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  Just want to gain insight on the overall attitude of most on here.

  by stillAwitness in

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  i am on here a lot.

  leafing through posts, taking the time out to read individuals' profiles, their topics.

  i like to gain insight, get perspective on what it is like to be "on the other side" i guess you can say.

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  IronClaw: Good point about the lions. So can we assume that scripture was symbolic? Ok, real stupid question but at which point does the NT start? It is at Matthew?
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  My D/f appeal meeting went amazingly, but the still want to d/f me

  by jwfacts in

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  sorry how long this is but i found the meeting very exciting.

  the short version is i said directly that i do not believe in the wts, feel being d/f is unfair on my jw family so asked them to just leave me alone.

  it didn't work.

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  WoW JW! Can't believe you stood up to them like that! I was glued to the laptop for the past 20 minutes not wanting to miss a word that you just wrote. UNBELIEVABLE! I am so happy for you. Even if you will still get D'F you did not go down without a fight and God was smiling down like: "That's my boy!"

  The details on your story are interesting to me. How they had 6 against one. How they get the CO's and strongest elders to deal with this particular case-its no coincidence that they knew you'd be a toughie.

  Gosh! I am such a sap! I have tears in my eyes. It just it is so encouraging to me that someone would go to such lengths to fight for what they believe in.

  Thank you jwfacts..YOU SIR, ARE MY HERO !
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  Blondie,Frannie,jeeprube,sandy,atypical,,avishai...Questions for a lot of u

  by stillAwitness in

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  in reference to my topic: "just wanted to gain insight on the overall attitude of most on here" i got a lot of interesting reponses and expierences that i just had to respond to.

  i had some questions for many of you so please check them out here in my reply.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/105246/3.ashx

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  In reference to my topic: "Just Wanted To Gain Insight on the overall attitude of most on here" I got a lot of interesting reponses and expierences that I just had to respond to. I had some questions for many of you so please check them out here in my reply.

  THANKS! http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/105246/3.ashx
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  Just want to gain insight on the overall attitude of most on here.

  by stillAwitness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am on here a lot.

  leafing through posts, taking the time out to read individuals' profiles, their topics.

  i like to gain insight, get perspective on what it is like to be "on the other side" i guess you can say.

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  Just wanted to reply to some of you; had some questions and thoughts in regard to your posts:

  avishai: Thanks for that link to Terry's article. very well written and I had to give a loud AMEN afterwards!

  Low-Key: You mention the WT teaching on how in the Paradise lions would be eating "straw" which now that I think of it sounds ridiculous but of course there is that scripture in Isiah about it. So what should we take from that scripture that says:

  7 And the cow and the bear themselves will feed; together their young ones will lie down. And even the lion will eat straw just like the bull. 8 And the sucking child -Isaiah 11:7

  luna 2: This place makes me laugh, exposes me to interesting, diverse people and ideas and gives me a forum to vent and work through things that bother me as I recover from dubiness. This appears to be all the therapy I need at the moment.

  Such a true statement! I think being able to be on this site has been my own personal shrink.

  freedomlover: like my profile says : "JW by birth and genetic lottery. Ex-JW by choice."

  I like that! I will have to use that one. And I think it was either AuldSoul or AlmostAtheist that siad: "A religion that has all the ansewrs doesn't allow the questions." Simply genius!

  Frannie: and this forum is our "AA" meeting place, the support group we may not have access to in our daily lives.

  Well said!

  deeskis: it's like Dr Elizabeth Kubler-Ross identified in her book"on death and dying", she identified 5 stages of grief.

  • D enial
  • A nger
  • B argaining
  • D epression
  • A cceptance

  Just wondering if you have the title of the book that you are referring too.

  Blondie: still aware that the WTS is still using the same tactics on many unknowing people

  So true! Just the other day somebody had posted an old WT article dated back somewhere around 1965 that of course deal on the subject of college. And I was shocked cause I thought I was reading a recent article! Weird. It sounded like something I had just read a few weeks ago. Shows old habits don't die hard.

  sandy: We all react in different ways. Some of us have anger and hatred and some of us are hurt and confused and find ourselves defending the very ones who failed us. Does that make sense?

  Yes, that makes perfect sense! Even I sometimes get a little cringe when I hear a comic or even just someone on the street say something bad about "jehovah's wittnesses" Very weird but now I understand where that comes from.

  Super_Becka: I'm not a JW, nor have I ever been, I'm on this board for help with my JW boyfriend (he's inactive and unbaptized, but still clings to some of his beliefs), so I really can't say how I feel about the WTS from personal experience.

  I'm just curious. Have you talked to your boyfriend about this. I mean this could be the demise of your relationship with him. Does he know how serious your feelings are? It can be quite hard. Whenever I dated someone who wasn't a witness I always tried to convert them. Oh, those were the days!

  jeeprube: One of the biggest control mechanisms used by the WTS is guilt. No matter how much you did, it was never enough and so we where left with an empty guilty feeling. The further you progress out of the organization, the less guilt you will feel. For me this has been mindblowing. I think for the first time in my life I am am begining to truly feel what the "grace" of God really is.

  Gosh, words well spoken jeep! I know that me personally, even though I am stil "in" mentally I have been out a long time ago and I see that as being at a nice progression. Guilty? Me? Ha! I knew I was doing good when I bought this cute tank top the other day that had the word "LIBRA" sprawled across it.

  LittleToe: Occasionally I can get annoyed at stupidity and occasionally angry seeing others get hurt (sometimes with intent), but that's as far as I take it

  And I always thought I was the only person who felt like this.

  anewme: I'm getting tired of this whole spiritual effort, but cannot seem to stop trying.

  WOW! Anewme. I got a little choked up after reading that. I'm always trying to feel some spiritual connection with God and I don't know how really. I don't even know what God I should be praying to sometimes. Should I say Jesus? Lord? Sometimes Jehovahs slips out and I wonder if that's ok??

  LittleToe: If attempting to attain spirituality itself is an effort, is it inately spiritual?

  Stop trying and see what blossoms
  But what if nothing ever does? What if you live your life not worrying about gaining any connection with God and then one day you just wake up and realize such emptiness.

  farvenughen: My advice--get busy living. Enroll in some college courses, take up a hobby, get out and meet people, travel, whatever--just do something. Before long you will be too engrossed in your new life to give much thought to fretting over the past.

  And this is so true! I try to stay busy but sometimes I get so engulfed about what the future outcome will be. Will I end up being D'F? Will I get caught doing something dumb? Will I lost my parents financial support? It all gets to be too much sometimes. I mean you hear the horror stories and you wonder "my god, will that same thing happen to me as it happend to people on here?"

  peacefulpete: We just had an intersting long conversation with a WI synod Luthern who was "disfellowshipped" by her church after her father reported her for having sex and failure to attend church. She was raised young earth creationist and extreme moral conservative. After 6 years in college she is just now finally letting the facts sink in and opening her eyes to the diversity of human experience. Yes the JWs are backward and narrow and cultish, but they are hardly alone. Maybe awareness of that fact kept us from lingering in selfpity or insisting that everyone around us listen to our stories. They may well have their own to tell.

  So the practice of shunning is practiced in a lot of religions? Anyone have any good books and or/ articles on this?

  atypical: would have to say that anger and bitterness are only two of the many emotions I have been dealing with. My wife, my parents, my siblings, and some of my in-laws are all very active witnesses. I have only recently stopped attending meetings and going in service. I am not df'd, so everyone thinks there's hope and is constantly trying to think of new ways to get me to a meeting or to read a new magazine that comes out (I keep telling them that I am willing to bet I read much more of the society's publications than they do).

  Hi friend! I know your story but reading it always make me get emotinal. And yet so many of others on here have that same story to tell. I don't know what that feels like to be treated like a "goat" if you will. That too keeps me awake at night.
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  Mini Apostafest tommorrow!

  by RichieRich in

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  the poster generic man and myself will be meeting up tommorrow.. he lives about an hour and a half away from me, and will be making the drive to see me.

  no worries kids, i'll have my camera in hand to record all events.

  and you all will be the first to hear how it went..

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  No fair! I wanna be part of an apostafest too!
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  Just want to gain insight on the overall attitude of most on here.

  by stillAwitness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am on here a lot.

  leafing through posts, taking the time out to read individuals' profiles, their topics.

  i like to gain insight, get perspective on what it is like to be "on the other side" i guess you can say.

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  Not bitter? resentful? ever feel like ya wanna talk to a shrink?
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  HAPPY B'DAY, COUNTRY GIRL!!!

  by Frannie Banannie in

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  well......it was either yesterday or today!.

  happy, happy b'day, cg!

  i hope you have a ton of 'em and that today's (or yesterday's) b'day was the best yet!!.

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  Anyone send this link to a JW?

  by AuntieJane in

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  just wondering if anyone has sent this website to a jw and if so, was there any positive response?

  or, did anyone receive a link when they were a jw and if so, how did you react?

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  i sent this to my big brother (never was baptized but thinks its the "truth" yadi yadi ya) and he supports me in whatever my decision is anyway. I actually sent him a direct link to some of my posted topics just so her knew exactly where I stood.

  He was espcially surprised to see:'"stilanexjwelder" name. He was like "Whoa! There ex-elders on here too? I thought it would be just so called inactive ones and what not."
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  Just want to gain insight on the overall attitude of most on here.

  by stillAwitness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am on here a lot.

  leafing through posts, taking the time out to read individuals' profiles, their topics.

  i like to gain insight, get perspective on what it is like to be "on the other side" i guess you can say.

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  stillAwitness

  I am on here a lot. Leafing through posts, taking the time out to read individuals' profiles, their topics. I like to gain insight, get perspective on what it is like to be "on the other side" I guess you can say.

  Yet, a lot of times, many people that are on here are I dunno, they sound bitter, still seem to hold a lot of resentment towards the WT. I mean, I guess its understandable. We can say being a witness was like being the children of the society I guess its safe to say.The Society was like our parents. And our parents lied to us, mistreated us, abandoned us; like a parent on crack would do her own child.

  Is that what most people can say they feel like?
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  Song 32

  by Rooster in

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  song 32.

  "from house to house".

  (acts 20:20).

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  I actualy know the lyrics by heart to that one.

  What? Ya gotta admit it is quite catchy.