I decided to take the wrapper off instead of TOA (trash on arrival). The cover? A hokey, "end of disabilities" scene with fake happy expressions (the father is especially hilarious.) The study articles? All about meeting J's requirements, magnifying J, surviving J's day. *sigh* same nonsense, different month. Freedom sure is grand.
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5/1 Watchtower
by DanTheMan ini decided to take the wrapper off instead of toa (trash on arrival).
the cover?
a hokey, "end of disabilities" scene with fake happy expressions (the father is especially hilarious.
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what started you to doubt?
by Imbue ini had this at kents and there were several thoughtful and interesting replies.
however, i would like to read some more.
actally abaddon asked me this question and started me to thinking.......... so i wrote back this: .
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DanTheMan
How could I list them all? The weird and uninspiring Memorial. The endless "are you doing all that you can/are you using every opportunity/are you living up to your dedication" at meetings and especially at the boring, stupid conventions. The misery of the friends. The endless going-on about fornication, adultery, homosexuality (can we talk about something else, brother sexualmorals?) The screwed-up kids who grow up as dubs. I think a story on a TV news program about a little boy who was cured of sickle-cell disease by a transfusion of umbilical cord blood was the clincher. I thought "how could that be wrong in God's eyes?" I could go on and on.
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Guardian article on WT-UN debacle
by DanTheMan inhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,565005,00.html.
this article has probably been posted previously, but just to get it towards the front.... "living in an age old dream...places that i've never seen...fantasies from times before...split my brain melt through the floor...".
-iron maiden, purgatory
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,565005,00.html
This article has probably been posted previously, but just to get it towards the front...
"Living in an age old dream...Places that I've never seen...fantasies from times before...split my brain melt through the floor..."
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Will JW Pedophiles get a pass from Dateline?
by Tanalyst inhttp://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/3/22/194704 .
"some pedophiles get pass from - media" by carl limbacher discusses how some pedophiles are off limits to mass media.. which brings up the dateline program on jw pedophiles, which maybe is at the bottom of atlantic ocean as you read this.
last i heard it was ready to go, so what happened?.
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DanTheMan
With the Catholic scandal so prominent in the news, I think that Dateline probably feels that now is not the right time. And that means that the story may never run. Which is a shame, but whaddya gonna do. Meanwhile I'm sure all the dubs are looking down their self-righteous noses at the Catholic Church and how certainly this could trigger the Beast to turn on Babylon the Great, blah, blah, blah...
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Most JW are innocent
by lv4fer inyou have to remember that the majority of jw are really sincere, god-fearing people who are trying to the best of their abilities to live a christian life.
they are just mislead.
it is very hard to get them to see that they are misguided so it is imperative that we do this in a subtle manner.
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DanTheMan
One of the things that kept me hanging around was my hope that their could be change. That maybe they would see how ridiculous and unloving the shunning policy is. That maybe they would realize that the command to preach and teach does not fall on all Christians. The lack of any real charity work, besides the occasional disaster relief. The micro-management of the lives of the members. However, I just can't see how it could happen. The changes would have to take place over such a long period of time, and would be so offensive to the old-timers, that I have a hard time seeing it happening without the religion dying off or becoming a sleepy, insignificant sect.
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Should I stay or should I go now?
by meat pie ini know that really only i can decide,(unless i get df'd) but to-day i'm in a real quandry.
should i be honest and tell them i'm never going back, because i really have no intention of ever going back.or would that just give the orgaanization some kind of validity.
or , if this is really some kind of 'evil organization' should'nt i officially leave as a matter of urgency.matthew 24:15. i'm really just thinking out loud.
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In my case, I thought it was important for me to make a statement. After doing enough research to convince myself that the BORG is full of shit, I didn't want to just fade away, to have my former associates think that I was just "struggling" or "inactive". By disassociating, I let them all know (and a lot of them liked and respected me) my real feelings. I hope that it may give some of them the courage to do the same, as it doesn't take a genius to figure out that most dubs are just coasting, doing the same things week in and week out, because they can't imagine another way, the BORG has so thoroughly taken over their lives.
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First Time Poster
by DanTheMan inhello to all who have been escaped from the wt bondage.
i just da'd last week, the most difficult decision i've ever made, but i'm 99.999% sure i made the right decision.
this website has been a godsend thus far.
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Thank you all so much for the supportive comments. I was one of those "never really a witness" witnesses (I'm sure that's how they're deriding me now). I dove head first into the borganization during a very impressionable and needy period in my life, but I never went at it that vigorously. Fortunately, none of my family were ever JW's, or even the slightest bit interested in the JW's, so I don't have the shunning thing to deal with. I'll post a more detailed story under the "Personal Experiences" section sometime soon.
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Brain-dead
by DanTheMan inbeing in the [b]borg[b] for the past 10 years, i feel that i have lost a lot of my brain/critical thinking powers.
does anyone have a book recommendation to help me whip my grey matter back into shape?
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Being in the [b]BORG[b] for the past 10 years, I feel that I have lost a lot of my brain/critical thinking powers. Does anyone have a book recommendation to help me whip my grey matter back into shape?
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The Watchtower's "N" word.
by Lee Elder inthere is no word in watchtower speak (theocratise) that carries more emotional charge than apostate.
to be labeled an apostate is the lowest low worst than pond scum.
in jw thinking, there is more hope for a pedophile or a murderer than for an apostate.
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So true, so true...It is shameless how vitriolic the WT is towards those who go against their dogma - it took me years to see how arrogant and Pharasaical the WTBTS is...
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First Time Poster
by DanTheMan inhello to all who have been escaped from the wt bondage.
i just da'd last week, the most difficult decision i've ever made, but i'm 99.999% sure i made the right decision.
this website has been a godsend thus far.
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Hello to all who have been escaped from the WT bondage. I just DA'd last week, the most difficult decision I've ever made, but I'm 99.999% sure I made the right decision. This website has been a godsend thus far. I'm in the Columbus OH area, any Buckeye ex-dubs out there?