I have a sister who is a jw in Bloomington/Normal.
She would DIE being here. Wish you could help HER!
esw1966
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My new found truth!
by esw1966 ini have really enjoyed my new church!
i was a jw for 30 years and i love the new things i have been taught outside of jwland!.
this is to share my new joy with others who might be searching for something better..... subscribe to itunes podcast:(itunes 4.9 required) or our feed .
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esw1966
I have really enjoyed my new church!
I was a jw for 30 years and I LOVE the new things I have been taught outside of jwland!
This is to share my new joy with others who might be searching for something better....
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Another step away from jdubs.
by esw1966 innot that you are all terribly interested, but tomorrow i will be learning to run the video equipment at cornwall church!
it should be fun.
it provides the background video for the music and the pastor.. that is something i never would have imagined myself doing just a year ago!.
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esw1966
Not that you are all terribly interested, but tomorrow I will be learning to run the video equipment at Cornwall Church!
It should be fun. It provides the background video for the music and the pastor.
That is something I never would have imagined myself doing just a year ago!
Thought I'd share my experience as 'the light keeps getting brighter!"
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SHUNNING: How did you feel after your 1st?
by jambon1 inthe practice of shunning really is, unreservedly, my main problem with the religion.
i have come to this conclusion after many months out of the org.
there are, of course many, many other things that just pi$$ me off about the religion but this just gets to me, each and every day i live.. and yet, i have never experienced shunning in the manner in which is well documented here.
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esw1966
My sister and her elder husband shunned me at my 'not jw' grandmother's funeral. It did hurt. I wasn't sure how to deal with it. It made me sad and then angry. Then my 'not jw' family stood up for me and began helping me to cope and they were all disappointed with the two of them.
I have moved OUT of the STATE of Wisconsin, my home for 39 years, because I do not think I could do well in that type of an environment. I am in Washington and I LOVE it!
It is so wonderful not thinking that at any moment I could run into someone who will ignore me for not agreeing with them. It is a clean slate. Much needed!
Now, I write emails to my sister and letters to my father trying to get them to weaken their stand on shunning. I do not see it as my problem, but theirs. It hurts them more than it does me from this distance.
I do not think they want to do it, but they feel they must. Therefore, it must hurt their psyche more than mine. If they are still jw clones then I don't want to be around them. If they are not free to be themselves then they are not someone I would seek in a relationship.
I love them, but I wait for them and try to encourage them through letters. When they are more grown up and thinking for themselves I will welcome them WHOLEHEARTEDLY! I give them little hope...
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Do you consider yourself a spiritual person?
by hambeak insince most of us on this board have left the org for one reason or another, do you still feel a sense of spirituality to the great spirit?.
if so how?
if not why?.
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esw1966
I do consider myself a spiritual person.
Ever since I was a kid I had an interest in who God was. I felt it was important to go to church and begged my parents to go. (soon they became jws, whoops)
Now that I have left jwville, I made an effort to search for God again. I feel that I have found what I was looking for and have never felt joy as I feel today. I feel that God is a God of Love. That He died for us out of love. And that for those who put their faith in Him, he forgives, loves, blesses, and saves.
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Who celebrates Halloween?
by love2Bworldly ini know a lot of christians, not just jws, don't feel comfortable celebrating halloween.
for me, it's just an excuse to have fun.
are there a lot of you out there who have fun on halloween?
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esw1966
I've been out for a year now and I don't see myself doing Halloween yet. Don't like the whole morbid death thing.
Still trying to get the Christmas Spirit!
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Another Letter from an ex to his Family... Opinions???
by esw1966 inwell, i just wrote another one of many letters to my sister and father who are still jw's and who have refused any contact with me as any 'good jw' does.
i have seen other's letters from others and i have enjoyed them.
so, for curiosity sake, i am submitting my letter for others to read.
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esw1966
Thank you for your comments and suggestions!
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Our first weekend as official ex-JWs
by exwitless intomorrow, my husband and i will be attending joy castro's book signing.
sunday, our 8 year old son gets to attend a birthday party for the first time (his cousin's).
i'm so glad we got out before our son got much older.
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esw1966
Congratulations and ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!!
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I guess I finally have seen the light thanks to yall
by hambeak inwhen i found this forum i was skeptical, even a few of my topics may have been a bit biting, but i have learned a lot.
after 33 years in the org.
and swallowing everything hook line and sinker for absolute gospel and feeling dirty over nothing wrong.
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esw1966
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
I was SO happy for you as I began reading your testimony! It is UNBELIEVABLE how bright that light does get the further you get from jw doctrine!
Keep a search for truth and God and He will NEVER let you down!
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Another Letter from an ex to his Family... Opinions???
by esw1966 inwell, i just wrote another one of many letters to my sister and father who are still jw's and who have refused any contact with me as any 'good jw' does.
i have seen other's letters from others and i have enjoyed them.
so, for curiosity sake, i am submitting my letter for others to read.
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esw1966
Isn't it funny how LENGTHY our letters get?!! How do they get to be SUCH BOOKS?!!
