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13 year anniversary

by gerry in

today marks 13 years since my wife and i have stepped inside a kingdom hall.

after 29 years full on being a jw and a number of years serving as an elder then as the presiding overseer we pulled the plug.

yes 13 years ago coming home from the first day of a circuit assembly i said to my wife “that’s it i am not going back”.

13 year anniversary

by gerry in

today marks 13 years since my wife and i have stepped inside a kingdom hall.

after 29 years full on being a jw and a number of years serving as an elder then as the presiding overseer we pulled the plug.

yes 13 years ago coming home from the first day of a circuit assembly i said to my wife “that’s it i am not going back”.

oh yes the Revelation book. I can remember taking the book study and thinking how can this be true? How can they be saying these conventions were a fulfillment of revelation. Yes Jehovah in all his wisdom foresaw somebody checking out dates and venues for a convention so the prophecy could be fulfilled.

thanks for the welcome

gerry

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13 year anniversary

by gerry in

today marks 13 years since my wife and i have stepped inside a kingdom hall.

after 29 years full on being a jw and a number of years serving as an elder then as the presiding overseer we pulled the plug.

yes 13 years ago coming home from the first day of a circuit assembly i said to my wife “that’s it i am not going back”.

gerry

you know reading all your responses highlights how similar our stories are. past and present.

and that is what makes this site so great. I know more about what is going on now than when I was a JW.

I take my hat off to Jookbeard and other long time exjw's like Blondie who post on a regular basis.

Despite the joy of being an ex, I never new how damaging watchtower policies were until you can actually unplug yourself.

and that knowledge has made me angry and sad

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13 year anniversary

by gerry in

today marks 13 years since my wife and i have stepped inside a kingdom hall.

after 29 years full on being a jw and a number of years serving as an elder then as the presiding overseer we pulled the plug.

yes 13 years ago coming home from the first day of a circuit assembly i said to my wife “that’s it i am not going back”.

gerry

dbq407

tipping point was when one of the speakers at the assembly read Isaiah 5:20 "Woe to those who are saying that good is bad and bad is good, those who are putting darkness for light and light for darkness, those who are putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter"

I had been involved in exposing an elder for touching up young girls. The investigation had been ongoing for over a year because of dispute that was going on within the body of elders. The circuit overseer and elders from other congregations got involved. However because I had stood down some years before I was not aware of the infighting that had been going on in our body of elders.

Apparently the elder I had accused had recently been assigned to our congregation by the circuit overseer to sort out two of our elders who had disfellowshipped children. One of the elders stood down, however the presiding overseer dug his heels in and and refused to stand down. It did not matter to the CO that the presiding overseers young adult daughter had been sexually abused as a child and needed his help.

Anyway my allegations came in the midst of the elders dispute. Any elder here will know the situation within a body especially when there are only 3 elders. The elder I had accused had one elder as a buddy and they ganged up on to the presiding overseer. And because the Presiding Overseer took up the investigation he was accused of having an axe to grind.

Anyway just over one year goes by and I am at what would be my last assembly. The circuit overseer was going to meet with the District overseer to discuss this issue.

During the lunch break this elder I had accused comes up to me with a smirk and says to me "ha ha the District Overseer says I have done nothing wrong!"

That scripture came up in the next talk.. That was it. That was the sign for me to cut the ties. I was now unplugged.

thanks for well wishes. I remember Blondie from my first lurks to this site many years ago. always insightful.

cheers

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13 year anniversary

by gerry in

today marks 13 years since my wife and i have stepped inside a kingdom hall.

after 29 years full on being a jw and a number of years serving as an elder then as the presiding overseer we pulled the plug.

yes 13 years ago coming home from the first day of a circuit assembly i said to my wife “that’s it i am not going back”.

gerry

Today marks 13 years since my wife and I have stepped inside a Kingdom Hall. After 29 years full on being a JW and a number of years serving as an elder then as the presiding overseer we pulled the plug. Yes 13 years ago coming home from the first day of a circuit assembly I said to my wife “that’s it I am not going back”. Fortunately my wife was in agreement and we have not stepped into a Kingdom Hall since.

I have posted here a couple of times and have not introduced myself so apologies for being reticent. I would like to say thanks to those who have made this site possible and for all the interesting posts. In the early stages of waking up this and other sites were very helpful.

Looking back to the first time I delved into the world of apostate sites on the internet was quite hilarious. Mind you we only had dial up internet speeds in our country so pages would load very slowly.

Well one of the first sites was Free Minds. So I apprehensively clicked on the link. Very slowly the page started to reveal what I thought to be a demons eye peering back at me. With that I shut the page down. That is rather embarrassing now when I think about it. Fortunately my curiosity allowed me to return to the site and it opened up a whole new world.

We successfully faded. JW life was, we thought erased from our lives as we made new friends. However the Australian Royal Commission has fired us up. We cannot believe the quality of the information on the internet exposing the Watchtower. Maybe I will add my voice soon as I have thought about making some posts.

Thanks Simon and all involved in this site.

13 year

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Aussie exJW Comedienne on BBC (Limited Time)

by berrygerry in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r3srd.

deborah frances-white - online.. .

spot on - and funny..

gerry

Thanks for the Aussie link absolutely brilliant interview

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Another Child Porno JW Freak - Caught in Massive Sting

by skeeter1 in

http://www.theage.com.au/national/jail-for-dj-caught-in-child-porn-sting-20081203-6qo7.html.

jail for dj caught in child porn sting.

paul millar december 4, 2008 a sketch of andrew van rossum.

gerry

Aussiegal

Sorry for the confusion. I am not a frequent user of this site. I posted an article from the Illawarra Mercury on this already existing thread. I thought I would add another link to highlight another witness involved in child pornography. The article I posted did not say he was a witness and and so with my second post I was to identify him as a pioneer and JW. Unfortunately you thought I was referring to the person you know. Looks like you are not posting on this site. I am only posting now to clear things up.

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Theocratic War Strategy and Watchtower lawyer Vincent Toole...

by Marvin Shilmer in

remember brother toole's testimony to the royal commission that he was unaware of watchtower theocratic war doctrine, and that he didn't know what it means?

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well wait until you read the letter i just posted on my blog: theocratic war strategy in action?

gerry

I was watching the royal commission live when Vin Toole made that comment. I immediately rang the royal commission and said I had evidence to show he was lying. You see I have the original copy of that society letter. They said to email it in. So no blacked out version the royal commission now know who and what Congregation it was addressed too.. Cheers Gerry

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My life ... and how JWD came to be - Part 5

by Simon in

my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 1. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 2. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 3. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 4. i swear, i thought it was only a couple of years at most since i wrote part 4 of "my life and how jwd came to be".

i re-read it after someone posted to it and brought it back on active topics and it was kind of prophetic in a way ... well, i had the 5 years part right if nothing else:.

it would be nice to visit the site (or whatever one is around then) in 5 years time to let people know how we're doing and find only a few of the same people still around.

gerry

I have to say thanks to Simon, this site was of great help to me. It is 10 years this weekend since I have been in a Kingdom Hall.

After 29 years being an active witness and a number of years as an elder I just had had enough of the misinformation and lies that fellow elders were dishing up. So finding a site like yours was very much appreciated.

However there comes a time when you have to move on and make another life away from anything to do with JW's. So I stopped frequenting this site a number of years ago, only to return on my 10 year anniversary to post a thank you.

Kind of fitting that Simon's post from a few years is current.

Thanks again to Simon and all those who post here. Cheers Gerry

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Another Child Porno JW Freak - Caught in Massive Sting

by skeeter1 in

http://www.theage.com.au/national/jail-for-dj-caught-in-child-porn-sting-20081203-6qo7.html.

jail for dj caught in child porn sting.

paul millar december 4, 2008 a sketch of andrew van rossum.

gerry

I know people in his congregation. Also check out silentlambs. http://www.silentlambs.org/Souter2.htm