Posts by kairos

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Hi everyone, just signed up here

by samj in

jw
friends

hi, i just signed up.

i'm 35, i've been baptized 20 years, married 15 years.

it seems like the wife and i are going in opposite directions spiritually.

kairos

From experience, you'll need to lay out your life intentions clearly for your wife to hear and clearly understand. She'll decide if staying with you is possible. ( don't wonder. ASK!! )

Mine was: I'm NEVER going back and I have learned TTATT.
I have touched in great detail on EVERY topic.

Our love for each other was great enough that she can accept that I am an apostate. I have learned to ignore her JW activities and lay off the attempts to de-program her. She says she's happy. I'm sure she is disappointed in my decision, yet she respects and accepts that it is my choice/life.

We spend lots of time together and are always planning a trip of some sort.

Focus on being good. To her and everyone.
If you need to speak out about the horrors of WTBTS, don't let her stop you. If the love you share for each other is strong enough, she'll let you be, as you let her.

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Elders harassing me

by raven in

hi everyone, it has been a while since i've last updated!

(refer to my previous posts for the full story) here is a quick re-cap: 2 months ago my mother found out that i am living with my boyfriend, she told me i was discovered by an "anonymous" tipper who turned me in for "living in sin".. first of all, that is nearly impossible, the congregation i was in is 100's of miles away from where i currently live.. no one would have ever known i was living with my boyfriend unless i told them, which i never did, i cut off all communication with that congregation in part of my attempted fade which was blown into pieces and discovered.. anyways, my mom tells me if i don't go to the elders and confess like a good little sheep, then she is obligated to tell them.. ( don't see why, i don't even live under her roof ) well i never went to them because why should i?

so they met with my mother and she told them i live with my boyfriend... let me remind you, this was two months ago.. i was told i was going to be df'd and that was that.

kairos

By the time they sent me a "Judicial Committee Invitation" I was already long gone.

I was also betrayed.

Ignore the crazy and build a new and wonderful life free from the madness of WT mind control.

I found it amusing that the letter form the elders was in Comic Sans font!
Wow! Real serious!

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Bye and thanks for everything

by LifesNotOver in

jw
friends

we really went at it this weekend.

pretty ugly!

well at least now the air is cleared.

kairos

My nearly 70 year old wife chooses to stay with me, a DF'd apostate.

We love each other and are trying to make things work.
It's not easy.

I'm glad you made your stand.

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exposed 3 jw's in front of my jw dad

by JunkYardDog in

jw
friends

on a road trip with my jw dad and stopped at the rest stop.

this jw lady walked up to me with a craptower.

big mistake.

kairos

They won't use that experience on the meeting will they?

JWs put themselves into people's personal space with 'preaching', yet feel 'persecuted' when they come across someone the can one up them on EVERY subject.

The danger to people is when they stop thinking. I wasted 25 plus years as a JW because I chose to quit thinking.

Be like Kevin... Think!

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The story of a secret Apostate Anointed

by TerryWalstrom in

the remarkable sister pettifog.

this morning i arrived on my bicycle at the local starbucks early, before the intensity of the texas sun boiled to full blaze rendering me a soggy, wrung out mess.. i took up my perch on the outdoor patio in the shade, eager to work on my book of short stories.

this will be my 3rd book and i’ve been enjoying the process daily.. .

kairos

enjoyable telling.

I had an elder tell me about secret apostate agents that sneak in to the congregation.
You'd think that would be a top priority, to root them out?

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New Here ... Just woke up

by Sevan in

jw
friends

hey all, .

this is my first post.

i haven't been out in service or to a meeting in over a month.. i realize now that i've been having serious questions for years and many articles and talks have greatly disturbed me over the years.

kairos

One of the hardest parts of waking up before family and friends, is the frustration of not wanting to be heard. Not being taken serious, as if we are now no longer trustworthy or valuable in their eyes if they cannot or want to defend their faith.

They shut you down out of fear.
We frighten them.

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Doubtful you'll ever regret your decision to exit the JWs.
That being said, carefully plan what words you will use when confronted by well meaning JWs that have a poor concept of personal boundaries and will pry into your life.

A few 'wrong words' can change everything in an instant.
Be prepared.

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I also extend the welcome to you.
I hope you find healing. as we all do.

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Satan Wants to Be Like God and Have Mankind Worship Him.....Yeah Right....

by xjwsrock in

i heard this tired line re-ran again at this year's convention.

satan supposedly wanted to be like god and be worshiped - you know, the whole pride thing.

they really made a big deal about how his "thoughts" led to his sin in the garden of eden and how we need to control our thoughts to avoid the same result.

kairos

How about were just seeing several unchecked generations of corrupt world banking?

The whole monetary system is backed with *nothing*.

That's right, it's pulled right out of thin air and sold to you and I.

I wonder how long the 'have-nots' with hold back their revolution.
Satan is not a player in this game.

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Contempt of court, case in San Diego county really disgusts me!

by Crazyguy in

this case has to be talked about by ever awake jw every apostate everyone.

this case because they refuse to hand over documents the court already knows they have because they handed them over before but heavily redacted, is the icing on the cake!

this case shows thier evil plain and simple.

kairos

$4000 a day to keep the child abuse records secret is lot of money to the average JW. ( And why would WTBTS ever think it would be a good idea to make a recorded data base of all of their cover-ups? )
It could make one hesitate to put money in the contribution box if they know it's 'hush money'.

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