Posts by compound complex

i haven't been on here long but i found this site a couple days ago and quickly realised it had a lot of posts by people going through similar experiences as me.

i read some of the answers and it helped relieve some inner anguish i've been carrying since everything i came clean to my parents about everything i've been reading about.. .

i just have been going through a rough patch right now; that might be an under or overstatement depending on your own personal experiences with this kind of stuff.

compound complex

Welcome, scared:

It's good that you've found new friends who will help guide you through this difficult time of awakening.

I'd like to share some words of Thomas Jefferson, words that have influenced me.

Best regards.

CoCo

Bill Establishing Religious Freedom in the State of Virginia

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

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Allow Me My Dreams

by compound complex in

jw
friends

today, today, as with all those new days before, .

i awoke from the sweet dreams of nocturnal .

flights of fancy, and that they should take .

compound complex

Nan, Tal, Rip:

I love you!

CoCo

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Allow Me My Dreams

by compound complex in

jw
friends

today, today, as with all those new days before, .

i awoke from the sweet dreams of nocturnal .

flights of fancy, and that they should take .

compound complex

I have become old but sensible,
too busy for foolish dreams,
too distracted to smell a rose.

An abundance of occupation
weighs me down, demanding
I should keep my nose to the

Grindstone and shoulder to
the wheel. Ah, perhaps then
I will please my taskmasters,

They who promise cake but
fail to offer bread. This life, so
short, is probably all there is.

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Today's watchtower admits they appoint people who are sinners

by hoser in

from paragraph 12. one brother began viewing pornography at the age of 12, and he continued to do so in secret for over a decade.

he relates: it was very hard to admit to my wife and to the el- ders what id been doing.

but now that i have admitted it, i feel that a huge weight has been taken off my shoulders.

compound complex

Andre gave it up at 22-plus years old -- he was already married and an ms?

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Any strategies to deal with elders who just don't like you?

by toto555 in

so any ways to deal or cope with elders who just don't like you (you didn't do anything wrong or they're just making stuff up about you) assuming that you can't leave?

especially when it comes to for example becoming appointed as an elder.

or are you pretty much "dead in the water" if the elders are determined to like you despite reasonable efforts to win them over.

compound complex

A belated welcome, toto555!

So many excellent thoughts are presented here.

'Kill them with kindness,' as stillin said and gave examples of worked for me. Little drops of water -- continually -- did the trick. Like The Searcher, I was overlooked constantly at Q&A sessions, even if mine was the only hand raised. Veiled comments about me, too, came from the platform. A trusted friend was warned by a particular few not to talk to me.

Now I laugh!

I'm in a different hall now and the lovebombing I get is genuine and heartfelt. I love these people -- I need community -- and I've decided that crazy doctrine and weird rules and regulations will not again separate me from family and lifelong friends.

Best regards.

CoCo

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