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  Just finished uni after 4 1/2 years!!!

  by JW83 in

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  i started uni doing a ba the year after i left the dubs.

  then i got pregnant & married, & still continued ... i have just finished my honours year in history - i did a thesis on why the dubs were banned in australia during ww2.

  talk about full circle!

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  Hubby is making me a strawberry margarita as we speak!
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  Just finished uni after 4 1/2 years!!!

  by JW83 in

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  i started uni doing a ba the year after i left the dubs.

  then i got pregnant & married, & still continued ... i have just finished my honours year in history - i did a thesis on why the dubs were banned in australia during ww2.

  talk about full circle!

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  Hubby is making me a strawberry margarita as we speak!
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  ExJWs: Get Used To It : THE WATCHTOWER WILL NOT DIE OUT

  by steve2 in

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  there is a precident for the jws becoming more hard-lined: the exclusive brethren.

  prior to 1959 the exclusive brethren, whilst conservative, tended to have a more open outreach and even allowed some fraternizing with non-members.

  however, following directions from their leaders in 1959, they suddenly slammed closed the doors, introducing beliefs such as: refusing to eat meals with anyone who was not a member and (this makes me sick) automatically breaking up families if one spouse questioned the authority of the leaders.

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  the Shitnesses
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  ExJWs: Get Used To It : THE WATCHTOWER WILL NOT DIE OUT

  by steve2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there is a precident for the jws becoming more hard-lined: the exclusive brethren.

  prior to 1959 the exclusive brethren, whilst conservative, tended to have a more open outreach and even allowed some fraternizing with non-members.

  however, following directions from their leaders in 1959, they suddenly slammed closed the doors, introducing beliefs such as: refusing to eat meals with anyone who was not a member and (this makes me sick) automatically breaking up families if one spouse questioned the authority of the leaders.

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  Yes, but sects like this have died a natural death before. I read somewhere recently about the Mennonites? (I might have the name wrong) - there are no members left.
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  If you won the lottery would you still work anyways???

  by JV in

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  i'm really, really curious about everybody's opinions on this.

  say you won the lottery would you continue to work???

  or would you retire to pursure a shuffleboard career among other things??

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  it can get very very boring at home

  I'm with you there, Es! Looking after kids can be a pretty thankless task, & constantly cleaning is yuk! After a while your brain goes dead ...
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  Apostates commit the unforgivable sin and will NOT be resurrected.

  by gumby in

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  i posted this on another thread....but as usual, when i posted it, the thread died and so i thought i'd put it under a different subject as it's worth re-reading.. the society has always said nobody is the judge who commits the dreaded...."unforgivable sin", but they sure the hell do not having any trouble making a statement concerning apostates as commiting the unforgivable sin.. 1982 watchtower 4/1 p.26-28 .

  " jesus told the unrepentant scribes and pharisees that they and their gentile proselytes were subjects for gehenna or, literally, sons of gehenna.

  (matthew 23:15, 33-35; see also john 9:39-41; 15:22-24.

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  ((hugs)) for Freedom 96
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  Just finished uni after 4 1/2 years!!!

  by JW83 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i started uni doing a ba the year after i left the dubs.

  then i got pregnant & married, & still continued ... i have just finished my honours year in history - i did a thesis on why the dubs were banned in australia during ww2.

  talk about full circle!

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  Thanks!
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  I'm thinking about going back to college, any advice?

  by zagor in

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  i think it would be great final chapter in my healing process, and would love to catch up with my life anyway (most of guys of my generation have finished it long ago and have kids).

  i'm interested in science and engineering, but i'm afraid my mind my have become too dull over many years of brain washing.

  social sciences sound great too but im not sure if i like them enough to pursue such degree to the end.

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  Good luck to you, too! Another bonus about going to uni after leaving the dubs is making new friends, & getting new interests to replace the ones we've given up. And some financial security/status in society - all the things dubs discourage. Good luck with it all!
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  Just finished uni after 4 1/2 years!!!

  by JW83 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i started uni doing a ba the year after i left the dubs.

  then i got pregnant & married, & still continued ... i have just finished my honours year in history - i did a thesis on why the dubs were banned in australia during ww2.

  talk about full circle!

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  Yes, I met Ozzie in September 2001, about 3 weeks after I started going out with my now husband! He is a great guy & we'll have to meet up again soon, as soon as his head gets better! :)
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  Just finished uni after 4 1/2 years!!!

  by JW83 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i started uni doing a ba the year after i left the dubs.

  then i got pregnant & married, & still continued ... i have just finished my honours year in history - i did a thesis on why the dubs were banned in australia during ww2.

  talk about full circle!

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  JW83

  Thanks guys! Yes, a pinot is definitely on the menu tonight, and tomorrow night, and the next night!!! *insert winky smiley face here*