Lizmarie

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  I have a question (I'm new)

  by kaykay in

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  this is my first post so let me start out by saying hi haha.

  i'm not a jehovah's witness and neither is anyone in my family.

  my daughter is dating a born in though and there are obviously problems because of it.

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  Lizmarie

  Hi if he is under 18 i think he should be living with one of his parents, as for the matter of him going to bethel, unless he has been invited to live there by the society he wont be staying...His mother can't make him be a witness if he is baptised then he should live up to his chose of becoming a witness, if he isn,t then it is on him to make the chose to become a witness not his mothers. No one can force someone to be anything that they dont want to be at the end of the day the individual person has to do it for themselves.
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  What does your congregation do socially now?

  by truthseeker in

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  if you're still in or hear about jw social activities through the grapevine, what does your congregation do now socially?.

  my hall does absolutely - nothing - with the exception of high school graduations.

  i read a few posts about jw socialising in the 70s and 80s and honestly, reading about it is completely foreign to me - i grew up in the 80s and never experienced the "good times" of jwdom.. it seems most people do their own thing.

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  Lizmarie

  Hi, the society encourages good assosiation, which means spending times together in and outside the hall. Ihave just move back to my old congregation in Ireland after living in England for two years, we had a few young ones in the congregation and would try and get together as often as possible ...I would recomend this to anyone, you get to know thos that you are going to the meetings with on a more human level.
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  When Disfellowshipping extends outside the KH; shunning that never ends

  by Layla33 in

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  i was talking about this the other day to a friend that is an attorney for abused children and we started discussing strange family practices and how they affect children.

  it was during that conversation that i remembered something i hadn't thought about in years - when i was 12 years old my step-father and mother tried to practice a form of shunning (disfellowshipping) in the family.

  of course it wasn't my mother's idea, it was my neurotic mentally deranged stepfather that decided because my mother and i had disagreed about something in a silly judicial meeting, that i was to be shunned from the family.

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  Lizmarie

  First of all your mother shouldn't of asked you to lie for her, you parents should have known better it says in the bible that liers will not inherit gods kingdom so you were just doing what was right. For your step father to do that to you was not on.......For your family not to talk to you that must of been really hard for you, sometimrs people do things that don't make any sense but at the end of the day that is there problem and not yours.