NYCkid
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A New Trend for JW Baby Boomers?
by NYCkid ini'm sure this topic has come up before but i'm new here :-) since many of us are offspring of the baby boomer generation or of a generation earlier, i've noticed a trend.
my parents and their siblings who largely grew up as witnesses are now entering or have entered retirement age.
although my parents were generally hard working and responsible people, they have little retirement savings.
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Breaking News - JW Arrested
by NYCkid in"police in middletown are accusing 50-year-old minister jesus cano, a jehovah's witness, of trying to lure young boys for sex with nude pictures of himself, which he'd printed with his phone number.
i believe he is/was a bethelite at the wt farms.
saw it on my local evening news.. http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_177180721.html.
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College Anyone?
by NYCkid injust wondering who is going to college now and/or who attended college after leaving the jws.
what is/was your major and how do/did you find the experience?
do you find it difficult to choose a major?
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George Orwell's "1984" and the WTBTS
by NYCkid inhey guys,.
i'm just finished reading george orwell's "1984.
" has anyone read it and did you also find eerie similarities to.
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Graduating from collge next week
by NYCkid ini just wanted share that i am graduating from columbia university next week with an undergraduate degree in sociology at the age of 39. see, it's never too late, for anyone out there considering attending college.. my partner and around 10 of my closest friends will be there to cheer me on, which is overshadowing any disappointment that my family will not be there, or as of today, yet to acknowledge this accomplishment that means so much to me (i sent grad announcements a few weeks ago along with an invite).
in all honestly, they live across the country so it is an expensive trip.. anyway, despite the student loans, hard work and sacrifices, it has been well worth it.
i remember back in h.s in the late 1980s, i begged my parents to let me attend college, but of course, the end was coming and it was a waste of time.
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Film "Worlds Apart," screened in NYC - GO SEE IT
by NYCkid inhello, just want to highly recommend the danish film, "worlds apart" now being screend at the tribeca film festival in new york.
the acting is superb and the filmakers represent the witnesses accurately (to the "t") withoug making them appear fanatic.
after all, these are people sincere in their beliefs no matter how absurd.
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Missing my siblings wedding
by NYCkid injust releasing some steam, but i'm going to be missing my siblings wedding this summer due to the fact i'm dfd.
my sibling invited me but i can't justify the travel expense (across the country) to observe a 20 minute ceremony and then go to a motel alone while everyone is stuffing their faces.. i just hits at the core of human relationships and is so divisive, but that is the point.
after months of no communication, my mother calls me this week to remind me of what i'm missing out on.
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Guess what was left in our door
by NYCkid inmy partner and i arrived today at our weekend country home.
we haven't been here for a couple of weeks.
anyway, the jw left us a little surprise folded up on our front door...their "false religion" tract.
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In light of the teddy bear named Muhammad.....
by NYCkid inregarding the teddy bear named muhammad by a class in a prestigious private school in sudan and the ensuing controversy, which is a prime example of religious fundamentalism (or religious extremism if you prefer) gone awry, i thought i'd incite some conflict in good 'ol usa..... jehovah is a self-centered tyrantjesus is a wine-loving homeless hippieallah is jehovah's alter-egomoses is warlockjoseph smith is a pedophilebuddah is a pregnant hermaphroditethe governing body of jehovah's witnesses are brainless, racist and closeted homosexual alcoholicsthere, that feels better.. best,.
nyckid.
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Are JW's former Chiliasts?
by NYCkid inhey, i was reading karl marx today for one of my college classes and he mentions briefly the chiliasts and i quote, "in their minds [french revolutionists] may 2, 1852, had become a fixed idea, a dogma, like the day on which christ should reappear and the millennium begin, in the minds of the chiliasts.
" the footnote goes on to say about the chiliasts, "the adherents of an ancient christian sect, who believed in the second coming of christ and in the establishment of the millennium, a thousand years of pardise on earth.
obviously this mention of the millennium believing chiliasts struck my curiosity since that is exactly what jws believe especially when chiliasts believed that satan would be let loose at the end of the 1000 years for one final battle.