LouBelle

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  Goodbye the truth...

  by John Locke in

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  LouBelle

  ugh I just vomited - haven't laid eyes on those things in 7 years!
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  Just realized I hadn't posted my story here yet

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  2. experiences

  i've been so busy on other subjects and other people's interesting stories that i had not noticed that i had not posted my story on this forum yet.

  kind of boring.

  the usual.

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  LouBelle

  Just goes to show how brainwashed they are - to the point that even when you were physically ill they couldn't see it for what it was.

  So happy you and hubby made it out and are doing better.
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  if the rapture started now?

  by fakesmile in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  since the majority would be "left behind", i wonder.

  clearly the hard workers who neglected "spiritual things" to persue a career in the science field or just working with the hands will be of the many left.

  what would this world be like if all fundies just dissappeared.

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  LouBelle

  There would be very few of us left - but I reckon it would be a hellofa lot better - almost paradise :)
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  Tears

  by LouBelle in

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  2. friends

  i was checking some old threads and messages and came across people's messages and threads that have passed on ((dansk)) ((oompa)) two guys that i liked and shared some laughs / thoughts / hopes / encouraging words with.

  pulled at my heart strings.. you're still remembered.

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  LouBelle

  I was checking some old threads and messages and came across people's messages and threads that have passed on ((Dansk)) ((Oompa)) Two guys that I liked and shared some laughs / thoughts / hopes / encouraging words with. Pulled at my heart strings.

  You're still remembered.
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  Are we all bitter?

  by LouBelle in

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  2. friends

  i posted a link on fb that lead to a topic here.

  i then had one of my 'friends' start having a go about how bitter everyone is here....fact he said.

  (he used to be a jw elder but left a while back, not sure why he left or if he has even researched the faith since leaving) the more i tried to reason with him that actually it is a support forum, the more he lashed out that everyone here bad mouths the jw's and only attack the jw's.

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  LouBelle

  Thank you everyone for your imput. Something that I tried to highlight in my discussion with this person was that everyone has been through a huge variety of experience and everyone handles things differently - he still didn't get it. He gave me Nelson Mandela as a shining example - Mandela spent 27 years in prison as a terrorist - he was put there because he rose up against those that would oppress him. He had not been brain washed, Mandela was a well educated man. When he came out of prison he had the support of millions, he had access to that support, he could forgive, he could move on .... I am sure though that initially when he was thrown into prison there was a bitter taste in his mouth.

  I like the definition of bitterness - it explains the word more fully and one can better grasp the meaning.

  All I know is this place helped me, supported me, listened to my rants and raves, answered questions, taught me lessons. This is a place of real people having come out of a cult and we get it.
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  Are we all bitter?

  by LouBelle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i posted a link on fb that lead to a topic here.

  i then had one of my 'friends' start having a go about how bitter everyone is here....fact he said.

  (he used to be a jw elder but left a while back, not sure why he left or if he has even researched the faith since leaving) the more i tried to reason with him that actually it is a support forum, the more he lashed out that everyone here bad mouths the jw's and only attack the jw's.

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  LouBelle

  Am I bitter? no, I'm not. I have regrets, my life could have taken a different route, but I am at peace about it. I am glad I took and made the effort to find out the facts about the faith and not still think it's a great religion. My past anger was directed at the faith because I came out of it and it had lied and decevied me.
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  Are we all bitter?

  by LouBelle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i posted a link on fb that lead to a topic here.

  i then had one of my 'friends' start having a go about how bitter everyone is here....fact he said.

  (he used to be a jw elder but left a while back, not sure why he left or if he has even researched the faith since leaving) the more i tried to reason with him that actually it is a support forum, the more he lashed out that everyone here bad mouths the jw's and only attack the jw's.

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  LouBelle

  I posted a link on Fb that lead to a topic here. I then had one of my 'friends' start having a go about how bitter everyone is here....FACT he said. (he used to be a JW elder but left a while back, not sure why he left or if he has even researched the faith since leaving) The more I tried to reason with him that actually it is a support forum, the more he lashed out that everyone here bad mouths the JW's and only attack the JW's. Again I tried to explain that it is an ex JW site / forum and thus the experiences are JW related and that many on here put a lot of time and effort in exposing the true facts.

  I felt like I was back in the kingdom hall speaking to a person with blinkers on...it was so frustrating, he kept saying this was fact that was fact when in fact he had no bloody clue.

  I ended up saying: "again you state that everyone is negative as a fact. As much as a fact that Jerusalem was destroyed in 607bce. Some people don't like to hear the truth about the truth"
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  Shunning a myth says jw spokesman

  by doofdaddy in

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  2. scandals

  http://www.theage.com.au/national/jehovahs-witnesses-a-cruel-cult-20130315-2g5x3.htmlit's hotting up in australia regarding cults, especially tax free like jws but how is the response of vin toole (the australian wts legal mouth piece) regarding shunning!.

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  LouBelle

  Shunning not true - bollocks - I'm shunned as are many people on here.
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  Do you know the address of any kingdom halls in Edinburgh?

  by usualusername in

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  LouBelle

  I went to a kingdom hall in scotland - have no clue which congregation it was - just between Edinburgh and Glasgow. We all had a pint afterwards!
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  Lying for the theocratic warfare

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  because of growing up in the jw religion we heared and read many experiences and encouragement for lying when nesscesary / needed for the theocratic warfare.

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  personaly i think this is totaly wrong and has had some effects on me: i feel that i can lie easily at work and sometimes in our family affairs.. a kind of creatively using truth and untruth.. i don't do it often but i recognize this fact.. so, this jw religion standards are measurability wrong.. gorby.

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  LouBelle

  I met with 2 friends of mine that had started studying with the JW's - they didn't realise I used to be one. We had such a good chat and I said that one of the things JW's use is what they term - theocratic warfare - they were dumbfounded and I know that along with a few other things really got them thinking. It is my hope that they will soon stop the study.