I know just how lucky I am. My husband stayed in for quite a while after he realized it was all a load of crap because my head was still firmly up my own rear end. He says he was afraid I would leave him. Then, when I had finally had enough of the nonsense, I had no idea he didn't want to be a dub, so I was afraid to tell him I was sick of it. So we both suffered in silence for a while before it all came to a head after a particulary nasty shepherding call. We all bailed out together, the kids were 12, 10, and 4, and we've never looked back. Life is good now.
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Kudos: for those of you who awakened with you significant others. You are so LUCKY!!!
by goingthruthemotions inlike the title says....those of you who made it out with you husbands or wives.
you people are so lucky!!!.
lucky because your wife or husband isn't brain dead and can think and reason for themselves.
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Can they disfellowship my father?
by cookiemaster inthis has nothing to do with my facebook endeavors.
when the elders visited us last week, they also discussed my father.
my mother called them about him.
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he needs to be in jail. and anger management therapy. your mom needs to get the heck out of there and so do you. he isn't going to get better, only worse, and someone is going to end up seriously injured or dead. -
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Graduating college May 14. Update on Getting my GED and going to college thread from 5 years ago.
by noni1974 inhttp://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/187163/getting-my-ged-can-go-college.
i started this topic 5 years ago letting everyone know i had decide to get my ged and go to college in hopes of getting an education so that i could have a career instead of just a job.
i wanted fulfillment and a future, not just another job that has no really future in it.
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she passed faithful to the end to them!
by jookbeard injust found out (second hand of course) and by someone on here that my faithful jw mum passed away within the last couple of days, dont know the exact day, and what cause, she spent the last few years living with my fanatical sister, she was 65 and survived my father by 10 years, bitter, angry and hateful till the end and never as so much enquired or asked how her 2 grandchildren ever were , they are 5 and 7!
feeling a mixture of emotions right now, they were lousy parents in all honesty, she suffered health wise so maybe its for the best, dont even know when the funeral is!
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Active posters: What education have you had, what degrees do you possess?
by EndofMysteries infrom so many posts and conversations on here, you'd think over 1/2 the posters here possess doctorates in theology, physics, biology, etc.
i'm curious aside from the books and research people have done here, what degrees they have.
to start, i just got an aa and going straight through full time to an mba.
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I have a BS in accounting from SIU Carbondale vintage 1992. I got my degree long before I became a dub, so the borg's phobia about higher education was not a factor in my life
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The Science Is In: God Is The Answer...
by OUTLAW inthe science is in: god is the answer.
research shows kids raised with spirituality are happier and healthier in the vulnerable teen years.
why arent we all signing up?.
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it's sort of a no-brainer - kids who self-identify with a group who are generally seen in a positive light are going to feel better about themselves. a kid who feels like he fits in with the group of his choice is going to feel better about himself. a kid who feels good about herself and her social group is not going to seek out friendships with unhappy, self destructive kids. sad, miserable kids who don't fit in, who don't have a positive social group, who don't have a supportive family are at high risk of major depression, substance abuse, etc etc. It's kind of a giant DUH!! and religion/spirituality is just one type of social group. I suspect that if the effort was made to find kids who were non-spiritual throughout childhood, but had some other social group that they belonged to that enjoyed the same level of generally positive perception from the community at large, you would see the same mental health and behavior benefits. -
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POLL: Will You Be Attending The Memorial & If You Are---Why?
by minimus ini was just invited.
i thanked my old elder friend and he left.
(i'm not going).
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We did not get an invitation! I was visiting a friend on the other side of town and she showed me the invitation that was left in her door, We had a good laugh and I offered her $1000 to go and partake but she said no. -
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would it have been different if we knew why?
by sowhatnow ini always took issue with the idea of no one knowing why a person got df.. i know im not alone.. i complained to my mother about this when i was younger, explaining that how do we know what it is that gets a person df if no one knows what they did?
my moms answer was , .
'if people knew a persons personal faults and what they did , others would not be so forgiving when they were reinstated, because we'd always view them with that view, so in other words, if when so n so, committed fornication, and the whole cong would know it, if they announced from the platform then his/her reputation would be permanently stained' .
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when I was an active witness, there was only one disfellowshipping of a member of the congregation. To this day I have no idea what he did to get DFd. I seriously doubt it was drugs or alcohol or infidelity, in retrospect I assume it was some sort of apostasy. But I don't actually know and I was never privy to any gossip about it. He got reinstated and never came to another meeting. The only other serious JC case involved an elder who was getting too friendly with a coworker. He avoided getting DFd, but all the details of his indiscretions were widely known throughout the congregation. As far as I know, neither man is currently attending meetings. -
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What is dating as a JW like
by UFCFan infirst off i want to say that i'm a teenager which makes my situation interesting.
i don't want to give too many details in case someone i know reads this but i'm between 14 and 18, homeschooled, and i've been awake for around one or one and a half years.
i already have a plan to attend usc or wisconsin university if i'm smart enough to get in and then move to san jose and try and get a job working for a hs football team or with a soccer team, since i want to coach sports or be an agent.. now, this all sounds great in theory but there's one thing i've been thinking about that makes me doubt my plan.
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I will tell you that relationships formed under false pretenses never ever work out. If you aren't on the same page as her with regard to the religion, it will be a miserable, life destroying experience. I recommend that you escape, go to college, and work hard to develop your career. If she wants out of the borg, she needs to do it for herself and not because of you. That's the only way a relationship between you could ever work. I wish you the best of luck! -
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Ayn Rand - Opinions?
by cappytan infor those of you familiar with ayn rand and her ideas on morality, rationality and reason, what is your opinion of those ideas?.
i'm talking about her actual ideas, not the ideals that libertarianism has adopted and, in some cases, perverted.
do you think she's a charlatan?
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“Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive,” Rand wrote, “and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.”
I'd love to know how this works.