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  Recently kicked out...

  by bluesbreaker59 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wanted to share my story.... i was raised a jw all my life, my mother and father married and divorced twice, my mother was disfellowshipped when i was 6 and never came back, choosing a career, and went through various men.

  i was raised by my very loving and wonderful father, easily father of the century in my opinion.

  all my life i was a great kid, example in the hall, great grades, got a full college scholarship, etc.

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  URRRRRRRRR

  by Missanna in

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  2. experiences

  i am getting so tired of people telling me what is wrong with me and that i have left jehovah!!!

  i'm so angry.

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  How many JWs are still waiting to have children in the "new system"?

  by truthsearcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  *** g74 11/8 11 is this the time to have children?

  significantly, in the first century jesus christ himself gave an ominous forecast regarding a calamity coming upon judea.

  that the armies of roman general cestius gallus encamped around jerusalem, but then withdrew, apparently without any reason for doing so.

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  More Recent Events

  by RollerDave in

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  2. experiences

  ok, so we covered leaving, regaining my faith, now for some recent events.. .

  from disabled housing, where i met my fiancee working as a pca together we weathered the death of my non-witness father, the y2k scare, 9-11, and more all the time doing our best to improve as people and serve wherever we could.. .

  she got through college and got her bachelors degree and a job as a contract-worker at 3m; i struggled in physical therapy to relearn how to walk.

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  Since I left...

  by RollerDave in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since i left.... so there i was, a disabled single dad bereft of all he had known or believed for 30 years.. i had moved a good 45 minutes away from the area where the events in my introductory post went down, but was now living in an area where i had resided some ten years earlier and still had a few stale connections with the organization.. i was lonely, depressed, pissed off, and really disgusted with the god i had been shown in my years of unfruitful association.. in my mind, he had made me the way i am, which apparently entailed being unable to meet his 'righteous requirements', and was going to kill me for it.

  he had endowed all of us with a natural human nature (apart from our fallen sinful nature,) and now expected us to conquer our every natural impulse or desire, even the healthy ones, to survive the big a.. hold off on marriage or kids, no college, no success, no normalcy... the big a'll get ya if ya don't watch out!.

  so i railed against him, defied him to just take me, do anything to show he even existed or had any power at all.. i went around saying 'god is an a$$h*le' and the like, but then i realized something that shook my world..... i was just as much a witness outside the organization as i had been inside!.

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  Show your desktop! (and comment on others)

  by KW13 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  share your desktop with us!.

  its fairly simple to do.

  on your keyboard should be a button that says prtscn, printscreen or something similar on it right up in the top right corner.

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  Allow me to introduce myself

  by RollerDave in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  reasoning

  by BR25 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i read most of the posts on here and i was just trying to get an understanding on certain topics.

  i read some peoples material and why they dont believe in the jw faith.

  i understand that some people left the jw faith and some people on here may never have been jws or believed in it, so i understand why you post and give info back and forth, but i have trouble understanding some of the disfellowshipped ones on here.

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  Some Speculations????

  by Anti-Christ in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  wt 2005 07/15 p15.

  7. has the number of anointed christians been sealed?

  know jehovah has chosen 144,000 of his faithful servants to.

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  Hi

  by Missanna in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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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