Such great news! It's only a matter of time for you. Is always great to see another marriage beating this cult. It gives me hope that I'll be able to keep mine together. Well done you magnificent bastard!
OneEyedJoe
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Wife is FOR SURE waking up
by cappytan inwell, this is a new development.
she broached the subject of ttatt tonight.
said i was right about the flood.
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How old were you ??
by Clambake inwhen you had to start dumping your worldy friends ??.
just curious that's all.
not being a witness ( ubm here ) i think everyone has known a jw kid and at a certain age " my mommy won't let me play with you ".
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OneEyedJoe
I was never really allowed to have worldly friends until like senior year of highschool. At that point, it wasn't much of allowing it so much as my parents couldn't stop it. Like a lot of people, though, I lost touch with highschool friends when I left highschool and same story for college friends. Never dumped anyone for the cult, though.
I do totally agree that my worldly friends were always much better friends than any JW. I just couldn't see it at the time for some reason, or if I did I ignored this obvious evidence that it wasn't "the truth."
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What exactly is encouragement?
by naazira inwhen elders want to meet with an inactive person to encourage them, what does this really mean?
encouragement is a term thrown around by the organisation.
does this encouragement usually consist of prying into the inactive one's lifestyle?.
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OneEyedJoe
Encouragement (n) -
1. Passive-aggressive social pressure intended to get you to become more involved with the cult.
2. Reminders that you will become a drug addict, lose your job, have marital problems, and/or die at Armageddon if you fail to rejoin the cult.
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Do you feel bad throwing away literature?
by stuckinarut2 inso do you feel bad throwing away your old literature?.
what about your old song book or bible from your early days in the org?.
if so, is it because of sentimentality, monetary cost or because it might be 'sacred' ?.
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OneEyedJoe
Old literature? I take stuff straight from the literature desk over to the bin.
I was defrauded all my life into donating to this company, so I figure I'm still owed a bit of literature to do with as I please. I'm pleased to throw them in the trash.
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Biology professor speaks out about Watchtower misquoting him
by EndofMysteries inhttp://www.inquisitr.com/1766536/biology-professor-creationist-magazine/.
a biology professor is speaking out, demanding an apology and calling for an end to attempts to perpetuate lies against evolution after a statement from him was taken out of context in a creationist article in awake!, a jehovahs witness publication.
he says that a portion of his statement was picked from the whole, leaving a completely different impression from his actual statement.. .
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OneEyedJoe
That's awesome to hear SIAR! So she didn't see his mentions of exjws and immediately reject it? That's what's prevented me from showing my wife. Though I have shown her the misquotes and it didn't seem to phase her so this might not help either. Sounds like you played it well. -
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The 'Message" is spread into 700 languages...SO WHAT??? Big Deal!
by stuckinarut2 inyou know how the org goes on and on about how the "preaching work" takes place in so many languages by the website?.
they also trumpet the fact that witnesses are in "sooooo many lands and nations"....... so what!.
just because the message is spread far and wide, does not mean the content of the message is correct or of value.. take the example of coca-cola or mcdonalds.... these products are in nearly every nation around the world....but does that mean they are beneficial or healthy?
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Not to mention the fact that translating it into Hindi doesn't actually do anything significant to reach the billion or so in india that will never see it. -
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WALKING DEAD fans - Was that a JW at the very end of the latest episode?
by Zoos indid you see the last episode?
that nicely dressed, freshly-shaven young man that came out from behind the trees at the very end and said:.
i didn't mean to interrupt.
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OneEyedJoe
LOL!
God I hope if there's a zombie apocalypse whatever JWs survive will wake up and not keep knocking on doors.
Edit: In this thread I learned that Viviane is a Doctor Who fan.
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How many were baptized in your area, last assembly?
by brandnew inhow many were baptized in your area, last assembly?.
santa paula, ca..........17..
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OneEyedJoe
Don't want to post my specific location, but I'm in the US.
Last assembly, just shy of 1200 people watched 3 born-ins get baptized. The age range was something like 10-15.
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The Watchtower logically prefers everyone that knows TTATT to disfellowship themselves
by enigma1863 inevery active jw that stays in hiding their knowledge about ttatt is a hole in the watchtower wall.
i propose those who can stay in, should, especially if they have high positions.
how else can we know what they are up to?
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OneEyedJoe
While I get what you're driving at, I suspect that there will always be enough people that are in the process of waking up so that we'll always have leaks for the near future. I can't imagine encouraging someone to be so selfless that they stay in a cult merely to inform others of the goings-on if they aren't otherwise stuck in for the time being. Additionally, I would struggle with the moral implications of providing tacit endorsement to the cult by the prolonged presence inside the cult. You never know what other person in the cult might be looking up to you thinking "well if it makes enough sense to him that he's staying, I guess I'll stay too."