Welcome frogonmytoe! You are among friends here, wherever we all hail from. I live in Western Australia. Hope to hear more of your life story.
gorgia
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"Something amusing to get you reading my post"
by frogonmytoe ini have been reading threads on here for months, having not been to a meeting in about 3 years, and spending the year prior to that avoiding them.
considering i am gay and now live with my boyfriend, i think we can consider me officially drifted, or fallen away, or whatever semantic nonsense the wts uses for specifying the manner of our waking up.
anyway, i thought it about time i said hello and hopefully make some new friends with whom i can talk about things.
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We Are Telling You. You Cannot Go To University! Why? Because You Are A Drone!
by LoisLane looking for Superman inthe governing body members do not want anyone to have "higher" education, unless, as we all know, it benefits them.
lol.
to keep millions of people, under educated, under fulfilled, strictly obedient to them, makes jehovah's witnesses, easier to manipulate, easier to handle, easier to make into drones.. wake up people!.
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gorgia
Lois,
Hello, I'm 35 years old and just started university this year, as I've mentioned in other posts. I am so so so so happy I cannot explain it - even when I got my first essay grade back and it was a Credit (not the High Distinction I was convinced I'd get!!)
I'm so happy because all I wanted to do since I was little was go to university. Because, as with you, it wasn't even an option for me when I was at 'university age'. My confidence in my ability to even be 'smart' enough for university took a battering, and I didn't begin the whole application process until I was 34.
Anway, I am sorry you are struggling at the moment - but I just want to tell you that anyone can start at any age, and yes, in their local library or online, or at a college or university. I realize there are other factors in life that may limit how much study you can do and when - but I would love for you know that it is possible. Before I started university, for years I would make files for myself of my own 'study' - studying different writers I loved reading, poetry, English literature, World War Two history.
And as far as your 63 years goes - well, I hope I am learning at 63 and beyond. You certainly sound like a very clever lady to me.
gorgia
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-21-2013 WT Study (PROTECTION)
by blondie instay in.
of protection.
jehovah will .
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A newbie...
by Jaidubdub ini'm new here but have been lurking here for a couple of months.
i am 3rd gen born in but have been inactive for a few years but always had the intention to make another go of the truth, but not now that i know ttatt.
i became inactive due to the inhumane treatment from family members who are elders.
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The Truth Changes: Watchtower of July 15, 2013
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Apostacitis
by Rufus T. Firefly inapostacitis is a term denoting a condition with which the watchtower society has become thoroughly infected, particularly since the year 1981 when sincere christians who merely resigned from the organization over principled differences in belief became viewed the same as unrepentant wrongdoers (1 cor.
5:11) and as those rejecting the good news about the christ (2 john 9-11).
there was a time when news of one becoming an apostate was so rare among witnesses that it sent shockwaves throughout the organization.
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What,s a dysfunctional family in your opinion???
by jam injust recently a family i know well (non-jw) big problems.. i thought my family (my ex and my kids) and other jw family.
members were dysfunctional but no comparison to this family.. i have known families that became jw,s, their famliy were.
dysfunctional but in a strange way their family became strong.. my thought , if you have one child that goes amok that ,s not.
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I'm new here
by WrongweektostopsniffingGlue ini haven't got much of a story.
i'm in my late teens, grew up in it, and got out of the society's regime by the skin of my teeth.
nearly go baptized because i firmly did believe it was the "truth" but because of a gut feeling that held me back, that i almost ignored, i didn't sign my blood to big brother.
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Think this may help new members and lurkers in the back ground
by AMO inthink this may help all new members here and any lurkers in the back ground,who may be struggeling with the conscience.
i'am not a jw but when i came across this short vid my jaw was on the floor.
how can some body get away with such blatant lies and deception was beond me at the time, now i know differently.
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My latest university experience...
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite inthis isn't a jw experience, but for those of you that have been following my life, i thought i'd have a drink and share this strange event in my post-jw life.. for you wonderful newbies, you can catch up on highlights of my story in the few threads i've started here.
i'm finishing the junior year of my engineering degree and the classes are hard as hell.
i used to be among the smartest students in the room until i hit the 300 level university courses.
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