allpoweredup- They will never be able to show more love, because they only truly "love" their own, fellow witnesses. They are REALLY missing out on getting to know some great people in this world.
littletree
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Is the Devil making you happy, too?
by littletree inthis is my first post, and i'm so excited (i've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; i tried to register back in october 2003, but had some problems.
i decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.
just for a short introduction- i got baptized at 14, on september 1, 2001. and on september 1, 2003, the last day of our district convention, i decided i was never going back.
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Is the Devil making you happy, too?
by littletree inthis is my first post, and i'm so excited (i've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; i tried to register back in october 2003, but had some problems.
i decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.
just for a short introduction- i got baptized at 14, on september 1, 2001. and on september 1, 2003, the last day of our district convention, i decided i was never going back.
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Oooops! I realized I said I got baptized in 2001! It was 1991 !!!! Sorry guys. See, how they messed up my mind- I don't even know what year it is or how old I am.
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Is the Devil making you happy, too?
by littletree inthis is my first post, and i'm so excited (i've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; i tried to register back in october 2003, but had some problems.
i decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.
just for a short introduction- i got baptized at 14, on september 1, 2001. and on september 1, 2003, the last day of our district convention, i decided i was never going back.
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Thanks ALL for the welcomes! And Fleur, yes, I have a lot of growing to do before I'm a big tree. But thank God I got out from there before I died (figuratively and literally). My mind was getting more and more screwed up. Right before I left, I told the elders about my doubts, and their suggestion of course was that I read and study more. duh! Why would I read something that I determined was untrue!!!
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Is the Devil making you happy, too?
by littletree inthis is my first post, and i'm so excited (i've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; i tried to register back in october 2003, but had some problems.
i decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.
just for a short introduction- i got baptized at 14, on september 1, 2001. and on september 1, 2003, the last day of our district convention, i decided i was never going back.
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Nosferatu, Thanks! But I'm actually 27 already. (Is it too late for me???!?!... hahaha) I'm gonna go back and visit on Wednesday night, September 1- they have the Service meeting and TMS (that's the anniversary of my baptism and my departure... the beginning of my "non-service-year"). I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to wear a disguise! haha I hope the elders don't try to grab me into a backroom and ask me about my virtue.
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Is the Devil making you happy, too?
by littletree inthis is my first post, and i'm so excited (i've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; i tried to register back in october 2003, but had some problems.
i decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.
just for a short introduction- i got baptized at 14, on september 1, 2001. and on september 1, 2003, the last day of our district convention, i decided i was never going back.
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yeah, Elsewhere, they have to show the congregation that they aren't WEAK like the one who left. Which is ironic, since I've never felt stronger!
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Is the Devil making you happy, too?
by littletree inthis is my first post, and i'm so excited (i've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; i tried to register back in october 2003, but had some problems.
i decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.
just for a short introduction- i got baptized at 14, on september 1, 2001. and on september 1, 2003, the last day of our district convention, i decided i was never going back.
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Yup, Emma. They can't stand to see non-JWs happy. That would prove their theory- that you have to be part of the Organization to have a good or successful life- WRONG. I received e-mail from another sister last month, and when I told her I was happy, she said she still prays that I'll come back. HECK NEVER! Many of my old friends and family just can't WAIT until something bad happens to me, so that they can say, "see what happens when you leave Jehovah?" It's so crazy- I'm even driving more carefully, and taking extra care of myself and health, so that they can't attribute anything bad in my life to me being overtaken by the Devil. (I know I shouldn't let them get to me, but it's hard...). The positive side: I am SO determined to do good things, to prove to them that it's possible. I'm not knocked up or on crack yet, so it must be working, SO FAR! hahaha
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Idiotic things only a jw would say
by micheal ina c.o in one of his friday night talks noticed when he was invited for meals at the brothers and sisters homes that everyone has their chairs and sofa's pointed at the direction of the television set and asked why do people do that.
then he went on to strongly suggest that everyone change this and either have their furniture pointed somewhere else or get rid of the television.
what a total moron!!
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I think it's stupid that brothers have said from the platform: "Don't be deceived by 'nice' people who are wordly. Even the WORST Jehovah's Witness is better than the nicest wordly person, because they don't have the Truth." Hmmmm???.... I wonder is it the Truth that makes some of those brothers treat their families like crap!? I'd take a wonderful wordly man (which I have) over that ANY day! To think, if I hadn't have woken up, I still might be waiting- like alot of my old girlfriends- for a nice brother to snatch me up. Well, after he's dated 8 other sisters at the same time and decided I'm "worthy"... (oh sorry, I had a flashback) :-)
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Is the Devil making you happy, too?
by littletree inthis is my first post, and i'm so excited (i've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; i tried to register back in october 2003, but had some problems.
i decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.
just for a short introduction- i got baptized at 14, on september 1, 2001. and on september 1, 2003, the last day of our district convention, i decided i was never going back.
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So true, kls. Since I left, my mom has become a full-time pioneer. I don't know if it's because I left, but I was her only daughter (of 3) who was stuck with "the Truth." So now she's batting zero and has to make it up to Jehovah somehow. But no matter what good things happen in my life- like having been dating a really sweet guy for the past year, or getting coming off of medicine, or thinking about the possibility of starting a new career- it doesn't seem to matter to her. She only sees me like she sees every other non-Witness: as a potential Witness. That's elder's wife is the same way. Humans, no matter what contributions they make, or now "nice" or "good" they are, have no value if they are NOT JWs. It's such a closed-minded attitude. My new friends, the few non-JWs who I'm trying to slowly build relationships with, are so much nicer and accepting. I threw my first "wordly" cookout this past weekend, and the people on my job and my neighbors had a GREAT time (We did karaoke, too!). Felt good to be around people that don't judge. And like most of you have probably experienced, my family have stopped associating with me for the most part. I'm not disfellowshipped YET, but I live right across the street from a Witness, who I'm sure has seen my boyfriends car leaving my house in the morning (SCANDALOUS!). My mom came by the cookout, just to grab a plate, and the next day she managed to 'whisper' a "a had a good time". I know that hurt her, to acknowlegde that she enjoyed herself in a room full of heathens. And I invited a few of my NON-JW family members whom I'd cut off for the past few years (my mom made me); and it was so GOOD to be with them. Very hard not to be bitter about what I've missed out on because of that religion.
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Is the Devil making you happy, too?
by littletree inthis is my first post, and i'm so excited (i've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; i tried to register back in october 2003, but had some problems.
i decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.
just for a short introduction- i got baptized at 14, on september 1, 2001. and on september 1, 2003, the last day of our district convention, i decided i was never going back.
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New Castles, iiz2cool, and Ozziepost- Thanks for the big welcomes!!! It's like the JWs think that my making you feel BAD, isolated, guilty, or unloved by God, that you'll come running back to them. Do they understand how twisted that thinking is??! I think it's so stupid to not just accept that a person has the right to live his or her life HOWEVER they want to. Why can't they just be glad that I'm a healthy, productive citizen, whose HAPPY, extremely happy, and not hurting anyone or commiting any crimes?... Why do I have to be a part of a man-made religion, set up in the 1870s, in order for God to accept me? It's retarded. And my mother still thinks I may come back one day. Yeah, right. Those people are sick puppies. They'd rather see me on medicine and always feeling guilty and bad about myself, just as long as I'm "in Jehovah's Organization". The fact that they make that claim is weird enough.
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Is the Devil making you happy, too?
by littletree inthis is my first post, and i'm so excited (i've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; i tried to register back in october 2003, but had some problems.
i decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.
just for a short introduction- i got baptized at 14, on september 1, 2001. and on september 1, 2003, the last day of our district convention, i decided i was never going back.
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This is my first post, and I'm so excited (I've been reading posts on this site for over a year now; I tried to register back in October 2003, but had some problems. I decided to just go ahead and use my "real" work e-mail address, which seemed to have worked.) Just for a short introduction- I got baptized at 14, on September 1, 2001. And on September 1, 2003, the last day of our District Convention, I decided I was NEVER going back. Well, since then, I've been back to my mother's Hall, just to visit and for the Memorial, but even more determined not to be sucked back in. As a kid and teenager, I was always "a good example", in it 100%- not a double-lifer like alot of people I knew. I was never a pioneer, but a good steady "tortoise" Christian. My main reasons for leaving were that I always had trouble believing the 1914 and 144,000 explanations. Then, I found lots of sites on the Internet that confirmed that I had valid reason to be suspicious. Also, in the past 2 years since I really began doubting things, I've met lots of nice people on my job, who are of various religions and beliefs (including Atheism), and I just can't bring myself to believe that God only approves of 1 out of every 1000 of his Creation. Reading "Crisis of Conscience" was just the icing on the cake for me, and now I'm just happy to not feel like God will not love me if I don't push Watchtowers on the only 2 free mornings I have! Boy, does it feel good! So, this is what brings me to the topic of my post: The wife of one of the elders in my Hall called me up yesterday to say how much she missed me. Anyway, it was all sweet at first. Then, she tried to lay on the guilt trip. When I just came out and told her how happy I've been since leaving, she said that my seeming happiness was only "because of the Wicked One." Boy, did that make me upset! I'm happier, kinder, and more spiritual-minded and confident than I've ever been in my WHOLE life (no more ADs), and this woman tells me that it's attributed to the Devil. What a mind game; how DARE she. Well, after that, I decided that I had to get on here, and give and get some encouragement. Well, that's my little story.