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  listened to my baptism speech recording the first time after 11 years

  by Marcel in

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  2. experiences

  while posting yesterday i remembered the recording of my baptism talk i own.

  i want to share the story with you: .

  i was baptized on a circuit assembly in 1996. my sister gave me the recording on a tape the very next day as a gift (cute, uh?).

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  penny2

  It's sad that people are made to feel guilty for something that is normal.

  Marcel, I hope your fade is going well.

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  My Story

  by jwfacts in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i received an email from a lawyer who has been studying with witnesses for some time.

  he wanted to know my story, if i am disfellowshipped and if i have an axe to grind, in order to know if the information at jwfacts.com can be trusted.

  i was raised a jw, my aunty and uncle, many cousins and grandparents are jws.

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  penny2

  Wow, you've done a lot in a short time (websites, etc) - I didn't realize your exit from the org was so recent. Will be interesting to see what the lawyer says next.

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  We all feel the pain of the WT, now what will we do about it?

  by dawg in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just wanted to make one simple statement... i've heard many say that they can't get out of this bull, they just faded so they wouldn't have to deal with all the issues that are sure to arise if they use confrontation.

  many have said they can't stand to lose family members and the like and that's why they've chasen to fade rather then speak out.

  here's what i've lost becasue i've chosen to tell the truth about the bastards.

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  We all play a part in some way. Even the faders who don't say anything to their family - they prove that you can leave the WTS and still be a good, honourable and even happy person (unlike what they would have you believe).

  I took years to fade because of the fear of being shunned. While I was an active JW, I had loads of arguments and debates with family about beliefs and practices. I was a feminist (as far as a JW can be). But as soon as I started fading, I shut up. I knew this was serious now - they could start shunning me. In the last few years I have become more outspoken and have had serious discussions with most of the adults in the family. I feel that within my own small circle, I have achieved something - more than I would have achieved had I been disfellowshipped.

  That said, I do admire those with the courage to speak out publicly. It needs to happen more - and I hope to participate someday.
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  new documentary film about Disfellowshipping - the anti - Knocking

  by RubyParker in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  my name is ruby parker.

  i am 29 years old.

  i was disfellowshipped when i was 16, i have completed a double major in anthropology and religion studies.

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  Ruby, it's tremendous that you are doing this. We will be following with great interest. It will be a very emotional journey for you, I'm sure.

  When I was a child, someone in our congregation was disfellowshipped at the age of 19. His crime was to fall in love with someone who wasn't a witness. His family never spoke to him again. Fast forward a couple of decades. His mother, on her death bed, asks to see her son. Imagine seeing your mother again for the first time - and she's dying. It's painful to think about.
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  What percentage of the congregation only see each other at the hall or f/s?

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's fairly well established that organized social activity is almost non-existent in kingdom halls worldwide.. .

  the purpose of going to the hall and preaching is to worship god.

  yet, the wt leave out a critical component to their.

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  I think that that many JW's in the cong I was in saw each other outside the hall

  Well I think most JWs assume everyone else is having a lot of fun - it's just them not being invited. In actual fact, no-one is doing much. This contributes to a general feeling of dissatisfaction in the congregation.

  Here in Oz it used to be social in the 70's and 80's. But there were so many articles and talks on what to avoid - I think everyone just got sick of it and decided to leave the organising to someone else. Now nothing happens.
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  ex-JW's in Melbourne?

  by Run,dont walk! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi everyone, i just joined this forum, am starting to go through the stories & info & hoping this will be a good support channel (i have heaps to discuss& vent lol).

  i don't have the energy to go through my life story (yet!

  ), but basically i've left the organisation, which was a gradual yet sudden process.

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  Hi Kimberley, welcome to JWD. I'm from Adelaide. I'm sure there must be others from Melbourne - so where are you, Victorians??

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  Australian story: Abused JW kid now Melbourne writer

  by Inquisitor in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  in the march 2007 issue of quadrant, an "australian review journal of literature and ideas", there is a small biography entitled:.

  bedevilled: growing up jehovah's witness.

  by ashlley morgan shae.. i read the article last night.

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  What a heartbreaking story.
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  Here i am

  by thebiggestlie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok so i here i am about to turn eighteen next month and im staring off into the oblivion otherwise known as the rest of my life.

  i'm young, fairly healthy, and anxious...for what?

  don't ask me.... hormones raging through my body and ive done so many "disfellowshipping" offenses recently that its almost embarassing lol no actually i feel no regret ironically enough and havn't caused any pain for me or any otheres.

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  Good to hear from you, tbl. Sorry to hear you're going to the DC. Might I suggest taking a good book and finding a seat upstairs in the back row. Plus lots of breaks - outside the venue. You need that fresh air, you know!

  Don't expose yourself to the brainwashing.

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  Creative House-to-House Time Wasting Manuevers

  by Black Man in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anyone here master the art of pressing in the doorbell without really pressing it?

  how about knocking where it seems loud on the outside, but you know it can't be heard on the inside.

  or standing at a door for up to 5 minutes when you know nobody was there.

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  penny2

  Everything in this thread is what really peeved me off when I started "pioneering". I couldn't believe it. I really thought I was going to be finding "sheeplike" people, studying with them and saving their lives.

  What a lot of time wasted.
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  Attacks by the Watchtower Monstor that leave people afraid

  by Gill in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was contacted a while ago by a lawyer who wanted to discuss something i posted on jwd on the blood issue.. .

  however, i was surprised to find how afraid this particular person was of the wt society who had already attempted to get this person into trouble with their employer in an almost slanderous way.

  this non jw was more desperate to be incognito than me and obviously afraid for their job and reputation in wanting to disclose, make public the reality of the watchtower blood ban!.

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  One of the Australian Bethel lawyers is no longer a JW

  Wow, he'd have a story to tell. Maybe they got him to sign a conditional contract when he became a bethel lawyer. I heard that the WTS in Australia paid for bright JWs to get a law degree (don't know if that's true).