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  And You JW Wives Thought the Organization Was Too Repressive....Read This !

  by xjw_b12 in

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  we have all read many posts here as to how women felt they had to be submissive in the organization.

  how would you like to be a member of first christian fellowship for eternal sovereignty?

  ravenna, ohio - a woman pulled over for breast-feeding her baby while driving on the ohio turnpike was shown on videotape at her trial wednesday refusing to cooperate with troopers until she called her husband for permission.. catherine nicole donkers, 29, also would not stand or speak as she defended herself in portage county municipal court until her husband gave her permission from the first row of the audience.. the first day ended with donkers finishing her questioning of the trooper.

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  wow, unbelievable. And I thought we had it bad.
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  What If Jehovah's Witnesses Are Right?

  by shamus in

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  the "what if" thing comes to mind... no matter how much i strongly believe that they are not, what if armageddon happened tomorrow and they were correct?

  would you have any sorrow for being wrong???.

  i, personally would not.

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  I think it's true that armageddon is coming soon but I definitely DONT believe that JW's are the only ones who will survive. In fact I feel that a good majority of them probably would NOT survive, because they are all hypocrites, judgemental and pompous and I don't think Jehovah would want them in the new system. No one but Jehovah knows who will survive and who wont so I just try to be the best person I can be and try not to dwell on it.
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  Anyone here like jogging?

  by Elsewhere in

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  i started several weeks ago and all i can say is wow!

  what they say is true... it is very adictive.

  the natural high is amazing.

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  I love to run, especially along the beach, which is about 5 minutes from my house. The ocean air is so exhilirating. I run there almost every day.
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  College and EX-JW Discontent....Questions and Stats

  by teenyuck in

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  2. friends

  *many* ex-jws say that they were robbed of an education due to the wtbts and as a result, they feel that their families and the wt screwed up their life by depriving them of the opportunity to go to college and therefore, earn a high salary at a job they love.

  here is a link to the us census which shows that approximately 26% of the us population graduates college.

  page 5, towards the bottom, shows the college graduation stats.

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  I definitely would have went to college if it werent for being raised a JW. I always wanted to go to art school. I could have gotten scholarships as I always had very good grades but since I knew I would not go due to armageddon coming and I was expected to pioneer I didn't even take college prep classes. Instead I graduated early so I could pioneer and did that for years while just working part time jobs and living at home.

  Fortunately since I have been out of the org. I have been able to get good jobs and do well financially. I am now in a profession which I love and I make pretty good money. I just wish I didn't waste so many years pioneering, because I know I would be alot farther ahead than I am now.
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  What if JWs had never been part of your life......?

  by Scully in

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  prisca's topic about personal responsibility vs blaming the jws (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/56286/824979/post.ashx#824979) got me to thinking..... where do you think you'd be if the jws and the wts had never been part of your life?how would your life be different from what it is now?what do you think you might have accomplished or done differently without the encumberances of the jws in your life?what kind of relationship would you have with your family?who would you be?.

  there are no right or wrong answers, but think about those what-i-want-to-be-when-i-grow-up ideas you had as children and whether those dreams could have become a reality.. .

  love, scully

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  I definitely would have had my degree and I think I would probably be alot better off financially but all in all I think being raised a JW has definitely made me a better person, with better morals.

  I think if it weren't for the org I would have probably been in alot of trouble. I would have been screwing around and might have gotten pregnant at a young age and ending up being a single parent. Because of the org. I waited till I was 25 to have sex (no I didn't get married, I fornicated with a worldly guy and I liked it so much I couldn't stop. I got privately reproved but after that I quit going to meetings).

  I am bitter in a way that the org took away the best years of my life but at the same time I think there was a reason for me being in it and I know I am a better person because of it.
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  Jehovah's Witness and Birthdays

  by lisavegas420 in

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  2. beliefs

  i know that jehovah's witness say only two birthday celebrations are spoken of in the bible and that neither were held by persons who worshiped jehovah.

  or were there any other celebrations that were simular to birthday celebrations?.

  inquiring minds need to know.

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  Mizpah had a good point about Jws getting around the rules. In the congregation I grew up in all of the sisters decided they were going to have a gift exchange day for the kids because we didn't get gifts for b-days, xmas, etc. and they wanted to give us our own day, so we all had a potluck at the park and had a gift exchange for all of us kids, and we did it in January, right after Xmas. Weird.
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  Hot Child In The City

  by wasasister in

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  is there any greater joy than summer?

  it's been 90 degrees (f) here in the pacific northwest off an on for over a week.

  i just got back from an extended trip to northern california, where it was nowhere near this warm.

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  I live on the west coast, Santa cruz, and the weather is beautiful pretty much all year round. I love it, in fact I am going to the beach today, which is about 5 miles away.

  I am actually moving back to the central valley soon where it has been about 105. I am really going to miss the weather here.
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  Did anyone else want to puke at assemblies?

  by RoadDoctor in

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  is it me or do others get absolutely sickened by the disgusting interviews given during circuit and district assemblies?

  i mean, come on, how much more rehearsed are these little skits?

  i always hated hearing everyone's "out of this world" field service experiences.

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  Yeah, I used to want to puke all the time, more and more the older I got. I knew a couple of families that always had parts in the assemblies, portraying the perfect JW family with perfect pioneer kids. Yeah right. I was friends with those kids and they were far from perfect. In fact they were totally miserable. They only pioneered because their elder dad made them and they had to be the perfect example at the KH. Sickening!
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  What's your sign!?

  by MrsQ in

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  i am curious to know... .

  i'm a pisces.

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  Libra baby!!!

  in china i'm a ram
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  Was there a special song that meant alot to you when you left?

  by Brummie in

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  2. friends

  nice thread.. "when the world turned blue" by joe samples & lala hathaway.

  it just had a big impact on me when i was leaving the watchtower, i still play it now.. "soul 2 soul" keep on moving.

  i was playing that a lot at the time so it had an impact on memories.. "havent you heard" patrice rushen.

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  "Nothing else matters"- Metallica

  So close no matter how far

  couldn't be much more from the heart

  Forever trusting who we are

  And nothing else matters.

  Never opened myself this way

  Life is ours, we live it our way.

  All these words I don't just say

  And nothing else matters

  Never cared for what they do

  Never cared for what they know

  But I know

  So close no matter how far

  Couldn't be much more from the heart

  Forever trusting who we are

  and nothing else matters.

  Never cared for what they do

  Never cared for what they know

  But I know

  Never opened myself this way

  Life is ours, we live it our way

  All these words I don't just say

  Trust I seek and I find in you

  Every day for us something new

  Open mind for a different view

  And nothing else matters

  Never cared for what they say

  Never cared for the games they play

  Never cared for what they do

  Never cared for what they know

  And I know

  So close no matter how far

  Couldn't be much more from the heart

  Forever trusting who we are

  No nothing else matters