Good luck in making the elders see how pathetic they are.
Chameleon
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The Elders are closing in....my days are numbered LOL
by diamondblue1974 inyesterday i spoke to my mother who whilst she lives away is in touch with elders (and their wives) down my end of the country; yesterday she apparently spoke to an elder who rang her for my address and telephone number; she only gave my mobile/cell/phone number and said that he would have to get my address off me directly - wise move.. i think word has got round; firstly i have openly taunted elders that might lurk on this website; secondly (and known to my mother) i have started a relationship with an ex jw who lives locally, a fact they are probably now aware of.
they also know my marriage has ended some time ago.. i think they are fishing...but for the first time in the years since my exit, i am faced with this prospect without any fear.. for the avoidance of any doubt, i do not recognise the pseudo judicial powers of the wtbts and will not submit to them for any reason whatsoever.
as the net might get tighter my resolve will only intensify.. bring it on!.
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Question: If you don't believe the wts as truth why still in FS?
by hambeak ini am puzzled, i see a lot of new posts from supposedly active jw's passing out new tract and don't believe it.
i can understand still attending meetings especially if family is still involved.
why not just fade away?
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Chameleon
Why? I plan to fade. As a 20 year old (I might get a good paid internship soon though) with an elder dad who has book study meetings in the house, I can't get out of it. I get woken up, and if I try some bs excuse like a headache or whatever, they don't believe me. So when I do go out, I try not to hand out any literature. I just say "I'd like to read a message to you from the Bible" and I read John 17:3 or something similar and I thank the person for their time. My conscience won't let me place any borg bs in people's hands.
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Just my story
by libidinousfaerie insince i have been out, i am still amazed when i find someone who is no longer a jw.
the funny thing is, i am always amazed at how many people it is just a casual fact about their past that they don't think anything of.
the more and more i think about it, the more i realize that most people were just able to blow it off, and then there are a few of us who it actually left deep marks on us.
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Chameleon
I enjoyed reading your story, and I'm sorry for what you've gone through. Personally, I haven't had an experience like that, but some of the other members might be able to relate. Welcome.
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Blessing and reassurance - sort of ..........
by TheOldHippie insome ten years ago, i was on a business trip in germany and visited a congregation in frankfurt a.m. a very lively one, comments from the audience, small bags with candy being passed along, very friendly people, just the way you would like a congregation to be.
people massed up to greet me after the meeting; then sort of "floating" towards me, the other ones giving room for her, comes a very small, fagile, old woman, and she had this sort of radiance around her, shining - and i am not joking, neither was i stoned, i was just experiencing depressions and generally a hard and tough period of my life - anyway, she comes up to me, quietly bends my head down towards her, kisses my forehead and says, "my son", looks at me with her shining eyes - and disappears in the crowd.
"she is one of the remnant", says the one next in line to greet me.. i felt blessed somehow, as if she had "read me" and then told me that "it's all going to be ok, you are ok, just stick to the course and abide in jesus, and things will turn out just fine".
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Chameleon
I was talking to the only person I consider my friend in the hall, and we were eating at some fast food place and I expressed some of my doubts (I'm still active in good standing) to him. He didn't rat me out, and I think I got him to doubt the JWs too. Anyway, back to your post, it sounds like the cong. you described is what all JW cong. should've been. Too bad that the loving congregations are the exception rather than the norm.
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CA members
by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
Yeah, that's true. I need a place that's a little grimy. Do you CA people meet up every now and then?
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CA members
by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
That's the one that's split, right? My dad had a talk there when he was an MS a couple years back. Thousand Oaks/Conejo Valley is nice but I feel out of place with all the green around; I'm too used to L.A., I guess.
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CA members
by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
Do you like it?
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CA members
by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
sirnose: North of LA. I can get to LA in half an hour or so. audesapere: Ventura County? I think the furthest out I've gone there is Oxnard.
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CA members
by Chameleon inwho here is in ca?
i'm in southern ca, and that's all i'm willing to reveal for now.
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Chameleon
Who here is in CA? I'm in southern CA, and that's all I'm willing to reveal for now.
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Thanksgiving just around the corner
by Little Bo Peep ini think most posters here, being exjw's probably celebrate thanksgiving.
even loyal jw's actually do, even though they are careful to tell anyone seeing that big turkey with all the fixins, "we aren't really celebrating thanksgiving, but everyone could get together today".
that is what i remember saying.
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Chameleon
I wasn't born into the "truth," but when my parents stopped the celebrations, Thanksgiving was the holiday I missed the least. Maybe 'cause the turkey was always dry. =p