you are so right Honesty, i gave up a good job to clean windows etc when i was pioneering, and always struggled to make ends meet. i did take the odd handout as well. now i'm out i have a great job in line with my qualifications and when i look back on my pio years i feel angry with myself that i could have ever been so stupid
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WTS exploiting the system!
by gringojj inmy wife suffers from severe anxiety disorders, panic attacks an such.
as i have been reading posts here i definetly see a correlation between dubdom and anxiety disorders.
because of the life that the wts encourages jws to lead, it leaves other peoples tax money and high insurance costs etc.
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you will agree
by carla in"you will agree that...." why do jw's start so many sentences that way?!
annoying!
is it in some manual or something?
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I used to try to vary things a little, saying you may agree or perhaps you'll agree, but the 'A' word always got in there somewhere. obvoiusly, the wt find it a most agreeable word lol
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I'm an ex-dub as of tonight.
by Pole ini just want to let you know my updated status.
today i had another elder visit.
last time i had a call about a month ago.
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congratulations Pole, welcome to freedom. i did the same thing last week, and my da was read out last night.being out of the borg is the best feeling i've had in years
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i became a dub at 41, and i was very proud to be a jw for the first few years, until i got the wrong side of the elders. now i'm just ashamed that i ever allowed myself to be duped into joining such a corrupt organisation
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My turn then.. H-H-Hello?
by Wax:on inwell seems like i should introduce myself istead of reading everybody elses posts!
i've just started trawling through all the backlog of varied posts and think there are some very interesting characters and views.
(those aposta fests are unbelievable man!
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welcome wax:on, hope you enjot the board
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What would you do?
by schne_belly inhello my dear fellow jwd members, i need your in put....please.
since my husband i my recent fading process, we've received a few "love bombing" letters from some in our old congregation.. i've received 2 from an old "friend" whom i grew up with and went to school with.
we've drifted apart years ago, to the point where she wouldn't even look at me at the hall---she's a pionner, husband a ministerial servant.
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when i was first fading i had plenty of visits and phone calls to try and pull me back. they know that's the best time to appeal to your guilt at leaving dubdom, before you have time to realise how much better life on the outside really is. they used to tell me how much i'd let them down by leaving, and did i realise what i was missing out on? when that didn't work came the threats of shunning, then the actual shunning itself, apart from an occasional appeal from the po to see if i was ready to return yet,( now i'm d/a that will stop). you have all that to come, but keep strong, my friend, stay on the road to freedom, don't let the boys from brooklyn and their acolytes enslave you again .
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JWS leading a double life
by greendawn indo you know (or have you ever known) of apparently loyal or even fanatical jws that lead a double life?
they may appear godly and obedient but in secret they bend the rules eg by fornication, cheating etc
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at all the dc's i attended, there were always some who went straight to the local pubs afterwards and caused mayhem, so much so that around dc time a lot of pubs had "no jehovahs witnesses" signs in their windows. pioneers and elders, some of whom had parts on the dc programme, were amongst the worst offenders
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Why 1914 is utterly true (and so is 607 B.C.E.)
by Terry in1914 is a very significant date for true believers.
faithful and eager students of the scriptures figured out (and "proved") jesus would return to kill the wicked and reward the meek in 1874. the signs were obvious.
but, it didn't happen.
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Terry, thankyou so much, i love that post, i will save that and look at it whenever i am depressed, which isn't often now i'm out of the wt, i haven't laughed so much in years
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long years of brainwashing finally come to an end.....
by girl_interrupted inhi everyone, i'm new here......basically, i found this website a couple of weeks ago when i was in dire need of some like-minded souls who had felt screwed up about the jw's.
from about the age of four/five, my parents and i were involved in the organisation, and all three of us are stil messed up because of it.....we are no longer involved in it, but it took quite a few years before my parents found the strength to leave.
to begin with, i was quite a zealous jw, was baptised at twelve and disfellowshipped at fourteen, because as i got older i began to grow ''weak in the truth'' as people so kindly described me!
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welcome to freedom Girl, look forward to hearing more from you, and i agree with you Sweet Tee, i regard anything i did as a dub was a waste of my talent, time and money. i wont make the same mistake again
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opps, wrong button lol here it is
by dedpoet inlast week was the 13th anniversary of my baptism into the borg, and i celebrated it by writing a letter of disassociation to the uk hq.
this has been acknowledged, and i am out of the wt!
the dubs who came round to confirm it commented on the date, so i told them it was quite deliberate, kind of rounds things off nicely, don't you think?
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i am sure you are right Crumpet, they wouldn't dare read it out anyway, it might inspire one or two more to follow my lead, there are still a few in that cong capable of independent thought. I suppose i could make a few more copies though, and distribute it myself....just a thought