Thanks for your story. Please get some counseling for being raised a jw and to reconcile yourself with your sexual orientation. You deserve to experience romantic love and a satisfying sex life. You also have the right to a commited relationship despite whatever your family's reaction may be.
jamiebowers
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Hi! Life story of young, 23-year-old (gay), disassociated, non-baptized publisher
by HillCountry inhello, this is my first post and the first time i have told my entire story, albeit abridged, to anyone.
it will be a long story, sorry.. my grandparents were brought up with different religious backgrounds but converted to bible students around the depression era.
later, my grandfather met my grandmother through the congregation and got married until his death, having a marriage that lasted over four decades.
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Yorkshire Ripper (brother Peter Sutcliffe) vouches for Jimmy Savile
by oldlightnewshite inhttp://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4629105/peter-sutcliffe-claims-jimmy-savile-is-innocent.html.
according to the yorkshire ripper, a repentant psychopath who is now a jehovah's witness in prison, jimmy savile is just being exploited because he can't refute any of the 300 allegations of molestation and rape.
there are some who think that jimmy savile may even have had a psychopathic personality.
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Yet another intro letter
by problemaddict into the mod, if this is posted in the wrong place please feel free to move it to wherever is appropriate.. so here is another lurker turned community member.
i might write up a life story at some point, but for the sake of time here are the abc's of me.. raised a jw.
friends for the most part are all jw's.
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jamiebowers
Welcome! I hope you read or have read Combatting Cult Mind Control for your wife's sake. It helps to reach the true personality and not the cult one.
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Hello from Rooster McDooster
by RoosterMcDooster in[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>normal</w:view> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser /> </w:worddocument> </xml><![endif].
i've been lurking around here for a while, so i feel like i know most of you already.
its been a rough 20 years getting here, but now here i am.
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jamiebowers
Welcome...can't wait to hear your story!
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Remembering V (and others) on this 5th of November
by darthfader into v and all the other "uberpostates" who have gone to great lengths to inform the public about the cult that is the jehovah's witnesses, i take today to say thanks to you all.. v's jw commentsfreemindsjwfactsjwsurveymarvin shilmer's blogspotim sure there are many others.. thanks guys!.
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Update on Mrs Obvious and myself
by Captain Obvious inwell it's been about 8 months since my final wake up.
as some may remember for my intro thread, i panicked and was way too aggressive at first with telling my wife all about this scam we're a part of.
she freaked, thinking satan had me for sure.
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jamiebowers
Since it's been in the news recently, why not compare what was done at Penn State with the Conti trial?
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My Introduction
by Left in the Cold ini have posted on here a little, and i thought i should probably introduce myself the best i can right now.
i stumbled upon this site and told my sister about it.
then, sometime later she started discussing things with me that's she has seen or read (she's in therapy, as well, which probably has made her kind of rethink things).
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jamiebowers
Welcome to JWN! Keep up the therapy, and keep coming back here. You'll find support among people who have stood where you now stand.
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Richard Rawe
by Outaservice init was reported to me in an e-mail that richard rawe of soap lake, washington has died.. many of you might remember him and god rest his soul.. outaservice.
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jamiebowers
I'm so sorry to hear that he's gone. Several on line references are made about him if you Google his name. For all of the newbies out there, here is an informative article about his history: http://www.xjw.com/rawe-df.html
His name should never be forgotten in the ex-jw community. Richard was so brave and sincere in his fight against the Watch Tower.
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My introduction/experience
by happy@last ini have only just recently found this site, in fact only recently gone online to do research of my own about jws.
before i left i had only gone on my gut instinct, not even realising i was not alone with my feelings.
the week i was appointed an elder some 11 years ago, i had had to write to a congregation many miles away from me about how unloving they were (more details below).. not long after i started to have concerns about jws, expecially as the message of 'following the bibles message' subtly changed to 'follow the fds', this did not sit well with me.
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jamiebowers
I'm thinking that you're from the UK. If you want to meet ex-jws in real life, there are many on JWN. You may want to contact them to see how close they are to you. Here's a few I can think of off the top of my head:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/member/33260
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/member/39564
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/member/48014
I know there are many more, but I don't have time to stop and think of who they are.
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My introduction/experience
by happy@last ini have only just recently found this site, in fact only recently gone online to do research of my own about jws.
before i left i had only gone on my gut instinct, not even realising i was not alone with my feelings.
the week i was appointed an elder some 11 years ago, i had had to write to a congregation many miles away from me about how unloving they were (more details below).. not long after i started to have concerns about jws, expecially as the message of 'following the bibles message' subtly changed to 'follow the fds', this did not sit well with me.
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jamiebowers
Welcome to JWN. You'll find that most here are likeminded.