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  Interview with Dagney

  by Dagney in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i was born and raised in southern california, with a brief stint with parents as need-greaters in central america.

  my parents accepted a study in the d2d work, i believe my father was interested in the revolutionary aspect of the religion, and my mom said she wanted to learn the bible.

  they were baptized in 1937 i think, and attended the one and only los angeles kh at the time.

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  humbled

  (What a post script!)

  Hello, Dagney. Glad to find your story. Maybe some day l will find everyone at Tahoe.
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  Interview With An Apostate: LoveUniHateExams

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  me too, i had to have a study with a jw.

  then, a month or two later, another one of my ‘worldly’ mates (dan) asked me “are you going out with emma?” i told him no.

  dan had also asked rob himself and rob had said that he wasn’t involved with emma.

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  humbled

  Glad you went through with the whole interview, Good for you going to university!
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  Interview with an Apostate: Nic-MightyV8

  by MightyV8 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  tell us a little about yourself and your family.. male, single, 62 yrs old.

  adult adhd.

  married in victoria moved back to western australia to start our lives far away from her parents as possible.. two kids, son 37 yrs old, daughter 34. both are married and still jws.

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  humbled

  On the very last time, I visited about two weeks before he died dad said to me
  “ Nic religion should never come before family”
  We hugged and cried.

  Glad for this, Nic. Thanks for your story.
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  Interview With An Apostate: Pale.Emperor

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  tell us a little about yourself and your family.. 33yp guy from liverpool, england.

  2nd generation, born in.

  baptized at 19, left age 31. divorced with a 4yo daughter.

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  humbled

  Good interview, PE. The video was well done. Good to open as a proud apostate. No shame.
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  interview with an apostate- morpheus

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i saw simons thread and the "interview" series of threads that came from it i really enjoyed reading the life stories of those that shared.

  a bump for newer people seems like a good idea and i figured i would add mine as well.

  again, thanks to simon for the concept of a guided interview thread and the template.. tell us a little about yourself and your family.. hmmm... easy question, hard answer.

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  humbled

  Morpheus-

  Not only good for us to hear your backstory but for any lurkers to know why you eventually left the Organization having been a true believer -you left because you won’t support a lie. It is discovering ttatt that changes us.

  We aren’t monsters but people who try to live honestly. Thanks for being open.
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  Interview with Giordano an Apostate

  by Giordano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  tell us a little about yourself and your family.

  my mother introduced me to her jw world when i was 12. i had to attend the weekly book study....boring!!!!

  plus the disney tv show was on tuesday eve 8 to 9 and once a month they did a space show......no matter how hard i tried couldn’t get out of that bk study.

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  Thanks , Giordano. That bit about your wife quietly loving you and not believing the b——-t. Quiet until you said you were out.

  l know how that happened with another couple.

  How crazy a situation this religion creates! It’s great to get some of your backstory. Hello to your clever wife.
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  Will the Pope apologize? - Truth and Reconciliation Commission Canada

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i am posting this in this section (child abuse) because of the impact the catholic church has on what transpires in the religio-socio-legal realm that the jws are also embroiled in, concerning institutional abuses.. the catholic church is not willing to apologize for their role in the horrific abuses that occurred in canada in the residential school system for the canadian indigenous population.. for anyone who is interested in background on this dark chapter of canadian history, the truth and reconciliation report is available here - it is a hefty volume that is very difficult to read and it is the result of a royal commission on aboriginal peoples.. the pope has refused to offer an apology and it has become a controversial subject in canadian politics:.

  'no government tells the pope what to say': priest defends lack of apology for residential schools.

  a canadian priest is defending pope francis' decision not to apologize to indigenous people in canada for the role the catholic church played in the residential school system.about 150,000 first nation, inuit and métis children were taken from their parents by law and forced to attend church-run residential schools.

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  No excuse not to apologize.

  I never liked that song with the words “Love means you never have to say you’re sorry”
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  I got my first teaching job!

  by paradiseseeker in

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  2. experiences

  in case you haven't read me, i am a spanish pimo who is preparing himself to become an english teacher.

  well, i just wanted to share with you that i've been called to work in a high school and my first week of work has been amazing!

  this job is not permanent, it will end in july, but finally i got rid of many doubts about my adequacy for this job: i love it!

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  humbled

  Good for you! Well done! Made a plan and carried through.

  And good that you can see your value through your students’ eyes.
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  Are you a woman? Do you know one?

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if you can answer yes to either question, you should consider listening to the latest episode of "shunned".

  in it, brenda tells her story inside the flds cult, a story of women and what they go through.

  this is happening right here in the united states.

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  humbled

  Thanks, dubstepped.

  I saw that video or one like it some years ago. Those attitudes permeate Mormon culture—even if the “real” ones are the monogamous. A young Mormon woman I know was researching historical documents of early years and discovered the polygamy roots. She hated the low grade bias her daughter faced and saw way too much wired in the religion generally.

  out she came -whole family.And she loves her coffee now

  nothing research
  
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  Can You Make Sense Of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as a child growing up, i would see different arguments to defend a certain belief.

  it may have required mental gymnastics in order to make a point but there was an actual attempt to explain, teach, and educate....even if the belief or teaching was bogus.. nowadays, it appears that jws couldn’t explain any belief.

  they are drones and do as “mother “ has directed..

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  Lieu-you said it: nonsensical

  What finally got me out was the nonsense response Bethel gave me after months of deliberation: my research was correct, nothing wrong with sources l had used. But since l was ‘stumbled’by their slanted, WRONG rendering of the bit in question they recommended a series of articles to straighten me out.

  Even though l was “in” that got me out.

  Moral: good JW? You must not care. You must not think. You must not talk.