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  Introduction - Any Believers?

  by Believer in

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  i’ve been reading it for a few of years off and on, but have been a little too ... maybe ... timid to join.

  i left the watchtower organization almost 20 years ago but never abandoned my faith and belief in god.

  i knew the gb/organization didn’t represent god, so when i lost my faith in them, i managed to keep my faith in an all wise benevolent creator.

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  azor

  Hi believer. Welcome. I want to believe but the best I can say like most other atheists is I don't know. Just because I don't believe doesn't mean we can't get along.

  What I appreciate about this site is the candor that is freely expressed. Some may find such openness uncooth. I see it as a breath of fresh air. Coming from the excessively micro managed jw life.

  I've always valued truth above all else and know that is why I'm now an ex jw. I believe that truth can stand up to any criticism and that is what led me to where I am now.

  I hope that you and other believers like yourself will see that the critiques of your beliefs that are sure to come are not personal attacks but an on going discussion of truth seeking.
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  Scary Dream

  by freemamaof3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a little background- i faded in august 2015. ive got to small kids and one on the way.

  i dont believe the jw cult nonsense anymore.. .

  ok so last night i had the scariest dream.

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  Freemamaof3 I'm sorry you had such a horrible dream. Happy for you that your out. I sent a group text to my 3 in brothers last night to please not drink the Kool Aid if they were ever to pass it out at one of their group sessions.

  I drop messages like this every few months to encourage cognitive dissonance hoping they will wake up one of these days.
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  For JW Lurkers

  by mrquik in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  welcome those jw's who lurk here with the purpose of affirming their religion.

  this website was designed for all to express their opinions & beliefs openly.

  many exjw's have pursued all different avenues of belief & you may take issue with those that stray too far from your personal ones.

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  azor

  A watcher. As long as you and yours don't need blood I guess you'll be fine.
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  Lett facial ticks from a stroke/aneurysm?

  by azor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was speaking to my mom the other day.

  she stays in the group to retain a relationship with the rest of our in family.

  she told me that she heard from one of my brothers that the reason lett makes all those weird facial gestures has something to do with a stroke or aneurysm when he was a younger man.

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  I was speaking to my mom the other day. She stays in the group to retain a relationship with the rest of our in family. She told me that she heard from one of my brothers that the reason Lett makes all those weird facial gestures has something to do with a stroke or aneurysm when he was a younger man.

  I don't buy it. Has anyone here ever heard this tale? The lengths they will go to.
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  My brother died last night

  by LisaRose in

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  2. friends

  i found out this morning that my brother died last night, he was also an ex jw, 73 years old and died of heart disease and kidney failure.

  it was not totally unexpected, as he had been in poor health, but it's a blow, especially as i just lost another brother two years ago.

  there were six of us, now only four.

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  azor

  My sincere condolences.
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  This week's study article about shunning is contradictory.

  by Sanchy in

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  i was reading this week's study article on remaining loyal to jah.

  found an interesting contradiction on shunning.

  they cite two experiences.

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  azor

  I was thinking of sending a picture to my family of my bald 6 year old son when he was going through intensive chemo treatment for leukemia. The title would be "SHUNNED"
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  "mum, i been naughty, i'm disfellowshipped."

  by Sabin in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so last night we get a phone call from our girl & she tells me the above.

  turns out she has been d'ed for a month.

  infact she made me turn off the speaker phone so her dad wouldn't hear & i could tell him quietly later.

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  Atomant. Tell that to my family who avoid me like the plague. I've been there for every one of my siblings and their children throughout my entire life.

  I'm not DF'd or DA'd. Had a party for my son finishing his chemo treatment for leukemia and they didn't even respond to my open invite.
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  Shunning: is it still practiced?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are df, da and apostates still shunned?

  are each treated differently?

  i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...

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  It's alive and well. Im not DA'd or DF'd and all my siblings ignored my invitation to come to my 8 year old son's end of chemo party. It truly is disgusting what this group brings people to.
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  News Flash: New Reveal Article

  by Sugar Shane in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  less than an hour old:.

  https://www.revealnews.org/blog/how-child-sex-abusers-get-reinstated-as-jehovahs-witnesses/.

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  azor

  Fisherman the despicable disgusting JW apologist. How do you live with yourself while children in this group suffer as you continue to defend the abusers. Sickening. Your immorality wreaks on these pages.
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  A question on natural selection

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last friday my boy of ten was very late back from school, so i called the school, they called the police, and to cut a long horrible exsperience short he had been helping a younger boy fly his kite.. but what has occurred to me is that when orlando was 5 years old he was totally dependent on mummy and daddy, whilst horses, cats, birds and other animals are born and are independent within days.. so my question on natural selection is, how are we humuns still here?.

  the rebel..

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  azor

  The day my heart stopped. I was at University Studios Hollywood with friends from a neighboring hall who have a child with the same condition as my son. A cancer event funded by one of Eva Longorias group called Padres Contra del Cancer. There were 8 of us. There little girl was in a wheelchair that I was pushing through a crowded area. Our friends older daughter 7 was holding my daughter's hand 5.

  After we got through this heavy traffic area and getting ready to get on an elevator. 5 to 10 minutes passed. I looked at our group to make sure we were all together and she was gone.

  After about 10 to 15 minutes of chaotic panic. 1 adult with the kids, my wife in one direction, another adult back toward where we were coming from, and me climbing a pole like king Kong to try and get a view above the crowds. Security was on it after they saw me. Then I saw my friend walking toward me with my daughter in tow.

  She let go of her friends hand halfway through the congested area and just stayed there waiting for us to find her. She wasn't crying or worried at all.