How sick of it I am........

Every time I hear anything about Jehovah's Witnesses (from non-Jehovah's Witnesses) it is something that is so untrue or misunderstood. It makes me sick. I just saw a blog from someone who was saying that JW kids are not allowed to talk to non-JW kids. HELLO!! They are in school with non-JWs all the time. My parents didn't let me spend too much time with non-JW friends because they didn't live by the same standards that my parents expected of me, and peer pressure is huge when you are a teenager. You are not as able to make good decisions. And what happened to all my school friends. Let's see. My best friend from high school got pregnant when we were Juniors and had to drop out. She is now raising her daughter on her own with the father no where to be found. Another friend got pregnant and married the guy, but he is very abusive. I had one good friend who started doing cocain, married an extremely abusive guy, had two kids with him, divorced him, gave up her kids (as did he) and now her mom is raising the children.....but she is raising them as Jehovah's Witnesses. Her daughter was never JW. I know a lot of the people I knew from high school are now drug addicts. If my parents had let me spend a lot of time with them, I could have very well ended up like them. I am happily married (for over 9 years) and have a 4 yr old & a 2 yr old, AND I am raising them as JWs. Have I been worse off for it. No. While everyone else is focused on the economy and how they will by Christmas presents for their kids/family/friends, I'm not. The failing economy and the strange weather was told to us as a sign of the time of the end years ago. Jehovah's Witnesses are not bad. We are not perfect. People love to focus on our mistakes, but we are imperfect humans. All of those friends from school I mentioned were Catholic, but no one would focus on that. I had never even noticed until thinking about it just now. People also like to look at how strict the Witnesses are and how much the door to door work annoys them. Maybe they should look at all the Witnesses beliefs and how they come straight from the Bible. Everyone thinks we just believe what the WT says, but they show us from the Bible. We have always looked at the Bible first and foremost. But if people would admit that, it would be one less bad thing for them to say about Witnesses. Now days people don't want 'The Truth' in a religion, they want a religion that will condone the way they want to live, but if you're living an immoral life and have no desire to change then you don't have God's approval.