Yes, and grooooaaaan, they are unusual. Nobody can spell them, nobody can pronounce them, and they confuse them with other names that are more common. I told my kids they are welcome to legally change their names to the ones everyone calls them any way. One son is considering it, but the other likes his unusual name just fine (lots of pretty girls comment on how "original" it is, lol).
Cicatrix
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Did you give your children 'Bible names'?
by nicolaou ini have to admit that we gave our first two kids 'hebrew' names.
i don't want to identify my children online but suffice to say that we had at least some sense in that we opted for safe names of the samuel and daniel type - no melchizedeks!.
however, in our city we had a javan a samson [gen 10:2] and even a zechariah!
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This site has been the most incredible help to me-UNTIL TODAY
by ohiocowboy inreading through some of the recent posts, ie; the topic of lazarus and the gay issue, i was flabbergasted at what i was reading.
i can't believe-well maybe i can, that some people on this site are calling gay people "faggots", and telling that person that they are going to get "what sodom and gomorrah got".. this site has been a godsend to me, and have been telling my friends how nice it is to be in with a group of people who can relate to my life, my feelings, my insecurities, and my fears relating to the org.
and not being a part of it anymore.
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Hi Cowboy,
I'm really sorry that someone had to post such offensive material on this board! Anyway, the ONLY definition for that word that I acknowledge is:
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperatures
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On CNBC,,,,PRINCE admits he is a JW....Did U believe he was?
by LyinEyes ini am watching prince talking to the reporter on cnbc, and she asked him if he is now one of jehovah's witnesses and he said......."yes".
i have read things in magazines and newspaper articles but i really could not believe that he was an active witness.
well, i guess i had to hear it with my own ears.
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That's what I thought too, Undercover
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Confrontation has its place
by Maverick ini know most of you wouldn't read this, after-all it might improve your life and you don't want that do you?.
no sane person enjoys confrontation.
we like to be liked and thought well of.
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Thanks Maverick,
I needed that. I've just realized over the past few months how nonconfrontational I've been in my life, especially in my relationship with my parents, siblings, and in-laws. I have been financially and emotionally supporting grown adults who are more than capable of doing this for themselves, and I've been doing it to the detriment of my own family. Well, I put a stop to it recently, and it's caused a major upheaval. Suddenly, now that I'm not handing out money, finding them jobs, and letting them live under my roof while they "find themselves",I rarely hear from any of them anymore.But my relationship with my own children is getting much better.
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Partisan - Good or Bad?
by Amazing1914 inare you partisan?
and if so, does that make you an uneducated, narrow-minded, polarizing idiot?
can we test this theory?.
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Cicatrix
Good question. I've just realized over the past couple of months that I'm a Pleaser. I have a hard time taking a stand on almost everything, because I don't like to make people mad at me.I've realized that this largely comes from being the designated peacemaker, fix everything role that I had in my family, and which to the consternation of my family, a role I've been backing out of (making my worst nightmare come true-nearly everyone of them is mad at me now, heehee).But on some of the big issues, I am definitely Partisan. I knew I had to have the strength to leave the JWs when the Silent Lambs issue was brought to my attention. And I have distinct political views-I just don't like to discuss them very often, as it doesn't seem to do much good.I personally haven't met too many people who can have a calm, honest, debate
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On CNBC,,,,PRINCE admits he is a JW....Did U believe he was?
by LyinEyes ini am watching prince talking to the reporter on cnbc, and she asked him if he is now one of jehovah's witnesses and he said......."yes".
i have read things in magazines and newspaper articles but i really could not believe that he was an active witness.
well, i guess i had to hear it with my own ears.
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A few years ago, a visiting district overseer told a bunch of us in a car group that Prince was studying, so yeah, he probably is.
But will it last? Hard to say-the guy can't even decide on what name to keep
"I guess I am so bitter because so many of the dreams we all had , things we gave up along the way as JW's.........are gone forever. "
Amen Lyin Eyes! I was a pretty talented writer and artist, and my teachers wanted me to make a career out of it in the worst way. My art teacher offered me a job painting murals on the sides of buildings in our town (every time I see them now, it makes me angry that I so stupidly turned her down). My counselor told me that he would help me find money to go to college. But I bought into "counsel" not to pursue an "attention getting" career. And now the DOs and COs name drop like it's some kind of credit to Jehovah that famous people are joining the religion. What a waste of time!
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Did your family ever makeup holidays?
by MicStroz inthis may sound funny, but my family would celebrate every year a " gift day".
it would be in december but never the week of christmas.
we would get gifts for each other and have a family meal.
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Our gift days coincided with conventions and assemblies. I would buy the gifts and wrap them beforehand and place them where the kids could rattle them and try to figure out what they were. They would get to open one before we left-usually new clothes and some fun notepads and pens to make the assembly less boring. When we got home, we would do the toy gifts. I think it took the sting out of having to spend three days sitting and being "good", lol.
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How many were raised as a JW during their teenage years?
by codeblue in.
and how many of you feel because of that, you never really got to be a "teenager"?
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Cicatrix
LOL Dan-O,
Hopefully they didn't land in the Kingdom Hall parking lot after a meeting, like the condom wrapper that fell out of the car of our former presiding overseer's grandson's car.
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How many were raised as a JW during their teenage years?
by codeblue in.
and how many of you feel because of that, you never really got to be a "teenager"?
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My parents told me that they were divorcing when I was in my early teens. I went off the deep end for a few months, started drinking and some other illegal activities. I started studying with the JWs when I was a teen. Due to my parent's bitter divorce, though, I had already given up most of the teen rites of passage to care for my sisters and brothers while my mother worked. I married young, partly because I decided that if I was going to be raising children, they were going to be my own. In my inexperience, I imposed my own rigid morality on myself, as part of what I considered to be "mature behavior", and what I was studying with the JWs helped me in my justification for doing so.
In my late twenties, though, I had an early midlife crisis in response to how some events in my life were being handled by my "spiritual counselors". I started doing all those stereotypical things-dressed outlandishly, bought a sports car, colored my hair for the first time, stayed out listening to music at the bar until the wee hours of the morning (I never ordered a drink in a bar until I was twenty-seven years old, lol), bought porn mags, got my belly button pierced- basically did everything legal thing that teens usually try out that is frowned upon by the organisation in protest.When I was in my thirties, I started going to college, learned that it really was okay for me to think for myself, and bailed-not only from the religion, but from being peacekeeper, caretaker, and enabler for my sisters and brothers, and for my parents, who were still at each other's throats.
But I still drive a sports car, color my hair,...
This Life is Grand!
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Run far, far away....
by Country Girl inusually, when the human being is in danger, we have a rush of adrenalin: the flight or fight response.
our hands are clammy, our heart races, we may become dizzy, and feel a sense of impending doom.
i found that if i walk into a kingdom hall since i was out (20 years ago) i get those same feelings.
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Cicatrix
The last Memorial I attended, I had a full blown panic attack.I realized then that I had to leave for good.