Welcome to JWD. My advice is to remain open to any and everything. Don't be afraid to challenge your most cherished beliefs. You could be more content with the truth.
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GetBusyLiving
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What Now
by LouBelle inas a few of you know now from my posts i've recently left the organisation & it's lies behind.
it's truly a wonderful sense of freedom.
what i'd like to know from you guys is when you left, what did you do then?
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Crazy Talking JWs on VH1 Forum
by rebel8 inthey're baaaack.
i thought the jws had left that forum, but they haven't.. http://www.vh1.com/interact/boards/main.jhtml/vh1_news_presents/threadlist?offset=0.
check out the most recent thread.
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GetBusyLiving
Has anyone started up a "607 B.C is bullshit" thread over there? That might be interesting.
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Recovery-----How Goes The Battle?
by minimus inhow's the transition going in your life from faithful jw to ex?
for me, it's pretty good.
no one has called me and that's good.
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GetBusyLiving
For all the faders, just so you know, being disfellowshipped/disassociated is.. wonderful. Ahhhh (gotta rub it in, hehe)
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I keep writing really dark songs
by Dustin ini've always been really into writing song lyrics.
ever since i quit the jehovah's witness religion 2 years ago i've been letting out 25 years worth of rage.
where were you when i was broken?.
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GetBusyLiving
I know how you feel dude. Writing that shit out is a good outlet. I feel a stronger sense of immediacy with every passing day now though personally.. things are getting better and the dust has almost entirely settled down.
Damn cult induced spirtual hangovers, hey?
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I keep writing really dark songs
by Dustin ini've always been really into writing song lyrics.
ever since i quit the jehovah's witness religion 2 years ago i've been letting out 25 years worth of rage.
where were you when i was broken?.
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GetBusyLiving
Do you still half assed believe in the Bible God Dustin? Maybe that's why you're so pissed.
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Did losing your religion send you into/exacerbate depression?
by SixofNine ini think most of us here agree that our past belief in the jw organization as being god's sole chosen people was delusional on our part.
for myself, when i lost that delusion (fairly abruptly too), i came out of a long period of depression immediately.
while i was incredibly angry at having been decieved, i can't say that that anger translated into any other negatives, in fact, overall, i think my general level of anger, even at elders/the gb/etc subsided, as i now understood why they do what they do even better than they themselves understand it.
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GetBusyLiving
The cognitive dissonance was really tough to get over, one of the toughest things I have faced so far in my life. But it does pass. If you're a newb and going through that feeling of rejection, wondering what your old friends think of you, thinking you might not ever have any good friends again.. hang in there. With time, I swear, life does get better than you may have ever experienced. It did for me.
Making the decision to take your own life by the reins and make things happen is the key, along with patience. You deserve it because getting out of the JW's was the right thing to do and YOU are the honest, good person. Be strong and pound your life into the sort of person you want to be. Become who you are.
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this is ridiculous
by kittyeatzjdubs injehovah's witnesses as an organization have never covered up such a thing, and that is a bunch of ridiculous crap.
maybe you were molested, but you probably liked it.
anyone that does such a thing is removed from the congregation.
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GetBusyLiving
I can't even really believe how in the dark these people are. It's really scary. It makes me think of some little tribe isolated away from civilization or something.
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Crazy Talking JWs on VH1 Forum
by rebel8 inthey're baaaack.
i thought the jws had left that forum, but they haven't.. http://www.vh1.com/interact/boards/main.jhtml/vh1_news_presents/threadlist?offset=0.
check out the most recent thread.
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GetBusyLiving
:AlanF, you kick ass
Did he post on there? Can you send me the link?
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Crazy Talking JWs on VH1 Forum
by rebel8 inthey're baaaack.
i thought the jws had left that forum, but they haven't.. http://www.vh1.com/interact/boards/main.jhtml/vh1_news_presents/threadlist?offset=0.
check out the most recent thread.
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GetBusyLiving
This post was my personal fav. I find reading posts from Jehovah's Witnesses morbidly facinating.
:I definitely agree with those who want the arguments to stop. I have been raised in the truth myself and was baptized when i was 16 years old. My first reaction to the false accusations against the organization was anger and the urge to come here to defend the truth. but there are always going to be those that don't want to acknowledge it as the truth or who want to cause conflict . and going on to read all these hurtful and false posts on this site just makes the anger build even more. those that are posting inacurate accusations against our brothers and sisters obviously didn't know the facts very well or didn't want to follow the bible themselves. or maybe they just read to much apostate literature and bacame discouraged and left the congregation, and are now becoming apostate themselves. and those that are posting messages that aren't even witnesses have no room to make accusations against a religion that they have never belonged to. everyone is entitled to his or her own apinion but befere you make any statemens please talk to a real witness form a local congregation and find for yourself the answers, but at the same time ask another religon and see if their answers are any more clear. you may find that there are more "scandals and lies" among them than you will find among Jehovah's people.
Jehovah's witnesses are among the happiest of people.. and those that aren't happy may never have had a close relationship with Jehovah and were probably spiritually weak and may have issues that may lie deeper than any of us can see. I at one time lost faith do to lack of knowledge when i was young but came to realize that the world is not much to be longed for. And the happiest times of my life were when i was among jehovah's people and associated with others who shared my beliefs.
not all people are going to become lovers of the truth. those of us that are faithful members of this loyal christian congregation of brothers and sisters know the real truth behind it all and the reason that these things need to happen. so do not become discouraged by all of these unbelievers' statements agains JW'sFor those of you who are among Jehovahs people out there who are reading this right now just rememer to pray and remain faithfull to jehovah and he will bless your efforts.
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The saddest song you've ever heard
by littlerockguy inwhat is the saddest song that brings tears to your eyes just about every time you hear it?
mine is harry chapin's cats in the cradle
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GetBusyLiving
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'conner
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