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  Hubby and Wifey saying Hi

  by free and happy in

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  so where do you start?.

  i've been reading peoples experiences for several months now trying to figure out what i want to say but how do you put your whole life into a few words?.

  i was a born in but have been happy and free for 5 years and luckily for me my husband felt the same way and we have freed our children from being brainwashed.

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  Strawberryfieldsforever

  Welcome to you both!

  So happy to hear that you made the right decision with your daughter! I was raised a JW since the 60's and if I had needed blood, my Mom would have let me die. My non JW father told me that he would have fought her with everything he had......yes I grew up in a divided household" and my Mom ruled the roost. She always told me that my Dad would be destroyed soon and I would be destroyed right with him if I didn't obey her and Jehovah God. How sad.....for my Mom. This backfired on her and my Dad became the light of my life!!! My husband and I left the JW's in the early 80's along with our two children. Best thing we ever did! It took lots of courage to leave! Our two children did very well and one has his doctrite and is teaching at a university and the other is now going to school too!

  My Dad recently passed away and I was able to hold his hand as he drew his last breath. My Mom had left him over 10 years before, so it was just the two of us. I loved him so much!! I was thankful that my Mom's words drove me away and to my Dad. I would never have known him and how wonderful he was and how much he loved me!

  Welcome to you both! Strawberry
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  New Member-Active Elder

  by Promitheas in

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  i'm a new member & i'd like to say hi to everyone, intoducing myself.. i am a 3rd generation born-in at mid 50's & an active elder.. english is not my mother language, so pls ignore any grammatical errors.

  i live in a small country in europe.. i'd like to thank you for all information posted.

  some of them have rally helped me to understand and examine again my beliefs.. last new light concerning f&ds=gb has verified the idea that they are popes in the position op pope.. i still believe in god & in his son jesus christ but not in the gb..

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  Welcome to you!

  We all have so many stories to tell! Some sad......some happy.....

  Strawberry
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  Bigfoot Is Real

  by metatron in

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  http://networkedblogs.com/f8tw1.

  they got the dna to prove it.

  there are other dna studies, too - although the ones i've heard about concluded that it was an unknown primate, not a human.

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  Strawberryfieldsforever

  Well here goes.......

  I didn't believe any of this stuff either....until.....

  I drove a school bus in northern MN for almost 30 years. All my bus routes were very remote, sometimes 100 miles a day. All those years I drove I never saw anything except once. It was morning and it just became light. I saw what looked like a tall animal standing in the corner of a hayfield. At first I thought it was a buffalo because about 4 miles away, someone raised them. The closer that I got I saw that it was standing on 2 legs and had fur like buffalo hair all tangled and dark. It turned to the sound of my school bus and ran sooooo fast to the woods. I stopped the bus and just shook my head......

  I know that they were doing research in the area that I saw this....never mentioned it to any of my co-workers. I thought they would think I was a little crazy and wouldn't let me drive children anymore...ha ha.
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  Hello

  by Benjie in

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  this is my first time now that i'm registered.

  i've been reading here for a while though.. it's been a long journey to get here, but now i have turned my back on everything i've known for such a long time, but a new road lies ahead, and this is one of the first steps on it.. .

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  A very warm welcome to you!

  Strawberry
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  "newbie" post - after eight years registered

  by pajaha in

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  actually, this is my second post as i replied to a thread a few moments ago, but it turns out i originally registered eight years ago but had never posted.. i left in 2000 (from a newport, s wales, congregation) having been brought up in it from about the age of three.

  initially, i was obsessed with research and posting to forums but got over it after a few years and just rediscovered this site a couple of days ago.

  i just thought it would be worth posting my account of leaving in case it helped others.. i always considered myself to be "strong in the truth" and genuinely believed it,, but i suppose the amount of suppressed doubts had been mounting up and i think it was the summer of 1999 when i first thought of leaving.

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  WELCOME!!!!!!!!
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  Vangogh, Welcome to the board!!!

  by ziddina in

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  i'd just like to say hello and welcome to one of our newest members, vangogh.... though he [she?

  ] hasn't posted a "hello" thread yet, here is his first post with a mini-autobiography.... http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/240404/1/all-things-given-to-us.

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  Strawberryfieldsforever

  Welcome to you!!!!!!

  Strawberry
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  Hello, I Am New Here

  by arrakis1 in

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  was a jw for 40 years.

  stopped attending 2010...resigned officially in 2011. still a little shell shocked but beginning to feel much better now.

  awesome revelation....people in the world are not all that bad.

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  Welcome!!!

  I find so much comfort here knowing others understand. So many have been shunned by family because they found out the "truth about the truth"! I was a JW for 23 years and my husband and I did the slow fade when we saw our children unhappy in school. It brought bad memories of our own school days.....sitting in the hall alone while everyone else ate birthday cake......sitting on the other side of the room while everyone ate candy canes and sang christmas songs in music class.

  My Dad (who was never a JW) was in the military and I went to school briefly in Germany. My Mom wouldn't let me salute the flag on the military base! It was so awful.........always being the odd one.

  JW children really have it hard in school. We had to be different for Jehovah and stand up for our beliefs! Thats hard when you are soooo young and all alone with all the children making fun of you. I never liked this God Jehovah from an early age but never even dared to tell my Mom. The straw that broke the camels back was when she having bible study with me and pointed to the picture in the paradise book of men and women and animals, cement stairs and bikes falling into the earth at the end.....she said I would be destroyed like that along with my Dad if I didn't listen to her and Jehovah.......never cared for Jehovah since....

  strawberry
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  Shunning - I just can't get my head around it

  by jambon1 in

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  let me first state that i have never been shunned.

  i faded from the org very quickly & my life hasn't been blighted by this practice.. i have been out of the organisation for over 6 years.

  most of the things i left the religion for, i have came to terms with.

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  Strawberryfieldsforever

  My Mom is back to shunning me again after my father died. She helped me with hospice while he was dying.....I thought maybe she was going to be part of my life again, no matter how small, but she is back to not talking to me. Before she stopped talking to me, she said I was an apostate and she cannot compromise her position with Jehovah. She said that she was at least happy that I had my husband with me when we are both destroyed in the VERY near future. Can you imagine how awful that is to hear from your own Mother?

  I was so terribly hurt and then it turned to anger (again) and I wrote her an e-mail and told her that I don't want her to compromise her faith for me and I am not going to talk to her either. I told her I am going on with my life and I am going to try and be happy without her. I also told her that I love her and would always be there for her if she needed me.........
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  How did you fare in High School as a JW?

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  for me it was rather painful.

  it was like pressing your nose against the candy store window, knowing that you can look, but you cannot partake.

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  Strawberryfieldsforever

  I wanted to be like all the other girls. They were all wearing their skirts and dresses well above the knees.....I used to wear skirts so I could roll them up in the bathroom and look like everyone else! Of course the guilt set in later.......

  I loved being asked out by "worldly cool guys", but then had to make excuses why I couldn't...it got harder and harder. I mean what was I supposed to say? My Mom won't let me date cause I'm a Jehovah's Witness and we only date with supervision and only if we want to get married. Can you imagine what the expression on their face would have been?

  I wanted to join choir. But couldn't partake in any holiday concerts which were most of the time......

  Couldn't join sports either.....I loved to play chess....couldn't do that either.....I'm really surprised that I survived my high school years at all......self esteem was at my lowest then.....but I was supposed to be HAPPY because I was Jehovah's devoted servant
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  what would be their first thought???

  by Strawberryfieldsforever in

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  i often wonder about the older "old school" jehovah's witnesses that are up in their 70's and they are losing all their friends they have known most of their lives.

  they waited together all those years for the big "a" and it still isn't here.

  they are still sitting at the meetings, raising their hands to answer on the same old material and waiting for any tidbit of new information about how close they are to that paradise earth.. i wonder what would be their first thought when the doubt begins to seep in and they have nobody to tell it too....... .

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  Strawberryfieldsforever

  I often wonder about the older "old school" Jehovah's Witnesses that are up in their 70's and they are losing all their friends they have known most of their lives. They waited together all those years for the big "A" and it still isn't here. They are still sitting at the meetings, raising their hands to answer on the same old material and waiting for any tidbit of new information about how close they are to that paradise earth.

  I wonder what would be their first thought when the doubt begins to seep in and they have nobody to tell it too......