Posts by FreePeace

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Good-Bye to "Me"..a time to transform

by noidea in

goodbye to "me" it's been a long road, .

you've been unlucky in life, love and religion, .

it's now time for you to go.. "me" you held on too long to what should have been abandoned long ago,.

FreePeace

Very nice NOI!

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
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Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS

20

Life is a funny ol' thang

by safe4kids in

yesterday, my ex husband and i took our 9 year old daughter to camp for the first time.

delaney was bouncing off the walls with excitement, mom and dad were secretly dreading the departure while smiling and acting happy for her sake (we're good at that .

once we checked her in, we had to hike thru the woods to her bunk and i am talking woods here!

FreePeace

Dana, you're an excellent writer! Well done and good for you! Good for Laney too.

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
TruthQuest: http://beam.to/truthquest
Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS

48

Circuit Overseer online. Welcome to my pages

by Carlo in

jw
friends

hi brothers and sisters.

i am a jw circuit overseer.

you are welcome to visit my pages.. http://www.angelfire.dom/ky/proclaimer.

FreePeace

Hey Seedy,

I didn't take the time to read it all, and if it is satire, then I take my hat off to Carlo, he did a great job of showing just how stupid the GB and their policies are.

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
TruthQuest: http://beam.to/truthquest
Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS

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Circuit Overseer online. Welcome to my pages

by Carlo in

jw
friends

hi brothers and sisters.

i am a jw circuit overseer.

you are welcome to visit my pages.. http://www.angelfire.dom/ky/proclaimer.

FreePeace

I just went to Carlo's advice page per Seedy's post.

One bit of advice to a sister was to continue shunning her daughter.

Ok Carlo. Get some help. You definitely need it--and badly.

Actually, I got thinking just how Carlo emulates the GB perfectly.

Ok GB, Get some help. You definitely need it--and badly.

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
TruthQuest: http://beam.to/truthquest
Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS

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Circuit Overseer online. Welcome to my pages

by Carlo in

jw
friends

hi brothers and sisters.

i am a jw circuit overseer.

you are welcome to visit my pages.. http://www.angelfire.dom/ky/proclaimer.

FreePeace

Come on Carlo, fess up. You're just joking about the Cat thing, right? Because it is either a beautiful satire on how re-goddamn-diculous the bible and the WTS is, or you are one sick fundy.

I'd like to know, because I know for a fact you are NOT a CO. The WTS's micro-managers would NEVER allow a CO to put up such a site. Period.

So come on, tell us what you are getting at. I'd hate for any of the Tigers on this board to eat you for lunch unjustifiably.

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
TruthQuest: http://beam.to/truthquest
Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS

15

AlanF gave me a virus!

by terafera in

jw
friends

not the one that posts here...but i recently received an email from an 'alanf' saying there was important info inside.

when i opened it, it did nothing.

turns out it was a virus and thankfully i got rid of it.

FreePeace

Hey Dungbeetle,

I'm sorry you've been getting emails with my name on them. I haven't sent you any, nor do I have you in my address book. I think someone is playing some jokes here.

I got a virus about a month ago, and ultimately had to replace my computer. I don't know where I got it from, but I couldn't seem to recover from it without getting a new computer.

I've received several suspicious emails lately too, but I can't identify from who.

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
TruthQuest: http://beam.to/truthquest
Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS

23

My Original Identity?

by Cassiline in

i just purchased, combatting cult mind control by steven hassan.. while reading i came across this comment,.

usually i am able to assist a person in making a dramatic recovery to his original identity.. -steven hassan.

i reread that statement over and over.

FreePeace

Cassi,

I wrestled with the same question. Check out my article at the link below, if you haven't already.

Doug

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
TruthQuest: http://beam.to/truthquest
Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS

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JW DF'd Over UN Issue Commends Silentlambs

by FreePeace in

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friends

below is an e-mail i received from a former sister in the pacific northwest.

she was df'd several months ago for discovering and asking about the un controversy.

being rather inexperienced with the internet, she stumbled onto freeminds.org (i believe) and printed out info on the wts's un connection.

FreePeace

Below is an e-mail I received from a former sister in the Pacific Northwest. She was DF'd several months ago for discovering and asking about the UN controversy.

Being rather inexperienced with the Internet, she stumbled onto Freeminds.org (I believe) and printed out info on the WTS's UN connection. She was unaware that it was an "apostate site" (damn apostates!). She showed it to her son, who promptly turned her in to the elders. She was DF'd in a Kangaroo Court.

She gave me permission to post a bit of her story here. I have withheld her name per her request. I told her that I would forward any comments to her.

FP
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Dear Ones,

The Dateline airing last night was absolutely wonderful-you all did a superb job. I am one who they DF’d this past spring at my doorstep in front of my wonderful non-believing husband that I have been married to for 49 years. They said he was a non-believer even though he went to meetings and assemblies with me faithfully, and showed his faithfulness to me and my family for all those years.

We also sacrificed our beautiful daughter, Janie, who had leukemia, because we didn't give her blood. She died at age 16 in 1983. We were under court order to take her to St. Jude’s in Tennessee, and had a police guard accompany us. Where were all of these wonderful brothers to support me and help me at this time? All they said was “go along with them and it will work out.” It still hurts me to have lost such a beautiful daughter.

I remember an incident with Brother Sydlig in St. Louis so many years ago. I went up to him at the last big assembly we attended. Because of the heat, my daughter wore a beautiful sundress that had bare shoulders and shoulder straps. It was modest in my eyes and I still have a picture of her in this beautiful dress. What did Brother Sydlig do? He embarrassed me to death by asking “where our lapel cards were, and how hard the brothers had worked to produce them.” I told him Janie had leukemia and was very ill, and we were very fortunate to be there―even without lapel Cards. I told him that I had forgotten them on the motel dresser because of all the stress that her Dad and I were under.

Then Brother Sydlig said "she needed more clothes-she wasn't modestly dressed.” I apologized and could have crawled in a hole. I hope he apologizes to Jehovah for the mean thing he did to Janie then. I still hurt from this, as our daughter was a precious jewel to us after having 3 boys. Anyway, I am sad that we lost her and I know that someday all wrongs will be righted. Hope is a beautiful thing and we all need hope for something better.

Much Love,

[Name withheld], faithful for 42 years serving Jehovah and now because I know too much about [the UN] and Pedophiles here in [the Pacific Northwest], they DF’d me too.

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
TruthQuest: http://beam.to/truthquest
Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS

83

Who Pays The Ferryman....?

by hillary_step in

french philosopher blaise pascal once noted, "men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

" a case study for this statement can clearly be evidenced by the governing body of jehovahs witnesses.. the gb present themselves as lovers of truth and righteousness who are the only persons on this planet who speak for god.

this doctrine is at the very core of the beliefs of jehovahs witnesses and is one of the few that cannot be rationalized away by wts apologists.

FreePeace

Hillary,

Excellent post. Well written. You captured so much in a sensible way.

You are someone I need to know.

Doug

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
TruthQuest: http://beam.to/truthquest
Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS

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Check out Watchtowers homepage!

by jerome in

http://www.watchtower.org .

do you notice anything pecular?

FreePeace

Did anyone notice at the bottom of the articles on child abuse it says: "Appeared in Awake! October 8, 1993"?

Interesting how they borrow from the archives at a time like this. Too bad they didn't listen to their own advice, then this wouldn't be the huge issue it is today.

FreePeace
"The World is my country, and to do good, my religion." --Thomas Paine
TruthQuest: http://beam.to/truthquest
Who Am I? -How to Reinvent Yourself After Leaving the WTS