OMG Top of the Pops on a thursday night!!! Used to hate that! And Terrahawks on a sunday morning and Space 1999!!! THe rich dub kids would video it, and watch it later! Tuesday nights I used to miss Emmerdale because of the group!!! Hey BTW FE203Girl, where in Cheshire are you, I grew up in Runcorn! The backwater of Cheshire!
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To All The New People Here..........
by Legolas in.
((((welcome)))).
pull up a seat and sit on the floor and tell us about yourselves!!!!!
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skinnyboy
hey newbie here, thanks for the welcome! I will enjoy posting here, 'tis very cathartic!
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YOUNG PEOPLE ASK - HOW SHOULD I DEAL WITH MY DOUBTS 01/04/2002
by diamondblue1974 inyoung people ask - how should i deal with my doubts?
awake: april 2002. .
we live in a world of many philosophies and many world views and young christians might be tempted to have doubts about the loving guidance set out by the faithful and discreet slave.
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skinnyboy
ahahahaha solid gold! but you forgot to add an article describing one of our lovely Stepford-esque sisters, having boys aroused by looking at her although she dresses modestly, what can she do?
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New to this site
by tnthell inwow,,, finaly a site that can let a disgraesed and disfellowshipped jw finally, have there say, i had the jw's hanging over my head for years and senior members of my family drop in and out of the sect as and when it suits them, dragging any remaiming members with.
im now free and relived so are you too, .
and im probably kinder and non racial than those left in, and i dont live under a shadow of fear, or wear a flowery dress, or high neck tops and granny shoes,.
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skinnyboy
hey welcome fellow newbie! Don'tcha love this site or what? I discovered it recently too, and feels great to be in like company at last after so long, keeping it in!
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EX JWs - What planted the seed in your mind?
by jstalin ini'm interested in finding out what planted the seed in your mind that got you started on questioning the watchtower.
what issue, event, or idea started you on the path to rejecting the watchtower?
and while we're at it, what event was the straw that broke the camel's back, that pushed you over the edge to finally quitting the organization?
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skinnyboy
the first day of school when i was treated like a leper and told that this was my burden???? WTF? i just want to have a birthday present and party like al the other normal kids. So about 5 for me too, oh and as soon as i could stand up for myself and intelligently debate an elder into dumbness and stammering, great to have a photographic memory you see, any monkey can dole out scriptures to fit the situation can't they!!! Worked that one out pretty sharpish too, bout 12 years old then.... shall i go on?
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SHOULD I PIONEER OR COLLEGE?
by stillAwitness indo you think the wt has become more lenient or stricter over the year?.
i am 21 and i remember just 4 years ago going to college was looked at as something negative.
girls my age, we had plans to be ft pioneers and become secretaries.
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skinnyboy
definately college. For if you have an education, with that comes reason, and objectivity, traits frowned upon by the one-sided view of the Society.
Learn to live for yourself, and support yourself, you will release the real self within you if you do, trust me, i've been there, its lonely to start at the begining of this journey, but take heart, many of us have been there and survived, and are happier for it, plus richer materially :)
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After my un-DF'ing, I have sent a letter to everyone in my hall.
by kwintestal inin the final installment of my story, i am done with my local congregation now.
in the past month, i have been df'd, un-df'd attended a meeting where i shook everyones hand and smiled ... and now i have sent everyone in the hall this letter, roughly 60 addresses:.
open letter to the north congregation of jehovahs witnesses.
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skinnyboy
way to go, how empowering. It seems its more prevalent then before, or more talked about. Speaking to my mother back in the UK recently, a brother whom i always suspected had been convicted of peadophile activites with his own daughter, yet had gotten away with it for so long due to negligence by the body of elders in that congregation.
I hope your find the strength to break free, like we all did, from the chains of the Society.
peace!
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Are there any old songs that you "love", but too ashamed to admit
by JH inwe are amongst friends here, so you can tell us
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skinnyboy
as a child of the 80's i love it all! Loads of old Liverpool music (where I am from), The Christians, China Crisis (funny story about them involving my sister, but will save that for a later date) Flock of Seagulls, Toto, the list is endless!
when i read the post topic i thought you meant whats your favourite Kingdom Melody!!! shudders.....
Currently into John Legend, the missus loves him, the smooth swarthy..... and love the Gorillaz! go the Brits!!!
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Hi im a new member!
by skinnyboy inafter several attempts to log on, im finally in!
woohoo!.
well my story goes as follows, grew up a dub, in northern england, mum, dad, and the rest of us brood, dad becomes an elder sisters pioneers, and me and me brother were regular "publishers".
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wow thanks for all the warm welcomes folks!! I originaly put the post in paragraphs but it seems to be playing up something chronic this site (BORG infiltration perhaps) I have had a great time reading everyones stories and experiences, some made me cry some made me laugh, we are all the survivors, its a great feeling! And to be involved in this now, makes me proud to post here. My only wish for a long time was to be accepted for who I am, a talented, fun, happy go lucky lad, who just wanted to be loved for me, not for how many magazines i could fob off to poor fools! When i look back i'm astonished i took so long to rebel, guess i was being a good christian ;) So just a few facts about me, i used to work in IT, worked all over the world, Ireland, Greece, Thailand, UK, and now live here in Australia, totally different carrer, now i work in a smash repair shop and love it!! Perish the thought of me chosing that as a proffesion when i was a young dub-ette!!! So how many members strong is this site now? The Apostates hurrah, i always talked to the "apostates" when we were at the assembly, i used to pish the elders off royally for doing that, my answer back, was always the same, "but Brother, arent therre 2 sides to a story?" happy days!! The only thing i ever miss from being a dub...... the bacan sandwiches at teh District Assembly, and nicking off with the tokens to get the unsold choclate at the end of the Sunday programme!!! Love you all, my new sisters and brothers!
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Hi im a new member!
by skinnyboy inafter several attempts to log on, im finally in!
woohoo!.
well my story goes as follows, grew up a dub, in northern england, mum, dad, and the rest of us brood, dad becomes an elder sisters pioneers, and me and me brother were regular "publishers".
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after several attempts to log on, im finally in! woohoo!
Well my story goes as follows, grew up a dub, in northern england, mum, dad, and the rest of us brood, dad becomes an elder sisters pioneers, and me and me brother were regular "publishers". Congregation was a mix of old and new folks, but there were certain familys who did everything they wanted and got away with it, if anyone tried to counter this the elders would back them up to the hilt, funny that the families in question had a bit of money eh!
Well had the usual Dub schoollife, shunned by my peers laughed at and generally a crappy school life. Did we find solidarity amongst our christian brothers, noooooo we were shunned by them who made it evenharder for us by pointing us out at every possible opportunity!!!
Well life goes on, until im about 14 or 15 and realise that hey this is pretty abnormal, so i started asking questions and that was like opening up pandoras box, i started questioning everything i was taught, pulling every experience i had with my fellow "brothers" into question, which was spuriously hushed up or selectively answered out of existence. So this kinda made me realise that hey Im not for this cult which i realised it was by then, yet for family unity i paid my lip service! Amongst all this I travelled and broadened my horizons, met non dubs and realised that the dubs were wrong period, about everything! what a showstopper that turned out to be. The final straw for me personally was i was called into a backroom meeting with a kangaroo apointed court of elders about some event that took place 5 years earlier (im 21 or so at this time) I had grown up with a lot of sisters who were cool, one in particualr we had a bit of an affair, i really liked her, but with my foresight knew it wouldn't go anywhere. So a few years pass, and i'm in and out of a non-relationship i called it, with another sister and she broke my heart, thanks to the intervention and meddling of her mother and the elders, the usual BS excuses about bad influences etc...
Well back to the court room! Im up for a DF'ing because this sister took offence at me having the gall of moving on with my life and not having a relationship with her and blabbed a string of lies about what we got upto etc etc, so as the elders saw fit, a perfect opportunity to make an example of me once and for all!
Oh were they in for a shock! I point blank refused to answer any questions they had, and offered them one thing, I'll take the rap for whatever you like as long as the following get DF'ed too, and told every single elder in that room the facts i had about each one of them!
All sons and daughtersof theirs, we all got drunk, we all had smoked, the usual teenage stuff!!! They knew at teh time yet nothing was said, yet it seemed whatever was good for them wasn;t so for the "outsiders" that is the rest of us poor souls who werent privledged to have a CO or PO for a dad!
They concluded that i was being unchristian by laying these heinous charges at their offspring! "like the one you accused me of?" i said!
Speechless, i left them with the best line i could think of, "you can all go get fu@ked" and that was my last ever dealings with them! Huzzah!
Now the rest of my story...
My dad was an Elder, he had an affair after my sister got married, got DF'ed, mum and dad got divorced, my sisters took it bad, my brother drifted away and got into a relationship and had 3 kids, my younger sister tried to kill herself a few times, becuase of the leper treatment she got from the rest of the cong, my older sister still goes, and although i love her to bits, she still hopes i die before armageddon so i can be saved!!!
I subsequently moved to Australia, met and married an awesome greek girl and have never been happier! I see the poor souls on the ministry plying the same old tired copies of the Watchtower and the Asleep! I laugh to myself and think "You poor fools"
Although ive been out for years i still get the odd mental stop sign, like the blood issue, although i know thats stupid, and i would take whatever is needed if in a situation that needed it, because i have a family who loves me and wants me around as much as i possible can be!
I still laugh whenever i hear Hendrix on the radio singing "all along the watchtower" becasue when i was a kid, we had to clean the kingdom hall on a saturday, as part of our Hitler Youth style of indoctrination, and i knew how to operate the microphones and sound gear so there's me and me mate up on the platform belting out at top volume with Hendrix on the PA system... priceless!
Ok enough blah now, love this site, if only the internet was around 20 years ago, i could of saved myself the heartache of going it alone!!
tara for now!