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  What is the key that unlocks the mental grip of the WT?

  by LennyinBluemont in

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  ive wondered this from time to time, especially in trying to figure out how i finally broke free and in looking at the stories of others.

  if you asked me a few years ago, i probably would have said either seeing too much hypocrisy or suffering the last straw of spiritual and/or emotional abuse.

  but i know in my case and others, even that wasnt enough to break the mental shackles.

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  gymbob

  It's the meetings. Not for everybody, not 100%, but I think pretty close....

  I remember going to meetings and wondering through the whole meeting, "How am I going to pay my bills??" I felt guilty going to meetings when I should be working. And I passed up some good overtime too!

  Then I started missing meetings and working overtime so I could make ends meet. When the elders asked me why I was missing meetings to work, I told them, "I've already got a guilty conscience I might as well have the money too". (Now can anybody tell me what movie that line is from?).

  My point is...When I started missing the ocassional meeting then things began to look a lot different, and this was when I started to question things. Not on purpose, it just started at that same time. Gymbob
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  For your viewing pleasure

  by watson in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lptz4tbc1po

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  gymbob

  I've been away for a while (started college!) and I come back to find this?!!

  I need "The Truth" like a fish needs a bicycle....Gymbob
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  How would you respond?

  by mavie in

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  2. experiences

  mavie, .

  sorry im so long in replying.

  were building our kingdom hall and this month has been the busiest ever.

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  gymbob

  I agree with sweetface, just be friendly but don't mention religion at all. Kind of a, "you have your beliefs, and I have mine" deal. Can't we all just get along? GYMBB
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  GB's member Gerrit Losch on college in Monza (Italy) in 2005

  by Ancientofdays in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't know if already posted this video, but it's really interesting .

  i had a lot of rumor regarding this speech , but never listened my self before.

  the speech is in italian, but some nice guy has subtitled in english.

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  gymbob

  Just watched this with my "never-been-a-dub" wife. Here are some of her responses...

  "I want to throw up"

  "Why doesn't somebody stop that deranged man?"

  "This just makes me want to scream, 'What's wrong with you people?!"
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  Bethel Application asks if you molested a child, if so when, also if gay

  by What-A-Coincidence in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the following is a page out of an application for bethel service.

  notice line 21 under morals/sexual molestation.... http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l311/photob_014/bethelapp.jpg.

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  gymbob

  Can any of you imagine being asked questions like this on a job interview, which is EXACTLY what this is?
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  Our Letter of Denunciation or 'Disassociation'

  by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

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  2. friends

  we have felt like we didn't need a letter, but suddenly we did, and it was liberating to write and send (multiple copies).. last para got biting and pointed, unfortunately, but facts are facts.

  august 14, 2007. .

  to whom it may concern:.

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  gymbob

  When I wrote mine all I said was, "I no longer wish to be considered one of Jehovah's Witnesses". Dang! I wish I would have added a few more things like this letter!
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  Bethel Tour-long sorry

  by samiam2b in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm new as a member but have watched the site for a while.

  one of my kids, who lives in another part of the country, came for a summer visit from another state and asked to go on a bethel tour.

  she lives with her jw mother and is surrounded by jws and they even baptized her recently.

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  gymbob

  I gave tours at bethel two days a week from 76' thru 79'. I was a tour guide at Mammoth Onyx Cave, Ky. for 2 years before going to Brooklyn, so I guess they thought that counted for something...

  The one big thing I remember about tours was all the young "babes" looking for husbands. Most were not even shy about why they were there either! Just looking for a good man, and as anyone knows, they are all in Brooklyn! What a joke!!

  I'm sure most guy who were at bethel back then could tell you some stories about all the parties, drinking (the first 3-4 times I got drunk was at bethel), girls, etc.

  And tours gave tips, big tips. Most witnesses on tour just wanted to be able to say that they knew someone at bethel.

  Most local witnesses would take a new bible study on tour as soon as possible. I knew one pioneer gal in New Jersey (for you guys she was smokin' hot too!) who would ask for me to be her tour guide with a new BS about once a month! I was such a naive idiot then.... GYMBB
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  read the Bible for yourself

  by a friend in

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  2. experiences

  seems a lot of people are depending on everyone else to solve their problem.

  questions like who is jehovah, who is jesus, what is the truth, are some of the deep spiritual truths asked by all of us.

  however, the bible is the one to turn to when questioning.

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  gymbob

  After spending 40+ years reading the bible, I can say I believe I know it pretty well. I mean after all, it's only ONE BOOK.

  I began actually learning about the book when I did research on who decided to put it together, and why.

  It's now my opinion that it is a collection of hebrew myths and fables. Almost every culture has one.....
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  The Way I Are.

  by RichieRich in

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  2. friends

  damn!!!.

  i hit enter way too soon.. i've got a long post coming, so hold your applause for a moment, ok?

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  gymbob

  Another great post Rich! I'm speechless.....
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  For the men:

  by changeling in

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  how many of you grew a beard when you left the wt, just because you could?

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  gymbob

  I grew a beard when I was still a dub.....caused a whole s***load of problems!

  It's one of the first things I did when I left, and my hair's over my collar too!!

  Take THAT!!

  Gymbob (Of the, "I hate the bethel barber class").