Posts by freemindfade

i found this site as i was researching things about this religion i've been in (finally after nagging curiosity and questions) but i wanted to figure things out more before coming on here and posting.

i'm glad to see that im not alone or crazy!

freemindfade

Welcome to the party !

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Won't get fooled again ...Moon Landing.

by The Rebel in

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friends

so i was fooled by the witnesses.

what can i learn from that?

not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.

freemindfade

Easy there fencing, some of us are just having fun.

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Won't get fooled again ...Moon Landing.

by The Rebel in

jw
friends

so i was fooled by the witnesses.

what can i learn from that?

not to accept things at face value but to seek out opinion and different view points.. hence my question " do you believe man landed on the moon?.

freemindfade

Rebel, don't say original lol

They wiped the good footage

the... ufo footage...

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Shunning inactive JW? I never heard about it before....

by Albert Einstein in

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from many of your posts ive noticed some of you, who never were df or da are practicaly shunned by your family memebers or congregation memebers.

does that really mean they wouldnt talk to you or greet you, if they meet you on the street or if you call them?.

i live in eastern europe and i never in my life heard about such attitude.

freemindfade

shun

SHən/

verb

persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution.

Its more like ignoring, or silent treatment, avoidance, etc.

This is exactly what is happening to me. I live in a different place as most of them, however, they all left my social media (around the same time). Me texts are ignored, or I get a superficial perfunctory response from some, from others nothing. My cousin literally told me, if I wanted to call and speak to her she would talk to me, but would not do anything socially.

Mind you none of them even know I am inactive. I am not DA'd not DF'd and my family has no idea about my status in the congregation. For something I said I have indeed been marked by them as dangerous and shunned as an apostate.

Also as I was pointing out last night to my spouse that JW's live in a despicable world of shunning. Not dfing related, just in general, it's so ingrained in their doctrine that they make it a much more common practice. They don't like the way you looked at them? You are more liked? Less liked? whatever, they will ignore you.

The shunning scale just gets more severe the closer you get to disfellowshipping, otherwise witness are fickle and petty, they will ignore you for watching the wrong movie or listening to the wrong music.

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