I was definitely forced and was physically abused by my mother if I didn't want to go to a meeting or forgot to study. I did not have a choice so those "make the truth your own" talks were ridiculous to me because I had no choice in the matter.
lilbluekitty
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Born ins..Were You Forced to Be a JW Growing Up?
by LostGeneration inmyth: parents who are jehovahs witnesses.
force their children to follow their faith.. fact:witness parents strive to inculcate love.
for god in their offspring, just as the bible.
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FADERS YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED - BELIEVE IT OR NOT!.
by mankkeli into onthewayout, 00dad, cedars and other reknowned faders.
reports have reached patterson that faders are much more dangerous than those disfellowshipped.
their reasons for fading are no longer new to the gb.
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lilbluekitty
Okay that is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Mankkeli, apparently you haven't heard of HIPAA laws (in the US at least) where only doctors are authorized to know or see medical records about someone else and the organization would be violating those laws. Seriously, if I had some terrible illness, I've authorized only my husband to know anything or discuss anything, even my own MOTHER can't know if I have a sniffle even if I don't choose to tell her. RETARDED and you are an idiot for trying to freak people out.
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Have any other religion flip-flopped doctrinally?
by stillstuckcruz ini am attempting to see if a comparison can be made to other religions.
obviously we all know that jw's have fip-flopped on many doctrinal issues.
but are there any other religions and cults that have done this?
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lilbluekitty
I don't know much about it but Catholics have had some flip-flops, I believe the pope said condoms are now okay for male prostitutes or something because of HIV. Also I believe they just changed something about their Mass.
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lilbluekitty
I know a guy that was df'd at 15, got reinstated only 5 months later. I say only because my dad got df'd (as an adult) and was df'd for 2 years before they would reinstate him. Though that's a bit off topic. Anyway the guy was 15, he still seems bitter about the "truth" but says he came back into it because "there's nothing out there in the world." He seems to be a pretty depressed guy.
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Do you think that we are in the last days?
by stuckinamovement indo you think that we are in the last days?
i really don't think we are in the last days.
i came to the conclusion that 1914 is false and is no more than another year in man's history, so hence we are not living in the last days prophesied by jesus.
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lilbluekitty
I don't know how far into the last days we are, perhaps not as much as JWs say but I think things are getting worse and that it will come when you don't expect it but I don't know if I should worry as much as I used to about it.
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Eight Year Old Giving Her First Talk in TMS
by Bangalore ineight year old giving her first talk in tms.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhwu5c_xe9g.
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lilbluekitty
The only thing I can say that I liked about giving my first talk at age 6 with my mom is the subject: "Silencing A Terrifying Storm" about Jesus saving the disciples on that boat when there was a bad storm.
I feel bad for this little girl, she looked really nervous, you can tell by watching her squirm in her seat. The mom looks like she forced her to join the TMS too, poor thing =( I always hated how I couldn't write my own talks, I had to "stick to the script" and it was always stupid and stuff I wouln't normally talk about, like explaining evolution to a skeptical teacher at age 7! *shakes head*
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Tons and tons of literature
by pontoon inhow does the borg count placements, what is reported and tabulated by the congregations or by how much goes out the doors of their printing facilities?
out of all the lit printed, how much of it gets read?
how much lit gets stacked away gathering dust, thrown away and discarded each month?
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lilbluekitty
I had a whole box-full of literature that I just put in the shed to let it rot (I don't agree with JW beliefs anymore but I can't seem to get rid of the books and things since I spent 26 years of my life a JW), and let me tell you, it was heavy! I was getting bad with meeting attendance (I was fading but didn't know it at the time) and I don't know why but every time I went to the meetings they'd give me huge stacks of magazines I'd missed and then my family up north mailed me the same ones so now I have this giant collection and don't know what to do with it other than let it get all rotted in the shed. LOL. If we had recycling here I'd probably recycle that stuff, I feel bad adding to all those landfills. If I had pets I'd probably shred the magazines and use them as kitty litter LOL.
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Overheard at Airport
by KingDavidwasframed inwhile in line at the tsa pat down line i overheard 2 women talking about how they couldn't (or shouldn't) eat pepperoni pizza from a certain national chain because they heard from a cousin of a friend in a neighboring congregation (i never got the whole chain of source info) that the meat ingredients listed "animal by-products" and how everyone knows that means blood.. .
well i couldn't help myself, so i leaned over the velvet rope separating us and i excused myself for eavesdropping and asked "are you 2 young ladies jehovah's witnesses?".
to which they blushed, giggled a little and replied "yes".
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lilbluekitty
AWESOME.
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Were Jehovah's Witnesses Correct In ANYTHING They Taught?
by minimus inor are they as correct as any other false religion?.
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lilbluekitty
I think the only thing I really still believe in is that we're in the last days, but I don't know if we're in the last days as much as they think we are, certain things haven't happened yet, which is why I don't think Jesus is here "invisably" since 1914. A bunch of other things have to happen first. Otherwise, I only agree with mainstream Christians, the heck with JW doctrines. =/
Oh and perhaps the no buring hell too, but I won't know about that til I die...where I will hopefully go to heaven or maybe paradise...but I will be able to ask God if there's a hell or not.
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What Is the longest Prayer (Meeting, Circuit Assymbly, District, Internation.) You have endured?
by AvocadoJake inplace los angeles dodger stadium temperature 97-100 degrees.
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prayer lenght 25 minutes of pain!.
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lilbluekitty
JW prayers (from the platform, and sometimes even at meals) are basically another chance to give a mini-public talk. Anyone notice that sometimes the ones that go on and on are the ones that seem like they're trying to teach Jehovah what we just learned?? I wish I could remember some instances but alas, my brain would explode.
My grandmother told me Fred Franz (she loves to go on and on about him, and "don't you say anything bad about him, missy because he's in heaven right now and can hear you!") said some hour-long prayer at a convention in the 60s or something. I definitely remember some 10 minute long prayers, maybe even longer. I remember my legs would start hurting as a kid and I'd kind of rock back and forth and squint my eyes to watch people and see if their eyes were still closed and I'd get slapped by my mom (what were HER eyes doing open?) for not paying attention.
By comparision, at our new church a LADY prays and the prayers are pretty and I enjoy listening to them, plus they only seem to be about a minute long, if that.