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  Lurkers - Confused

  by Mystery in

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  i am a newbie and apparently very naive.

  i in reading different threads, lurkers have been mentioned.

  my initial thought was "lurking" meant people like me reading for awhile and eventually posting.

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  Depressed and alone

  by nilfun in

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  i have never been able to finish night .

  is some message of hope to be found in its final pages?

  close the book and remember.

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  What happened to Harmony?

  by gilwarrior in

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  does anyone know what happened to harmony, who post as peaceloveharmony?

  i know that she moved to new york from minnesota.

  however, i e-mailed her and she told me that she was considering moving back to minnesota.

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  I'm in BIG trouble!

  by radiolady in

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  i haven't written in a long time...and i guess there's no excuse...being too busy should never be an excuse for not keeping up with your family; and that's what you guys are...one big family.

  you're the only ones who really, truely understand.

  at first i didn't want to write what i'm going through in here...i was embarrassed.

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  Witness teens /mental health probs in future?

  by termite 35 in

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  2. medical

  there was a very interesting programme on radio4 this afternoon-dealing with teenagers and their possible problems.. i feel that many witness teens maybe heading for mental health problems due to the issues raised today.. we all know that jw teens are encouraged by the society to follow the leadership of the org.regarding the problems they may face during this difficult time.. the society has made it seem as though it is facing these problems by producing books and magazine articles especially for teens; but how useful are they?.

  apparently to grow a healthy teen you need many things.see if you think the points i remembered(there were many more)could explain mental health problems for witnesses in later life.... 1.it's not rebellion that makes a healthy teenager; the most sucessful ones question and are allowed to question.. 2.in doing this they 'find' their own wat in life and learn to be comfortable in their own skins.. 3.teenagers understand the world and how to survive in it by exploring it in their own way.. 4.telling a teen 'these are the rules you should follow' make for unhappy teens...and unheathy mental health.. 4..when parents realise that a teen is preprogrammed to need to discover who they are; they can stop taking it personally and remember that the teen has to find their own path for their own mental growth.. 5.stunting a teens natural tendancy to 'strike' out on their own actually harms their coping abilities in the future.. 6.teenagers who have not been allowed to follow their own thinking for a while end up not having enough self esteem to even start thinking about theses things.this is where the problems start.. they will lack the life coping skills that other sucessful teens have; they will be more prone to depression; self harm;mental illness and suicide.. .

  self harm is a classic example of a teen who has'nt questioned and therefore has'nt learnt to cope on their own, mentally.the cutting satisfies and releases feeling that are incommunicable due to repression in those years.. so please; all you witness parents- just because your child want to question, don't think they are rebellious in a bad sense- if they do question it proves you have brought them up well so far.don't spoil their future mental well-being by stopping them on their last stage of growth in to adult mental health.. let them question and speak openly without fear of reproach from you;help to set them up for adult hood..

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  Anyone from Minnesota?

  by scootergirl in

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  looking for anyone from the st. cloud congregations (i was in the north one)...or surrounding areas.

  oh heck, anyone from minnesota is fine!

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  Ebonics anyone?

  by openminded in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i find myself interested in linguistics and especially ebonics and have discovered that despite the fact that i am a "whiteboy" i can "ebonicize" about anything(poem,song,letter,whatever).

  so if you want/need anything translated into ebonics please give me the opportunity to do it for you.

  i find myself interested in linguistics an' especially ebonics an' gots discovered dat despite da fact dat i be uh "whiteboy" i can "ebonicize" about anything(poem,song,letter,whatever).

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  what would you do different????

  by Richie in

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  suppose you never took the truth, what instead would you have done differently in your life???.

  richie :*)

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  A twisted Irony and a question ......

  by flower in

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  2. friends

  i know ya'll will probably get sick of seeing my name but i hope you understand why i am here so much.. anyway, one really ironic thing i was thinking about is that its amazing how much hate i had/have inside of me my whole life.

  hate my father, my sister.

  i have always been angry and hated people.

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  New to board, from Minnesota..here's my story.

  by radiolady in

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  2. experiences

  for those of you who have read this in someone elses thread, i apologize.

  it was suggested i start my own thread so here is my story again for anyone who may have missed it.

  i am currently from minnesota and live in st. paul (roseville), but the congregation that i went to was in the apple valley area.

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