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  Shaken Faith Can Worsen Poor Health

  by tergiversator in

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  study suggests shaken faith can worsen poor health.

  from the new york times:.

  * http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/13/health/psychology/13reli.html.

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  Happy positive lives after leaving

  by tergiversator in

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  in response to the commonly-repeated myth that all ex-witnesses are bitter angry people with nothing better to do then attack their former religion, i thought we should set the record straight.

  where are you in life right now?

  are you doing things that you always wanted to do, traveling to interesting places in your free time, making great new friends, generally enjoying life?

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  Can I count a placement?

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  so, here i was, reading through the posts on this board, when the conversation of the two people next door caught my attention.

  "do jehovah's witnesses drink alcohol?

  " one of the girls asked the other one.

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  Disfellowshipping Doesn't Sever Family Ties?

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  "disfellowshipping does not sever family ties.".

  or so claims the watchtower's official faq.

  so, i would like to take an informal poll: how has being disfellowshippid/ disassociated/ inactive/ just having doubts affected relations with your family?

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  Witness Kids and Disfellowshipped Parents

  by tergiversator in

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  i thought i'd share my own experience on the subject (sorry it gets a little long winded!

  ) and ask how having to shun relatives as a kid affected anyone else here.. disfellowshipping (and disassociation) have been part of my life for as long as i can remember.

  when i was six or seven, my dad, after opposing my mother's becoming a witness for several years, had a whirlwind flirtation with the organization and got baptized (as my mom put it, he was so disappointed that nothing special happened when he got baptized that he left the assembly at the lunch break).

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  What if they did something useful?

  by tergiversator in

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  i posted this in response to a thread by nojw86 on h2o and thought i'd see what people here thought about it.... what if the witnesses did something useful for a change?.

  just think what they could accomplish, if all the effort spent writing about antitypical fulfilments of obscure psalms was spent writing magazines to educate people about, say, health and sanitation.

  if, instead of full-color books on dubious details of daniel's prophecies, they printed full-color textbooks on real history, science, literature, mathematics, etc., for distribution to areas where books aren't so easy to come by.

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  My, my, how times change

  by tergiversator in

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  * http://www.bergen.com/region/absco08200104085.htm.

  this is the second article i've seen in the past year about bright witness kids going to regular colleges.

  (the other one was about twin brothers down in florida, i believe.

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  Do you need a blood card?

  by tergiversator in

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  yeah, i remember the lecture we got a few years back about calling them "no-blood" cards or medical directives.

  not that that changed anything in the witness vernucular, of course :).

  but what about actual blood cards?

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  JW attitudes on women - why beneficial

  by tergiversator in

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  my secret wish, when i was about 10 years old and we were going through the revelation book for the second time, was that one day we would show up at the book study and all the baptized brothers would be missing and they would let me read.

  i was pretty sure that i wouldn't mangle words like thyatira and laodicea nearly as badly as some of the poor brothers they roped into reading at times, who looked like they were being tortured during particularly difficult lessons.. i liked to read, i thought.

  my older brother got to read a lot, even when he wasn't baptized.

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  Volunteering at a house of evil

  by tergiversator in

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  i did something new today.

  my college arranged for several different volunteer projects in the area that you could sign up for, from trail clean-up to working at a homeless shelter to visiting elderly people.

  through the vagaries of fate, i ended up on one that visited a small clothing and food pantry operated by the area churches' ecumenical council.. so there i was, sorting packages of donated socks by children's sizes, not ten feet from where there were *religious* pamphlets (one of them mentioned god once, i think) in a small, discreet display, on such false religious topics such as how to deal with the violent death of a loved one.

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