may 22 1969 awake .
"if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old.
in this present system of things...... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.
i left school in 92 and that was still being said but 1975 had long gone, just shows the control they have,
i reg pioneered and cleaned toliets till working in the 'non profit' (yeah right) jah jireh homes, (nursing homes for only witnesses, where you are actually told to miss the conventions etc to serve your brothers!!
i really wish id known it was false back then, i was so proud everytime i cleaned up someones shit, thought i was pleasing God !!
this is an email forward i got from a friend.
interesting.
you make the choice don't look for a punch line.
it made me cry too, derek i believed it dont ruin things by letting us know it isnt true!
altho it defo wouldnt be true in jw world, the heartlessness shown by the stupid shunning rule proves that!
i wish it were true made me feel loads better ta x
i'm still undesided but leaning towards going to a few dcs under the cover of a worldly person(i'm really a df'd evil apostate .
i'm a worldy person that is in love with a jw sister who i work with, we have dated and even have been intimate(that outa perk up the ears of any hatchet man elder), and now she refuses to see me any more unless i become a jw, she encouraged me to go to this convention, but is afraid to be seen with me because she doesn't want people in her congregation to know she has a boy friend.
i think that kind of story would grab the interest of many sisters or brother and allow me to ask some hard questions about the organization and even allow me to bring up some things i found on the internet about dates and such and not be viewed as an apostate.
i think thats a good idea, would noone know you tho?
my dc is in two weeks and my mum wants me to go all three days (seeing as they think i amtrying to get reinstated!) and sit with her, but hey i can read the bible at the dinner break so thats ok !!
i think i will go im a sucker for pleasing my family, altho i know im prob being crueler in the long run coz i know i defo dont want the 'truth' (bit confused at the mo)
ANYWAY frankie you have got me thinking, some may not know im dfed think ill wander round at dinner time and hopefully catch some out, (suddenly going isnt such a bad idea )
let us know how you go
x
on friday i let you guys know that my final jc was happening on sunday.
thanks so much for all the comments and well wishes.
i was nervous before i went - and though i've given up the faith i haven't given up my belief in god and his direction.. two of the three elders have seen me grow up - i was born in the truth.
well done on being so strong, what are they actualy goin to announce that u are dfed or daed?
how have your family been? that is prob the thing you will need youre strength for, i got dfed a couple of months ago and the shunning by my family has been so hard! my dad is rhe onky one who will have contact and i let him think i am going back, and now i really dont know what to do!
but your story has helped me, im the same age as you but somehow still live to please my family not myself, sad is tisnt it whats your secret?
ok today, i was really bored, i was laying out by the pool calling people up, seeing hows everything going and stuff.
some were busy, others were doing nothing but watching tv.
then i wanted to get a bowling thing going tonight but everyone i invited was busy.
why dont you go to the convention and seduce an innocent jw girl you never know all that spiritual food may fill you up for the whole of summer!
the manchester one will be interesing this year, everynes bound to be dressed up, coz last year the additions for pop idol were there and they fimed ten mins of running on the street trying to get people to sing, unfortunaltly for them they ran right into the dinnertime walk round the convention, it was really funny to see the shocked jw faces as they were asked to sing (none of them did! that would be too sinful!)
anyway did you used to go out with this girl? did you kiss her??
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i'm getting a bit bored of my avatar and i'm open to suggestions.
please could you post any pics' you feel would suit or 'represent' me, i'll use the one i like best.. hmmmm, i guess the winner should get some sort of prize .
theres a boy crying on the avartar website under people, saying 'why didnt they tell me the truth?'
quite apporiate dont you think?
on second thoughts it might have been aa girl. so that would be no good after the sexy one you have now.
i think there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with him at all
i have been a regular visitor to this forum for the past 2 years or so, finally i got the courage to register.. you guys are an inspiration , your stories and experiences have helped me to take a stand against this controlling org.. in short, i was raised from birth as a jw, parents are from the old school very much hard liners, the society is their god.
is expected of you, get baptised as a teenager become a ms then elder.
i always had my doubts about the society and its teachings but was.
im new here too and have got addicted to this site it has helped me so much, i was dfed over something really minor, and have loads of pressure from my family to come straight back! my family are hardliners too and i know what you mean about doing what is expected of you.
so welcome i hope we can help each other resist the pulls of family and have a good life,
well i am no longer one of jehovah's witnesses.
i had fully intentioned to disassociate myself from the platform today, but i decided that if i wanted a chance to save my marriage that i'd better tell my wife.
she immediately went to to one of the elders.
hey ip, i only just found out, congratulations,(i wondered how come ur picture had appeared)
hope everythings ok with your wife are all her family in the 'troof'? anyway not had chance to read all this thread yet but wanted to say well done and thanks you give the little people like us the courage to stand on our own,
thanks love cordy
x
hey everyone sirona pointed out to me today that i had not repilied on the thread i started on the last page about the 607 date.
truth is i forgot!
i think id had a drink when i put it on, coz i almost started another the other day!
not yet where abouts is that?
i am really interseted in this kind of stuff coz i was always 'big' on phropecy, thats why i almost started a thread about 607 again!
thanks for repling x
hey everyone sirona pointed out to me today that i had not repilied on the thread i started on the last page about the 607 date.
truth is i forgot!
i think id had a drink when i put it on, coz i almost started another the other day!
hey everyone sirona pointed out to me today that i had not repilied on the thread i started on the last page about the 607 date. truth is i forgot!
i think id had a drink when i put it on, coz i almost started another the other day! (thread that is, not drink!)and i know you are all pretty overdosed on that one by now!
but i have almost read through it all and wrote down scriptures to check (that would be fantastic to prove its wrong actually from the bible)
so i just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who posted on it (except maybe scholar!) and cant believe i didnt go straight back to it, sorry again, love cordy x
