i was listening to a radio show about a jw women who had been disfellowshiped , her daughter cut off all contact ,must admit at the time i thought so what.. then this man phoned up and explained he was disfellowshiped for asking about jws being ngo in the united nations during 90s till early 2000s when a newspaper exposed them , i still thought he's a apostate but looked it up found the article then found this forum and even more info..
not a born in--but the watchtower cult was all i had known since a pre-teen. i was baptised at 14, pioneer at 16, servant at 18. it was all i knew. married to a born in at 20 ( for sex ). wife became pregnant when i was 23..and i was already having a lot of doubts. the blood policy really got to me as a father to be. i never had any real interest in the religion..it was all a sham to please others.
so i quit.
so i have an eye out for a couple of the more nefarious jw books from the past.
i look on ebay etsy and others.
i see that the older books are selling for a good price.
when i cleared my late jw dad's house out, i dumped all the books, 50 years worth of magazines--all filed in empty corn flakes boxes, congregation records..the whole damn lot went to the tip. i should have taken it all to the hall and burned the lot in the car park.
It must be extremely hard for an individual who has spent a lifetime believing something to admit to themselves that they have been misled all of those years .
Is it pride ? stubbornness ? embarrassment ? guilt ? that prevents a person from admitting that to themselves ?
looking back 50 years ago--i was a young man, married--buying my first house, gave up pioneering a year before and now earning good money.
we had a new circuit servant--a young man and his wife..not much older than me. Bevan Vigo. first time i had met a circo that wasnt already one foot in the grave. he was a very likeable guy. Any Brits remember him ?
i read on here a year or 2 back that he was now at the London beth hell..along with Peter Ellis--another i remember from back then.
i wonder what those guys really think deep down. Do they know their lives have been a complete waste of time? What have they got for it ?
i haven’t posted in awhile.
my wife asked me after the year 2000 came and went without fanfare(because the wt organization said all the “new world” would be here within this 20th century would end), “ what would it take for you to leave the truth?”.
my reply was “ if i turn 60 in this “system of things”.
Growing old...? ive been young for almost 72 years. ~ Stan
I hate to burst your bubble, Stan, but NO ONE considers 72 to be "young".
my wife does.
so i am sure if you are at bethel and have the flu you just get time or what ever to recover, but what about serious sickness.
say you get cancer or some possible terminal illness?
what happens?.
John Blaney was brought into Bethel when he got old.
we had JB as our circo in the early 70's..isle of wight UK. daft as a box of lights. but you couldnt help but like him. my daughter--pre school age--called him Brother Blimey.
my wife and i have always shared naked photos respectfully over the years.
being the only thing to fill that void in our relationship due to being apart.
recently my wife has become jehovah, and we’re not sure if my wife is allowed to respectfully share herself with me while i am away.
Tedeily
Jusr remind your wife that under jehovahs rules for marrage that you..the husband...are head of the household, and what you say goes.
There..fixed that for you.
today was a beautiful day and so, decided to drive by my old town with my wife.
at some point, she asked me to stop talking about jws to which i said: i'm talking about were i lived, what i did and who i knew.
its just that all of it was jws!
@Punk:
Pal. (Looks at me as if I'm didlow)
i think you need to translate that one.
hi , this is my first post .. i left jws 30 years ago as 18 year old unbaptised youth and after the initial fallout from leaving pretty much put the whole thing in a box and buried it .. however , i am now starting to realise how much the doomsday messages and the ‘them and us’ doctrines that’s fed to you from birth has remained in my core beliefs.. how have others managed to reprogram themselves ?.
thanks for reading , have a good day .
dd.
an hour agoDD to quote properly, copy someones comment
Paste it into the comment box first , continue on typing out your own reply
then to finish , highlight the person's comment and click the Quote link at the top menu and you will see that it creates its own yellow box and wallah
thanks Fink--i never knew that
hi , this is my first post .. i left jws 30 years ago as 18 year old unbaptised youth and after the initial fallout from leaving pretty much put the whole thing in a box and buried it .. however , i am now starting to realise how much the doomsday messages and the ‘them and us’ doctrines that’s fed to you from birth has remained in my core beliefs.. how have others managed to reprogram themselves ?.
thanks for reading , have a good day .
dd.
hi Double decker--a warm welcome here
you:" has remained in my core beliefs."
would you care to say what your core beliefs are ?
well, these stories are always fun, right?
let me share mine.. my husband and have been pimo for 2 years.
inactive for one year.
hello Erinee--welcome to the forum.
: and welcome to the rest of your life.
hope to read a lot more from you!
