Most definately. Being artistic, I had dreams of going to an art school, but of course college was a no-no. I dreamed of doing theatre, but that wasn't allowed either. So I would attend play after play, wishing I was the one up on stage. Atleast my mom did let me take dance classes for 6 years ( although my worldly grandparents paid for it.....thanks grammie and grampa ).
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Did You Stifle a "Gift" That You Could Have Grown Because You Were A JW?
by minimus ini see a lot of talent here.
those that love music, poetry, literature,etc.......do you feel that if you weren't a witness, that you could have grown in your talent or "gift"?
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What The F..................!
by Englishman inmaybe i'm in need of some enlightenment here.
through the means of educational tv (such as the simpsons), i have always thought that a sufferer from tourettes syndrome cussed and swore for most of his waking life.. however, just a few moments ago, i encountered this in thursdays the times:.
manchester united expect to complete the acquisition of tim howard, the american goalkeeper who suffers from tourettes syndrome, within a fortnight.
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Many people with Tourette don't swear uncontrollably. My brother has Tourette, as does one of my nephews ( and we think his brother may as well, but he isn't old enough to be properly diagnosed ), and neither one of them swears. My brother does make quite a few strange noises though. He has this new tic that makes him make a huge whooping sound ( high pitched mind you ) after he finishes a sentence. He told me he is driving himself crazy! lol It was pretty tough for him growing up. At the hall they would ask my mother to have him sit in the 2nd school. He tried so hard,at meetings he mainly did a lot of throat clearing and facial tics. I thought it was mean of them to single him out. I could understand if he was swearing, but he wasn't, and he wasn't really disturbing anyone. No wonder he doesn't like witnesses.
I went with my sister to an all day seminar on Tourettes. One of the speakers ( she was awesome ) was a French teacher, and she was relating some of her stories. One of her ticks made her wave her left hand in the air and bang on something if there was a suface near by. Any way, she was driving in her car, and she started to have this tic, and a few drivers thought she was sticking up her middle finger at them so they did it back. She had such a good sense of humour, she said she just smiled back at them ( she said "what am I supposed to do, throw some Tourette literature out my window so they could understand?" ).
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If You Never Were a JW What Religion Would You Have Been?
by minimus inpersonally, i find catholicism too weird and if followed properly, just another "cult".
if i was not raised as a witness, i probably would have been a "home baptist" or something like that.
what do you think you would have been, religiously speaking, if you were not first a witness?
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Since I grew up in the jw religion, it's hard to venture a guess as to what I would have been. If left to choose for myself, then I would say no religion. But that's after years of being in a cult, which totally made me hate all religions. Maybe if I didn't have the experiences I did, I would feel differently. If my mom hadn't become a witness when I was four, my guess is I would have been raised Catholic ( I was baptised Catholic as a baby ), or I could have been raised a Quaker, because that's how my mom was raised ( she had to convert to Catholicism to marry my dad ). I guess I will never really know the answer to this question.
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Infant baptism?
by blondie inisaac was still breast-feeding at 5. can you imagine him being old enough to get baptized?.
here is a quote from plnlast month as many know my 6yr old and 8 yr old nieces were baptized.
they will be giving their first assembly parts at the district convetion on 2 days june 8th and august 3rd...their father will also be in the part and he is also participating in the drama.
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Sheesh. In my old hall, they really frowned upon baptising anyone younger than 12 ( unless they were super smart and spiritual, then maybe age 11 ). Is this how the society gets their numbers these days? Baptising 1st graders? IMHO, these folks are getting crazier by the minute!
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Am I an Agnostic?
by Bendrr ini've been doing some reading on agnostics lately and i've also been doing some thinking of my own.. see, the way i see it is i do believe that there is *a* god or maybe even more than one.
i also don't disbelieve satan or demons but i do think they're way overrated.
i just think that we don't have sufficient information.
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I feel pretty much the same way. I believe there's something there, just not quite sure what. I don't really believe in the bible though.Maybe parts are inspired, maybe not. All I know is I read enough of it as a jw to last me a lifetime.
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Friends of the other sex in the JW's
by JH inhow is it seen if a single adult brother sits right next to a single adult sister at the kingdom hall?
rumours get going, right?
one thing i never liked in the jw's was that you just couldn't be good friends with people of the other sex.
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hmmmmm..... I was just thinking about that thread likening girls to cows......the bulls are always ready, so the cows can't be left aone with them
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Friends of the other sex in the JW's
by JH inhow is it seen if a single adult brother sits right next to a single adult sister at the kingdom hall?
rumours get going, right?
one thing i never liked in the jw's was that you just couldn't be good friends with people of the other sex.
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Totally overdone in my opinion. I found this to be a pain myself. When I was in highschool, I had a ton of guy friends ( partly due to the fact that I was the only girl in a boys shop ). Of couse since they were "worldly" I couldn't hang out with them anyway. But one of the boys in my shop was a witness, and I couldn't hang around with him outside of school because it wouldn't look right.I had a couple othr boys in the hall that I was friends with, but we couldn't hang around either, unless we got a huge group together of both male and female. And as adults, god forbid you're friends with a member of the opposite sex, or someone's spouse. One automatically thinks "something" must be going on. I tend to be friends with people I have things in common with, regardless of what sex they are.
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similarities Jws v simpson characters
by natred inthe writers of the simpsons must have had jw contacts.. think of ned flanders and his family, totally jw!!.
think ofmr burns doesnt he look just like that evil elder who would always open the theocratic ministry school?.
i am absolutely certain that fred hall is spitting image of mr burns, i can picture him so clearly in his grey raincoat and gold leaf dog eared bible walking hunchedup in the rain pestering people on a sunday afternoon.....
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I like the episode where the Simpsons sue the church, but the church has no money, so the Simpsons get the building and move into the church. I would love to do that to a KH, move in an then hang x-mas lights and have a huge party!
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IQ and JWs
by Freedomrules indo you think there is any correlation between intelligence and membership?
most jws i've known aren't that bright, and it seems that most that leave are really intelligent.. just an observation.
any thoughts?.
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I know quite a few intelligent witnesses. I also know quite a few not so intelligent witnesses. IMHO, it's about 50/50.
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