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  After leaving what did you Major in?

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am curious if my observations are correct.

  i noticed alot of exjws end up majoring in the social sciences.

  i am also interested in what educational choices people have made either while fading or while completely out.

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  My dream is to create a scholarship funded in large part by exjws for exjws. and create online resources so that those who are fading can get some help.

  Love this idea!
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  Long time lurker, first time poster ...

  by LettMorrisSplaneit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i finally had the guts to create a profile to be able to post.

  i've been lurking for a few months and have read all your experiences and comments dutifully.

  you have been a great help in my process of waking up from this cult posing as the one true religion.

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  breakfast of champions

  Welcome!
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  After leaving what did you Major in?

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am curious if my observations are correct.

  i noticed alot of exjws end up majoring in the social sciences.

  i am also interested in what educational choices people have made either while fading or while completely out.

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  Majoring in linguistics and computer science.
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  Hiererchy among elders --so says Kenneth Flodin

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there has always been a hierarchy among elders.

  now it's been validated by kenneth flodin in this talk about the word "princes".

  so not any elder can be a prince in the new order.

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  So. . . . .

  Using Flodin's "garlic bread" analysis of human spirituality, would a "prince" be a thick slice of "Texas toast"?

  Or perhaps a really nice Jewish Rye with butter?

  Cinnamon rasin loaf?
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  I no longer feel smart as a JW, I feel dumb...

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't want anyone to take this the wrong way but i use to at least feel smart as a jw.

  when i went to thursday night meetings, i at least felt like i was a student, that i was learning how to speak publicly, i could prepare my own comments, i could answer points that i learned from the weekly bible reading.

  i even feel like an "idiot" studying for the meetings.

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  I can appreciate the rant!

  My wife feels similarly as you. Everything presented at the meetings is simplistic and dumbed down.

  But I think you should feel smart, just for the fact you know this stuff is dumb! Others think it's thre greatest thing since sliced bread. . . .
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  JWs win 2015 Bronze Telly Award in the “Online Video News Feature”

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jworg is carrying a "news" article concerning their recent win of a telly award.. i don't need to add to the jworg website hits, so here is the award listed on the telly award website:.

  https://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=jehovah%27s&event=16&category=3&award=b.

  2015 online video bronze winners.

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  Ok . . .

  So I glanced at this thread briefly this afternoon. . .

  WTF?

  So, really now:

  What would be the response if I shared News Update: Jehovah's Witnesses Moving Forward on my FB account with the caption "Watch this Telly-Award-winning piece featuring Donald Trump's son-in-law"?

  Oh the cognitive dissonance . . . .. .
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  A Teenager Ran Away From Home to Get Away From the Witnesses ... in 1909

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay .... i guess technically they weren't witnesses yet; they were just russellites.

  but i still think it is funny that teenagers were heading for the hills to run away from their nonsense ... even back then!.

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  breakfast of champions

  Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1909, p.11

  I must admit, I have a similar "hankering."
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  2016 2-29-BOE-Skills Questionnaire!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2016 skills questionnaire boe, instructions, and form combined in this pdf... http://we.tl/tffkalsixb.

  .. .. atlantis!.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsiiIa6bs9I
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  JW Child Abuse Documentary

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulswb2avxvc.

  let's set aside our differences for the moment and appreciate this excellent documentary cedars put together that should prove to be an invaluable tool in helping to expose the child abuse issues in the organization.. i was humbled to be able to help with this project on such an important subject, though my part in it was insignificant..

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  We will definitely watch this!
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  What TV shows were forbidden in your JW household?

  by Funchback in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  in the u.s., three's company was not allowed.

  it was explained to me that it was an immoral show because a man and women lived together and no one was married.

  the sister who gave this observation was a family friend and we were newbies to the religion.. at least i somehow managed to watch the benny hill show undetected..

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  breakfast of champions

  Oooooh I've got a good one:

  Sesame Street.

  My mother would make me turn off Sesame Street when "the Count" was on because he was a vampire and vampires drink blood which makes Jehovah sad.