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  My latest university experience...

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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  this isn't a jw experience, but for those of you that have been following my life, i thought i'd have a drink and share this strange event in my post-jw life.. for you wonderful newbies, you can catch up on highlights of my story in the few threads i've started here.

  i'm finishing the junior year of my engineering degree and the classes are hard as hell.

  i used to be among the smartest students in the room until i hit the 300 level university courses.

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  breakfast of champions

  I am going to study art history at the University of Oslo in Norway

  That is pretty damn cool! Good luck.
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  Young people growing up as Jehovah's Witnesses

  by socstu in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it's been a while since i've posted on here, but the last time i did i was looking for young people to take part in my dissertation research.

  well that was a whole year ago now and i can tell you i was very happy and relieved to have received a first class on the paper.. i've subsequently just wrote a blog post on the topic.

  it's not a copy of my dissertation, but more of a musing which is very much informed by all my interviews.. anyway i hope you find it somewhat interesting:.

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  I actually BELIEVED that

  So did I! I think that's what struck a chord.
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  Will AAWA Become another cult?

  by His Excellency in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  please sorry for english, i have only been learning for 18 months.

  everyone please think about it, and beware of any initiative designed to solve "a community problem".

  becasue russel also started his own cult on a similar premise like this , claiming to have all the answers to issues whose solutions seems obscured to the majority in his days, and here we are today, constantly bashing our fingers on the keyboard in a bid to finding comfort from the mess he had put all of us into.

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  breakfast of champions

  Also. . .

  At the supermarket the cashier offered me so-called "coupons". I refused them, telling the girl it was against the AAWA charter, but I wasn't sure why. . .
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  Will AAWA Become another cult?

  by His Excellency in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  please sorry for english, i have only been learning for 18 months.

  everyone please think about it, and beware of any initiative designed to solve "a community problem".

  becasue russel also started his own cult on a similar premise like this , claiming to have all the answers to issues whose solutions seems obscured to the majority in his days, and here we are today, constantly bashing our fingers on the keyboard in a bid to finding comfort from the mess he had put all of us into.

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  breakfast of champions

  Yes.

  In fact it already is. As of this afternoon:

  I have downloaded my personal "Study Edition" of "The Anti-Watchtower" and am underlining furiously. Hope I can give a good comment tomorrow.

  I also signed my "No Band-Aid" directive/DPA card in front of two witnesses. No worries now should some misguided doctor try to apply years of medical training to save me from a nasty paper cut infection.
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  Young people growing up as Jehovah's Witnesses

  by socstu in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it's been a while since i've posted on here, but the last time i did i was looking for young people to take part in my dissertation research.

  well that was a whole year ago now and i can tell you i was very happy and relieved to have received a first class on the paper.. i've subsequently just wrote a blog post on the topic.

  it's not a copy of my dissertation, but more of a musing which is very much informed by all my interviews.. anyway i hope you find it somewhat interesting:.

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  I love this line:

  "There was definitely a fear in my growing up that if I were to every leave the Jehovah’s Witnesses, I’d be consumed by a mixture of drugs, sex and earthquakes. Possibly all at once."
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  AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

  http://www.jwactivists.org.

  facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

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  But I will respect the name and what it stands for. A name can always be changed. Its done all the time.

  I agree. The name isn't as important as what gets done. That's what's really cool about this new undertaking (VIDIOT's AAWA "bat signal" is also very cool.)

  And as far as worrying that the Society or apologists would be laughing up their sleeves if the name were to ever change. . .

  . . . . anyone ever notice how many names the Society goes by? Lets see. . . Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, WTBTS of Pennsylvania, Christian Congregation of Jehovahs Witnesses. . . . . .. . . . . . ..
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  My latest university experience...

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this isn't a jw experience, but for those of you that have been following my life, i thought i'd have a drink and share this strange event in my post-jw life.. for you wonderful newbies, you can catch up on highlights of my story in the few threads i've started here.

  i'm finishing the junior year of my engineering degree and the classes are hard as hell.

  i used to be among the smartest students in the room until i hit the 300 level university courses.

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  Simply AWESOME! Congrats!

  What's cool about your experience is that it shatters another JW myth: that out there in Satan's cruel, evil world, people don't care about you as a person and are ready to steamroll right over you.

  I had a similar experience this semester, but certainly not to the same degree as yours. My fall semester was a living hell after Sandy, and it was a struggle to get to class let alone study or do homework. I was working 24/7 and was exhausted. My performance on my two finals fell FAR short of what I knew I could do, and I ended up having a mini-breakdown towards the end. I think it's my JW programming, but I felt that my shitty performance on the two finals (same professor, BTW) not only disappointed me, but disappointed him. In the end, I got A's in both courses (I had gotten near perfect scores on pre-Sandy exams and maintained 100% on homework)

  So fast foward to a few weeks ago at the campus student center, I've got my head down in my iPad (reading JWN), and I hear someone call my name. It was my professor from last semester! I got up to shake his hand, but inside I was still really embarrassed with how I did on the final (Jw programming kicking in again). "Breakfast, you did AMAZING last semester! A's in both my courses! You did some really great work." I replied that yeah I did manage to pull an A, but finals were not the best. He reassured me "You did really great work! You should be proud of what you accomplished."

  The thing that impressed me is that this prof teaches three large auditorium classes (300-400 students each) a semester, but remembered me personally and went out of his way to say hi and give me a huge compliment. And while my JW programming had been hard at work tearing apart my own accomplishments, the prof realized what I had overcome last fall and saw the big picture.

  Anyway, just thought what was telling about this experience and yours is how the JW programming keeps popping up, perhaps not into our explicit thoughts, but our feelings about ourselves, who we are, and our accomplishments.

  Best of luck as a research assistant!
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  AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

  http://www.jwactivists.org.

  facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

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  Cantleave, it looks like your storm in in Jersey. Brooklyn is on the other side of Manhattan

  It's Sandy!!!
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  When You Learned TTATT, the truth about the truth(tm) How Did It Make You Feel?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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  i felt stunned.

  i felt betrayed.. just lois.

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  Yup. Betrayed is a good start.

  There was some relief as well.
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  How Many Here Have Ever Smoked Pot or Tobacco?

  by minimus in

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  am i the only one who has done neither?.

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  breakfast of champions

  Set and setting are important for the enjoyment of it.

  SATANUS - so I've heard. My worldly sister. . . ahem. . . let me say, is "experienced" in this area of life and would be happy to provide me with the "set and setting" as well as the delicious baked goods.