I would recommend fading over df.ing or da.ing. Much less painful if you have family in. If I had it to do over again that would be my choice. But all cases are different.
ferret
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why cant you just leave???
by kid-A inwhat always strikes here on jwd is the number of posters who completely and entirely doubt the jw theology, reject the majority of the teachings and "rules", express their boredom and frustration at having to attend meetings and conventions and yet, still, continue to keep up the facade of attending the meetings, going out in service, essentially choosing to 'live a lie'...... now, i understand fully the complications around leaving such an organization especially concerning family, but, for gods sake people, it would take the most extreme, extraordinary circumstances to keep somebody inside a duplicitous, controlling cult when at any time, you do have the freedom to just walk away.......we are all free moral agents capable of escaping the wts so i humbly ask, .
1) how and why do you keep up the facade?
do your circumstances really justify lying to yourself and family?.
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I'm going to Ste. Catharines, Ontario in February
by acsot ini'll be visiting my brother (non-jw).
i don't know what my schedule will be just yet; probably will go to buffalo for a day.
i'll be there during the week february 7-10 (we'll be taking the train together back to quebec on friday).. would be cool if schedules permitted me to meet up with some fellow 'postates!.
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ferret
I am 15 minutes from St. Catherines. I have talked to someone here who lives in St. Catherines.As someone mentioned you are about one hour from St. Jacobs, but not too much there this time of the year. PM me if you want any mor info.
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Judgement
by sass_my_frass ini'd like to know if there's any bible quote supporting the jw practice of judging people now.
i've read a lot of 'judge not lest ye be judged' stuff, and i thought that the one doing the judgment was god, on judgment day, and in the meantime we're just doing our best.
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ferret
Being in for 40 years I think every J.W. is a self appointed judge. They expect everyone to be a robot for the WT. They do not think that everyone has a personality of their own. My family members still in judge me everyday by being robot shunners.
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Robo-JW meets Robo-Householder
by mustang inat one time, the jw's took the phonographs from door-door; they also would use a printed message/sermon and hand this to the "householder" to read.
and then we had to learn those awful sermons and sit through the tedium @ the tms.. but times change and so do methods and the reactions to those methods.. fast forward to 2015. we find that bro.
fred steadfast, great-grandson of the founder of the wts, is out in fs.
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ferret
Mustang : me think you watch too much TV.or struck by lightning
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Did a lot of your health problems clear up after you left the JW?
by Check_Your_Premises ini notice that so many at the hall have these vague, chronic diseases or afflictions that make it hard for them to go to all the meetings or out in regular service.
some get all sorts of sinus problems.
others have chronic fatigue.. did these clear up after you left, indicating that in many instances these were psychosomatic?.
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ferret
My constant depression disappeared and has not returned for twenty five years.
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FRIDAY the 13th What your take?
by xjwms in.
do you think something bad may happen to you?.
o r. is just another day?
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ferret
Just another day. But as Finally Free pointed out here in Ontario we have about 100 thousand
motorcyclist come from all over North America to a little town on Lake Erie. This happens on
every friday the 13th. My daughter and son in law are big bikers and we have gone with them.
I dont believe there will be as many this Jan. as it is quite cold here. I am about an hour and a half
from there. There are bikes of every kind and description, and lots of fun.
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JWS GONE WILD!!!
by minimus inhave you ever seen "girls gone wild"?
imagine seeing "jehovah's witnesses gone wild!!!
"----can you picture witnesses taking a bite out of that blood sausage just because they're dared to??
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ferret
Jumping off the UN building in New York to free themselves of their religion.
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Ok I Have A Question For All Of You!
by Legolas in.
when you were a dud (i call it 'dud' not dub..lol), ok how can i put this.....were you 'always on'?
meaning did you always have something to give to people or witness to them at 'every' opportunity or did you look at it as a 'job' where you only gave things out in service?
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ferret
Only when in service and then as little as possible. Was'nt real sure I believed it myself and was in it for forty years, but I knew nothing else.Ferret
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I'M GETTING REALLY FORGETFUL
by Mary ini swear to god, i'm getting alzheimers even though i'm still pretty young (late 30s).
my mind wanders alot (it always has) and i forget things.......hell the other day i put the jam in the bottom of the stove because my mind was wandering.......
anyone else think they've got alzheimers?
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ferret
I am always amazed at all the smart people on this sight. As fast as a question is asked someone
has the answer to it. I love this sight.
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Woohoo, just been DF'ed !!!
by Genesis inyesterday i was annonced as the kingdom hall : genesis is no more a jehovah witness !
im so glad i made it, but in the same time i have remorses, but thats a phenomenon called homeostasis, the mind try to take things to normal...
so i have so much things to plan,do think !
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ferret
Congratulations at least you did not waste forty years of your life like I did.