 inwas sing the national anthem out loud......alone......in my house.
what did you do?.
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... was to join my family on the trip to Alantic City on Thanksgiving, then go to my grandmother's house for Thanksgiving dinner.
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HELLO EVERYONE
by sarahkate innew to the forum, just wanted to say hi, will tell my brief story sometime, happy at the moment just getting to know you all!!!!.
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sarahkate xx.
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Hi SarahKate
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...Say hello to an Old Friend of Mine..."Hiritoka"...
by OUTLAW insay hello to an old friend of mine..."hiritoka".... .
we have an old board member back..some of you knew him as japanboy... he is now hiritoka... he is an old friend of mine..we knew each other when we were kids... .
have you ever wanted to ask a member of the wbt$ governing body`s family a question?...
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Konnichiwa Hiritoka-san, hajimemashite. (Hello Mr. Hiritoka, how do you do? / nice to meet you)
What did the Japanese witnesses thought of your uncle, Ted Jaracz?
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I just got my memorial invite
by twinkle toes inwell technically it is an anniversary invite/special talk invite.
the car group was just here.
i was home but hiding and my husband got the door.. i want to tell them exactly why i am not going , but i haven't got my head quite there yet.. i think i am gonna have to just decline!.
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I got mine yesterday. When I was out of the house, my brother answered the door. Since I wasn't home, they gave my brother an invite. Once I came back, he passed me the invite. Then I tossed the invite in the paper recycling bin.
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The classic features of a JW wedding are:
by highdose infirstly a wedding/sales talk that mostly features heavily on how the woman should behave (hint, doormat) and lightly brushes over the fact of the husbands bevhaviour ( oh yeah he should treat her well).
the reception normaly at some crummy comunity hall with yellowed ceilings and chucks of damp plaster falling off the walls.
the seats normaly arranged facing eachother all around the edge, so that theres a huge unused space in the middle and everyone is climbing over everyone elses legs to get to their chair.. a big spread donated by everyone, normaly an ode to food poisoning.
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bringing songbooks and bibles to the ceremony
singing the selected songs at the ceremony
no throwing bouquets and bride garters at the reception
no metal bands - heard about a young couple who did this for their reception, and everyone left
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J-Dub Gossip: How Do/Did You Handle It?
by DarioKehl inperhaps the biggest fear i have of leaving is the ensuing gossip that will follow.
i know it's stupid to worry about what will be said about me once i'm "out," but it kills me inside.
of course, that doesn't mean that i don't already deal with my fair share of gossip as it is while still "in.
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I used to get upset and cry when there was gossip about me. I used to pray to cope with it, but I guess it was not that effective if the depression and gossip was still there. Then I took some hints from strong willed people (who aren't dubs) in my life like...
"Life is too short to care what other people think"
"You can't believe everything you hear"
"As long people know how to talk, they will say good and bad things, it's just a part of life."
It also helps to know that there's research to back up the old saying: "what you say about others, says a lot about yourself."
Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100802165441.htm
in short, positive things said --> positive traits in the speaker
negative things said --> possible personality disorder in the speaker