Posts by sinamongurl

this is just a hypothetical question, but lets say you are a jw, but with one thing and another you realised that you didn't want to love forever, and so told the elders that not wanting to live forever yourself, you would be unable to to sell everlasting life to people on the doors, and that if you don't share the hope of other jw's, how can you really call yourself a jw?

basically you do not feel like a jw because you do not want what jehovah is offering you.. would they df you?

or would they let you fade?

sinamongurl

imo, tons of shepherding calls for encouragement and then if you refused counsel then you would be df'd

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Rage, the WTS and JWD - a year's journey

by talesin in

jw
friends

it was a year ago this past week that i joined jwd.

being here has helped me with one issue in particular.

i would like exchange feelings/experiences with you about this, as i feel that it could be key for many of us.. i left the jws in 1977, was df in 1979. since then, and up until joining jwd, i had no knowledge of the machinations of the society.. some of the things i learned about here are, the flip flop on organ transplants, the un scandal and the 'two witness' rule being applied to paedophiles.

sinamongurl

Talesin--

thanks for sharing. Im just beginning. I hope to get to where you are one day soon.

Sin

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I wondered why I was not at ease being a Witness.

by PinTail in

i wondered why i was not at ease being a witness till i learned what a cult is from many sorces, and stopped being so scared from day to day what god will do to me.

i am still scared of what he will do to me from being raised a witness, its weird they did not teach a firey hell, but they put the same kind of fear in me.

everytime some national problem comes along i freek, even when i no longer go to them meetings or read the tower.

sinamongurl

PinTail--

Im still scared too. Just know that you are not alone. Theres lots of support here, from which you can draw comfort.

Sinamon

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Death

by desib77 in

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friends

i know, i know this is kind of a morbid subject but the subject actually came up between my husband and i the other night.

we have two completely different backgrounds and we have discovered that we want diff.

things to be done to us when we die.

sinamongurl

I choose cremation

I guess the idea of having my ashes being spread around gives me the feeling of being "free"

since for 10 years of my life i spent "in a box"

When Im dead, I wont care, but they always say funerals are for the living.

Sinamon

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How many raised in "the truth" have left??

by L_A_Big_Dawg in

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friends

this subject has been gnawing at me for awhile now.. so many of you:.

1) were raised in "the truth?".

2) did you get baptized and at what age?.

sinamongurl

1) kind of--started studying at age 12

2) 15

3) df'd at 25

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satan fears

by cuddlepie in

this is a paragraph out of an email my mother sent me.

this doesnt help.

why cant they see that its this talk that attributed me to needing therapy in the first place!

sinamongurl

Welcome cuddlepie

I believe Satan and the demons still exist. I've just recently started my jw investigation.

Theres still alot of stuff I have to get over.

This site has helped alot. People here are very intelligent and have researched alot of stuff.

I have asked many questions and have received much support.

Sinamon

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When do the nightmares end?

by EyeDrEvil in

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friends

just a question for the board's input.... background information:.

my wife, raised in a jw home, very popular elder as her father, living through the entire 1975 thing ("honey don't worry about passing 7th grade.

next year will be the new system..."), but beat up for years by the mind-control and spiritual abuse by the wts.... she has recently officially da'd from the society this spring, had her first birthday party ever (a huge blast of a great time!).

sinamongurl

EyeDr--

I am still dealing with this myself. I am considering therapy and have talked to many on this board.

I have also been encouraged to investigate for myself. So my journey has only started. I think it is an ongoing

process that will take time, especially for me and the subject of Armageddon.

There is tons of support, ask questions.

Sinamon

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Just got Crisis of Conscience

by bull01lay in

just got my mail order copy of crisis of conscience... got to chapter 2 in the first 20 mins!!!.

who else has read it, and what are your thoughts ???.

i've enjoyed it so far, and am glad to see how respectful ray franz was in his writing, with no 'outright attacks' on the wtbts.. bull!

sinamongurl

OK, HELP PLEASE!!!

im kinda lost, if Im understanding this correctly, this book, "crisis of conscience" was written by a previous gb member?

if so, was he ever the president? df'd? how long ago?

Sinamon