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  Allow me to introduce myself

  by RollerDave in

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  i was raised among the witnesses and left in my early 30's due to a mixture of doctrinal disputes and social isolation.

  my mother and both of my sisters remain within the organization.

  i also have two brothers, one df'd, one who never quite caught the watchtower bug.. my road within the organization was a rocky one that eventually lead to a place where i found myself socially isolated within the congregation as a person simply unfit for fellowship with proper, upright, theocratic people who must cut off all 'worldy' association, suffer the ensueing isolation, and eat humble pie until such a time as they determined i was 'spiritual minded' enough for them to associate with.. baptism was held up as my expected goal, but despite trying, i was never quite good enough for them.

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  Welcome, RollerDave. I enjoyed your intro and following comments. Keep em coming.

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  Relative to the Population at large on a 1-10 how do you rate.....

  by new boy in

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  1.your physical attractiveness.. 2.your intelligence.. 3.your personality.. with 5 being average.. i don't think many will answer these tough questions.

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  Actually, Nvr, you're saying you're smarter than me but I'm better looking!

  So that proves you're smarter because you know I'm better looking! LOL

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  Relative to the Population at large on a 1-10 how do you rate.....

  by new boy in

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  1.your physical attractiveness.. 2.your intelligence.. 3.your personality.. with 5 being average.. i don't think many will answer these tough questions.

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  Are you flirting with me?
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  How does one prepare themself to leave

  by BFD in

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  what are ways one can prepare themself once the decision is made to leave the borg knowing full well the consequenses will be losing all family and friends due to the shunning policy?.

  i remember the emotions i went through when i first started to be shunned.

  it was rough but, i was not left all alone in the turmoil, i had 4 siblings to lean on and at the time my dad was still alive.

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  Thanks everyone for the good advice. It has been a long time since the pain of being shunned has reared it's ugly head in me.

  I am projecting (I should know better) about the pain that friend will endure and very concerned that thier not really aware of the depth of it and want to my friend to be prepared. I really have to just need to let the cards fall where they may and will be there to offer my love and support, unconditionally.

  Thanks again to all

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  Relative to the Population at large on a 1-10 how do you rate.....

  by new boy in

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  1.your physical attractiveness.. 2.your intelligence.. 3.your personality.. with 5 being average.. i don't think many will answer these tough questions.

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  Hoertensia, I love your profile!

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  Hi

  by Missanna in

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  hey i just joined here i have finally got up the courage to start doing research for myself since i've left the "truth" just wanted to introduce myself and say hi.

  my name is anna and i got out of the org.

  almost a year ago.

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  Welcome to the board missanna!

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  How does one prepare themself to leave

  by BFD in

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  what are ways one can prepare themself once the decision is made to leave the borg knowing full well the consequenses will be losing all family and friends due to the shunning policy?.

  i remember the emotions i went through when i first started to be shunned.

  it was rough but, i was not left all alone in the turmoil, i had 4 siblings to lean on and at the time my dad was still alive.

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  Hi Everyone I'm new here

  by debilee in

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  hello everyone, my name is debi.

  dfd for 2 weeks.

  i don't know if i'll fit in here but i would like to give it a try.

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  Welcome, debilee. This is a great place to help you transition into your new life outside the chains of the WT$.

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  ..If I went "Back to the Kingdom Hall"..

  by OUTLAW in

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  if i went back to the kingdom hall there would be no windows..lol!

  !..and..many doctrines,i could no longer preach.i would be reprimanded,reproved or disfellowshipped for it!..doctrines we were told to preach,straight from god,given to us by the wbt$ are no longer valid.the wbt$ says so.......i left in 1974.i couldn`t preach "armageddon by 1975"..most jehovah`s witness`s will tell you wbt$ never made that prediction.although wbt$ liturature says otherwise....."jehovah`s witness will be the only ones who survive armageddon".now,no one knows....."jehovah`s witness`s can`t take blood transfusions".now they can use blood factions....."religion has no place with worldly organizations".the wbt$ had an assosiation with the united nations-ngo..make a big deal about that and you "will" be disfellowshipped!.....

  "the generation of 1914 will not pass away.

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  Funny you should ask. I have signed up for a free bible study. I want to see just how different this "religion" is from the one I was booted out of in 1976. I signed up on-line 2 weeks ago tomorrow. I used an alias just in case they might remember my name. It's good to see they are on top of the ball with their life saving message.

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  Is it stealing to get lit without paying the borg for it?

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  i'm a pyromaniac.

  i want a fire on this thread and soon .

  so i wanted everyone's opinion on something.

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  For a long time I did not donate because as a poor pioneer, I really did not have the money. Now, I have the money (not pioneering..see the correlation),

  They owe you much more than you could ever take from them. Grab all the rags you can and if you really like fires I hear some of the lit gives off really cool colors when it is burned.

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