welcome, eyesopened. I'm sorry you had to go through all of that. Cults are horrible. You are at the lowest point now, though and things will get better.
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feeling blah - angry at the cult...
by EyesOpened ini posted awhile back, been "lurking" pretty much daily over the past months and from reading everyone's posts - i actually have gotten to know some of you... sort of... if you read my profile you will know i was a lifer, pretty much knee deep in the 'borg (picking up the slang.... i stopped cold turkey last fall - didn't go to memorial, special assembly day, district convention, circuit assembly... no field service in almost a year... these are all firsts... and i am 40 years old.... guess what, i have ignored phone calls, messages from the cong elders, everyone was panic'd for the first 3 months or so... then it all stopped... no calls... they have written me off i guess... of course it has helped that i moved 45 minutes south of my congo, back to my home town - where everyone in the congs around here know me... the rumor mill has told them something is up, but since i'm not df or da, they don't know how to act - so they just ignore me.... i just need to vent abit - feeling down lately because of the things i have learned - feeling betrayed by my parents for joining such a cult.
blaming jw's for ruining my sister's lives, blaming jw's for wasting my life... i want to go to a meeting and yell during the public talk about how foolish everyone is for belonging to this cult... .
it seems i have accepted the loss all of my conditional friends - hundreds of them in central indiana... i see them at the mall, at restaurants and they look right past me... kinda funny now, but it still hurts when my former friends - even the best man at my wedding - refuses to talk to me or even call to ask what is going on and why i stopped... i am invisible.
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I miss the 'good old days'!
by Outaservice inlets see now.......... monday night: prepare for the tuesday night book study i will conduct.
also, have the family monday night watchtower study preparation.. tues night: drive over to an almost inactive brother's house to conduct the book study.
prepared questions for the children ahead of time.
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whoa, candidly and outaservice... that couldn't have been a typical week for either of you. what were you thinking?
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for atheists/agnostics
by BlackSwan of Memphis inhow did you get to the point where you are at now?
was it primarily new information that made you rethink religion and god?
learning about the ice age, the universe, the fossils out there?
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Would you let them suffer and die just to prove that they needed a parent?
nice, fleur. I'm going to remember that one.
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Elders son is GAY!!!
by Wordly Andre inha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
just looked up my old high school in classmates.com, i saw this dude who was a couple years older than me, didn't really know him but i knew his brother (who left the org the same time i did), his dad kicked him out of the house and he lived in his car, they are sons of one of the elders (assholes) who df'd my dad.
the good son was a good little jw that did everything a jw father (elder) would want his son to do, on his bio on classmates.com he says that he is gay, ha ha ha ha.
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I was in the closet the whole time but when I marched in the SF gay parade of all the people to be interviewed by kgo tv channel 7 it had to be me. I was a bit drunk and didn't care at the time. As a result I had to search the internet for my mom found out she died and don't even know where she is buried.
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That's how Jah's spirit works to clean out his congregation, you know. Just kidding.
I'm very sorry they cut you off so severely.
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Can You Really Be Counted as an Apostate Publisher?
by Joker10 inpeople on this board have been been saying how they would never go door-to-door informing the public about their new jw views.
one reason, it has been said, is that jws would still be having an affect on them.
they don't want to spend their saturday mornings discussing the religion.
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itsallgoodnow
I'm not doing "the same".
Is posting on JWD a requirement imposed by a religion I have joined? No.
Am I preaching a bunch of stupid lies made up by idiots in Brooklyn? No.
What a ridiculous argument to make, Joker10. Weak. Very weak. Now, go back to sleep.
BTW, we won't hear back from Joker10 on this thread, if any of his other threads are anything to go by.
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Taking the bull by the horns
by fullofdoubtnow inmy friend marion, who has been trying to fade, decided on a change of tactics, and sent the following letter to the elders last weekend:.
body of elders.
xxxxxxx congregation of jehovahs witnesses.
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itsallgoodnow
From my experience, never treat the Witnesses like they are ethical people, and they will treat you reasonably, because they aren't . . . and they won't.
Well said, garybuss.
Wow, after knowing everything I know about these people, it's still hard to imagine her son would dime her out so quickly. Her own son.
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First encounter with a Scientologist
by glitter ini was on a mad-dash daytrip to edinburgh today, and in the morning we were up on the royal mile.
being the fringe we quickly attracted about eight trees' worth of advertising.
most of the people flyering were dressed in costumes or in t-shirts advertising the shows, but some were in ordinary clothes.
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itsallgoodnow
wow. interesting stories. I've never met one. But I guess I know now that even though they may seem nice, they are capable of great harm. Just as every nice JW is capable of shunning and making others' lives harder, thinking they are doing the "right" thing.
Dangerous, definitely. But Scientology definitely more dangerous than JWs, IMO.
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I Got The Phone Call Last Night - My Dad Died
by BrendaCloutier inmy mom called last night to tell me he passed on sunday.
he died peacefully and fairly painlessly.
my mom said she was talking with him, went to answer the phone, and 5 minutes later he was gone.
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sorry about your dad ((brenda))
you think you're mom will leave the JWs now? I totally relate to your comment that (I guess, if there is an afterlife) he really knows about JWs now. If there is an afterlife and he's watching all of you, you are the one he knows was right all along.
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Is it possible to go to university and still come out a dub?
by Crumpet inthe reason i ask is that my best friend all the time i was growing up was a boy about 5 years older than i was.
his parents were at lot less strict than mine and as he was super brainy after he finished public school and sixth form he went off to one of the country's finest universities.
the only thing that bugs me now about this is that i know he was incredibly clever - how could he go to uni and still be a dub?
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yes of course many JWs finish college still JWs. probably most do IMO. Just because you go to college doesn't mean you automatically use your new thinking skills on JW teachings. There is still a switch in a person's brain that says "stop, I will not analyze this". And you don't need a college degree to figure out the truth about JWs, either.
I don't think a college degree changes a person's religious beliefs, makes a person more or less religious, or even increases their intelligence. It trains them how to analyze, how to write, how to work hard and how to research things, or on the flip side, how to use their sexual power or cheat to get ahead in life. Many people can learn all of that and still remain the backward people they always were.
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Is it possible to 'choose' your own beliefs?
by nicolaou into my mind the answer is an obvious "no".
what i believe is drawn from my experiences, reasoning, research and endeavour.
my beliefs may well be wrong but i have no other choice than to believe them until evidence or superior reasoning convinces me otherwise.. it narks me to hear people say "this is what i choose to believe".. am i weird?
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itsallgoodnow
there are choices. to accept and reject experiences and information, and how to interpret them. all of that leads to a choice in beliefs... for some.