Posts by tata

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Hi I'm new too

by tata in

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well, i post one or two messages here, but never tell my story.

i was a regular pioneer for six year, thanks god now i don't.

i'm still a jw, but you know why, yes because my friends and family.

tata

Blondie, yes we talked before and thanks for the welcome. And for me the book was like you said "eye-opening". I can?t believe everything I read I?m still reading.

Gumby, thanks and my friends still a witness, but he doesn?t go anymore to the KH. He gave back all his privilege; he said that he feels like a hypocrite if he continued. And don?t worry your not nosey. I love to talk, so you can ask whatever you want.

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Hi I'm new too

by tata in

jw
friends

well, i post one or two messages here, but never tell my story.

i was a regular pioneer for six year, thanks god now i don't.

i'm still a jw, but you know why, yes because my friends and family.

tata

Thanks, Special K

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Were You Afraid Of The Elders?.Did Ya Love Em?...What Was Your View of Them

by minimus in

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i've heard of brothers and sisters saying that they have "prayed for the elders because they love them for their hard work and sacrifice".

i've also heard of how some in the congregation were petrified of the elders and of course, there were those that said they were either only men or that they were direct representatives of jehovah god himself.

tata

I don't love them, but I wasn't afraid either, I just respect them.

This is so true:

Brothers change when they become elders. I had good friends in the congregation, and when they became elders, they changed radiacally. Instead of remaining close friends, they distanced themselves from me, and made new friends amongst the productive ones.

My brother now is an elder and he change radically. When he became an elder I tell him not to change like everybody does, he said to me NO, but yes he change.

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Hello - New to this forum

by hd1gator in

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name is actually gator.

i am not nor was i ever a jw.

i know several who were, and do understand some of the issues and such behind that religious "sect".

tata

Hello Gator

I'm new here too, but welcome!!!!!

I know that your going to love it, like I do.

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Hi I'm new too

by tata in

jw
friends

well, i post one or two messages here, but never tell my story.

i was a regular pioneer for six year, thanks god now i don't.

i'm still a jw, but you know why, yes because my friends and family.

tata

Well, I post one or two messages here, but never tell my story.

I was a regular pioneer for six year, thanks God now I don't. I'm still a JW, but you know why, yes because my friends and family.

Before I leave mentally I have a lot of doubts and I don't like the way they use the money, that?s bother me. Later a friend of mine talks with me and we spend a lot of time talking about the thing in the congregation and he gave the book "Crisis of conscience". WOW, first I don't believe anything and I was angry with Franz and with my friend. But I just keep looking and reading and found a lot of thing, that I don?t have any idea. Now I love the book and I star reading "In search of Christian Freedom".

Then I enter in this forum and I just keep learning and laughing with all your messages and I LOVE IT. It?s so good to know that we are not alone and that some one understands us. Anyway, this is part of my story, so later a tell more. Thank you all for been here and for this forum.

Tata

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Hello all you Newbies!!!!!

by kls in

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i see we are having a run on newbies and just wanted to say and welcome to you all.

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i don't know all your screen names and don't want to miss any so post and say hi.

tata

Hello everybody

Thanks for the welcome and I have to say that I LOVE THIS FORUM!!!!!!!! and of course

al your post!!!!!!

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Amazing How So Many JWs Practically Worship The Literature...

by cypher50 in

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recently, i had to help my mom move from ny...she has just retired and has been a witness for over 30 years.

i wouldn't call her devout in that she never misses field service or that she would walk through horrible weather to get to a meeting but she is devout in a sense that she will believe whatever the wts puts before her.... anyway, my two older brothers who are also "in the truth" were helping go through what stuff we were going to move when we came to her literature stash.

my mom is an extreme packrat and we had been throwing so many items that she had bought over the years without even opening the boxes (the items got old & musty so they were unusable to others .

tata

I laughed a lot with your answers people. I have to say that in my house my mom still has two or three of the same watchtower, awake and books. And of course I remember when I do the same. It is true it?s so stupid, but we did it.

it just amazes me that the WTS has such a strong mental hold on people.

Me too, because we can't see it and we do not think of that, everything they do or say we just accepted for good and ?true?.

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What Made Things Finally "Click" With You To Know This Was Not The Truth?

by minimus in

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for me it was the realization that there was no "faithful & discreet slave", that all the prophecies "proving" that jehovah's witnesses are the only religion approved by god is bogus and the realization that this is a "cult" and there is no real normal sense of love and affection in the "truth".

tata

First, I think in all the money they have and how they used. Second, just imagine all my friends and family going to be destroyed because they weren't JW. I can't think that God who is love going to destroy all those people. And a good friend of mine helped me to see beyond? That?s sound like Toy Story ?to the infinity and beyond?. Jajajajaja sorry I have to say it.

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