Freeminds life stories

by besty 20 Replies latest jw experiences

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  besty

  Thanks to many contributors over the years freeminds has best part of 100 life stories on the site.

  http://www.freeminds.org/life-stories/index.php

  Day in day out these stories are being read - in some cases they have many thousands of page views. Imagine how many people have been helped by reading real life stories written first hand?

  These are a massively popular, and therefore I would suggest helpful, part of the site.

  So now I am asking for your help - please consider writing your story for us. We can publish it with your real name or anonymously - your decision.

  But we would like more stories - you can write it in sections and we will publish them as they come.

  Please consider this and drop Randy or myself a PM or email [email protected]

  Thanks for taking the time to think about helping out.
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  Lady Lee

  People should also check some of the links on the dropdown toolbar at the top of the page. My story is listed under Articles/Sociology/Marriage and Sexual Abuse so you won't find it under Life Stories

  http://www.freeminds.org/sociology/marriage/sexually-abused-by-my-jehovah-s-witness-elder-husband.html

  It's also listed under my maiden name -- #3
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  Heaven

  besty... do you have any tips for us regarding length and content? Also, do you wish to have stories from non-JWs who have been affected by the WTS due to family and/or friends who are in?
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  garyneal

  Yes, Betsy, I would be classified under the non-JW who is married to a witness.
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  besty

  for lady lee - yes its an known weakness of the content management system we use that articles can't be listed in more than one category - so when we created the new freeminds site about a year ago we had a decision to make with a lot of articles - were they more a life story or more relevant to, in your case, a marriage story - difficult in some cases.

  for garyneal and heaven - yes we would be happy to have stories on the impact on non-JW's - again this is most valuable as we have a lot of visitors who have a loved one 'studying' with the witnesses
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  BabaYaga

  Thanks, Besty... bookmarking.
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  besty

  besty... do you have any tips for us regarding length and content?

  sorry heaven - missed this - we are open to various formats - the audience will decide if they like it or not ;-)
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  cantleave

  Feel free to use mine - you can edit it in any way you like.
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  EmptyInside

  I know in my own situation that the life experiences were the first things I dared to read on ex-Witness websites. And one the reasons I started questioning everything.
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  Dogpatch

  There are also many more at:

  http://www.exjws.net/pioneers/pioneers.htm

  which have not yet been transferred over to the new site. This is one of my satellite sites.

  Randy