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  The Great Taboo Discussion---Suicides among former Jehovah's Witnesses

  by The wanderer in

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  <!-- .style1 {font-family: arial, sans-serif} .style2 {color: #ff0000} .style3 {color: #000000} .style4 {font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; } --> the great taboo discussionsuicides among former jehovah's witnesses to write about this discussion neither appeals to me nor does it make me feel comfortable to discuss it.. however, it is necessary to consider in light of all the trauma, negative experiences, and personal traged-.

  ies that have happened to individuals on this board.

  (what inspired me to write this subject was a bone chilling account .

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  bigmouth

  "... don't forget that NOTHING YOU DO IS EVER ENOUGH."--babayaga.
  
  This is one of the realisations I kept with me as I went in and out of psych. wards.
  I have a propensity for perfectionism and the structure of the org. is such that this striving to do more sets me up to never do anything well enough.
  
  The WTB&TS has such a high results expectation of its slaves that the feelings of self worth plummet to the point where we give up or realise that we are so unworthy of life we may as well end it now.
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  Lorenz Reibling, Knocking, and the WTS

  by Jourles in

  1. watchtower
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  first off, i'm just throwing this out there to see if anyone else would like to take a stab at where this might lead.

  scandalous?

  probably not, but interesting nonetheless.. if you take a look at the knocking website, you will notice at the bottom of each page is a list of supporters.

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  bigmouth

  "when she asserted that it was proven that people who had had heart transplants afterwards exhibited changed personalities! "
  
  Alpheta, I can confirm that was not an uncommon belief among Witnesses where I lived too. I recall as a teenager and hearing this that it was very exciting because it seemed to be some secret kind of knowledge that the medical fraternity hadn't discovered yet.
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  jehovahsjudgement. UN - NGO apologist site.

  by bigmouth in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  anyone seen this site and marvelled at the ignorance and credulity of the anonymous writer.

  read the condescending letter on the last page.

  we can come back to the borg.

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  bigmouth

  Aha! thirdwitless. I just went back through his topic history and found the url reference.
  Are 'apostate' boards his special territory?
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  jehovahsjudgement. UN - NGO apologist site.

  by bigmouth in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  anyone seen this site and marvelled at the ignorance and credulity of the anonymous writer.

  read the condescending letter on the last page.

  we can come back to the borg.

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  bigmouth

  www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/
  
  Anyone seen this site and marvelled at the ignorance and credulity of the anonymous writer.
  Read the condescending letter on the last page. We can come back to the bOrg. if we say'sorry'.
  It's all in "Tower-speak" too.
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  The Great Taboo Discussion---Suicides among former Jehovah's Witnesses

  by The wanderer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  <!-- .style1 {font-family: arial, sans-serif} .style2 {color: #ff0000} .style3 {color: #000000} .style4 {font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; } --> the great taboo discussionsuicides among former jehovah's witnesses to write about this discussion neither appeals to me nor does it make me feel comfortable to discuss it.. however, it is necessary to consider in light of all the trauma, negative experiences, and personal traged-.

  ies that have happened to individuals on this board.

  (what inspired me to write this subject was a bone chilling account .

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  bigmouth

  I know of two or three. My Best Man, (an elder), had his 15 year old son suicide by CO2 about 5 years ago.
  I was there when this bright, happy boy was born. Living in another part of the country and fading I didn't get to see him grow up. Got no sense from anyone at the non-KH funeral. One jerk tried to assert it was caused by listening to too much debasing music! I was too angry and depressed to talk to his Dad.
  
  I've posted before about my suicidality which has only just improved after nearly 30 years.
  
  Kind thoughts to all
  Pete.
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  Welcome To TheKings

  by bigmouth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  nice to have you here.

  i'd noticed that you'd made four posts today and no one realised you were new.

  with such a grand increase of newbies it's easy to get missed!

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  Oops, sorry. Juni's just done it.
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  Welcome To TheKings

  by bigmouth in

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  nice to have you here.

  i'd noticed that you'd made four posts today and no one realised you were new.

  with such a grand increase of newbies it's easy to get missed!

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  Nice to have you here. I'd noticed that you'd made four posts today and no one realised you were new.
  With such a Grand Increase of newbies it's easy to get missed!
  
  We look forward to more from you.
  Pete.
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  Did u want to leave the org bcause u were doing something immoral?

  by Will2Power in

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  ..and then sought to justify your leaving the organisation/religion by researching websites like this (to salve your conscience, justify continuing in your pleasurable but unscriptural lifestyle), or did you sincerely leave purely because you discovered certain false teachings, scandals, etc, while still living a moral, christian lifestyle?

  be honest now, i mean really honest.

  (this is not meant to offend anyone but viewed like a survey).

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  Nope. I lived a clean honest life and was still generally known as a JW although I had not been to meetings for several years. Actually I developed depression and went to see the Evil Mind Doctors for help, so I guess that was 'immoral'.
  I had noticed the lack of love in the org. well before I visited sites like JWD.
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  Words and expressions a JW can't say

  by JH in

  1. jw
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  name few words or expressions a normal person can say, but not a jw.. when someone sneezes, you can't say bless ya !.

  if you want to surprise a jw, you can't say boo !!!

  http://www.prankcallsunlimited.com/pcu/booecho.mp3.

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  bigmouth

  Gee
  Jeepers
  Gosh
  Golly
  ..and of course, George Carlins 'Heavy Seven'!
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  The JW phrase I most despise is...

  by exwitless in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "need greaters" ugh!!

  i hate that phrase and i always have.

  we knew a jw couple who applied every year to bethel and giliad until the age cut-off (age 35 or 40?).

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  bigmouth

  Arrangement. The marriage 'arrangement', the book study ' arrangement', the elder 'arrangement' and so on.