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sweet tee

Welcome STRESS FREE!!!!!

THAT'S ANOTHER ONE FOR OUR SIDE! WOOO HOOOOOO

AK - Jeff

Welcome Stress Free - Good to have you onboard!

Other than your statement that your parents are hard liners I could have wrote your exact post - baptized as teenager, progress in the 'truth', left 18 months ago, Franz, the shunning without cause, ect ect - even the 40 years are the same....

Do I have an Australian twin?? LOL

Glad your family left with you - that makes it easier. Hope to see you on here often. Look forward to the full story soon.

Jeff

calamityjane

Welcome Stress Free.

Your not alone in losing your family and being shunned. I also live that life, but life goes on after you leave the borg, and begin making new friends, I must say it is a better and happier life.

I hope some day my family will see the light, but right now they have their heads so far up the watchtower's a$$ that they can't see and won't listen to anything I have to say.

cj

trevor

Stress Free

Welcome to the board.

I can sympathise with your situation and wish you well in moving on and coming to terms with what has happened to you. You may find it helpful to click on my profile.

Doubtfully Yours

Welcome Stress Free!!!

DY

mad max

It warms my heart that you aboard. Welcome and dont feel lonely, all in similar boat, but this time it is smooth sailing and you do your OWN thinking not the org.

LouBelle

Welcome welcome

(I somehow always feel like Bilbo when I say that)

vitty

Hi, welcome and looking forward to your posts

lonelysheep

Welcome, Stress Free!!

Krista

Welcome S.F.

I am very new here as well but have had a very warm reception.

Read a much as you can. I read "30 Years a Watchtower Slave" and it gave me the strength to live by my own convictions. I hate it when "friends " stop by my house and I have to deal with their ignorant stares and uncomfortable facial expressions due to my rather large library. One of the elders has hinted around more than once that I should get rid of them, that they are of no real value. FAT CHANCE!

About shunning, my dad told me that I was just over sensitive and making something out of nothing. So on my first and only time out in preaching, in a van with 7 other people I got a full dose of JW shunning. Only the driver would take me into account, the rest would not look me in my eyes, would look away or at the floor. Two of these people were my sister and her husband. I am a quick learner and I never agreed to go out again preaching. How ironic, the are approaching stranger's doors with a message of love but can't offer me the common decency of a hello or a little small talk. Sad.

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