Yes, it was pretty commonplace when I was growing up (late 60's thru early 80's) and most of the JW's seemed to endorse it. Now things have changed in the world in general regarding spanking and most JW's seemed to have followed suit. How well I remember "the belt" tho!
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by YellowLab inhow many of you were spanked, beaten or in some other way physically corrected as a jw?.
my mother used to beat me with her hands, shoes, belts and various other items within reach when i misbehaved.
many times it was borderline abuse.. do jws teach to beat their kids into submission using physical means?
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ATTENTION APOSTATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by GING inu apostates.... fallen ones..... spiritually weak ones.....whatever u want to call u r selfs make me sick... all u display is hate.
quit u r pathetic crusade to destroy the wts.
u r childish " if i cant have it... no one can" attitude.. apostate 1) " once at a meeting a talk was given and the elder said we should pray for the spiritually weak ones in the cong!!!!!!..
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If he's not a JW tho, makes me wonder, what IS his point?
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ATTENTION APOSTATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by GING inu apostates.... fallen ones..... spiritually weak ones.....whatever u want to call u r selfs make me sick... all u display is hate.
quit u r pathetic crusade to destroy the wts.
u r childish " if i cant have it... no one can" attitude.. apostate 1) " once at a meeting a talk was given and the elder said we should pray for the spiritually weak ones in the cong!!!!!!..
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JT I think you're right, I noticed the same boo boos in his post. Did you also catch : "My Book of Bible Studies" instead of "My Book of Bible Stories"? Interesting.
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God's Purpose Soon to Be Realized: WT idiocy
by Focus inhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/pr/soon_realized.htm.
" - http://www.watchtower.org/library/pr/soon_realized.htm ?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/pr/soon_realized.htm.
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JT,
They don't teach the separating of the sheep and goats anymore? Guess I missed that one!
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Greetings from Hawaii
by Mulan inwe made it!!!!
we got here yesterday afternoon, after a loooonnnngggg flight.....6 hours.
two of our group came from boston, so they had a really long day.
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Hey, say Hello to my sisters while your there. They live near (or in ) Honolulu and are JW's. LOL!! Just kidding, how weird tho, you may run into them and not even know it. Have a great time, it is soooo beautiful there!!
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Satan Claus
by SwedishChef insanta claus takes the place of god in the holidays.
similarities between santa and god:.
quality of santa claus #1:.
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LOL, comf! Thanks for lightening this up!
As for swedish chef and undisfellowshiped, those comparisons are ludicris!! (sorry, spelling) Most people who believe in Jesus and God and think about them more than just this time of year, they also give them a lot more respect and credibility than they do Santa Claus. (BTW, we notice how you leave out the "claus" in santa claus to make it sound more like Satan just to empower your argument). Kids figure out early on that Santa is just a figmant and is fun for the holidays, thats it. I know a lot of Christian kids and they do not confuse God with Santa Claus by any means. This is just more convoluted reasoning from fundementalist people who annoy most of us. Get a life.
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Who has HELPED YOU grow?
by jst2laws inthank you for your encouragement.
i was so impressed when my wife called and told me i was mentioned on the jwd thread "who are the smartest posters here".
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=42252&site=3 i felt bad for the truly smart posters on the board who were linked in any way with the likes of me, and disappointed that not enough credit was given to those as oldhippy, janh, norm, kent, hilarystep, larc, pathofthorns, jt, and hawkaw all who should have been listed near the top with the others identified.
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Since I'm new I can't add too many names, but I do want to mention my dear old friend who found me and told me about this site, Pettygrudger. Love you Petty!
Lilacs has also been very sweet and I can see she is just a dear! (Hugs to Lilacs).
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Recovering from shunning
by Elsewhere inhow does one recover from being shunned?
my family is shunning me.
so is everyone i grew up with since i was raised in the borg.
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(((((((Elsewhere))))))) and ((((((((all the rest of you!)))))))))
This thread has truly touched a raw spot for me as well. No thread yet has made me cry the way this one has! I too was raised as a jw as were all of my family (and extended family.) All of my friends were jw's too of course. When I left 5 years ago, df'd actually (on purpose), it was as if I was jumping off of a cliff into the unknown. The scariest thing Iv'e ever done! The reason it was so scary is just what all of you have been talking about. The shunning is VERY traumatizing! I do think that it breaks their hearts to do it tho, and that gives me some strange sort of comfort, guess knowing they still love me?
Not a day goes by when I don't greive the loss of my family and friends, sometimes it's just for a moment, but it's still there. The crying spells are less now, thanks to time I guess..but reading threads like this just bring it all on again.
I agree with what many others have said, fill your life with new friends and family and with as much positive activity you can fit in! Know and remember that we are all here too and that we understand and really do "feel your pain".
Hugs!
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My Story
by Yizuman inthey remained inside my ears for 10 months.
that's one good example of it's use.
she then drove back to the drug store and got another bottle.
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Wow,
that is quite a story! Good luck with finding the necessary interview clothes. Some towns have groups who supply people in need office type clothing to help them get started. Not sure who you would contact for that, I just remember that in the past a group had asked my office for donations of clothing for that purpose.
Back in the 80's I used to interpret sign language in our kingdom hall for the deaf who attended. I wasn't very good, but they were very patient with me. I first was introduced to the deaf community by a good friend in Ann Arbor Michigan. I met him when I was very young and we became good friends by the time I was 12. He was deaf from birth and never seemed "odd" to me. I only mention that because of all your early experience with hearing people, I'm so sorry you suffered so much because of their ignorance. Do you know anyone from that area? We may know some of the same people.
Keep your chin up and best of luck to you!
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Lurkers
by Yizuman inseems that the page view out number the posters who actually reply to the thread.. my guess is that there's alot of active jws who are still active within' the so called "truth" are visiting this forum and reading all the threads.
i don't blame them for not wanting to reply for fear of being found out.. how many of you were still active when you found a forum like this one and lurked around for a long time?
how many of you left the organization as a result of reading this forum or other forums like it?.
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I found this site because an old dear friend of mine told me about it. I have been df'd for about 5 years now, but have never "lurked" or anything. Not that I wouldn't have, it's just that 5 or more years ago not many people were involved in this kind of thing, no one was talking about the internet much when I was in the borg. Anyway, I'm glad she found me and I'm glad to be here. Any of you who know of others who are df'd or left recently (or many years ago) look them up if you can, it might be a nice surprise.