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

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A 'battle' is won

by Anony-Mouse in

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mom has commented twice recently that she is attracted to men with gotees.

anyways, i read here that beards are not at all banned in the bible (every picture of the bible folks they draw has bearded men), and that it was banned by some power hungery dude in the olden days of the jws (can't remember all those names, erased them from my memory).

well, i ask her if i can have one, despite never wanting that on my face.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Donate only fractions.

Catfish

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My Story - Its long and jumbled

by Zed in

where to begin.

i guess things have been coming to a head lately with some other things happening in my life which simply do (or should that be did) not sit well with the indoctrination of the jw's.

i was pretty much brought up as a jw.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

It's really not that jumbled. Welcome and thanks for sharing your story!

Thank you for writing about what you've seen and experienced at their hands. Your friends who haven't been in the cult can surprisingly help you to order your feelings and start fresh! Good luck and please contribute often!

Hugs and welcome.

Catfish

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my very personal history!

by weary in

my history: i grew up as one of jw's.

parents are still.

both brothers have been df'd.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Weary,

Thanks for your story! Thank you for joining us here, you are stronger than you realize. We have all been where you are right now, so most important: Remember that you are loved, lovable, and if you believe in GOD, God loves you--the Bible says so--and you don't have to JUMP for it.

Hugs and welcome!

Catfish

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A new experience

by NanaR in

last wednesday evening i attended a catholic mass for the first time in my life.

being raised as one of jehovah's witnesses, i rarely ever saw the inside of another church (maybe the occasional wedding or music recital), but catholic churches were particularly off limits.

i am now exploring my spiritual horizons.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

What a neat experience, and your explanations of what you felt there are exciting really. I attended a funeral at a Catholic church a year ago (first time), a rather old one in Denver. It was beautiful and overwhelming. It was also total flashback, the Mary alter was in the same place as where we attended in AZ when I was 3 years old! I repeated the words the best that I could follow and did the Greet Your Neighbor, it was moving.

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Mom Died -- and I found out from an old friend!

by BrendaCloutier in

ok, i'm writing this thru tears as i just found out in the last 5 minutes.

my dad died in august, and they had been together just 1 or 2 weeks over 70 years married!

i didn't expect her to last without him, and visa versa.. i just tried to call my sister, and no answer there.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Hugs.

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Help, I can't seem to keep my nerve!

by restrangled in

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as many of you know, i have been shunned by my mother but due to all i have done for her and her attachment to me she has slowly let me back into her life,.

today i stopped by her home for decorating input and i pulled a bottle of wine from the car so that we could share it together and enjoy what we were doing.

she had one glass and went into how i must stop smoking for jehovah.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Restrangled, My sympathies.

XU, you make a good and funny point, asking your parents to do better job of shunning you. I'm getting random emails from mine. . .really they're preaching emails shrouded in talk about the weather and what's going on back in Phoenix. But they are 75% religion, my dad retypes Wt articles about the JW view of forgiveness and what having love really means, yada yada, I hate it and I don't read it and I don't comment to him about it.

Just several months ago I was told by my folks to consider myself an orphan, which I adjusted to slowly, and now this barrage of communication from them, it's a charade.

Best wishes to all who are dealing with jw family.

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Shunned by an old friend

by fullofdoubtnow in

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in all the years i was a jw, although i had many acquaintances, i only had 3 really close friends.

two of them are no longer jws.

one is trev, who is obviously a lot more than a friend to me now, and my friend marion left the wts a few months ago, with a lot of encouragement from me.. my other friend is still very much a jw, and when i was announced as no longer a jw last year, she phoned me to tell me how very upset and disappointed she was.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Ditto. Hugs to you!

Catfish

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The Power of the Watchtower Society's literature

by The wanderer in

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the power of the watchtower society's literature a few days ago an individual on this board was contemplating.

going back to the kingdom hall.

details other than the thought was there.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

I found the literature hard to swallow even while I was pioneering, and I was raised a Hoho from age four. I was trained to accept it, ignore my doubts and my feelings that the men who wrote it are completely distanced from the reality that we were living out here in reality, as has been noted by others.

Question to those who currently attend meetings at the KH: May I ask respectfully, How and why do you sit through it and do you mingle afterwards?

Catfish

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I am so angry

by hambeak in

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my partner hambeak is a great guy.

i have known him over 20 years.

he is the most kind and gentle person i know.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Yeah! Hugs.

Catfish

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I'm coming out on my blog.

by Abandoned in

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no, i'm not talking about being gay, although if i was, i'd come out about that too.

no, i'm talking about coming public about having been a jw and explaining why i feel the jw is a dangerous cult.. now, i don't have a huge readership on my blog, but i've never talked about my jw past to anyone outside of that organization or this board.

i would love to hear any advice from those who have been out and successfully dealing with the mental and emotional abuse that the jw poured out.

Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

Thanks for sharing your feelings here, all very well said.

catfish