Thank you for your story. You seem to have come out of being raised in better than most. The fact that your JW dad doesn't shun you and your mother left says to me they we less harsh than many of ours. I am truely glad for this. Congrats for waking up and living life for yourself.
Posts by 3rdgen
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6My story....
by Come On Out The Waters Fine intell us a little about yourself and your family.. found this form so i decided to post it.
(it will be interesting to re-read this in 10 years).
i'm actually not a total newby to the group.
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Just caught my 7 yr old watching 'Calebs Aeroplane' think I overreacted
by not bitter inat least i think thats what its called.
she was watching it at my parents house just now.
i asked what she was watching on my mums tablet and mum said whilst laughing 'oh sorry but she wants to watch bible stories' then all i heard was something about jehovah and keeping rooms tidy.
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The thing I would like to add is that when you have "the talk"(explaining what you will not tolerate) with the grandparents you do it without your child/children present. Kids have a way of blaming themselves for family discord so don't burden them with your anger. Just TCB. My best to you.
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Prepare for meetings??
by Jen1 indo you prepare for meetings?
if i go i spend a few minutes underlinging my books/watchtower.. i have noticed that those who do the micks especially notice when your stuff is not underlined, and comments are made after the meeting, not so gentle hints, about study and preperation!
in other words i am being told off, its usually the ones who are highly critical of everything i do, sometimes their whole family seems to be straining to see if my stuff is underlined, i know this because i heard the daughter to family wisper her watchtower is not underlined!.
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Backseatdevel, Your suggestions will work in EVERY cong because the entire religion is superficial. It is the religion where extroverts, BSers , and assho!*s, thrive and are promoted. (oh, and I forgot rich) Heaven help the earnest, shy, or downtrodden. Looks over substance all the way!
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I don't mean to brag but . . .
by Gayle inhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202832459316924&set=gm.10151883613860835&type=1
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3rdgen
Hahaha, mee too, Gayle. Does that mean we are old? Naaaaaaaa
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My sister died
by poppers injust got word that my sister died.
she had surgery for heart valve replacement about 5 weeks ago, and when they opened her up for it they found cancer.
we had an extra special relationship since i was her "birthday present" when she turned 10 in 1951. this is my second sibling to die of cancer in 14 months..
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Poppers, You have my deepest sympathy for the loss of your sister and other sibling. I feel your pain because of similar losses. You have real friends here who care. PM me if you need a listening ear.
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so happy today!!
by XstuckX ini'm married with small children.
my wife and i both born-in and baptized jws.
i began my slow drift about a year ago.
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3rdgen
XStuckX, If you and your wife have been letting your kids do extra curricular activites chances are that your family has been the subject of hurtful gossip by the same trolls who gave your wife the dirty looks at the KH. I felt exactly like you growing up in the cult so I let my kids do some things after school. It wasn't untill years later that it got back to me the nasty things that were said behind my back. These people didn't even have the guts to tell me to my face. I'm so glad you are making a clean break from the madness!
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and you think the kingdom hall is bad, watch this!
by unstopableravens inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayxetjrckl0.
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3rdgen
What Crazyguy said.
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so happy today!!
by XstuckX ini'm married with small children.
my wife and i both born-in and baptized jws.
i began my slow drift about a year ago.
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3rdgen
XStuckX, What a great story! Keep us posted OK?
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Guns
by Brother Mike indoes anyone know why people say as jws you can't have guns.
i've asked people at the hall and they say jws aren't supposed to have guns.
i asked them why, and they all say just because we're not supposed to.
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3rdgen
There are a lot of bros who have guns for hunting but some who have protection wepons get heat and are not considered "exemplary" so are not appointed as servants. In a local cong. few years back a beloved JW family (who I knew and loved) with identical twin sons in their late teens suffered a horrific tragidy. The boys were in their room goofing off with a family gun. One twin accidently killed the other. It was all over the news. So VERY sad. The incident has probably has caused the elders to clamp down on gun owners.
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Did you think Dinosaurs were destroyed in the Flood?
by LoisLane looking for Superman inin our jw bible, they placed a friendly dinosaur on the inside front cover on the old time map of the middle east.. you look at that, and see where the placement to where the garden of eden is and that was the image i got in my mind.
dinosaurs lived, but were too big to save in the flood, and besides they had outlived their purpose of fertilizing the earth.
i feel stupid for the thinking i had when i was 'in'.. is that how you 'thought' when you were 'in'?.
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My parents taught me that the dinosaurs were destroyed in the flood. They said it with conviction so I took it as fact. Mom had a little trouble using the Bible to prove that each of the creative days were exactly 7000 years long. I wasn't completely convinced but since Armageddon was coming any day I didn't think it really mattered.