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My daughter asks about the Bible
by laverite inmy 9 year old asked me yesterday about the bible.
some of her friends in school last year spent a lot of time talking about hell and it really scared her.
i dealt with it with her, so she is reassured and comforted and realizes she doesn't need to worry about going to hell.
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Babylon the Great, the Great Trib, etc.
by laverite inthinking about topics such as babylon the great, the great tribulation and the kinds of things would scare the living bageezus out of me as a child, i took a walk down memory lane.
and let's be very clear here... i was utterly terrified as a child growing up as a jw.
everything terrified me.
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We're Jehovah's Witnesses Witnesses
by laverite inwhat i value most about jwn is that this site, with the massive numbers of posts and experiences shared here, is a very strong public world-wide witness on the impact of the watchtower publishing corporation has on the lives of jehovah's witnesses (both current and former).. the countless lived experiences shared here stand as a public record of first hand experiences.
in sharing our experiences, we witness to others about our (former) religion.
rather than espousing the truthtm, we speak to the real truth about the truthtm.
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Are you thankful to know TTAT or not?
by laverite ini am so thankful that i was able to learn the truth about the truthtm (ttatt).
i owe everything in my life to having left watchtower corp: my education, my position as a college professor, being able to write and publish, travel, family life, my beautiful children, being able to be openly gay -- and happy.
unlike those closeted homosexuals in the truthtm, i do not have to be afraid to be who i am.
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On truth and The Truth™
by laverite ini wanted to share with you all a quote that i came across today by carl sagan.
as so many have found out, the truthtm is in such a tenuous, vulnerable position today because the truthtm simply cannot stand up to the real truth.
the only real hope watchtower corp has against the truth is to rely on cultish practices of information control and shunning.
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How do the Dubbies Handle No Soliciting Signs Now?
by laverite ini get too many callers in my neighborhood, and i need to invest in a no soliciting sign for the front door.
i do not appreciate uninvited callers, unless they are there to tell me there's an immediate need to evacuate.
i absolutely won't buy anything at the door.
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Who from JWN would you most like to have dinner with?
by laverite inif you could pick anyone from jwn to meet in real life to meet and have dinner with, who would that be?
let's exclude all those who you are already friends with, who you know and love from jwn in real life.
so or me, that excludes my friend ann and also curious butterfly.
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Gut wrenching situation
by laverite ini have a close relative who has a baby with a terminal medical condition.
he could go at any moment or last a few years.
but the ultimate outcome is that he will die very young.
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Seeing the Strange in the JW Familiar
by laverite inthere are times when we manage to step outside of our own identities, perspectives and world view, and look at ourselves, our situations or certain lived experiences almost as an outsider.
sociologists call it seeing the strange in the familiar.
an anthropologist by the name of miner wrote a fascinating piece involving this very concept (see http://www.ohio.edu/people/thompsoc/body.html).