I found it questionable at 5 when mom first signed up. Then solid faith until age 10 when I started reading the bible on my own. Then the elders made me feel like the little idiot girl for asking questions that weren't outlined in the book or watchtower we were studying. Lulled back until age 15 when I no longer had any doubt it wasn't for me. I stuck with it until age 18 because I didn't want to wind up in foster care with my other 2 friends who left the JWs as teens. Also wanted to spend time with my family and knew after I left our relationship was over. Two weeks after my H.S. graduation I was outta there!
smurfette
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How Long Were You "In Transition" Before You Left The Organization?
by minimus inweeks, months, years??
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Norwegians Are Dirtiest!
by ISP innorwegians 'are the dirty men and women of europe'
norway is home to some of europe's dirtiest people, according to a survey.. the study found seven per cent of people in norway changed their underwear only once a week.. the survey, conducted by ac nielsen for norwegian underwear maker dovre, asked 1,000 norwegians between the ages of 20 and 60 how often their changed their underwear.. some people admitted to changing them even less often than once a week.
more than a third said they wore the same underwear for two days or more, aftenposten reported.. people between 41 and 50 were the least likely to change their underwear regularly, while people with partners were found to change their underwear less often than single people.. the survey showed 11% of norwegians change their underwear two to three times a week, 18% change four to six times a week and 58% change daily
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smurfette
I used to live in a town mostly populated by Norwegians in northern Minnesota and I never noticed them being dirty. In fact most were clean to the point of it seeming obsessive. They did eat some nasty things though. Anyone here ever smelled Lutefisk? Or (gasp) eaten it?!
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Ran into two JW's in service today, I was on !!!, it was classic !!!
by run dont walk inwell, for some reason i was up extra early today, understand i am night person and usually sleep to 11 or so today i was up at 9 and decided to take the dogs out before it got to hot outside.
i hadn't been gone 3 minutes and as i came out of my street onto another i bumped into 2 jw's (females) getting out of their suv.
they asked do you have a couple of minutes.
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Wicked Awesome!
How often do they actually try to un-place the magazines! My husband came in the room to see what I was laughing at and he thought it was awesome too. His only contact w/ them has been through my Ma & the series of elders who stalked us for about 2 years. Wish we'd have thought of something this clever. Thought you were a little hard on the ladies over the caddilac but none the less GOOD JOB!
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The new book for children.
by dmouse inmy wife went to the convention yesterday and brought back the new book for children 'learn from the great teacher'.. it's certainly much better than the old pink book, larger and more colourful, even if the pictures have a 1950's feel to them.
the introduction mentions that there are questions throughout the book that you should ask children to find out what is on their mind... saying ' true, the child may come out with with answers that are not correct.
but the printed material that follows each question is designed to help the child to develop wholesome patterns of thinking'.... 'wholesome patterns of thinking' eh?
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I'd forgotten all about the Mankind's Search for God Aztec ripping hearts out picture! Messed up!
The Paradise book sure warped alot of little minds didn't it? Until I read this thread I hadn't realized just what an impact that book had. My mom used some of those pictures to explain to us what was going to happen to our Dad when armageddon came. Yep, that's some mighty fine parenting!
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Do You See In Yourself Continuing Jehovah's Witness Traits?
by minimus infor all of those either out or on their way to the freedom exit door, do you still see traces of your old jw self that rears its ugly head?
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I agree Cheesus is hi-larious.
I still have the guilt thing and the keeping people at an arms length thing as I've seen alot of you do too. The Pledge of Allegiance is the one thing I still haven't done and I've been out for 10 years. Don't know if I will if it ever comes up. Seems like it would be a waste after the rucous I caused in 1st and 2ond grade with the extra patriotic teacher and me battling every day for 2 years. She tried to expel me. I love my country but don't see how the Pledge makes me a better American.
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Are the British Smelly?
by refiners fire innow of course, i, being british myself by birth do not believe the british are smelly or dirty, however, i must tell our british brothers that there is a recurring stereotype about the englishman that is held by australians.
they pull it out of the hat like a white rabbit, constantly.
"poms only have a bath once a week.
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I have a few Brits as friends and they seem well groomed to me. Nope I've definitley never noticed any stink among them, although my Irish grandma would probably not second that opinion.
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The Philadelphia Experiment - 60 Years on
by searchfothetruth inthere are many different interpretations and views of what really happened, or didnt, when the u.s. navy embarked on a project to de-magnetize warships beginning in 1943. what has become known as the philadelphia experiment is not a subject to be taken lightly.
no matter what you believe about it or dont, its a fact that several people have died or been killed as a direct result of claiming involvement with the experiment.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htmthe "philadelphia experiment".
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Maybe we could have made Saddam and his henchmen disappear
Last I checked Saddam had disappeared along with some of his henchmen. Maybe the CIA did
transport them back in time using Philidelphia Project technology!
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Biblical references ?
by KGB ini have noticed that a lot of you here quote references of history from scripture, so my question is this.
if you say that the bible is not the true word of god then how can it even be a true word of history.
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The bible has historical value because it was written by people! It was written by people who were generally contemporaies of the time period they were writing about. That's not to say it's an exact history, far from it. I personally have the same view of the bible I do of the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Epic began as the true tale of a sumerian king and after beig retold over centuries each teller added to it until Gilgamesh's story became almost pure fiction. This is of course just my opinion & I do not mean to offend those who belive in the divine inspiration of the bible. I just don't share that faith.
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How would you tackle the North Korean problem?
by JH inif you were the president of the us, would you confront north korea or would you try to make a deal with them to reduce tensions.. north korea warns us: we can produce six atom bombsby rupert cornwell in washington.
16 july 2003 .
the crisis over north korea's nuclear weapons programme deepened yesterday as the north claimed it had made enough plutonium for six atomic bombs, and a former us defence secretary warned that the two countries could be at war by the end of the year.. the latest claim from pyongyang was communicated to the bush administration last week, three months after north korea said it was beginning to reprocess 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods that were under united nations seal until the un inspectors were ejected from the country at the end of 2002.. us intelligence agencies are now trying to determine whether the boast is true or merely another bluff by the reclusive stalinist regime.. either way, the declaration has pushed the us president a step nearer deciding whether to accede to north korea's demand for direct negotiations - and thus drop his previous insistence that he would never bow to "nuclear blackmail" - or to accelerate plans for a military strike against the north's nuclear installations.. that spectre was raised yesterday by william perry, defence secretary under president clinton, when he told the washington post that the bush administration was "losing control" of the situation.. mr perry is a specialist on korea who helped prepare the military action which mr clinton came close to launching against yongbyon and other key north korean sites in 1994. he now fears that the north is not only close to a nuclear test to show the world it is a nuclear power, but also that it could sell a weapon to a terrorist group for use against the us.. "the nuclear programme now under way in north korea poses an imminent danger of nuclear weapons being detonated in american cities," mr perry said, adding that he had reached that conclusion after talks with bush officials in washington, and with senior figures in china and south korea.. china, reckoned to have the greatest leverage over of kim jong il's renegade state, launched a new effort this week to draw the north into regional talks to defuse the crisis, but mr perry told the washington post that as far as he could see, the "diplomatic track is inconsequential" and going nowhere.. the korean crisis has been largely ignored as washington has focused almost exclusively on iraq.
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The Korean war was not an easy one. Go to war with NK now that it has nuke capabilities? Fahgitaboutit! Even without nukes they would be a formidable foe. I personally think diplomacy is the only solution and agree we're at a stalemate. I just hope the hawks in Washington hold the same view.
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Fossil Of 'Nessie Monster' found In Loch Ness!!
by ISP infossil of 'nessie monster' .
found in loch ness.
by tom peterkin .
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Hey! I resemble that remark Simon! Well I can't be too ticked, my Highlander Daddy did like to drink way too much Glenfiddich and was always seeing aliens & ghosts while in his alcohol impaired state.
Margy Mc----