My mom started studying after I was born. She and my dad had been married 10 yrs and had two boys. At that time my dad worked in aerospace and mother was a stay at home. She became a JW with a vengence. My Father played on a baseball team, a bowling team and a rotating poker game with a few work guys. My brothers went to Catholic School. That was the first change, then christmas, birthdays, everything. My mom hounded my dad and thru time he gave up the things he loved. He still wrote to his family until the day he died but we kids were pretty much cut away from family. My dad became more and more invisible. He would get up at 4 AM leave, have breakfast at a diner be at work at 8. Off at 4:30. Dinner as soon as he got home. He'd work in the garden, read the paper and be in bed by 7. Mother would drag us to all the meetings, assemblies etc. One brother became a career criminal even murdering a guy with a hammer. Because he wasn't baptized Mother never felt God held anything against him. My other brother got a job at Boeing but was anti social and only had one friend. He joined the Marines the day he graduated high school to get away from my mom and her religion. I left the Society after 36yrs and my mom never got over that. She took it very personally. We all, including my mom, were screwed up by this religion. When I left my dad started hanging around my place a lot and we became very close. He had become invisible to all of us to avoid her confrontations. He'd say, "Your mother would give the shirt off her back to those JWs but if a person fell down bleeding in front of her she would walk away." So our whole family and by extention all my cousins, aunts and uncles were injured. My father died 15 yrs ago. My two brothers and my mom have all died within the last 3 years. I was hit by a car recently and almost died. I wish I had.
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Montreal ICSA Conference - I will be a speaker
by Lady Lee inyup it's official.
i will be a speaker at the international cultic studies association's confernece in montreal canada july 5-7 2012 you may find me asking for some specific information over the next couple of months like this one suicide - how many do you know within the jws.. the focus of my lecture will be on the invisible victims, such as those who are dfed, ubms (unbelieving mates), children raised in a home where one parent is a jw and the other isn't , people who get involved with jws only to find too late how much of a problem it will be in the relationship and the impact on these family members.
issues of suicide, depression, relationship breakdown and who knows what else i will find.. i do have to put limits on it.
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Hi, Welcome!
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Are there higher dimensions? If so, what is in them? (Part - 1)
by Fernando incarl sagan's cosmos - tesseract (7 minutes)he was a well spoken genius with a gift of making it plain and simple.... .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwl_zi9jnke.
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String Theory says there are maybe 10.
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Well, I guess I am marked now...
by garyneal inmy wife did a talk last night at the kingdom hall concerning how a god of love could kill people.
she asked me to come with her because she wanted the emotional support.
i agreed and we were all on the way.
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You did great! I'm very proud of you. If he is searching for those "facts" he'll soon learn that they don't exist. I wouldn't waste too much more of my time with him. It is a waste of time. Time is all we have.
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who wants to go to heaven?
by xtreemlyconfused17 inokay just one thing clear, i'm an inactive unbaptized publisher n the main thing that makes me look down upon the wt is the false 607d date n the stories of ex bethelites...........now, for those of u who left and completely dropped their old beleifs esp.
the 'paradise' one, n now beleive they'l go to heaven.........i totaly dont know what to beleive right now, still asking lots of qs n reading alot of articles........in the mean time do u want to go to heaven?
like reeealy!!!!!!!
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1. Nobody knows what heaven is like OR if there IS a heaven
2.No one knows what happens after death until you get there.
3. There may not be anything
I was seriously injured recently when I was in a crosswalk and a van hit me. Later I was laying on a bed and couldn't breathe (collapsed lung, broken ribs, elbow, ruptured spleen) I dawned on me that I was dying. It wasn't scary I knew I was just going to go. I really wasn't so bad. I even thought that I would finally know the big secret. Then the ambulence took me to the hosp.
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Me Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee
by Tater-T intrying to learn to post pictures on here.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/forum/tech-support/205431/1/how-to-post-a-photo-here.
and i've done all this and it doesn't work.
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Great fotos. Spoze to tell you I don know, Pocatello, Idaho. I actually had layovers in Pocatello when I worked for Hughes Airwest....Top Banana in the West.
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What are the most frustrating subjects to talk about with a JW...
by Tuesday ini was just wondering what everyone here found the most frustrating to talk to jws about, list as many as you feel..
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What did you/do you think about at the meetings?
by tornapart inif you still go or remember the days when you did what did you think about while you were sat there?
obviously it's very difficult to concentrate.. lol..assemblies i find impossible and have often drifted off to sleep, listening to the endless same old stuff.. .
and i want some funny stories.. .
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I actually took notes to keep my mind on the meetings. I had a study I tried to convince to take notes and she said, "Show me that in the Bible" so I finally found, "And they took no note till the flood swept them away". We had a good laugh at that. Assemblies. Jeez. 8 dayers, sitting in the sun, (fainted once and then got smart and worked in the snow cone deal) I think I just went kinda Zen. I still can do that if I am caught in a looooong session of sh.t. Even if it is something I want to know about I have to do the note thing to keep my mind from evacuating the premise.
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Associate Bible Students, Dawn Bible Students and Christadelphians Beliefs...
by Tuesday infrom what i've researched these religions seem to believe almost everything the jws do, with very minor differences.
i'm curious if anyone here is part of one of these religions or knows a place that i can go to find out all their beliefs to see every difference?.
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I've been going to the Unitarian Church (hard to say church ha ha) and no one has said JC did or didn't have a pre-existance.
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now wat??
by xtreemlyconfused17 inaloha everyone...................please do help if u can.
hope u dont get bored reading this quite long text
i'l soon be 17, i'm an unbaptized publisher, but innactive (havent gone door to door)for more than a year, but still very strict with our organisation's standards (lyk no teenage dating).
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Everything is REALLY going to be OK. I mean it. Decide how you want to live your life and what kind of person you want to be. Then work towards that. Make goals....graduate high school...college...work. Don't forget to have respectable good times. Don't get involved with anything you wouldn't want printed on the front page of the newspaper or on TV. Your sleep will return. You have just had a big jolt of reality. When any religion says you can't read (fill in the blanks) (the Catholiks have banned books) ask WHY...What are THEY afraid of. Truth is truth and if you read something that shakes it up then it's not truth.