I hope I didn't sound unkind. I just feel really strongly about this. Another thing to think of is your son's relationships with non JW relatives. When all the 'in family; is gone he will have no family. As far a making friends....it takes years. Because you have a son you will be in the clubs of the other mom's with kids your sons age. They make become lifelong friends. Join a group of something you'd like to do or learn. Classes are to short to build friends but Camping, Fishing, Book, Bowling, Cards, Elks, YMCA gyms, PTA, flying, horses, dog breed clubs, etc. You will meet people in your community and will find an easy bond with time. Make sure you invite them over....have kids days. You will not feel alone. All my heartfelt best to you. I wish someone had given me this advise when I was young.
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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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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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Number 1. Why do you give the "opinions of family or a man made organization" so much clout. God gave you a brain. Show me the specific scripture that says the word...short skirt...smoking...tats...putting preaching time into a massive money making Corporation so they can show stats that they say shows THEY are the ONLY TRUTH. What's happening is like when the Priests started proclaiming their holiness by the length of the tassels on their robes. #2. Do you want your son to have normal friends, or be an outsider...a freak...lonely...uneducated...married to a dowdy girl who is supressed in thought. Brings to mind what Jesus said," You've made the word of God invaled because of YOUR traditions". Their fearful selfrighteous judgement is about themselves...not you. Do you really want your son to grow up without a sense of the future...having dreams...having goals? Wanting to plan for travel, being well read, a socially well balanced and great interpersonal conversationalist? Keep him within the walls of your families self imposed physical outward show of their interpretation of Christianity or the Corporations limitations will have the power to scar him on many levels. BE strong, be brave and just live well...don't discuss it with them. It's really crossing a big boundry for them to say what they do. A therapist of mine once said, "Being in a small congregation is like living in a small town....no boundries, no privacy and very limited contentment".
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Do you believe that God is using the faithful and discreet slave
by trujw init seems that this question is used by elder to trap us and close their minds(the jw elder) to thinking.
if you answer no they wrap up a jc in short order.
i was wondering if any have tried to use a more pointed question to actually get them to think themselves.
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In it's entire past the F.D.S has been wrong on many points. I reserve my thoughts to see the outcome. Now there is doubt about who this really is. Do you know? Names.
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''Spiritual high(TM)'' after an a$$emb£y anyone?
by punkofnice ini remember having been to a convention or a$$emby for however many days and when i came back i didn't want to go back to work/school because i felt on a buzz.. what was that all about????.
any ideas?
anyone else get that?.
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I remember the ASS embly in Pasadena CA. 8 days. The PA systems bouncing off each other. You would sit and sit and sit. I fainted dead away from heat exposure. My mom was freaked. Did she get it to not sit me in the sun the next few days. The big deal was always the release of a new book. Then you get home and read it and it's the same old shit. Sprinkled with implications the the "end was so near". It was such a waste of time and terrible exposure to mind control....tired, no movement, no thought, just fodder from the suits on the stage. Very bad.
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New here and just sick!
by msconcerned inhello, i am new and i feel soooo wrong about being here.
anyway i am an m.s and have been disillusioned ever since the new understanding that came out in october.
i have read many things on this board that i have and also have not thought about.
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Welcome! As I used to get info for my JW mom she would say that she only would read info from the publications. So I asked her, just where do you think the info they use comes from? The Society is VERY afraid of the internet. I contend that they make their own beliefs invalid because they do worship a trinity. THe bible says there is ONE Mediator etc. They have Jah, Jesus and the Gov. Bod.
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Just yelled at my mom today
by trujw insorry to post this but for some reason after a year of not talking i got drunk this morning(yeah i know no lecture) and called my mom and blew up.
i tolded her she was a false prophet and a horriable christian mother who never even came to her grandson's birth by my wife.
my words came out like a river of rage from which i never knew.
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I was mad at my mom for a long time. How gullible she was (not in other areas of life) to basically "give me to them". My anger is not with the individuals (well most of them) but at the "goobering booby". They are the source of the whole business. Yeah, send your mom a card. You don't want this last event to be your last with her.
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DISPUTE THIS KNOW-IT-ALLS!!!
by DATA-DOG ini just came from the meeting and was told that the new world translation is the best in the world according to jason beduhn.
the nwt does go all the way back to the original languages.
the nwt does not change words to support doctrines.
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Try this, THere is absolutely NO translation from the origional writings.
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Latest Cable News Updates on Killer Jonathan Holt And The Murdered Young Oregon Barista Whitney Heichel
by Scott77 in.
"...jonathan holt, 24, a neighbor of heichel and a member of the same jehovah's witness church, appeared via closed-circuit television in clackamas county court wearing a suicide smock..." read cable news report of full story complete with photographs.
very excellent investigation.. http://abcnews.go.com/us/murdered-barista-whitney-heichel-raped-shot-times/story?id=17534209#.ujvk-w-hk8b
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I remember when I was that 21yr old girl. I would guess she had never had a series of self defense, training of gun use and a license to carry. Most importantly I bet she was screaming out Jehovah's name for help...it never came. As in most patriarchial religions that "little voice" that tells you "don't do it!) had been repressed. She didn't stand a chance. I read a letter her mother wrote about how good Jehovah is and she will see them in paradise. Jehovah has given her peace. It makes me sick that their girls are such incapible targets. Jehovah must have been really busy that day. oops, I mean ever second of every day. To add insult, I'm sure the Memorial will be another advertisement for the orginization and Jehovah will "remember" her on the day of reserection day. Yup. Just like when she was being tortured, raped, sodomized and killed. It all makes me so sick and sad. This poor young girl died horribly and her mother and the organization just toot that stupid horn.
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does anyone in LA remember
by dog is god ina guy named sherman casey?
born around 1952. his mother died of throat cancer when he was small.
my mother almost adopted him but he had a bit of a violent streak.
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A guy named Sherman Casey? Born around 1952. His mother died of throat cancer when he was small. My mother almost adopted him but he had a bit of a violent streak. Went to San Pedro Cong. Had many sisters. I think his older sistersfinally raised him. There was a brother in the cong named George Feliciano.
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do some stop attending meetings because they do not receive an appointment?
by solomon inconsider ryan from jan study watchtower.
ryan, a 32 year old ministerial servant, relocated to a new congregation.
"i expected to be recommended as an elder soon," ryan relates, "but a. year went by without that happening.
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My ex-husband did not have a college degree but he was very smart. About 9 foreign langages fluently. Photographic memory and a really good ear for accent. He studied old Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic. He was a classial pianist. They LET him play the piano at the meetings. He never "advanced" to holding the mikes. When the tapes came out..no more piano. One guy and his wife invited us over to dinner. He later (after a couple of glasses of wine) said, "Well, Dave, what do you offer the congregation. You play the piano. That's it and that's over". This guy later was disfellowshipped after screwing his best friends wife. When Spain opened up both my husband and I were really excited as we both spoke Spanish. There was a lot of "who can go where the need is greater" going on. An elder approached both of us after a meeting and said, " Neither one of you accomplish much here, why would you consider going there?" I bottomed out. We both worked. Put in 40hrs/mo. Never enough, never enough. Would not let anyone get away with such trash talk now. Total assholes.