I used to think I was the only one who had a story to tell. Silly me. My story is tame,compared to others. Now I want to do my part and help. Really can't add to what has been said. Glad I found this site.
Quentin
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Longtime JWs: Can you recall the path of JW doubts throughout your life?
by ithinkisee inhave any of you who were ever "raised in the truth" really traced your doubts back to as early as you remember?
i would be interested in hearing what they were.. i started tracing my path of doubts.
doubts as a child:.
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I had no doubts. There were questions, just didn't think about them. The only thing my dad demanded was meeting attendance and field service, otherwise I went unmonitored. When I turned seventeen I quit school and took a job, coming and going as I pleased. Don't get me wrong. I faithfully attended all the meetings, went door to door regularly and was well versed in Witness rhetoric. When the first installment of the Aid Book came out I was in hog heaven. Read it from cover to cover. I had no doubts. I believed.
When I look back on it all, for the most part, my JW life was pleasant. Pleasant compared to what many have gone through. For me there were three things that made that possible. When I was active there was no Body of Elders. When I read about those dunces it leaves me stunned. My parents were not pushy. Go to all the meetings and go door to door. Simple. I don't know if Terry would say the same, but for me, the KH we attended was rather laid back. People got DFd, put on reproof and such, after all it was a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, but generally speaking everyone had a tendency to mind their own business.
There was no reason to doubt. I came and went as I pleased. Did pretty much what I pleased. There just wasn’t any pressure. What it took for me to wake from my slumber was the cold loveless manner in which a person is treated when they do not follow the WTBTS edicts to the letter. That was when I began to doubt. It was the best thing that ever happened.
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first timer
by DramaQueen inthis is my first time on this web site.
i learned about it from my mom who also posts here.
i used to be a jw but was (thankfully) never baptized, and because of that (the fact that i am no longer a jw) it has kept me from talking to my grandmothers, some of my uncles, and my aunts and also some of my cousins.
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Hello and welcome...here ther is understanding...enjoy...
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Nothing....hate the heat....spend most of the summer indoors....bah! humbug!
Quentin McScrooge
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Getting to know you silly quiz...
by misspeaches inokay you know the drill.
answer the questions so we get to know you better.. **miss peaches of the i'm in a silly mood class.. where would you take a gorilla on a date?.
who would you like to be stuck in an elevator with for three hours?.
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Where would you take a gorilla on a date?.....The Zoo.
Who would you like to be stuck in an elevator with for three hours?..... Not the Gorilla.
If cannibals caught you, how would you like to be cooked?.....Full of Early Times.
If they were coming for you, where would you hide?.....With the gorilla.
What food best describes Dave?.....Bananas..that's the gorrila's name
Beside what entry in the dictionary would you find your picture?.....Bored.
Who is at the door?.....The five-hundred pound gorilla Dave.
How many people are here?.....None. The gorilla ran them off.
Which office is Mr. Smith's?.....Smith doesen't have an office. The gorilla took it.
Where is Ahmed?.....Running from the gorilla.
When are your office hours?.....Same as Smith, gorilla took mine.
What is that man's name?.....Don't know, he took off when he saw the gorilla.
Who can speak French?.....Not the gorilla.
How many people will be there?....Wish I knew the gorilla won't let me make friends.
Which person might help us?.....The Zoo keeper
There seems to be a lot of kids in the neighborhood, don't you think?.....Yes, they like to tease the gorilla.
Do you know "so-and-so"?.....No, that gorrila again.
Have you noticed the traffic getting worse?.....Yes, gorrila's are not good drivers.
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Reason for getting disfellowshipped.
by greendawn inwhat were you all disfellowshipped for?
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perhaps a frequent topic overall but i never happened to notice it.
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Out thirty years. About ten years ago sent DA letter to Brooklyn. My publishers card was still in some name forgotten KH in Dallas, but, through my father, who had returned to the WT, they found me. A couple of J boys came around and asked about the letter. Told them I ment every word of it, they left and I went on with my life. My dad shunned me after that, it's the one regret I have about sending the letter. He died about four years later.
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The Return of Ozzie's Weekend Polls - # 139
by ozziepost ina note from the publishers:
when her majesty some years back spoke of her "annus horribilis" she was not alone!
) of us have years like that!
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BTW...glad to see your up and about Oz.
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The Return of Ozzie's Weekend Polls - # 139
by ozziepost ina note from the publishers:
when her majesty some years back spoke of her "annus horribilis" she was not alone!
) of us have years like that!
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3. I couldn't believe the Society would allow such things to happen.
4. I couldn't believe the Society was guilty. 7. I thought it only happened in the churches.
8. I 'knew' apostates were liars. As a Witness that would have been my mind set. When I found Silent Lambs it made me sick. Pedophilies are evil and do not deserve to live. Any individual, or group, that covers over or glosses over this evil deserves no compasion or understanding. Every family that the Watchtower has touched, with their laws and rules, they have destroyed. They are perverts and liars, those wretched men in Brooklyn who call themselves the Faithful and Discret Slave. Faithful to lies, discret to cover ups and slaves to power. Jehovah's people, what a joke. -
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nonsensical quotes
by colorado5591 in.
to give somebody yourlove, is to give someone, yourself, responsibility .
what's your favorite quotes.........
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Familiarity breeds....
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Just Got word...
by RichieRich in.
a good friend of mine got in big ass trouble for this..... photoshopped to remove his name.
if he gives me any more good pics- youll be the first to get em!
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