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Another day, another apostate. Here's my story.
by I Want to Believe inbeen lurking for a bit, and feel safe enough now to tell my story (condensed).. i'm a third-generation born-in, but my parents were inactive for most of my upbringing.
this means i got the worst of both worlds--no worldly friends (home schooled all but grades 2-3), no witness friends (since we never went to the hall except for memorial), and a generally isolated upbringing in a tiny, tiny town.
needless to say, my emotional, social, and personal growth were stunted.
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Drunken Uncle In Law
by TOTH inthere is nothing like being pre-emptively shunned by my wife's family.
i started growing out my hair and beard years ago so of course everyone on her side of the family has been a little bit standoffish when i show up.
when her aunts and uncles go see her dad i tend to escort her to her dad's house, politley say hello then come back home.
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Are Jehovah,s Witnesses unique.
by jam incan you think of one single thing that set them apart.
from other religious organization.
witnessess love to.
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My 18-yr old college freshman nephew has just been cut off for leaving the JWs...
by Alfred ini spoke about him in a previous thread... he's the nicest kid you'll ever meet... smart, humble, shows respect and is very kind to everyone around him... except for one minor thing... you guessed it... he no longer believes in the jw religion.
also, he feels it is simply a place for hopeless people to gather and give each other moral support without actually doing anything productive to better their lives... i won't get into the details on how he arrived at this conclusion... suffice to say, he did not want to be a part of this crowd any longer.. incredibly, when he was a lot younger, he was able to convince his jw father (a po) and his jw mother (my sister) that they should let him go to college when he turns 18 (and help him pay for it!!!).
so they started putting some money away and my nephew has been in college since september!.
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Had dinner with friends-found out none of got Baptized because we loved God
by PaintedToeNail inmy spouse and i had supper with some long time friends this evening.
we got onto the subject of baptisim, and out of the four of us, we all got baptized for some other reason than love of jehovah.
i find this to be really sad.
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Court sentenced a Jehovah's Witness on charges of spreading pornography.
by koolaid-man infabricated charges or does the government of turkmenistan believe jehovah's witness publications are tantamount to pornography?.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/25012012-turkmenistan-four-year-prison-sentence-after-secret-trial/.
turkmenistan: four-year prison sentence after secret trialwritten by: f18news.
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The Feeling of a Jehovah's Witness
by whathehadas inthis was how i felt being in the borg.
just replace the stick with a book bag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01vfavrv_ae.
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That one good friend
by ballistic inrecently i have an obsession with past times, i guess it's called middle aged or old aged, anyway.. i'm sure anybody out there remembers people from their childhood or growing up and thinks not a lot about it.. i remember some good jw buddies and here's an ode to them.. i met one outside a local cafe, and we stopped and looked at each other for 45 seconds, or what seemed like forever.
because we lived in each others pockets and we got on so well.
we would sit at our ibm 286 pcs and play wing commander to the late hour, and there was no internet.