Nice! My anxiety levels plummeted too after I left.
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"serenity now!"
by nowwhat? injust had my annual checkup.
first time in 10 years my blood presure is normal.
and i've cut my anti anxiety medicine dosage by 75 percent.
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Back again to say hi! Life update after walking away from the cult.
by Darkknight757 ini hope all is well.
my last post over a month ago was going to be the last considering i wanted to get away from all things jw but this place is much harder to ignore than previously thought.
life has taken some very interesting turns since late last year.
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Congrats on the new life DK and the new babies to come!!! Quote who you want at this point, who gives a f#$!, just go be happy and life a life of YES instead of that awful humanity robbing existence as a mindless drone in the Borg. Good for all of you. Get that new job, expand your horizons, and LIVE life instead of waiting for false promises of the future. Find what makes you happy. -
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Welcome !
by Simon inwelcome to the newest jehovah's witness discussion forum on the net.. please register so that you can post to the forum and turn this into a welcoming place for other brothers and sisters online
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Just read her "interview with an apostate" and enjoyed it. Sounds like she IS your better half. ;p
Actually Simon, when I first joined I thought you were controversial and harsh. I now just kind of see you as a guy that is often in the middle, and I'm there as well, and it's often a controversial place to be because people are so polarized. You ask uncomfortable questions, and I'm sure we don't agree on everything (which means that you must be wrong, of course), but I certainly agree on asking those questions. Actually, I've learned a lot from your posts because you post a side I don't usually see, and I like that. I saw it as harsh at first simply because other than my own questions about things that people were often appalled at, you had gone even farther. I have too now that I'm out and have had more time to look at things or new experiences. You're a good guy. (just banking that for when you ban me at some point in the future and I need goodwill)
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Day 1 - Fessler vs. Watchtower – Opening Statements and Motions in Jehovah’s Witness Child Abuse Trial
by AndersonsInfo innews bulletin: fessler versus watchtower – opening statements and motions in jehovah’s witness child abuse trial – day 1. .
posted on february 12, 2017. city hall, philadelphia, pennsylvania.
on a cold philadelphia morning the 7th of february, 2017, stephanie fessler walked into the court of common pleas of pennsylvania, first judicial district, civil trial division.
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Lol @ Richard "erring on the side of The Watchtower" Oliver. Of course you would first assume that it must be that her case was weak and she took anything she could get. Smdh.
Whatever she got, good for her, though it will never be enough.
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JW Podcast About The Shenanigans of the Borg in Australia
by dubstepped inso here's a link to the latest jw podcast.
in it they talk about how the organization is structuring things in australia to get out of paying money to victims of abuse.
the short version, as i remember it, is that they are making each congregation its own individual charity.
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@zeb - That was actually one of the better shows for audio quality, lol. I know that's hard to believe, but their audio is typically crap. I put up with it because the content is worth the suffering. I'm glad that they passed their info on to the ARC. Surely the ARC can see through their crap. I don't know what they can do about it though.
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JW Podcast About The Shenanigans of the Borg in Australia
by dubstepped inso here's a link to the latest jw podcast.
in it they talk about how the organization is structuring things in australia to get out of paying money to victims of abuse.
the short version, as i remember it, is that they are making each congregation its own individual charity.
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Clearly money will be the thing they're trying to protect from that Armageddon, right. They like to talk about people throwing their money in the streets as it is valueless, but they sure are fighting tooth and nail to keep anyone from getting their hands on it.
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Welcome !
by Simon inwelcome to the newest jehovah's witness discussion forum on the net.. please register so that you can post to the forum and turn this into a welcoming place for other brothers and sisters online
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Thanks! I guess I've not seen her around here, though maybe she isn't active here anymore. I guess she made it out too from the way she was mentioned. So great to see things work out in the end.
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JW Podcast About The Shenanigans of the Borg in Australia
by dubstepped inso here's a link to the latest jw podcast.
in it they talk about how the organization is structuring things in australia to get out of paying money to victims of abuse.
the short version, as i remember it, is that they are making each congregation its own individual charity.
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So here's a link to the latest JW Podcast. In it they talk about how the organization is structuring things in Australia to get out of paying money to victims of abuse. The short version, as I remember it, is that they are making each congregation its own individual charity. It is a layer to keep it from the main organization. It also keeps them under the threshold needed to report income, so the money that they take in is on the down low because it is now broken up into 800+ individual charities, one for each congregation, assembly hall, etc. So when someone that has suffered abuse comes to sue them for redress, the congregation will have to be targeted specifically, and each congregation can just thrown their hands up and say that they don't have any assets, so therefore the government will pay, not them.
But, you ask, what about the property and the building? Well, it looks like the Borg has created a company that owns the property separate from all of the above, and they lease the property to the congregations so that they have no assets.
Even the headquarters was traced to something like the International Bible Students of Great Britain, where most of the donations are funneled to so that the headquarters in Australia has no money either.
Layer on layer of weaseling out of helping those hurt under their care, or as Neal put it in the podcast, exactly what Jesus would do, lol. They are truly a despicable organization.
https://jwpodcastshow.podbean.com/e/s03e15-too-many-chiefs-not-enough-indians/
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by Simon inwelcome to the newest jehovah's witness discussion forum on the net.. please register so that you can post to the forum and turn this into a welcoming place for other brothers and sisters online
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Thanks for the answer Simon. That's fascinating.
Who is Angharad? I believe I've seen the name before but can't place it. I could guess, but I'll just let you fill me in. I like knowing the genesis of all of this and really appreciate that this site, unlike many others, has stuck around.
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Endure or Enjoy??
by stuckinarut2 inhave we ever noticed how witnesses are constantly being told that life is something that needs to be "endured", rather that "enjoyed"?.
life is always so tough, so hard, so difficult in "these last days".
"persecution and trials abound".
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@carla - JWs would likely see that as pointing to their future paradise where life would be had more abundantly (forever) and it would be had to the full (in perfection as god originally intended). They see it through that narrative, not as though speaking to life today. I would assume that other religions see it as pointing to heavenly life.