Posts by MissFit

finally found people with open minds and free thought that doesn't just consist of "well the wt told me this so it must be right".. my story is that i'm just like any other child of a jw...brought up into a life of indoctrination where "the world's" thinking is automatically wrong.. that is until i was 14 - a light turned on in my head.

MissFit

Welcome. You have plenty of time. Enjoy your options and make sure you let your parents know how much their support means to you.

Be gentle with them. They will be feeling like failures because they couldn't keep you in. They will mourn you because they want to picture you in paradise with them.

Hopefully if you show them respect they will respect your decisions and not view it as an attack on them and their values.

Take care.

Miss.Fit

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Really weird sentence

by Moses Joe in

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i've been absent from meetings recently because i'm having serious life challenges that make me really not want to have to deal with all of the people and the sitting.

i had made an attempt to, "simplify my life" that rather than being blessed was meant with unemployment.

lol.. anyway, i finally got tired of all the phone calls checking up on me and sent a message to someone explaining that i just wanted to be left alone (an elder).

MissFit

Data dog Something has to give. You cant go on like this. Misery is just oozing from every key stroke. Can coming out and being true to yourself be more miserable and painful than what you are going through?

Your family only has a shadow of a man. Dont all of you deserve more?

Moses Joe: I dont think you owe anyone an explanation. This is between you and Jehovah. Just tell him that you have faith that Jehovah knows your heart.

Quote him that scripiture that says Jehovah is greater than our hearts.

Miss.Fit

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

MissFit

Sunny: You don't need to apologize for making sincere posts of what you believed at the time. I've been right behind you on a similar journey.

I know what you mean about trying to post an answer and then deleting the whole post.

We were discovering critical thinking. I know I used to parrot what I was taught on the subject. I had to stop and really think if I really believed it or was this an automatic response?

I think that was one of Cofty's objectives. To get people past that automatic response and really think about the implications and issues of that response .

These threads are little time capsules, or snapshots. They allow us to go back and measure and assess our journey and growth.

Your fellow traveler, Miss.Fit

Cofty:Thank you Cofty for this thread.

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Time again for........ Congregation roll call

by Jourles in

it's been a while since this topic has been brought up.

use it as a chance to see if there is someone you might know from years past.

1973-1976 --- lakeside, ca??

MissFit

Welcome fromderbyshire. Start another thread and introduce yourself. We would love to meet you.

Miss.Fit

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No Common Sense (About Convention)

by EmptyInside in

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well,the guilt trip worked in getting them to the international convention,even though,for some,it put their health at great risk.. i'm glad that an elderly relative showed some common sense and realized she couldn't make the convention.

but,people still treated her oddly about not going.. one of her friends,who had a stroke in the past,thought about not attending,only to get screamed at by her so-called friends.

she did go,but it was hard on her.

MissFit

My mother is in her 80's. She lives far away from me about 1 hour away from Seattle.

She couldn't get anyone to take her. The elders told her they didnt want the responsibility in case she got sick. They were going to arrange to show the c.ds of the convention to a group of ones that could not go.

So apparently some elders had some common sense or were at least afraid of being liable if something happened.

Miss.Fit who did NOT travel all that way to take her mother to the DC.

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What was YOUR wake-up call before you left the JW´s organization?

by Mr Fool in

what was your wake-up call(s) before you left the jw s organization?

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MissFit

Anyone else?

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What was YOUR wake-up call before you left the JW´s organization?

by Mr Fool in

what was your wake-up call(s) before you left the jw s organization?

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MissFit

Bttt for new ones. interesting experiences .

This is a good way to get to know other on this

Site.

For me: Candince(spelling?) Conti ( Google her)

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Interview with an Apostate: Template

by Simon in

here's the template of questions to use ready to copy / paste and complete.

feel free to add suggestions for additional questions and to nominate people you'd like to read about (but not no one is obliged to do one).

also, add your own story too!.

MissFit

This is a great way to introduce yourself. You can modify the questions or make your own. If I ever get to post on a computer where I can cut & paste, I will fill one out myself.

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How to (or not) handle the occasional JW who wanders in here

by Check_Your_Premises in

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i originally thought of posting this thread last week when a thread was started last week: .

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/104099/1.ashx .

this girl didn't seem to realize the extent of the "apostasy" on this thread.

MissFit

Agreed. Great reminder.