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  Interview With An Apostate: done4good

  by done4good in

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  tell us a little about yourself and your family.. family first started studying with jw around 1977. i was 4 then, and raised pretty much up the religion from that point onward.

  my father studied, lost interest, but mom picked up where he left off.

  simultaneously, my aunt studied with another jw, and dove in head first.

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  Tornintwo

  Thank you, really interesting. You're too successful in real life to ever have been part of the 'old boy' hierarchy anyway!
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  Being shunned only increases my certainty that the WBT$ is a cult

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well, i don't wanna rant too much but sometimes things cut you don't they.. a family member had a get together for the family, jw and non jw and of course i wasn't invited being da'd.. i understand why they couldn't invite me but it just made me think.

  in normal society this wouldn't happen.

  i'd have been there.. the shunning is so unnatural and damaging.

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  Tornintwo

  My son stopped attending meetings last year, he was never baptized, he is only 15.

  we were recently invited to a close friends anniversary party, they sent the invitation, naming all the family individually and pointedly excluded him. Presumably they thought he'd be a bad influence on the other kids, but he was never df'd, da'd, and he is still a minor. It's shocked me how quick this community are to drop their 'cherished' young ones.
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  I want serious answers from WT leaders, possible?

  by Powermetal4ever in

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  what would happen if i would write a physical letter to, for example, the branch office.

  and ask questions about scandals like the ngo thing and other stuff?

  or ask questions about wtbs economy, or ask for a annual report, which is something i would really like to read.

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  Tornintwo

  Out of interest on the same subject, if the body of elders suspects you have apostate thinking, or have read apostate stuff (whether or not you've written to the society) and then come to 'encourage' you, surely if you say; 'I'm really confused, I'm praying and reading my bible but I feel that this has stumbled me and I was hoping to find some answers......." and then take whatever counsel they give you, then Surely they can't do anything to you in terms of df-ing? I mean they're not the gestapo?! Or should I be more scared?
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  The brutal reality of JW teachings

  by Tornintwo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  these stats have just blown my mind, thought they might help another doubter too.. according to 2015 yearbook says 755 baptized daily, wow, sounds impressive right?.

  but the world population grows by 228,000 every day.

  (that's after deaths taken into,account).

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  Tornintwo

  Omg 'wonderful promises for all Jehovah's witnesses' so what about:

  Acts 10:34 ".. God is not partial, 35 but in every nation the man who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him."

  and John 3:16 "For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life."

  and John 14:6 Jesus said to him: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (No mention of any organization here!)

  What a weird bloodthirsty woman who would rather quote scriptures about death and destruction than the message of Jesus.
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  New Thought About Active J.W.'s

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from my own observations & conversations with selected active j.w.

  's, here are my conclusions:.

  's are very rapidly falling into two distinct camps -.

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  Tornintwo

  I thought everyone is in the dark, but went to a meeting tonight (family/fade) and 2 things struck me:

  the brother taking the book study kept trying to apologize if the scriptures we were highlighting made Jehovah sound harsh, 'could someone explain for anyone here for the first time that god is compassionate' and we can trust him to be merciful in the time of the end etc etc.

  the brother doing the closing prayer mentioned the 1:1000 ratio of JWs on earth, saying we need to preach as much as possible so that more can be saved...

  i thought, hmmm these 2 brothers are struggling with this....
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  The brutal reality of JW teachings

  by Tornintwo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  these stats have just blown my mind, thought they might help another doubter too.. according to 2015 yearbook says 755 baptized daily, wow, sounds impressive right?.

  but the world population grows by 228,000 every day.

  (that's after deaths taken into,account).

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  Tornintwo

  These stats have just blown my mind, thought they might help another doubter too.

  According to 2015 yearbook says 755 baptized daily, wow, sounds impressive right?

  but the world population grows by 228,000 every day. (That's after deaths taken into,account)

  the society are emphasizing that you have to be associated with 'Jehovah's organization' to be saved, growth has slowed to 2%, the latest July WT confirms that the message will change to a warning work in the 'gap' in the great tribulation but there will be no mass conversion.

  so every day Jehovah is 'patient' he will supposedly kill 227000 or so more children, nice.

  Ratio now approx 1:1000 JWs to general population, my daughter goes to a school with about 1000 kids, imagine all but one executed...

  not only that but a GB member Anthony Morris talks about these ones as 'burning flesh, like blackened hot dogs on a spit' in one of his more encouraging talks about 'a lotta dead people',.

  fancy sharing that good news with your neighbors?
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  What was your eye opening moment?

  by WasOnceBlind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if you had to pinpoint the time or experience that finally made you open your eyes, what would it be?.

  i think for me it was the time i saw my dad shun his brother who he had not seen in decades just because he was a da'ed jw.

  i thought to my self "no way jesus would do that.

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  I could never accept that only witnesses would survive at Armageddon, I internalized my own thoughts 'Jehovah is the judge and he is merciful etc'

  Then seeing first hand how much pressure the teenagers are under. They have to avoid association with their school friends whilst often not finding good friends in the cong, then as soon as they stray ever so slightly (eg. They spend a little time with 'worldly' friends), the jw 'friends' push them out. It's a lose lose situation. Then if they leave their whole community drops them instantly, conditional love.

  that led me to think about shunning and the effect on vulnerable young people..Around the same time I read the ridiculous WT not to even email your df'd children...

  On the subject of jw children I found newspaper articles about child abuse... deeply shocking, thought how can Jehovah be with this organisation?

  which finally allowed me to listen to my doubts, found silent lambs, then jw facts and this forum

  which lead me full circle to realize the society DOES teach only JWS will survive and that is arrogant and sick. 1:1000. With population growing by 228000 every day... more children to die at Armageddon.
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  My Story of Waking Up - in retrospect

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, many of y'all know bits and pieces of my story of waking up, but i thought it might be nice to have it all in one place.. i was baptized at 11, auxiliary pioneered every summer, regular pioneer at 17, ministerial servant by 19, then went to bethel for a year.. i always had minor doubts from time to time, but nothing serious.

  always dismissed doubts and decided to "just have faith.".

  after leaving bethel, i was never really firing on all cylinders "spiritually speaking.

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  Tornintwo

  'Duped' it's such a good word, I was asked this morning how I feel about all this waking up (by a counsellor) using one word, and I feel 'duped'. I hesitate to use the words betrayed or conned because I'm not convinced there is an evil motive, yet. But duped just sums it up, duped for over 20 years into making decisions that I would have made differently without this omnipresent pressure to do things the WTBTS way, NOT gods way. Lots of emotions....but it's nice to be awake and to glimpse freedom.
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  The Religion Of Rejection - And Now That Includes Me

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  due to some recent developments i find myself in a new place, and at this point i've lost all of my family and fri....oh that's right, i never really had any friends in the organization anyway.

  just people that wanted something from me and a few people that i would invite to do things that occasionally said yes.

  the recent rejections of me got me thinking, so let's take a rejection inventory.. i had to reject all of the holidays when my parents started studying.. i had to reject any worldly friends that i already had.. even family became rejected, and the new religion had some place in that.. i was rejected in school and bullied all of the time, not just because we were poor and i made good grades, but for jw reasons too.

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  Tornintwo

  So true that posting here really helps. I've only been researching my doubts for about 6 weeks, this site has become a kind of addiction.

  We have been so careful about what to say and who to say it to for so long, its so freeing to be able to say exactly what you think/feel and be supported.
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  My Story of Waking Up - in retrospect

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, many of y'all know bits and pieces of my story of waking up, but i thought it might be nice to have it all in one place.. i was baptized at 11, auxiliary pioneered every summer, regular pioneer at 17, ministerial servant by 19, then went to bethel for a year.. i always had minor doubts from time to time, but nothing serious.

  always dismissed doubts and decided to "just have faith.".

  after leaving bethel, i was never really firing on all cylinders "spiritually speaking.

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  Tornintwo

  Thank you cappytan! I love posts like this - definitely the most helpful posts on here are people's real experiences of leaving the org, certainly for newbies like me.

  Isn't it amazing how we let just one doubt in and the dominos all come tumbling down? And I love the fact that you were just conscientiously searching for information to back up your teaching to someone else, its not like you were looking for excuses to go and live a wild lifestyle, like the witnesses try to imply about everyone who leaves.

  (no offense to you wild partiers out there - enjoy it!)

  You sound so like me when you first started reading on here, some of the posts are so irreverant and critical of the GB, you feel really naughty, but can't help giggling (especially when it comes to the crazy antics of AMIII)

  Where are you now? Are you fading/faded, do you still attend? How have your parents been? Sorry perhaps everyone else knows this. Any helpful tips about leaving quietly?