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  BEFORE YOU LEFT......

  by In_between_days in

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  another question.. this one is for all those that began doubting the organisation when they were an obedient jw.. although i am sure you rarely shared it with anyone, what was the one problem you had with a certain jw only doctrine?.

  what i mean is, what little gremlins lurked at the back of your mind?

  what were the doubts that you kept hidden and what made you finally act on them?.

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  Backlash

  Some of the things already mentioned were problems for me too. The 1914 generation thing was driven into the ground. I grew to hate even the reference. Another big problem I had was having a mindset that influenced my every thought, especially in a crowd: Walking into a store or mall and thinking "everyone in here will soon be dead...everyone but me." I despised that mentality. The clincher for me involved the resurrection of Christ. The WT teaches that only Jesus' spirit was raised, and that his fleshly body disintegrated into fumes or gases. That teaching is a direct contradiction of scripture. I chose to believe scripture.
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  Our Watchtower wedding.

  by Mazza in

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  thirty years ago today, i walked down the isle of the kingdom hall to be given in marriage.

  surprsingly we are still married!.

  david was 20 yrs old and i was 19. we had been baptised about 6 months earlier and had been dating since i was 14 and david 15. i had family who were jws and i became really interested when i was about 17. i managed to convert david within a year or two.. once we were baptised we were pressured by the congregation to get married as they didn't think it appropriate that we should keep dating, year in year out "without marriage in view" - though we had no money nor did either of us have a full time job.

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  Backlash

  Hi Marilyn,

  Here's hopin' you have a wonderful 30th wedding anniversary. Was the trip a long overdue honeymoon? Or perhaps, just another one? You've made it for 30 years, despite the absence of the "watchtower umbrella." Congratulations are certainly in order. It must be shocking to the jw's that people can have happy, successful lives apart from their "spiritual paradise." Here's to you both!!!!

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