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Is anyone else getting ready for Christmas?
by juni in
1. jw
2. friends
i was in the mood today... got the tree cheap (came w/lights), decorations and ribbon for half price and made the bow myself to save money.

i was going to put it aside until after thanksgiving, but couldn't resist completing the project.

i just have to get some fiber fill for "snow" at the base.
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Hello From a Newbie
by AlphaQup2nite in
1. jw
2. friends
i found this site randomly the other day on an unrelated search, and its nice to find a place where people can discuss a relgion that in house cannot be discussed without either being quoted mantras or a very skewed view of the world.. ok about me.. im a 24 year old taiwanese-american, and i have been raised as a jw from the age of about three to the age of 17, when i unoffically left.

i started to have doubts around age 12, but did what i was supposed to to keep mommy and daddy happy.

my parents are jws, as well as my older 1/2 sister, and my younger sister.
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sorry...but how do they not notice???
by oompa in
1. jw
2. friends
that their bible is different from any bible anyone else reads in that it has added the name jehovah to the new testament greek scriptures??

when it is not there in any ancient manuscript????

i mean they put it there where it aint quoted at all....like all 12 times in revelation....i mean how can they not have a problem with that???
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JWs Depression and Suicide
by 00DAD in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
since jehovah's witnesses supposedly have "the truth" and are part of god's visible organization living in a "spiritual paradise" you would naturally expect that they should be the happiest people on earth!

this clearly is not the case.

wha happened?
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Getting back little pieces of your life that they took from you.
by JonathanH in
1. jw
2. friends
i sometimes feel like i lost so much because the first two plus decades of my life were spent in that stupid cult.

but occasionally i find a little piece of something they took from me, and i get to keep it so it's like they never took it from me at all.. tonight i got out of class (i'm in college working towards a b.s.

in engineering and/or mathematics), and it was a chilly autumn night so i decided to go to a little coffee dive downtown i hadn't been to since i went out in service and would go there for coffee breaks.
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My story in more detail
by freshstart in
1. jw
2. experiences
so as i stated in my first post, i was born to witness parents.

from early on, my parents were both quite fanatical about the "truth.

" we couldn't even eat lucky charms cereal because they thought it had satanic connections.
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Elderelite where is audio from zone meeting that you promise ...
by obarac in
1. jw
2. friends
you promise us audio from zone meeting.

you change your mind?.
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Cantleave, I need your help please
by freshstart in
1. jw
2. friends
i was reading your story on freeminds.org, but for some reason it doesn't finish.

it stops at the part where you say that you traveled a lot for work and missed quite a few meetings.

there's nothing after that.......
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I think this is real, a boardgame for JW's- House 2 House
by OnTheWayOut in
1. jw
2. friends
you can find it at theocraticgames.com http://www.theocraticgames.com/.

it sounds totally bizarre.. it even has a facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/house-2-house-theocratic-board-game/120807941289256.

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Hello - new
by freshstart in
1. jw
2. friends
hi, just wanted to introduce myself.

born-in, as was my husband.

we were both baptized as teens, married when we were teens (he was early 20s) and we were both the "perfect" witnesses.