AudeSapere

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  lunch

  by Hortensia in

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  i had lunch with two ex-jws today.

  i wish i could meet more of you -- it's fun to hear everyone's stories and find out what they are doing with their lives..

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  Seriously true.

  I've never had a 'dud' meet-up with xjw's.

  -Aude.
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  Disfellowshipping - Why the Governing Body can not ease up on dissenters.

  by mindnumbed in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlbwnjglymu.

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  Threads like these really help me with non-jw family. Since I have some family still in, they don't understand why there is rift between me and my active family while the non-jws have done worse things - normal, but worse by jw standards.

  When I try to explain to them, they seem to try real hard to believe what I'm saying about the org but there is something in their eyes and voice that makes me think that they think/assume there is something terrible in my own past or that I'm just trying to cause trouble for my still-active relatives.

  So I try to avoid the discussion when I can.

  But when the conversation turns to those 'lovely' JWs in my life and my relationship with them, it's great to have a thread like this that I just send a link to. When 5, 10, 30 50 people post and all have similar experience, it helps take the personal emotion out of the equation and highlights that it is a system-wide problem inherent with the JW organization and JW mentality.

  Thank you for posting this. And special thanks to Data-Dog! - I had not read that transcript for a long time. Never knew of it when I was 'in', but played out conversation along that theme in my head when I started to awaken to my own 'Truth' about the truth.

  -Aude. (AudeSapere - meaning: Dare to Know; Dare to Have Wisdom/Understanding; Dare to Think for Yourself.)
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  Relationship Issues: Boundaries, Freedom of Choice and Codependency

  by 00DAD in

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  2. beliefs

  relationship issues: boundaries, freedom of choice and codependency .

  i just read a very interesting thought in the book, "boundaries" by cloud & townsend.

  the basic problem in human relationship is that of freedom.

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  (Marking to read later.)
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  XJW meets with 140 Jehovahs Witnesses

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  2. beliefs

  xjw.

  tracy metcalfe https://www.facebook.com/tracy.metcalfe.100?hc_location=streamof ex-jehovah's witness recovery group 3 on facebook.

  started a letter writing campaign a few yrs ago to congregations.

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  BESTSELLERS--who actually buys these things?

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  just think, rush limbaugh and bill o'reilly are knocking about on top of the bestseller list to the tune of 52,000+ copies each!.

  i say, who buys these books?.

  i've read killing lincoln, killing kennedy and killing jesus--but, i did it by sitting in the library--not by plopping down $20+ bucks each.. i only read one rush limbaugh book.. i use to be a political junkie but stopped cold turkey exactly 11 months ago.. i no longer watch any political programs or read any political books.. i'm a lot happier for it it, too.. .

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  I think we all need to learn how to self-promote. It's part of how we advance in careers and life, too.

  A thread I'd really like to see is a list of all the posters here who have written books. All in one thread. The authors can promote, promote, promote away.

  Bryan - Have You Seen My Mother?

  Living the Dream - Journey to God's House

  Rebel8 - (forget the name)

  Estee - (forget the name)

  Terry - I Wept by the Rivers of Babylon

  On the Way Out - Fade Truth Learning Unlearning (Is this the only one? Title is not familiar. I bought your ebook but it got deleted before I read it and then I lost my Kindle.)

  I know there's bunches of others. Seems like 3 or 4 a year(??)

  Maybe someone can start a new thread with a listing of our book-writing boardmates...?

  -Aude.
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  Letter I wrote to the person the caused me to be disfellowshipped

  by jwfacts in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a thread on another forum reminded me of a letter i wrote to the person that went to the elders and started the proceedings to have me disfellowshipped.

  i stopped believing in the religion when i was 25 but continued going for about ten years.

  i finally started to fade at 35, but about 6 months after i had stopped going to meetings, a person wrote a letter to the elders about my website, which at the time was anonymous.

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  We should all send thank you notes to Dwayne.

  -Aude.
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  Do you REALLY know how crazy J. Rutherford was?

  by gumby in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  below is an interview with the drunken, pipe-dreamin, selfish, psychopathic bastard back in 1930.. the interview with j.f.

  rutherford that appeared in the sun diego sun, march 15, 1930. .

  "but how will you identify king david or any of the other representatives from god?

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  Oh, most cool spinning brain

  by jgnat in

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  check it out.. http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/learning-strategies/.

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  knockout game, what the freak!

  by unstopableravens in

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  AudeSapere

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liatWFj5COk
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  knockout game, what the freak!

  by unstopableravens in

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  AudeSapere

  What's almost as scary is the nonchalance of other students when talking about it. One report I saw interviewed 4 or 5 people. Not one of them expressed concern for the victim(s). They spoke just matter-of-factly about what the object of the 'game' is. One girl even had a slight smile.

  Terrifying.

  -Aude.