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  What sin did you ever committ that you thought you never never would?

  by littlerockguy in

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  adultery (sexual relations with a married man); after all i was a prude as an active jw.

  i never thought i would do such a thing.

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  speaking against the society
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  how can you stay?

  by zaphod in

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  speaking as someone who believed it all right up until about a year after i was df'd i just cannot understand the reasoning of people who don't go out on field service, don't go to meetings, don't participate or believe and still stay in the organisation.. i know that it is hard to leave, it's made to be hard, but some of the postings on this site make me think that it must be harder still living a lie and keeping up the pretense.. if you don't believe, why would you want to conform to all the petty rules and subject yourself to men that you don't believe have any authority.. i really do hope that as soon as possible you can all take a deep breath and finally be true to yourself.. zaphod

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  speaking as someone who believed it all right up until about a year after i was df'd i just cannot understand the reasoning of people who don't go out on field service, don't go to meetings, don't participate or believe and still stay in the organisation.

  i know that it is hard to leave, it's made to be hard, but some of the postings on this site make me think that it must be harder still living a lie and keeping up the pretense.

  if you don't believe, why would you want to conform to all the petty rules and subject yourself to men that you don't believe have any authority.

  i really do hope that as soon as possible you can all take a deep breath and finally be true to yourself.

  zaphod
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  Don't you just love ex-JW women!

  by ljwtiamb in

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  http://www.madblast.com/funpages/view.cfm?id=10715

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  this one guy, an elders son who never got baptised had a penchant for witness girls.

  he loved them cos they were always so wet.

  i'm sure his daddy would have been so proud of that.

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  A comment I heard tonight

  by Generic Man in

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  tonight i heard one of the most cruel and twisted comments i've ever heard at the platform.

  the topic was the apocalypse and whether or not children will be slaughtered.

  through one side of his mouth, the po stated that the bible is not clear on the matter, while out the other side he pointed to all those old testament accounts where children were killed.

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  i would really like you to draw me a picture, shizm.

  it might be more clear and lucid than your specious reasoning.

  agape

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  more weird reasoning

  by zaphod in

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  a young brother was df'd for having sex with a young single mother with a young daughter who was studying with the congregation.. she got pregnant and they married.

  she suffered with mental illness.. the brother sexually abused the young girl.

  he was reproved but not disfellowshipped even though he did not go to the police voluntarily and at first denied the abuse.

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  i suppose when you're in an organisation that has a rep for protecting peodos (thereby protecting there own ass) and persecuting consenting adults, then child abuse can look like the best option to some sick bastards.

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  has this happened to you???

  by donald in

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  back when i was in high school i was in deca...i won national trophies for public speaking.......upon gradrution...i was offerd a scolarship to a major college....for public speaking.....but the elders conveinced me to go into the pioneer service...i did a dead end job to cover expenses...and it became my permant job when i got married a copule of years later.....with no college...and almost no help to find another job...to rake care of my wife and three kids...i feel i might have thrown my life away....well onr good thing about being on dialsys is ill get an education.donald

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  dear donald

  i went back to college aged 30 and will graduate with a ba hons degree in a couple of months.

  as i studied and opened my mind to new thoughts i discovered the real reason why the jw are so anti higher education.

  it develops free thinkers who ask questions. i wish that i had done it years ago. all those wasted years.

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  more weird reasoning

  by zaphod in

  1. watchtower
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  a young brother was df'd for having sex with a young single mother with a young daughter who was studying with the congregation.. she got pregnant and they married.

  she suffered with mental illness.. the brother sexually abused the young girl.

  he was reproved but not disfellowshipped even though he did not go to the police voluntarily and at first denied the abuse.

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  a young brother was df'd for having sex with a young single mother with a young daughter who was studying with the congregation.

  she got pregnant and they married. she suffered with mental illness.

  the brother sexually abused the young girl. he was reproved but not disfellowshipped even though he did not go to the police voluntarily and at first denied the abuse. sound repentant??

  the girl subsequently attempted to kill herself. while on the way to visit her in mental hospital with an elder's wife, she explained to me that the young woman had to take some of the blame for the abuse because, due to her mental illness, she had not been "giving her husband his due" and he had become sexually frustrated.

  i was shocked by this reasoning.

  this brother has still not been df'd, although he smokes, fornicates (with a new single mum! no less) and god knows what else that his frustration causes him to do.

  coincedentally, his father was an elder in the congrgation. it's not who you know...

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  Did You Ever Think You'd No Longer Be A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  did you ever dream that you'd be posting here too?

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  no way.

  i remember thinking to myself how awful it must be to be df'd and know the truth and know what your destiny is at armageddon and how i could never leave and be in that situation.

  i felt so sorry for those ex brothers and sisters and i guess that's why i eventually became one of them.

  i didn't feel godly hate for them so i obvious was not of the right sort to stay in the organisation.

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  Are You or Were You Ever On Meds For Depression?

  by minimus in

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  i know so many people, not just witnesses that are on zoloft or similar drugs.

  i know of some that, once they left the "truth", stopped taking these meds and have not had to go back on them.

  i know of some that, if they did not have them, would not be able to properly function......what about you?

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  i remember one of our brothers who was on pills for depression.

  the elders disfellowshipped him and he did not need the pills any more.

  he killed himself

  excellent way to play with peoples lives bros

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  A comment I heard tonight

  by Generic Man in

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  tonight i heard one of the most cruel and twisted comments i've ever heard at the platform.

  the topic was the apocalypse and whether or not children will be slaughtered.

  through one side of his mouth, the po stated that the bible is not clear on the matter, while out the other side he pointed to all those old testament accounts where children were killed.

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  so we condemn ourselves by condemning the wts.

  do two wrongs make a right?