A couple of questions. Are you close to completing your homeschooling with a high school diploma? That would be a great goal. Is it possible for you to pursue part time employment outside the home to make extra money and save (non jw employment)? Also, have you ever asked your parents about pursuing any type of education after finishing your homeschooling to be able to be self-sufficient within the realms of what jw's deem as ok. This might be a wait to get a step out the door so to speak. I feel for you. I was you. I was homeschooled from the age of 8. Baptized early and isolated from all outside influences. But I was able to first attend a local community college and that was the stepping stone I needed to find my way away from the organization. It wasn't always easy and it was a long tedious journey but it was worth it.
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Please help.... depressed jw teen
by huniepie ini think i’m going insane.... i’m 17 years old and being raised in a jw household.
i really want friends and a boyfriend but i can’t have that because my parents are jw and i’m also homeschooled.
they are those jw parents that refuse to let me go to public school because of bad influences.
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Part II: it's time
by Gorbatchov inearlier i posted about the call from close family about that the end is expected in very short time.. today i had the opportunity to speak in person.. this is what is told to me:.
- the gb speaks to us personality through broadcasting;.
- the annual meeting was a very clear message from the gb;.
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You might have been a JW if...
by Incognigo Montoya in... unlike the rest of humanity, you looked forward to mondays because it was a day off from a meeting..
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...if you believe you have the equivalent of a college education because you read the watchtower and awake magazines.
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I miss certain relatives and friends. I can say I truly had some amazing and genuine friends as a witness. I have no hard feelings that they shun me now because I know it is the cult mentality. They are good people stuck in a difficult situation. Most are born ins - it is all they know. I live in an area that I often see old friends, some approach and say hi - some just give a sad smile.
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How do you feel about your JW childhood?
by Emily1987 ini was 5 years old when my mother was baptised.
we went from celebrating xmas to no presents or decorations.
we would still go to my unbelieving aunty's house on xmas day, all of my cousins would be playing with their new toys and would wonder why i didn't have any.
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LovingLifeNow - just a warning - it isn't the putting lights up, it's the taking them down. Learned that last year. Snow and ice and frozen lights. My plan this year is just to leave them up until the spring. : )
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"World conditions have never been as bad as they are now"
by Sour Grapes ini went to a funeral yesterday and ran into a jdub.
of course, he approached me and it didn't take more than a minute into the conversation for him to get into the jdub gloom and doom mode.
he said that world conditions have never been as bad as they are now.. i looked straight into his eyes and said, "i think that world conditions were a lot worse during world war two.".
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My mother who left the JW's physically to only become even more religiously dogmatic and rather scary says this all the time. She reminisces at about how life was so idyllic in the 50's when she was a kid. I stopped her in her tracks when she last visited by saying "yes it was certainly idyllic for a white only child with financially stable parents, however you grew up in the south and I am sure it wasn't so idyllic for those of color who were not allowed to even attend the same school as you, use the same bathroom or water fountain". I also asked her what it was like to be a women back then and not be able to have ones own bank account or credit card? Although I am not sure how deep it got to her it did make her pause. Others have mentioned other horrific times and peoples that have been treated horribly. It is easy for those who lived in idyllic conditions to talk about how these days are the worst and these are signs of the last days - I personally am glad as a woman and a mom that I live in our time rather any time in the past. I am sure many others for many reasons feel the same - no it isn't perfect...but reality isn't petting pandas.
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What is the strangest book or craziest book the JWs have ever printed?
by blownaway inwhat do you think the crazies or strangest book they ever printed is?.
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Original My Book of Bible Stories - some parts of the book were terrifying as a small child.
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Roll Call for the benefit of Newbies and Lurkers. In One Sentence tell why you left the Org.
by Wasanelder Once inroll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.
in one sentence tell why you left the org.
not 2 sentences.
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When I was pregnant with my first child I started really thinking and realized I could not raise a child as a JW and have a clean conscience.
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Old Bethelities
by new boy inmy book is going to my editor this week.
just a few lose ends to deal with.. does anyone here knows what has happen to any of the following ex-bethelities and hopefully ex-jehovah's witnesses.
mark bivins.
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Ken Dowling ended up in western ma. 3 daughters would be in their 30's now.
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What would you say?
by Freedom rocks inif you had 2 minutes with an old witness friend or with a family member to convince them the 'truth' is a lie and the gb isnt being directed by god what would you say to get their attention that might make them question their beliefs?.
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I would ask my family members what my grandparents (the ones who came in first) on both sides would think of the religion if they were resurrected and walked into a hall or convention or read one of the publications? Would they recognize it as the same religion? Would they be horrified? Seeing as my grandparents motivation for becoming JW's were they were sickened by the constant money grabbing in their Catholic church and the fact that the priests told them they were too uneducated to ask questions or research anything they didn't understand - I think I know the answer.