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Do you still expect to live eternally?
by JH in
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2. friends
since leaving the watchtower, do you still believe that you will live forever, here on earth?

some might think that heaven is the final destiny, while other may just believe in this short life and nothing else.

what is your belief and how does it affect your daily life?
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Can JWs Be DF'd Just For Believing Differently?
by Yadirf in
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2. friends
the following is copied from off another forum, as i thought it ought to be given as wide a publicity as possible because it seems most people here don't have a really good understanding of the issue and policy of the wts.. can jws be df'd just for believing differently?.

http://www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index.cgiposted by questionfromviewer on thu - dec 19 - 01:30am: .

question from a viewer: .
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When You Were Engaged, Did You Do It???
by minimus in
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2. friends
most of the people that i know of that got married in a kingdom hall never admitted to "loose conduct" or "fornication" until sometime after their consciences bothered them.

some never had a conscience issue , but they did tell their friends , who, in turn, told others that they really weren't "qualified" to get married in the hall.

do you think that most jw couples "fool around" before they get married?
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moral dilemna
by zanex in
1. jw
2. experiences
i have been df'd for a good long time and have gone/going through the different stages of the healing process but i dont think that i am anywhere to giving up all of my deep-seated anger and hostility that i continue to have.

i have gotten attatched to it, ironically enough.

my moral and maybe somewhat ethical delimmna is: i am in a service provider position and i provide translation services for members of a specific community of interest...problem is that a certain person has come into my focus of the world...an elder.......a great many bones in my body want to manipulate and maneuver his life into the palm of my hand....then crush him.
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New - My Story
by Skeptically Yours in
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2. experiences
i've been a witness for as long as i can remember.

cannot remember ever celebrating a birthday or any holidays.

my grandmother introduced my parents and siblings to the religion.. it hasn't been a bad experience at all, except for the time when my hormones kicked in at 18 years old and i fornicated with my first boyfriend (it was awesome really!
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After you got baptized
by freedom96 in
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when my mom was studying, the sisters went out of their way to love on her, and to help her out.

she was a single mom back then.

one of the biggest things they did was babysit for her, while she had to go out and work.
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My story growing up as a JW ........
by WingCommander in
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2. friends
jw kids = "children of the corn".

growing up as a j-dub, i have seen all of the special treatment most jw kids and elders kids recieved in general.

while, no you were not allowed to celebrate holidays, etc, being a jw child meant you could do no wrong.
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10 Years a WT Slave
by MsJam in
1. jw
2. experiences
i'm new to the board.

i did post a topic on my ex husband the difficulties i have with him and sharing my children.

thanks for all the great advice and i have put a lot of it into place.. i just feel the need to let you all know who i am and how i got here.i have never really discussed this before (except with my new husband) i just found that most people didn't understand and weren't interested.
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Dub Convention "HOWTO"
by SYN in
1. jw
2. experiences
if anyone here has ever used a *nix flavour (linux being a popular one), you'll have come across the famous "howto" documents.

dub convention howto.

lunches are a very important part of conventions.
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Ex-JW looking for help with difficult ex-spouse
by MsJam in
1. jw
2. experiences
i am an ex jw with two children that i share custody with their father (still a witness) we have become very involved with our church (my new husband and i) the problems we are having deal with birthdays,and all the ususal non-witness activites where my children are concerned.

we do celebrate all birthdays and holidays.

my 7 year old has been spanked and threatened by her father for the mear mention of any of these things.. their father had increasingly become emmotionally distant from them.