I'm proud of you for being honest. It's hard, and you have a lot of changes to get used to, but you can hold your head high and know that you are free. Good luck!
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my worst fears were realized
by magotan inim on my phone, so im really limited.
i came out to my family about my doubts and my sexuality.
shit hit the fan.
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Has leaving the truth( i hate that word) caused you to do things now that you would not have normally done ?
by sieborg inalthough we all know that there are many disadvantages of being brought up ( vomit sound) in the truth.
but would you say that leaving has maybe caused you to do some things that you would not have normally have done in life ?
for me personally now i have lots of free time ( mine all mine, evil laugh) i have almost finished my first novel.
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I don't think so. I was an adult when I joined up, and I was only in for about 12 years. Mostly, I've gone back to doing the things that made me happy before, like gardening, home improvement projects, and travel.
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"Why Do Many Male Jehovah Witnesses Who Learn TTATT Grow Beards"?
by ÁrbolesdeArabia inthe year once 1983 and the brother who use to study the bible with me drove by and had a full on "charles manson" looking facial hair and beard.
i asked tina, a friend what's up with him?
tina was 19 and a hot red-head woman who was partially in the religion but had problems with fornication.
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Just Ron had a beautiful, well kept full beard and moustache before we became dubs. He hated having to shave because he would get so many ingrown hairs. When we left, he regrew his facial hair immediately. He looks so much better - like the man I fell in love with - than he did clean shaven.
I, on the other hand, am still waging my daily war with my facial hair. I will never surrender and let the lady beard grow unchecked. My rebellion comes in the form of refusing to pretend that I don't have equal say in what goes on in my own household.
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I make whole wheat bread. It is the best ever.
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Too funny!
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How Many Members Where In Your Kingdom Hall, How Many Did You Personally Know, How Many..
by ÁrbolesdeArabia inwe are told over and over "jehovah's witnesses have the most perfect spiritual paradise available in this mans imperfect system!
" this thread is dedicated to all those talks and watchtower lessons we had to endure listening to the lie "everyone in the kingdom hall would die for you!
what was the number of people attending your kingdom hall and how many of them displayed love and joy?
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There were about 50 people associated with the hall I attended. I knew every single person by full name, I knew where all the regular attendees lived (there were a couple of people who only came once or twice per year and I didn't know where they lived). I knew a lot about each person - whether they had other family in the borg, whether they were born in or converts, where they worked. Despite all that, only 2 people ever called me when I quit attending meetings - one elderly brother and one sister my age.
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Is the grass greener on the other side?
by What Now? inhi all.... so my mom phoned me up this morning and said she needed to talk to me about something.
she asked me whether or not our (worldly) family thought that my husband and i were witnesses anymore.
one, someone in my family said to her, "i didn't know you guys wear short dresses like that" - commenting on a slightly above the knee dress i had worn to a family event.
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the thing is, even if you raise your kids as witnesses, they will still learn all sorts of things you wish they wouldn't from the "worldly" kids at school. Unless you plan on homeschooling and totally restrict their contact with non-witness kids, anyway. We did that, and for what it's worth, we are now undoing a dozen years' worth of damage to our kids. I think we were actually pretty fun parents, not really ever all that restrictive, lots of vacations, lots of toys, lots of fun times not involving "theocratic" activities. It's still damaging though - kids shouldn't be listening to talks about oral sex. how everyone who isn't a perfect dub is going to die etc etc. That stuff sticks with kids. My middle son was 10 when we left, and his therapist told me that he said he was so happy that we quit going.
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No Child Left Behind Testing
by skeeter1 inaround the us, 6th graders (and alot of other grades) are preparing for this spring's standardized testing.
when "we" grew up, the standardized tests were straigh forward math problems.
the standardized math test is now only 16 questions long, but they are all long, drawn out word problems.
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Now there's a concept - teach kids things they actually need to know! I think I got one semester of "consumer education" in high school, and 2 years of home economics in middle school. I learned the basics of cooking, sewing clothing, embroidery, and how to balance a checkbook. Not really enough time to cover everything a person needs to know to handle their finances, run a home, and make smart financial decisions. I might have been better off taking a class in retirement planning than learning how to install a zipper in a dress.
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Avoiding Homelessness
by magotan ini'm falling apart here.
the false teachings of the jw enrage me; we started covering the information for the jeremiah book, and i was outraged at how they twist up the scriptures to meet what they want to say.
my dad wants to consider the "god's love" book during family worship evening.
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I see that you are 19 and you have a job. You need to move out. Find a cheap place, or a roommate, and don't let your family pressure you to continue living with your parents. Right now, living with them is not good for you. I won't lie and say that all this easy, or that they won't shun you. But no matter how hard it is, remember that the defect is theirs and that you are a good person who deserves happiness.
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No Child Left Behind Testing
by skeeter1 inaround the us, 6th graders (and alot of other grades) are preparing for this spring's standardized testing.
when "we" grew up, the standardized tests were straigh forward math problems.
the standardized math test is now only 16 questions long, but they are all long, drawn out word problems.
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Skeeter, I agree that this problem seems too advanced for the average 6th grader to really understand. if it has to be literally drilled into a kid's head, is s/he really understanding the concepts? My other point is simply what else is expected to be taught in middle school or high school? I've never heard of a public school that offered a math class beyond first level calculus. None of the schools in my area even offer that - no money to put on a class that only a tiny handful of kids would take. Very few career paths require the kind of math you took in college - I started out as a physics major and decided that wasn't the lifestyle I was looking for. I ended up with a degree in accounting, which is a pretty good fit. But the only math I need is basic arithmetic and a little basic algebra once in a while.