Posts by Doubtfully Yours

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Scales falling from my eyes. (very long!)

by PoppyR in

hi everyone, totally new here.

and still associating with jws... have been baptised 23 years, that was at the tender age of 13 when i had absolutely no idea what i was doing.

i have always been considered a rebel...brought up in a family by a single parent, my two brothers are both elders, the younger being a regular pioneer, my sister a regular pioneer and serving in a foreign language congregation.

Doubtfully Yours

Welcome PoppyR!

DY

67

anyone ever wonder whether IT could be the TRUTH?

by Cordelia in

jw
friends

i cant believe im posting this either!.

but ive got a huge decision to make wont go thru it all again its on my last thread, and i have decided that i am stopping going to the meetings completly (ive been dfed 7 months and because i didnt want to hurt my family even more i continued going to all the meetings and hid my boyfriend, wno was wonderful about it, put a letter of reinstatement in which they refused but relised by the way i paniked when i thought they might reinstate me that it is not what i want!).

i love my bf and want to be with him without any secrecy but i also want my family to accept him and still speak to me but i know that will not happen, so i have two choices either get reinstated and then leave (and risk losing mybf) or tell them now i dont want it and stop the meetings altogether before i go insane.. thing is to be free of the meetings and be with my bf, i will lose my family they are all so strong in the 'truth' they will not have any contact with me and my husband is divorcing me so ill lose finacially and my house and have to share time with my daughter, not to mention all my old friends who are wanting me back, and if i stop now all those months of trying to be reinstated will be wasted id be set right back,.

Doubtfully Yours

Cordelia,

I know exactly what you mean. Their biblical concept sounds as if they should be the religious organization to have the truth... If only they could all apply it as they preach it.

Only time will tell who's right and who's wrong. Until it's not clear, I decide my own destiny and not the WBTS.

DY

50

If raised JW - or in while young - how strict were your parents?

by Jamelle in

i'm just curious to know where my parents register on the scale of strictness...

growing up, i felt absolutely smothered by my parents (mostly my mother).

the things i couldn't do were above and beyond the limitations put on the other young people in our hall.

Doubtfully Yours

My parents were extremelly strict!

Never hung out with non-JWs. EVER!
Never was present for any of the school holiday celebrations. My siblings and I were never sent to school on those days. If a birthday celebration broke out in class, the teachers were firmly instructed to send us up to the library or some other room.
No extra-curricular activities. EVER!
No movies, rated R or otherwise. Only kid's cartoons and programs allowed and very few hours per week of TV.
A book study in my house all the time I was growing up.
Never missed meetings whatsoever! Even when sick!!!

No wonder why the JW indoctrination is so deep in my psyche!!!

DY

22

Do you feel comfortable with celebrating the holidays?

by Jamelle in

jw
friends

just curious how different individuals have reacted to the though of celebrating holidays after they left the jws...?

any holidays you have more trouble with than others?

does halloween freak you out?

Doubtfully Yours

I don't feel 100% comfortable. However, I try to enjoy them and see the positive side of each holiday.

JW indoctrination will forever live deep in my mind's hard drive.

DY

49

Has the exodus begun now?

by toby888 in

jw
friends

anyone have any real information if the great exodus has begun?

tickle my ears-

Doubtfully Yours

I only know that a hurricane named Wilma was coming for Southwest Florida and the fanatics JW elders still didn't canceled the meeting.

Well, come to find out, I heard from somebody that attended the meeting that over 1/2 the JWs missed that meeting because they were preparing at home for the storm that was coming.

I was told that a comment was made from the platform that their absence was a demonstration of their lack of faith in Jehovah.

Things that make you go.... hmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!

DY

19

Hi! I'm new here!

by watch the tower in

jw
friends

hi i've been checking out this board for a while.

i've finally mustered up the guts to post.

you guys have really helped me to open my eyes.

Doubtfully Yours

Welcome!

DY

22

Hi

by finallyfree05 in

i'm new and this is my first post......mine is a long story i will share later.

i'm at work and just wanted to say hi to you all

Doubtfully Yours

Welcome!

DY

68

Do You Still Look Like A Jehovah's Witness?

by minimus in

jw
friends

would someone still mistake you for a witness?

Doubtfully Yours

Yes. I'm still very much the proud prude, and very conservative looking. It's who I am. Won't change, really. Quite comfortable being like this.

DY

69

I've been debating on whether or not to share this...but here goes

by findingmyway in

for those of you who will be disgusted that i even attended the meeting, let alone allow my son to give his first public talk tonight, please, spare me the shouting messages.

i take full responsibility for what i experienced this evening.

yet, i feel the need to share this experience that has me enraged.

Doubtfully Yours

(((((findingmyway)))))

Sorry about this ordeal.

DY

33

I'm just numb! :-( I need to vent!

by caz in

i have just witnessed for myself one of the most hypocritical scenes ever before in my life!

my sister's ex husband, ( father to 3 boys, 12, 15, 20 years) commited suicide a few days ago.

he has been a jehova's witness all of his life and and also suffered from bi polar disorder for most of it also, particularly bad in the past 3 years.

Doubtfully Yours

(((Caz)))

DY