i would have to say that ray franz was the biggest influence for me.. when i first got on this board, a poster by the name of james, a former bethelite and organization heavy, helped me understand a lot of the inner workings in the upper echelons of the society.. .
and of course, farkel's common sense approach was (usually) helpful..
Oh, and 'favorite' apostate...? That would be multiple people. Simon, Dave Malone (Seven006), Blondie, RandyWaters, Farkel. Ray Franz, too.
There's obviously others, but those were the most influential when I first found this site and started sorting things out for myself.
-Aude.
i would have to say that ray franz was the biggest influence for me.. when i first got on this board, a poster by the name of james, a former bethelite and organization heavy, helped me understand a lot of the inner workings in the upper echelons of the society.. .
and of course, farkel's common sense approach was (usually) helpful..
For me, it was the WTS itself. I was sitting in a meeting and all of a sudden it was so clear that they had indeed strayed from the 'truth'. I could not in good conscience sit there and say nothing - so I up and left. Well... I walked out of the Hall. A walk-away believer. Waited 13 years for them to change their ways and make their way back to Jehovah.
I found JWN and stopped waiting for them. It was *never* going to happen. They would never be 'the truth' ever again. They never were 'the truth'.
-Aude.
i was looking for july 15th watchtower article today to use the words type and antitype but they didn't.
i wonder when they stopped using those phrases as it seems to be a few years.
who was the person who liked to use that word like the person who loved to use antediluvian?
Types and Anti-types. Typical and Anti-Typical. Wow! That's a blast from a very twisted past.
My guess is Fred Franz. But it's just a guess.
-Aude.
so far i have found only about 10 judicial recordings/transcripts online total.
there has to be more out there i would think... here's the people i've found so far:.
matthew barrie .
Here is from SickOfLies:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/111238/1/JC-ON-TAPE
Unfortunately, the links in the opening post are no longer valid. Not sure if they were saved somewhere else...???
-Aude.
the rss feed should (may?
) be working again and hopefully performance should be a little faster now as well.. as always, please let me know if you have any issues or notice anything not working quite right..
I was trying to post a new topic to the Apostafest/Meet-Up section. Did not see it register so posted again. I see my thread in the 'ActiveTopics' section and on the front 'Home' screen, but not when I click to look at just the 'Apostafest/Meet-Up topics. The topics display only shows those which were created 12 and 13 years ago.
-Aude.
it's called quitting jehovah's witnesses & other cults: how to do it & why you should, and i hope you'll check it out.
i wrote it because other books seemed to focus on personal experiences (boring, irrelevant) or doctrinal discussion of why i should convert to some other religion (boring, irrelevant and insulting).
anyway, it's an ebook, it's free, and it's out today..
Marking for future reference.
Thanks!
-Aude.
i really thought that i would never go to another memorial service at a kingdom hall ever again.
i found out today that a man that i truly respected as a man passed away recently.
his daughter call me to let me know.. even though i haven't spoke to them in years, i still consider them family.
Sorry for the loss of your old friend.
But it is so nice that you were contacted and included in the event. I cannot count the number of times I've been told of someone's passing months AFTER they were gone. That is just compounded loss.
-Aude.
about 4 months ago i pm'd poster "emma" because i noticed she was from the same state i grew up in.
i told her about myself and where i grew up, i was not a jw growing up but she was.
as we communicated we eventually realized that we were from the same neck of the woods and then even from the same high school and graduating class.
Several years ago poster 'outnfree' mentioned my family's name in one of her posts. My parents conducted a study with her sister back in the 70's. She and my mom (devout JW) were living in the same cong territory in a completely different state (35 years later.) I have not seen outnfree here on JWN for several years. I hope she is doing well.
Another JWN poster wrote something here that was a dead-giveaway to his former congregation. The same as mine in the 80's. We pm'd and are facebook friends, but, as yet, have not met up in person. I used to attend book study at his house and was friends with his now-ex-wife.
Yet another JWN poster found JWN because of a careless post I made in which I cited his real name in a public (not private) section. His name is not very common but he has become well-regarded in his field to the point where he was telling people to just google his name to find information about his business projects. Apparently some of his customers asked him if he was a JW. He said 'yes, how did you know that'? So he googled himself, clicked the link to my post on this site and eventually joined the site. We have caught up on each other's lives thru pm, email and some phone conversations. Have not caught up in person, but plan to. [And a mod graciously removed my careless, errant post. It eventually faded from the google hit list. And I have apologized to my friend for my careless error. I am usually so very cautious about other's anonimity, this was fluke. But an innocuous one with, I believe, I very good outcome.]
There are some others who have pm'd me that they know people from my old congs. And MANY others who I first met on JWN and *then* met in reallife.
I think it's fun. I hope to meet up with many more of my former JW friends. Soon.
-Aude.
have you ever seen something that so perfectly describes the situation facing all jw's??.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tzar4wrp40.
probe = new light (+ memory wipe).
Marking to watch later.
Thanks!
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/why-a-former-model-is-covering-up-for-love-182140949.html.
this poor woman was a victoria secret model.
she gave it up to become a muslim.
Women are treated with respect and they also respect themselves and their bodies. They don’t do one-night stands or casual flings.
A person does not need Islam - or any other religion - to behave this way. It's a personal decision for many people, both men and women.
-Aude.
