Samuel Thorsen

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  Did you know of any JW's that committed suicide before they were DF'd or DA

  by booker-t in

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  i was talking to a good friend of mine that is an ex-jw and we were having coffee the other day when he told me of one of his good friends that killed himself because the elders publicly "reproved" him.

  i felt so bad when my friend told me of this horrible story but he said there are many cases of jw's committing sucide before they are df'd or da'd or publicly reproved.

  did you know of any jw's that killed themselves before or after being kicked out of the wt?

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  Did you know of any JW's that committed suicide before they were DF'd or DA

  Do you know of any JW's that were DF'd after they committed suicide??
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  On behalf of all lurkers...

  by marked in

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  ... i'd like to say a big thank you to all you regular posters.

  i've been here as long or longer than many of you with hundreds of posts, but even though i don't often hit "reply" it doesn't mean i'm not responding.

  and i think i speak for many of us here.

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  Amen to you Marked.
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  What Silly Things Do JWs Woo & Ahhh Over?

  by minimus in

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  witnesses are a special breed.

  did you ever see how excited they get when they are driving to a convention and spot a fellow jw?

  they get so excited!

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  Very excited if the number of memorial parttakers is decreasing one year.
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  Without the Internet. Would you still have been a active believing dub??

  by Samuel Thorsen in

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  perhaps i would.. struggeling with doubts of course, but going to the meetings and turning in 2 or 3 hours on my report every month like i used to.... what about you guys?

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  Perhaps I would.

  Struggeling with doubts of course, but going to the meetings and turning in 2 or 3 hours on my report every month like I used to...

  What about you guys?
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  Know any Victims of MORE than One Cult?

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  ever heard of anyone leaving the jw's and becoming, say, a scientologist?

  or a morman?

  or a member of any other crazy cultish org?

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  I know a lot of people who is morons and JWs at the same time
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  If You See A JW or An Elder, Do You Try To Avoid Them?

  by minimus in

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  when i was in a drugstore a couple of months ago, i saw the presiding overseer in the other aisle with his wife.

  i saw them and made a conscious decision to leave.

  what would you have done in a similar situation??

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  No!

  I am polite and smiling.

  Living good is the best revenge.
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  JWs And Ex-JWs--Do You Struggle With Depression Because You Were A JW?

  by minimus in

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  i've seen how some are so burdened by the fact that they were witnesses, that literally, every day is a struggle.

  are you in need of therapeutic help because you are or were a jehovah's witness?

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  Dont tell anyone.

  Most Suicidal JWs stops reporting service before they comitt suicide. Very good for the WTS. Proves the danger of not doing service..
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  JWs And Ex-JWs--Do You Struggle With Depression Because You Were A JW?

  by minimus in

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  i've seen how some are so burdened by the fact that they were witnesses, that literally, every day is a struggle.

  are you in need of therapeutic help because you are or were a jehovah's witness?

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  One prominet elder i my country, known as brother Furuli to some on this board, made a survey on mental health among JWs a couple of years ago.

  The survey concluded that JWs had LESS mental problems the other non JWs!!!!!! Can you belive it!!

  Yes of course. But the secret is the population he used. Furili (and a JW psyciatrist) investigated a number of PUBLICHERS. You know. People who do field service and drop of a report after every month.. He didn't, or wouldn't realize, that lot of JWs with problems stops doing that service things and thet made his survey a very good one for the WTS.

  Just like a friend of mine, who was grown up in the troof and a baptized publishers for many years, he killed himself because of heavy mental problems last year. But that would not affect the statistics of the WTS because he stopped reporting hes servuce more than 6 months before he killed himself.

  So the guy who killed himself was not a JW. JWs do not commit suicide ever.
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  microphones were the last straw

  by ivy in

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  it wasn't the big stuff that made me decide i could never go back, it was one little thing.

  i have been thinking about my journey out of "the truth", and i think i can pin-point the last straw.. .

  i had been out for years, but always thinking that if i got my head together someday i would be good enough to go back.

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  The low quality of the assembly talks and the magazines made me think twice.

  And the hilarious paintings and drawings in the litterature as well..
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  What movies make you think of the Borg?...

  by Hecklerboy in

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  i was watching a great sci-fi movie the other day (chronicles of riddick) and there was a phrase in the movie that jumped out at me.

  a soldier was being promoted and he said the phrase "obedience without question, loyalty till underverse comes".

  i thought "wow, just replace underverse with armageddon and that sound just like the witnesses".

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