former2free
This forum has helped me and my spouse as well. We got out over 5 years ago. Best decision we EVER made!!! Lots of good tips on here from people who have been where you are at.
Posts by ToesUp
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22Expected pain
by former2free inlast week was a big week for me in terms of coming totally clean to my wife and her being more than on board to leave the jw’s with me.
we know what to expect but things happen from family and it still hurts just as bad.
last night my wife got a long text message from her brother that has seemed to be in the fence and he told her that same guilt tripping rhetoric that the wt uses about life in the paradise etc.
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Expected pain
by former2free inlast week was a big week for me in terms of coming totally clean to my wife and her being more than on board to leave the jw’s with me.
we know what to expect but things happen from family and it still hurts just as bad.
last night my wife got a long text message from her brother that has seemed to be in the fence and he told her that same guilt tripping rhetoric that the wt uses about life in the paradise etc.
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ToesUp
No matter which way you slice it...it hurts and it hurts bad. This is your family and you have all right to feel hurt. I hurt for you. Even if you do not disassociate (fade), your family may treat you a bit different. We faded and came clean to our family. They still speak to us ( a little distant) but they still speak to us. The important thing, we have a few family members that we may have paved the way for them to GET OUT.
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2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP
by Not_Culty insept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.
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ToesUp
I have watched this clip over and over again since posted and I have to say that THIS is the video that has deeply impacted me. It truly confirmed that our family made the right choice in leaving this cult.
I showed this to my college student child and told him that this is just ONE of the many reasons we had to get out. His mouth hit the floor when he saw it.
Great job Watchtower!!! Bravo! Encore!!!
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2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP
by Not_Culty insept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.
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ToesUp
He has that same hateful face and attitude that Lett had on his face when he was claiming that child abuse in the borg are "apostate driven lies."
I hope this broadcasting episode wakes many up. We know of many JW's who may have an eyebrow raise on this one. Sadly, so many turn a blind eye to it and some do not even watch these broadcasting episodes. They are too busy getting a higher education. lol
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The Unveiling
by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho inladies and gentlemen, i proudly present you with mr and mrs @stucknomore2.0:.
https://youtu.be/o9bqz9jj_qg.
sacha and sherrie, you've done an amazing job in spreading the word about this forum, and it is my sincerest hope that the plug you made brings some newcomers in.
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ToesUp
Great interview! Thank you for posting!
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2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP
by Not_Culty insept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.
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ToesUp
"He uses a strawman argument by assuming that the reason someone may seek higher education is "to build a base" of wealth in life."
They think that every person seeking higher education wants to be rich. This is stated by people up in a New York state cult compound who have never had to put in a application and resume in for a job.
Even if you have years of experience and no higher ed, they typically spit your application and resume out once you tick the box that you have no degree. We have personally experienced this.
These jokers live in a plastic bubble with zero life experience out in the REAL world. They would be shocked if WT dried up and they had to hit the pavement and find a job. I'm thinking, low wages and hard work may make them think VERY differently, once they had to pay their rent and eat.
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Developments in the India Branch
by MaxPayne inthe following letter was read in the congregation today.
it's for all the congregations in india.
i have pasted it as it was.
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ToesUp
Hey WT....worried much??? Desperate times call of desperate measures!!!
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2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP
by Not_Culty insept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.
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ToesUp
There are MANY Elders in the congregations who send their kids to higher education. We saw it in our own area. I wonder what they will be thinking while they are sitting at family worship night listening to this depiction of higher learning.
It's amazing how many JW's that Watchtower "uses", that have higher education, to build and keep running their billion dollar empire. Their educated Lawyers are very busy right now.
Watchtower is poking holes in their own boat. People are waking up and this is the stuff that is doing it. I think it is GREAT!!! Keep up the good work WT, your doing a better job than the apostates!!! lol
They are looking cultier everyday!!!!
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do not keep account of the injury?
by Addison0998 ini have a long time “friend” around my age, she and her husband are big sheeple who have been raised to practically worship elders and view their as police angels.
anyways, they recently arranged to have a meeting with the elders to ask for their blessing pretty much to go to a wedding of a relative of hers who is not in the best standing, (she just recently got baptized and her husband was recently reinstated) anyways, the elders told them of course that it was their choice, but warned them that every time they ask for the elders advice on something, it is recorded whether they heeded the advice or not and looked at for things such as ske school, which is a goal they have to do together.
and of course they advised them not to go so they didn’t, especially since they want to go to the ske school, and i guess they only accept people who let people have full control of their lives.
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ToesUp
"Do not keep count of the injury?" That is ALL the WT does!!!
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(How) Will The Slow and Subtle WT Internal Shift Affect Us?
by Solzhenitsyn inas a "deep pimo" i can say that there is a confirmed re-branding.
the coordinators committee formed a focus group from service and teaching committees.
the results of that group roughly three+ years ago, with gb approval, trickled down to the other committees and eventually into what we have been seeing before our eyes in the org and local congs.. pick an organizational level and see the shift.
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ToesUp
" Brothers are not thinking about that"
Yes, you are right, they are NOT thinking of the liability issues but they should be. Watchtower WILL NOT be there for them when an Elder is put before a judge and jury. Watch the ARC for an example of that. Elders on the stand sh*tting their pants.