Posts by The salmon

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to join or not

by dontknow in

i've had in the past studied a little about the bible with jws but have yet decided to be baptised.. i've just read lavenders' moving letter to her son and her love and well being for him is very obvious.

i do like the bible teachings very much and to this day i'm very interested in the end of the system of things which will very soon come to fruition; i'm a very strong believer, however i must stipulate to all, in retrospect i'm not sinless.

one of the posters says that jw's ask you to do a liitle bible study with them, attend one of their meetings and when you get baptised you have to do exactly what you are instructed or else.

The salmon

Welcome to the site...

As a person who will this week give in a letter of dissaccociation, the advice I would give is RUN TO THE HILLS MA BAKER!!!! Do NOTHING until you can reconcile in your head that you will sell your soul to a corporate, money making machine, intent on putting the need of a chosen (in the eyes of other corrupt men)bunch of men over anything taught in the bible. If you can realise that the WTS cannot possibly be the chosen method of communication a real god use then by all means join. If you sell your soul to an organisation that will forgive those who tow the company line and be submissive in every way, then go for it!! Otherwise, realise that the bible is good, god is good, but fins another catalyst!!!

The Salmon.

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As time goes by, are there more inactive JW's?

by JH in

jw
friends

the watchtower is in black and white.

you're in or you're out.

but when you become inactive and don't go to meetings for years, you're not in and you're not out, because you still have to live under their rules.. but as time goes by, i'm sure that there are more inactive people than previously and the in and out, black and white seperation is diluting.. maybe their black and white way of seperating jw's will become more and more black and gray and white..

The salmon

Its a strange on this. I know of a 'Sister' who fell away for years. Was known to be a smoker. yet still attends memorials and nothing is said or done to her.

However, I on the other hand have stopped attending, admit that I have a light smoking habit, and theyre after me. Case of jump ship or be pushed...... So I have just jumped.

These people need to control the minds of attendees. Youre not to have an opinion that goes against what they say.

Get out! is what I would say to anybody!

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Where is that again?

by The salmon in

i read on the site somehere of an ex elder who chopped himself at the end of his public talk.

i think he was from the uk and he posted both the outline and the actual sound from it.

anyone got it so they can repost?.

The salmon

I read on the site somehere of an ex elder who chopped himself at the end of his public talk. I think he was from the UK and he posted both the outline and the actual sound from it. Anyone got it so they can repost?

Cheers

The Salmon

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My reinstatment letter

by nonamegiven in

for those that don't know, here's the cliffs notes version.. i've been df'd for 5 months now for giving in to an addiction i have.

i want to be reinstated so i can gian my family and a few close friends back in my life then i will fade like a bad dye job.

here's the reinstatment letter i have thus far i am open to any input at all.. dear holier-than-thou brothers,.

The salmon

I would say....dont bother...theyve got you before, and they`ll be out to get you again. As for the family, all die hard JW`s are taught to shun even immediate family members for daring to choose a different path anyway, so if you have the same experiances as me, you`ll soon learn the value of sites like this, coz remember, to the bretheren, a good JW is a miserable JW.

But whatever you decide to do my friend, all the best.

The Salmon...coz its good to be different

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Ok so this is it

by The salmon in

jw
friends

ive been "in the truth" ever since i was 6 years old when my mother was baptised in the late 70`s.

so i sort of got dragged along to the meetings and therin started the indoctrination that was to prove to be my undoing.

ive been reading this page for a while now and read some very slick posts from dissillusioned ex members.

The salmon

Ive been "in the truth" ever since I was 6 years old when my mother was baptised in the late 70`s. So I sort of got dragged along to the meetings and therin started the indoctrination that was to prove to be my undoing. Ive been reading this page for a while now and read some very slick posts from dissillusioned ex members. All through my childhood I was told to be a good child, do as your told, don`t complain when your faults are brought to your attention, privatley and publicly. Don`t get to upset when other kids in the congregation seem to get on, not by being more devout but having parents who are in the clique, the inner sanctum of families who are the goodies..(why does it seem that the favoured ones always seem to do well?) If you had an unfashionable family or where maybe a little less intellectual than the others, just try a little harder!! its obvious that its your fault, so go away and read up on being more forgiving, or even better do more! do more in the service, do more prayer, put yourself forward just in the off chance you may get noticed. Anyway, I plodded through life, got married, had kids, became a MS, and then began to see the light...this organisation is not being run to uphold the spirituallity of its flock, its being run for men by men! Sure they stand up on the platform and pontificate about being their to help and support, but really all the BOE want us to do is sit there, smile, and goo oooh and ahhh at the latest starlet, sent to make your insignicant lives better. This is what you can be like, not by selling your soul to the devel, but by joining the club, be in the gang. Anyway, there`ds loads thats happened to me in the last couple of decades, that in time I`ll post, like the hypocrisy, the turning of the blind eye to sin, depending on who you are, but now Ive had enough. I`m finally that salmon who is willing to lose all those so called "friends", those guys who if you dont go on a regular basis suddenly treat you like a pariah...don`t know yet if I`ll fall on my sword, or just fade away, but one thing is for sure...I aint goin quietly.....

The Salmon