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  Do you know this feeling?

  by DeusMauzzim in

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  do you know the feeling of looking out of the window at the sky, thinking 'there will be no armageddon, everything is well, i followed my conscience...' ?.

  do you know the feeling of just going for a walk, all alone.. and realizing that you are alive and out of it, that there is no god counting your hours and meetings?

  that is was all just a bad dream, that you are free now to follow your own moral compass.. it makes you want to laugh and cry at the same time.... do you sometimes look at the faces of total strangers in the streets or on the train, wondering how you could have ever thought that most of them could be murdered any moment by some 'loving' god?

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  child abuse

  by paws in

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  2. child-abuse

  this is a full on question...i am in contact with someone who is the chairman of an organisation called the national society for children.

  he is an ex jw and is keen to be made aware of any child abuse being perpetrated in england at this time.

  as i said, a huge question to ask but here it is.. thank you.

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  birthdays

  by paws in

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  hi everyone and warmest wishes.....please can anyone help me with this....i'm a very, very ex witness single mum but my teenaged son's dad remains enslaved.

  my son has reached his own conclusions about jw beliefs and has now had the courage to voice his dissapointment to his dad about not recieving even a birthday card from him and of course i have supported him.

  i would like to be able to use some effective arguments with my ex about the jw stance on birthdays.

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  Ingrained Belief Systems.

  by Blueblades in

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  we all know how hard it is to transcend an ingrained belief system.

  that is something that many people are not willing or able to do.

  at least not quickly or easily, if not at all.

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  am gonna be brave

  by paws in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have decided to swap my alias photo on here for the real thing but am having probs trying to do so.

  can't seem to downoad a piccy from my docs.....alias photo remains.

  by the way....loved my first ex-jw b-b-q on saturday in weston super mare.

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  JW Control over Our Personal Conscience

  by paws in

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  here in england we are currently celebrating v. e. day which reminds us overwhelmingly of the individual sacrifices too numerous to imagine that prevented our country being taken over by the nazi regime.

  as a jw i was told that if i supported any charities such as the poppy day for the veterans and their families, i was actually supporting the whole idea of the war and would therefore be opposing the kingdom.

  foolishly, i felt i had no choice but to 'ignore my heart' and its desire to indicate my appreciation to those who sacrificed the ultimate on my behalf.

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  Grief from those you helped

  by greendawn in

  1. jw
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  when you were jws did you bring people into the org (relatives or not)that later on became for you a source of grief eg stole your spouse, shunned you, slandered you, persecuted you after becoming elders etc etc

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  Damage To The Human Spirit

  by paws in

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  hia everyone...i have only posted in response to other topics so far and thought i'd take the plunge and start my own.. over the weeks i've read so many of your heart wrenching experiences within the org which spans almost every variation of initial contact with the jw's possible imaginable and often times i have read with tears in my eyes.

  i am always sending my love and respect to everyone:.

  .... to those having successfully freed themselves....your example is a beacon of hope.

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  a few ?'s

  by carla in

  1. jw
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  may i ask a few questions?

  i'm sure some have already been asked, and some are not meant to be hurtful, i just don't understand.

  backround- i am not jw, in fact quite anti jw, husband has been studying for about two years, not baptized, not field service, i know doctine quite well, flipflops, un, new 1914, etc......... do any of you feel 'guilty' for getting someone 'in'?

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  low self esteem issues....need some experiences.......please

  by eye 23 in

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  i wondered if anyone would give me their stories of how the wtbts stole their selfesteem....doesn't have to be long.. need to show someone that this is indeed what happens to some..... as a good friend of mine said .

  'if i'm no good for god, i'm no good for anyone' .

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