Lurkers - Confused (page 2)

ballistic

Cheers Mike!

Mystery, I welcome you as a "junior member"!

Cheeses - I found a web site for you: http://www.cheeseland.net/Citizens.php

Mystery

100 post is the graduating number! It doesn't seem like i have been on long enough for 100 post.

How do I get to become Emperor like you?

Thank you.

blondie

Mystery, you need 1899 more posts to reach 2000, then you will be an Emperor. If you visit daily, and post on what grabs your interest, you will be there in no time.

Blondie

Two different kinds of Lurkers, theres ones that read but at first feel a little scared of posting - no probs then there is the ones that look around and maybe are searching for ones to DF but dont paint yourself with their brush as you clearly are not one of them. What I always say (and it comes true!) "What goes around comes around !"

Big Tex

There are active Witnesses who read this site regularly. Occasionally there are folks who lurk here to cause trouble or to hunt someone down. I had an experience like that a few months ago. It was unpleasant and kind of shook me up since I can't imagine anyone being that interested in my comings and goings. I have heard of elders who either lurk here or have reports from Witnesses who lurk here and use that information to DF a regular poster.

I have also heard that Bethel has a few people who read this site to see what is being said about them. I don't know how accurate those reports are, but I don't doub it since the Society has historically been super paranoid.

unique1

Seems to me, if you are worried about being stalked by members of the Cong. just don't put your name or address info in the profile section.

I would personally like to put a picture in my postings, but alas the profile section isn't working.

wednesday

It worries me. jws have ratting on each other pounded into their head.as to why would they do it/it would expose them as being on this site? probably ways around .Especially if they got someone who was avtively pretenng to be JW and was on these type of sites. Probably give them a medal.

danb71

as the original question has been answered (and i have recently de-lurked), i can only say that it blows me away to think that active jw's could come here routinely and read everything on the forum, and still remain active jw's in good conscience.

i realize many here are doing fades and i'm not referring to those. i'm talking about the ones referred to earlier who are trying to flush out straying jw's. what a heavy burden they must bear, to find that the organization they serve is as corrupt and decaying as it is, then go back to their jw routines. they must check their souls at the door.

i agree that it's low-grade stalking. i saw a lot of that in the wt. my elder stepdad parked outside my sister's job for two weeks after she left home (and the org). hey, maybe he's here too. (!)

d

Holey_Cheeses*King_of_the juice.

Mystery,

Next step Senior Member, and ever onward. Race you to Emporer.

Ballistic,

Thanks for the tip. Not a very spiritual site though.

cheeses is by your side.

La-Bellamargarita

just been reading about lurkers, thought I'd better post as otherwise I shall remain in that catagory. As a newbie I find the site fascinating, but don't feel I have much to contribute.

I haven't been an active witness for at least three years now. I had been having doubts for a long time, things like the "new light "on the Generation, suddenly discovering that the blood issue was far more complex than I had ever envisaged with all the acceptable fractions etc, knowing how hypocritical life in the organisation really is was beginning to get me down, then I discovered the Freeminds site on the net and I began to find the answers I needed. I could hardly believe the things I read in "Crisis of Conscience"

For a good while, even though the things I was learing from the web I found I was able to coroborate from books in the KH library, I still felt really guilty. Every time I went on the web I was filled with mixed emotions of excitement and fear of being "caught". Eventually I became brave, or foolish enough to question the elders about very basic issues, neither they nor the CO could adequately answer my questions. I was constantly told I should trust the "Slave". But the "Slave" had been getting things wrong for years!

Eventually I just drifted away. After almost twenty years as a Witness I now ask myself why couldn't I see it all sooner? Still we can't go back in time and I'm happier now than I was in the organisation, so I just take one day at a time and try get on with life. Sometimes I feel it wasn't so bad, other times I regret all the years I wasted, a common tale no doubt on this board.

Nice talking to you all bye for now

Lurkers - Confused