Topics Started by freedomlover

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Mrs. ITIS/FreedomLover - How I "saw the light!" ha ha ha
by freedomlover in
1. jw
2. experiences
okay, first thank you to the greastest degree for the warm welcome and insight you all have given itis and me since i've started visiting your very apostate site.

my life as a jw.

it starts with my maternal grandmother.
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Introducing myself proper-like
by Sheepish in
1. jw
2. experiences
i guess i should do this in some beginning way, i am new here and still learning my way around the site.. i was raised in a divided household, and my mom taught us in secret.

when my dad found out the insuing religious wars pretty much marked me for life.

but i was imprinted with the wt.
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hello, i'm new :)
by MRSJG in
1. jw
2. friends
new to the forum, new to the truth.

trying to get a better understanding of what i'm looking for.. .

i'm a young married mother of three beatuiful babies.
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Do you find it difficult to tell your JW parents you love them?
by misspeaches in
1. jw
2. friends
does anyone find it difficult to express their emotions to their jw parents?

my father has never been a jw and i feel comfortable enough to tell him how much i love him without hesitation.

when it comes to my jw mum i feel like it is forced and then i feel resentful and then i feel guilty all at once.
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This past sunday's wt had a hilarious paragraph...
by Check_Your_Premises in
1. jw
2. friends
i think it was paragraph 18 or right around there.. the gist of ithe paragraph was, "some will lose faith because our predictions failed, some of our stuff doesn't make sense, or someone treats us like crap".. the answers were just a riot.

i couldn't help but wonder if some weren't faders.. "i remember when i started in the truth, i thought, this stuff is crazy, but i just knew it was the truth because where else could i go".

"where else can we go" (i would like to point out that this is hardly a ringing endorsement).
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Question for Freedom Lover (Mrs ITIS)
by Severus in
1. jw
2. experiences
but i have, as many others, followed your husband's story with much interest.

please accept my apology if i am too forward, but i would like to hear your viewpoint of this story.

i too have an intelligent, thinking wife that is still afraid to look beyond the organisation for hope.
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An Observation About Life
by JamesThomas in
1. jw
2. friends
being consciously present in this moment of life's expression, being open and meeting with this present moment of reality, being truly with what is actually here without judgments and mental commentary, does not seem to leave much room for beliefs in deities and their shenanigans.

in fact such imaginings only seem to steal away the vibrant aliveness of here.

so, perhaps, it is when we are not that much present with the truth of life, right here, right now, and rather lost in mental interpretations that we feel a need to become involved in the drama of gods and religion.
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Evidence for evolution, Installment 7: The Panda's Thumb
by seattleniceguy in
1. jw
2. friends
hello, fellow science lovers!

i'm back with another edition in my series.

this article is about a very curious appendage on our friend the giant panda.
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Leaving the Truth - Songs to Destroy Your Faith By
by tetrapod.sapien in
1. social
2. entertainment
as some of you may know, i am a recently self-deconverted jw.

the experience of deconversion was at times emotional.

i have compiled a list of songs i would listen to on those emotionally turbulent occasions.
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Where does the light shine brightest?
by JamesThomas in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
you just know there's going to be trouble when there's a preface of apology to the many christians i'm about to insult.

i really don't mean to (honest t' god), but i can't express myself around it and still make sense.

the only reconciliation i can offer is just know that everything i say here can, to some degree -- be applied and insulting to jews and moslems as well.