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  I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

  by scared and lonely in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

  i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

  i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

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  sparrowdown

  You are just not used to people being honest about their thoughts and feelings.

  You are not in Kansas anymore Dorothy, people here will tell you what they really think, so be careful what you ask.
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  I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

  by scared and lonely in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

  i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

  i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

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  sparrowdown

  Yep, pretty much.
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  I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

  by scared and lonely in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

  i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

  i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

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  sparrowdown

  Ah yeah, I have read your other posts and my suggestion still stands.

  Grow a pair.
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  I am leaving the JW's . I am alone and scared. Advice and help needed please

  by scared and lonely in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am sorry that on my first post i am asking for help and advice but i am at my wits end.

  i have been brought up a witness all my life and it is all i know.

  i am an ex-elder and pioneer and i don't know anybody outside of the congregation.. i have been unhappy for so long and wanted to leave.

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  sparrowdown

  You do know you have rights don't you?

  JWs may shun you in a social sense but they cannot take away your legal rights or property.

  Stand up for yourself man.
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  Does the WT attract needy dysfunctional type of people?

  by William Penwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in your personal experience, do you think that the wt attracts needy types of people?

  over the years, my experience is that they do attract very needy, insecure, dysfunctional, types.

  i had an acquaintance that i just basically cut off.

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  sparrowdown

  Meanwhile, back at WT Ranch, the born-ins are all happy and well adjusted, with no hang-ups what...so..ever!!!

  Well done born-ins, you dodged a real crazy-bullet there 😉

  But maybe that's for another thread.
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  Need to vent: My loathing for the JW cult increases more and more, while my wife clings more and more to it

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just as i think my loathing for the jw cult has peaked, it goes higher and higher.

  i wish this cult would just go away.

  i wish my wife would just wake up.

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  sparrowdown

  Dubs are basically religious narcissists.

  Ignore them while they go about their cult activities and don't get sucked in to participating in their mini-dramas about getting to meetings/fs on time etc.

  Again, ignore their cult activities it drives them nuts.
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  Does the WT attract needy dysfunctional type of people?

  by William Penwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in your personal experience, do you think that the wt attracts needy types of people?

  over the years, my experience is that they do attract very needy, insecure, dysfunctional, types.

  i had an acquaintance that i just basically cut off.

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  sparrowdown

  I think it not only attracts them it creates them.
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  "You don't go to church in a Kingdom Hall"

  by stephanie61092 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "you don't go to church in a kingdom hall" was stated during the public talk yesterday.

  the speaker then elaborated that "people who go to church, go to fulfill a spiritual obligation.

  coming to the kingdom hall is coming to learn.

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  sparrowdown

  Isn't your brain still taking in info while tuned out and dozing? I think it's called hypnosis lol.
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  Best pills meds or other to take before meeting?

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. experiences

  thought it would be good to share what ones take to deal with the meetings.

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  sparrowdown

  Just a tip to anyone seriously considering the weed idea.

  The laughing and the giant bag of cheetoes might give you away.
  
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  Where are the EXJW Feminist Philosophers?

  by Luther bertrand in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i am working, more in the planning stages, where i am going to offer a commentary on the caleb and sophia cartoons that the org puts out.

  i noticed a heavily patriarchal bent to the narrative that these cartoons offer.

  i would really enjoy working with someone who has an academic background in feminist philosophy, or at least someone knowledgeable.

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  sparrowdown

  High five to Xanthippe!!