Posts by Doubtfully Yours

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I gave the PO a letter tonight

by fullofdoubtnow in

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tonight was the school/service meeting at the kh, and myself and dedpoet drove there at the end of the meeting to see the po.

we didn't go in the hall, we just waited outside the gates for the po to come out, then i handed him my letter, saying it was to get things over with and save the necessity of a jc.

he didn't ask what it was, i think he knew, especially when he saw dp give me the thumbs up sign, but asked me to reconsider, but i said my mind is made up, i am leaving, and i want it out in the open as soon as possible.

Doubtfully Yours

Congratulations on closing a chapter of your life.

Drink responsibly. Oh, and another thing... Please don't go off the deep end as so many that leave the Organization do, thus becoming a self-fulfilled phophesy.

DY

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what is your....................

by defd in

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favorite snack.

just to lighten up the mood.

ill go first.

Doubtfully Yours

Cheese, crackers & wine.

DY

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Mankind doesn't have the ability to govern himself, true or false?

by JH in

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jeremiah 10:23.

23 i well know, o jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong.

it does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.

Doubtfully Yours

True.

Can't you see how things are nowadays?! Wake up!!!

DY

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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

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anyone ever wonder whether IT could be the TRUTH?

by Cordelia in

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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

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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

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Do you feel comfortable with celebrating the holidays?

by Jamelle in

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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

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Has the exodus begun now?

by toby888 in

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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

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