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  New french member / new website

  by jw-verite in

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  i've been reading you for several months now and at last i decided to register !

  i'm not sure if my post is in the good category so feel free to move it if it is not.... i'm french and i da'd in last november, losing my family by the way... i'm married and my wife is still in but our couple is still strong.. i still believe in the bible and i go from time to time in a baptist church.. i created a french website to expose the watchtower and its false teachings.

  there is not a lot of websites like jwfacts in french so i tried to make it !.

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  Awake at last

  Hi jw-verite

  Welcome to the forum. I wish I could speak French half as well as you speak and write English. Actually I wish I could speak any French.

  I was like you and found the awakening disturbing too, but now I am glad I have found out that my suspicions were not just paranoia. Like your wife, my husband was not very active and now we are both out and both researching like we have never researched before. The org many years ago published a book called Make Sure Of All Things, so that is what we are doing now, but not using the book, just its title.

  Keep us posted about the birth of your new baby.
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  SHOTOUT TO THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SITE ! !

  by brandnew in

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  to the person, or persons responsible for creating this site.....my hats off to you, and yours.....im totally diggin this site.. thank you.

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  I agree this is the best site. The only problem is that I spend too much time reading stuff out to Mr Awake at last and he is lurking now and reading stuff to me.

  Simon, you now need to start a site to help addicts of this site, like us.
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  Magazine placements

  by Awake at last in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this morning we opened our front door to find 5 magazines, 4 awakes and 1 watchtower left there.

  someone must have been counselled about not placing enough literature.

  we never heard them knock and we are not that deaf, at least we didn't think so.

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  Misfit, they were different mags.  Who would want to catch us up?  They barely speak to me at the shops, shunning I think they call it.  If we were DF'd we wouldn't even notice.
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  Magazine placements

  by Awake at last in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this morning we opened our front door to find 5 magazines, 4 awakes and 1 watchtower left there.

  someone must have been counselled about not placing enough literature.

  we never heard them knock and we are not that deaf, at least we didn't think so.

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  Awake at last

  Blondie, your explanation sounds plausible.  Actually most things are possible, but 5 magazines at our door, now that is someone who wants to count placements and time and they will probably come back with more mags and count a return visit as well.
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  "Escape from Paradise"

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have just finished reading brock talons second book (see above).

  well worth the read.

  terribly honest and humbling to read.

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  Awake at last

  I just finished reading both books on Kindle, the Paradise one last night.  I'm going to get Mr Awake at last to read them now.  They were both good in their own ways but most people will relate to the Paradise book more as most have not been to Bethel.

  Thank you Brock for two good reads.
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  Magazine placements

  by Awake at last in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this morning we opened our front door to find 5 magazines, 4 awakes and 1 watchtower left there.

  someone must have been counselled about not placing enough literature.

  we never heard them knock and we are not that deaf, at least we didn't think so.

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  Awake at last

  This morning we opened our front door to find 5 magazines, 4 Awakes and 1 Watchtower left there.  Someone must have been counselled about not placing enough literature.  We never heard them knock and we are not that deaf, at least we didn't think so.  I wonder how much time they counted sitting  at our bistro table writing up their notes.

  Mr Awake at last commented about how thin they were too.  He is learning TTATT now too.

  i haven't really got time to read the mags as keeping up with JW.com takes up all my reading time these days plus the Late Ray Franz books occupy much of my time too.  I have also just finished reading two of Brock Talons books. So as you can see, I keep myself busy these days.
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  Really don't feel like a JW anymore

  by snare&racket in

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  2. friends

  it has been a good 8 years away from my area, a good 10 years + since i was regularly at meetings.

  a good 12 years since i was hesitantly active.. it is a slow process but it does happen.

  i now feel no connection to the belief system beyond memories.

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  Snare & Racket, your name says it all.  A famous WTBTS president once said " Religion is a snare and a racket."  It takes the leader of such a snare and racket to recognise it.  In fact he was the instigator of one policy in particular that you didn't mention, the blood issue.  

  Many other things I can think of that I don't miss are:

  child abuse

  disfellowshipping and shunning

  rejection of anyone who can no longer do what they used to do

  confusion over the blood issue

  lack of compassion for mental illness

  children being baptised and then later DFd

  over use of chaperones for courting

  unable to question anything or even express an opinion

  justifying yourself to judicial committees

  conditional friendships

  And so on, and so on, and so on.

  
  
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  My mother says I should just DA already.

  by Julia Orwell in

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  2. experiences

  cut the cord.

  sever all ties.

  start new.. and she's right.

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  If you live in a larger area such as a city, DAing yourself is much easier than if you live in a small town where there is only one shopping area, one or two schools, etc., as you keep on running into people.  In a larger area such as Newcastle in NSW or Geelong in VIC or a capital city, you are far more anonymous and can blend into society easier.  That's my opinion anyway, for what it is worth.
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  The anonymous

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  i'll bet you don't know who this person is.. .

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  I felt he was something to do with Jugde Rutherford, there seemed to be a slight, only slight resemblance.

  I don't think he ever wrote anything biblical or about his father.

  I hope he had a reasonably happy life, as happy as he could be with JFR as his old man, and that Jehovah gives him some of the rewards that his father felt entitled to.
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  Just ask simple questions and make street witnesses move along

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  2. beliefs

  you don't have to know much to talk to jw's and show them they don't want to really discuss the matters.they consider a discussion on the matter they are pushing to be "confrontational.".

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfw_txpmsj8.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lqtadagucq.

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  Awake at last

  I agree with Blondie who said that they appeared not to have read the magazine they were highlighting.  Big mistake.  Why should someone else take it and read it if it is obvious the witness person hasn't read it?

  Did they have Bibles there?  I didn't notice any.

  Counting time is all they were doing, end of story.