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  My 18-yr old college freshman nephew has just been cut off for leaving the JWs...

  by Alfred in

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  i spoke about him in a previous thread... he's the nicest kid you'll ever meet... smart, humble, shows respect and is very kind to everyone around him... except for one minor thing... you guessed it... he no longer believes in the jw religion.

  also, he feels it is simply a place for hopeless people to gather and give each other moral support without actually doing anything productive to better their lives... i won't get into the details on how he arrived at this conclusion... suffice to say, he did not want to be a part of this crowd any longer.. incredibly, when he was a lot younger, he was able to convince his jw father (a po) and his jw mother (my sister) that they should let him go to college when he turns 18 (and help him pay for it!!!).

  so they started putting some money away and my nephew has been in college since september!.

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  The college financing system is stacked against kids whose parents refuse to help, despite having money. I hope he finds a way to keep going.
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  If You Never Were A Witness Do You Think You Would've Had A Vastly Different Life?

  by minimus in

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  would you have gone to college?.

  would you have gone to jail?.

  would you have been wealthy?.

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  I didn't become a witness until I was nearly 30. So I already had 10 years of marriage, a bachelors degree, and an established career under my belt. But I *did* lose over a decade of normal family life. I never got to celebrate my babies' first birthdays, first Christmases, or dress them up at Halloween. My husband and I spent 10 years afraid to speak honestly with each other about the WTBTS. It put a wall between us that never should have been there. If we had never studied, we would probably still be in our house out in the country. We would be way ahead of where we are financially, due to the amount of money we wasted donating to the WTBTS, and the amount of money we wasted buying dress clothes and attending assemblies.

  My kids missed out on a normal childhood, a wide circle of friends, activities, and sports. I hope I can make it up to them.
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  If you are self employed in the USA, do you have health insurance?

  by Iamallcool in

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  one of my family members is considering to be self employed.

  do you have any health insurance recommendations?

  how much are you paying them each month?

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  My MIL is diabetic. My FIL was self employed his entire life. They could only afford major medical, which did not cover any routine services or medications. When my FIL died, my MIL could no longer afford to keep the coverage she had. It was roughly $1000 every 3 months, and I think she told me that she had never made a claim on it. So it was pretty much useless for her. She got a minimum wage job, but of course it didn't include health insurance. SHe had nothing - no assets, less than $16,000 year income, but she didn't qualify for any government assistance. She's drawing social security now, but she won't be eligible for medicare for another 5 years.
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  What Percentage Of The Billion Hours In Field Service, Was Productive?

  by Bubblegum Apotheosis in

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  2. beliefs

  i met a doctor and his wife, they are heading near the sudan, they are born again christians and very kind.

  i know he spends a month a year.

  working for some agency,who help the poor, peform medical attention, with some gospel preaching.

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  Zero, zilch, zip, nada, none of it.
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  Ban Higher Education = Witnesses have a HUGE number of cleaners and Window washers?

  by Witness 007 in

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  every cong.

  i ever went to in australia had a high number of 1. window cleaners.

  2.general cleaners.

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  In my former hall, there were roughly 40 active publishers. Only 3 people work in anything like janitorial positions. 3 work in a restaurant that they own. 2 run businesses that employ 4 other witnesses (plus some non-witness employees). The people at that particular hall were mostly solidly middle class. The only really low income people all moved away. Actually there was a bit of an elitist vibe there.
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  The 2012 JW Survey is now online!

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm delighted to announce that the 2012 annual survey has now been launched and is ready to receive your votes!!.

  please visit www.jwsurvey.org and give us your votes at the earliest opportunity.

  this latest survey is obviously available to all those who voted in last year's survey, as well as to those who have never voted before.. so, what's different?.

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  taking the survey right now!
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  Any of you have a hard time finding a job since leaving?

  by lilbluekitty in

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  2. experiences

  i was raised as a dub and my mother never pushed me to have a job.

  even when i tried to have jobs she woudln't let me because to her pioneering was the only thing i should be doing with my life.

  i did graduate high school and attended a community college for a year but i haven't worked in nearly 7 years and with a gap that large i can't find work.

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  Have you thought about advertising that you will do babysitting in your home? You might also try looking for a job at a daycare. My mother in law got her first job in 35 years at a daycare, then moved on to clerking at a grocery store.
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  JW publicly reproved at 13, cruelly beaten and put into state custody!

  by koolaid-man in

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  wendy tucker was put on public reproof at 13 years old for rebelling against her jehovah's witness upbringing.

  she alledges her jw elder father beat her terribly, actually breaking her nose for not wanting to follow the dictates of the watchtower organization.

  he destroyed and threw out practically everything she owned as a young girl and he physically abused her to the point that the state of florida took her into custody at age 14.wendy's early years growing up in a jehovah's witness family is a constant reminder of how unloving jw parents can be to their own children wendy is now speaking out about how evil and cruel the watchtower organization is...... she is our guest on the six screens of the watchtower conference call sat.

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  what about chicks with beards? can they get insolated and inviltrate the hen's pen?
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  Power Supplier Fired Jehovah’s Witness For Wanting One Day Off to Attend Religious Convention

  by Bangalore in

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  power supplier fired jehovah's witness for wanting one day off to attend religious convention.. http://thejobmouse.com/2012/01/27/power-supplier-fired-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witness-for-wanting-one-day-off-to-attend-religious-conven.

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  If the facts in this case are exactly as presented, then the company has committed religious discrimination and deserves to be punished. However, it is possible that there are other factors that are not being reported. I wonder if the company allows a certain number of days off per year to each employee, and she had already used all her allotment. Or maybe she didn't turn in her request for the day off far enough in advance. I worked in one place where only one person at a time could take a scheduled day off because there weren't enough people to cover the workload if two or more were off at the same time. Therefore, you had to turn in your leave requests as far in advance as possible because it was first come first serve. If two people turned in requests for the same day, the more senoir person got approved. One woman took the week before and the week after Christmas every single year. She had seniority and she turned in her request the first work day of each year. Everyone hated her for that. I don't know what would have happened if an employee had asked for a day off to go to an assembly after someone else had already asked for the same day for non-religious reasons. Given that the assemblies here are usually in June or July and run Friday through Sunday, there would have been a good chance of the assembly overlapping with someone else's vacation. Most people would be super pissed if they were told they had to cancel an already booked vacation to accomodate a day off for an assembly for a coworker.
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  Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. scandals

  thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

  one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

  if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.

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  I don't know of anyone - JW or not - who has actually commited suicide. But I do know that when I was suffering badly with post partum depression, I got no help from the elders. The only thing they told me was that I should get on depression meds and I should expect to take them for the rest of my life.