i wonder if anyone else who grew up as a jw can relate with me on this subject.. i grew up hearing stories of 'faithful brothers & sisters' being tortured to a point where they were almost dead.
all they had to do to be set free was renounce jehovah and their religon.
the stories i heard of torture were graphic in nature and to this day i can not handle hearing about torture or watch it being portrayed in movies.
Yeah, I remember that stuff. I would cry that my friends, oops aquaintances, were going to die at armagedon(sp). My mom just told me that I would have to save them by talking to them about the troof. Yeah as if they thought I wasn't weird enough already. I was having a hard enough time trying to fit in already.
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don't know if this was already posted.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/pe_news_local_d_webtestify.23d1b64.html.
appellate court denies request to intervene in molestation case.
This battle is won, but the war is far from over. Hopefully this will get some traction in mainstream media.
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i have the sense that we are seeing a lot more open dissent on jwd with dubs who are still in the borg or fading.. what do you guys think?.
how many have recently left or are in the process of leaving as a result of jwd or other related sites that expose the borg?.
what was the final straw that did it?.
I could just tell, and so I dropped a few key words like field circus and he came back with circus overseer, and it just took off from there.
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i have the sense that we are seeing a lot more open dissent on jwd with dubs who are still in the borg or fading.. what do you guys think?.
how many have recently left or are in the process of leaving as a result of jwd or other related sites that expose the borg?.
what was the final straw that did it?.
In my hall there is myself and 1 other who have mentally left within the last year.
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within the past week i have met two others in my area who are closet apostates, like me.
one still attends and one does not.
but it is noce to know that they are there and we can have conversations about it.
I am only 32 so I am looking forward to seeing it happen. Also, my new friend and I along with our wives are going out to dinner tonight. We'll let you know how it goes.
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there was a thread some weeks ago talking about a big shake-up at mama's house(bethell), has anyone heard anything.
i have to admit it got my hopes up.. one.
Anybody hear anything new on this, sorry to bring it up if it has been proved false.
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first of all i noticed that this just seemed like another meeting.
when we drove in we had people parking us in strange ways, not to mention that the amount of cars there was just as many as a highly attended sunday meeting and we do fine then when we have no one to park us.
they had more seats set out and there were no new ones just people who had not come in awhile.
Thank you all for your responces! Sorry for the belated responces as I can only visit in short bursts. The memorial was the same 4 minutes of talk about Jesus and 41 minute infomercial. Sad really.
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within the past week i have met two others in my area who are closet apostates, like me.
one still attends and one does not.
but it is noce to know that they are there and we can have conversations about it.
One of them I just used a few terms like "field circus" and the like and we just started talking. The other one started in on me and my wife when we sat with her at a restaurant. I liked it that she did since my wife was there so I supported her statements a little but my wife was becoming visibly uncomfortable so I put an end to it, hoping that a little would go a long way.
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within the past week i have met two others in my area who are closet apostates, like me.
one still attends and one does not.
but it is noce to know that they are there and we can have conversations about it.
Thanks for all of the reponces and welcome to the new ones on the forum. I have made time to spend with my new friend and closet apostate like me. I have found myslef to be less angry about the WTBS and my family now that I have a friend to share those thoughts with. He is in the same boat as I am with a believing wife and extended family. I have not talked with the other faded closet apostate who I have known for years, but will make contact soon.
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within the past week i have met two others in my area who are closet apostates, like me.
one still attends and one does not.
but it is noce to know that they are there and we can have conversations about it.
I thought that the first ones i would ever meet would be poster from here at some point in time.
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