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  Anyone here, have you had enough religion for the rest of your life?

  by restrangled in

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  thats how i feel,..... no disrespect for those who find another way or place to worship.

  i for one cannot stand any religion on any level.

  how do you feel?.

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  rowan

  Vomit, I totally agree with you. and your first response to this thread is brilliant.
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  Anyone here, have you had enough religion for the rest of your life?

  by restrangled in

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  2. friends

  thats how i feel,..... no disrespect for those who find another way or place to worship.

  i for one cannot stand any religion on any level.

  how do you feel?.

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  rowan

  yes, absolutely. today when we were driving to work, we switched to one radio station and a preacher was saying " there is no greater responsibility than that"(in reference to god worshipping) arrrrrrgggggghhhhh. It made my blood boil. we immediately changed the station but I vented all the way to work. greater responsibility than worshipping a god I cannot see, in comparison to raising and loving my (future) children who are going to be there depending on me for that??? what a load of BS.
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  WIFES FAMILY KEPT MOTHERS DEATH A SECRET (GUISBOROUGH ENGLAND)

  by nightwarrior in

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  well its been quite a while since i posted here, maybee 18 months ago.. hallo, to all our old friends and newbies.,.

  yes i was dissasociated some 6 years ago from the org because i no longer believed in the false organization claiming to represent the creator.

  i replied to an elder i wouldnot piss on any jehovahs wittness if the lot of you were on fire.

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  rowan

  I'm so sorry for what you had to go through. I wish that time will help healing the wounds.

  Rowan
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  I missed all of my sister's 20's

  by Crumpet in

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  i think my sister is 29 today.

  that means due to this vile cult i missed all of her 20's.

  so desperately sad that a religion can break family ties this way.

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  rowan

  (((((Crumpet)))) It's sad you've missed out on that. She also missed being part of your life. and what I think is even sadder: her spending her twenties inside the borg, like she's missing out on her own life. well, just a thought. Hang in there, what can I tell you.
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  Your Feelings On Getting Reinstated For Family Considerations

  by minimus in

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  i just read the mary/gumby where are they thread.

  i want to say right from the start that i like gumball very much.

  i've talked by phone to him in the past and we've had some discussions here over the years.

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  rowan

  I did it. HUGE emotional blackmail from my family. so tried doing it for six months, at first. The CO came to town and his speeches were so vomitive I swore I would never step into the kingdumb hall again. BTW, my family is thousands of miles away, and I was not allowed to go back home if I was not reinstated. A year later the pressure became unbearable. I was terribly homesick, and after receiving a letter from my father begging me to get back to the meetings and get reinstated "so at least he can die in piece" (sic), I started going again.

  The first weeks were extremely hard as I payed attention to what was said, and it enraged me. I can understand Gumby not coming to the forum, in my case, coming here made me feel a renewed rage against the WT, so I opted to numb down. That's how I could pull it. If I managed to be an automaton three times a week and numb my mind... I even wore ear pugs. they worked at the book study only, though.

  Going back was espiritual rape, and nobody should have to go through that, for nobody's sake. I did it, and I knew all the time that my family had no right to ask that from me. My parents are elderly, I love them, I wanted to see them again. I chose to do it because I love them and understand where they come from, after all, I was rised in that mindset. But I will never forget that their precius organization came before their child, and they never took a stand to back me up.

  So, good luck to the ones that are trying. The revenge I took is that everybody and more that know me, know my story, and they'd never fall to the WT lie.
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  As lurkers, what kept you from posting? Fear? Was there a basis for it?

  by What-A-Coincidence in

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  for me it was the fear of getting 'caught'?

  if that's the case, just don't give out names, places or dates.. i have been on jwd for over 2 years.

  the only way 'they' can catch me is if i give out details on the forum.. so lurkers...come out and get empowered!.

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  rowan

  It took guts to start posting after years of being a lurker. I am a shy person, and I usually feel I do not have anything interesting to say, or what I have thought would be a good reply to a post has already been said on the thread. so I keep on staying in the background. Sometimes I am compelled to response to a post, and do so, but that's rare.

  I love this forum and have been spending here 1 hour average every day, for almost five years now. It has been a window to the world and I learned a lot about everything, general culture, etc. And of course, it had a major impact on my shedding off the JW mentality and healing.
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  Circuit Overseer Complains Of Recieving HATE MAIL!

  by minimus in

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  the co visited my mom this week with 2 elders and told her that she must continue forgiving persons that might hurt her.

  he then went on to explain that he gets "hate mail" from various witnesses when he leaves their congregations.

  he chalks it up to their being discouraged but admitted it does bother him......have you ever heard of such a thing?

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  rowan

  is the "hate mail" he is getting from an anonymus (or however you write that) person? if so, may be he thinks he's getting it from somebody close to her and is fishing for clues.who knows from this people. they live in a small world.
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  Circuit Overseer Complains Of Recieving HATE MAIL!

  by minimus in

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  the co visited my mom this week with 2 elders and told her that she must continue forgiving persons that might hurt her.

  he then went on to explain that he gets "hate mail" from various witnesses when he leaves their congregations.

  he chalks it up to their being discouraged but admitted it does bother him......have you ever heard of such a thing?

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  rowan

  The "hate mail" I was planning to send to the elders that df'd me and refused to reinstate me twice ( a DO had to intervene so I could be reinstated, I played my part for family's sake) was a postcard picture of me and my husband, in front of our gorgeus new house, with a huge "thank you" note on the back.
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  Did you ever get in trouble for....

  by Fleshybirdfodder in

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  reading the bible during the watchtower study when you should have been "paying attention"?

  as a kid i constantly got repremanded for that.

  guess even then i'd rather find out for myself.

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  rowan

  abr,

  Now I cannot get rid of that stupid song in my head! LOL
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  Southern Minnesota Meetup.com group

  by Abandoned in

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  hey, i've been looking into setting up an ex-jw meetup group on meetup.com.

  according to their site, there is already 29 people within one hundred miles of rochester who have signed up to the site saying they would be interested in a meetup.

  the problem is it cotst either: $19.00 for one month, $45.00 for three months, or $72.00 for six months.

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  rowan

  how does the PM thingy work here? help! I am very bad w/ computers!