One of the best things I did for myself was to stop drinking alcohol at all.
I got started while in the Wacktower Society. Life was just ridiculous I thought.
What a stupid life we led, running and hurrying and scurrying to the Kingdum Hall all the time, FOR WHAT??!!!!????
The boredom was GROSS.
I didnt need it anymore! And so I said goodbye to the stuff forever! AND GOOD RIDDANCE TOO!!!
I see it as just another LIE anyway.
Booze has caused so much heartache in the world!
Its not worth it! Who can drink alot and not lose his dignity? It is a dangerous and
powerful medication.
A New Me
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How many x jdubs want to write a book?
by Alex Delta inif i only got a nickel every time i heard an x jdub say i should write a book, i'd be a zillioniare.
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Ive thought about writing a book about my life "Fall From The Tower"
But then EVERYONE WOULD THINK I AM A TOTAL IDIOT FOR NOT LEAVING THAT STUPID CULT!!!
I can just hear Oprah interviewing me on television....
"So tell me, why didnt you just walk away from it? Why did you stay in the cult for so many years?"
"If it were me and someone told me all the good people on the earth were gonna die because they were not witnesses, I would have slammed the door on such a horrible statement! Im sure the audience agrees, dont you audience?"
(Loud Applause)
(Me, stunned, realizing writing this book was a total mistake and I look like a total fool)
No, I thought about writing a book about my life as a JW fool, but have thought better about it.
I will leave it to the others who experienced real abuse and cruelty. I just experienced terminal boredom.
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Anyone here that DOES believe we are in the last days of this system?
by tula injust taking a roll call here.
no empire lasts forever.
no system of government will last forever.
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So many delusions. So many fantasies.
We have all been believing dreams and fairy tales. We were fed mirage hopes by the cult teachers.
What is the reality?
What is the truth?
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House prices may drop up to 25% - Businessweek
by DanTheMan infull article.
while a 25% decline is unprecedented in modern times, some economists are beginning to talk about it.
"we now see potential for another 25% to 30% downside over the next two years," says david a. rosenberg, north american economist for merrill lynch (mer), who until recently had expected a much smaller slide.
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I am so happy about the drop in house prices!!!!!!!!!!
I have been going to college and will have my certificate this December
and begin my new career in the medical field.
My Credit Union will give us a loan for a modest home they said!!!!!
All I ever wanted was a home of my own and a happy family life.
My dreams may be a reality soon!
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Why Do YOU Come Here?
by minimus inis it for "friendship"?.
to learn about jws?.
to play fun games like werewolf?.
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Im so through with the JWs!!! But every now and then, like this morning, I get into a panic over how much time and life I lost wasting away inside a Kingdom Hall!
I have no one to blame but myself really. I walked into that hall each time of my own power.
But truly, something held me trapped
I am taking responsibility for my life now and playing "catch-up" with life, understanding, and practical wisdom. But I find myself very stunted from the experience of being a JW for 35 years.
What a fantasy dream world I was living in!
Today I embrace reality!
I appreciate this website where I can share my stupid JW past and find caring hearts to commiserate with me. -
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The manipulation is sickening...
by AuroraB inso, i just had another run-in with the moms.
totally unrelated to the truth, but we just disagree on so many things, and instead of being respectful and agreeing to disagree, i got the standard, "something is wrong with your thinking and you're going to have a hard time of it if you don't change.
" or, in other words, start to believe what she believes.
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You speak with much wisdom 2112
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Crackdown on "sisters" volunteering at DCs
by dozy inthe wts has sent a letter to all convention overseers expressing their increasing concern at sisters "directing brothers" at district conventions.. with immediate effect (ie for dc 2008), sisters are no longer to be used as volunteers in parking and security / watchman departments.
any sisters volunteering in other departments (eg toilet cleaning) must be subordinate & follow the direction of appointed brothers.
this move will put a huge burden on the dcs in my area - nearly half the volunteers for parking are sisters and there aren't enough volunteers as it is.
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It is unbelievable to me now that I allowed myself to come under the control of such a stupid cult.
Why do people put up with it? Why do they stay in it?
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106 year old sister auxiliary pioneers - Jan KM
by truthseeker inyep, there's no excuse for any of you lot.. if a sister of 106 can auxiliary pioneer last memorial season, so can you.. this ancedote was in the jan km - puke making - what the heck was a 106 year old doing going from door to door, and i mean this literally, not just phone witnessing.. have these people got no sense?
i mean 106 years old and making 50 hours a month - for what?.
if anyone here has the us km, please upload it here as i don't have a scanner..
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No, Ive got it!
She is the 106 year old mother/grandmother in a wheelchair who they cant leave at home.
They are caring for her at home due to the fact they cannot/will not afford quality nursing home care.
She must accompany her family in the door to door in her wheelchair because they want to pioneer.
And the real reason they take her along is, well if she gets pneumonia or something else out in service she died faithfully and the kids can inherit her house and assets, plus they made the KM news. It is a win win!
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new BS assignment, new threats.
by inkling inok, so after about 2 months of straight absence from my bookstudy, the elders shuffled me off.
apparently my current (actually quite kind, if a bit clueless) bs overseer was.
not being enough of a nazi.. my newly assigned bs has a (aforementioned in another post) dimwitted, socially obtuse, and.
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I'd like to ad this story.....
One book study I was in for years had an elder who did all the talking the whole hour!
He started out the study by reviewing for us the last study. Then he would begin the current study by having the reader read the paragraph. The elder would then ask the question but if the group took longer than 5 seconds to raise a hand, he would begin to ask a second question or answer the question himself.
He would wind up talking all by himself for the entire hour. The morale was so low, with nobody else speaking, that he sometimes went over by 10 or 15 minutes due to the boring solo performance he was giving.
It was ghastly.
We complained about his teaching skills to his superiors, but they could not fix him. He was set in his ways. Many left the bookstudy without saying why. But we all knew it was because it was sooooo boring and dull. It became unbearable to dress on Thursday night, rush dinner and quit projects just to listen to old brother Study Conductor drone on and on and on. I used to actually doze in and out of consciousness on hot summer nights during the book study, with my head snapping back or forward.
Why couldnt we just call it the shit it was and leave?
Because we were all brainwashed borg slaves!
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new BS assignment, new threats.
by inkling inok, so after about 2 months of straight absence from my bookstudy, the elders shuffled me off.
apparently my current (actually quite kind, if a bit clueless) bs overseer was.
not being enough of a nazi.. my newly assigned bs has a (aforementioned in another post) dimwitted, socially obtuse, and.
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I am out of the cult for 7 years now. Those tactics to pressure you to come to their meetings and guilt you for not going are un-American and out of line.
They really have a hold on their people mentally and emotionally.
We need to keep this website healthy as a place for them to flee to!
I really feel sorry for everyone unhappy in that cult.
I remember and understand the dilemma and torturous anguish.
There was no greater grief than to sit in a boring book study, with a lousy conductor and reader, year after year. And repeating the Revelation Book over and over is like repeating a bad dream.
Anewme