Posts by The-Borg

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My first post

by Dianna in

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friends

i was kind of skeptical about registering or even posting anything on this site but after a long struggle of going back and forth and after talking to a friend telling me that it would be good for me i decide to do it.

i grew up in a jehovah witness house hold.

it all was great a had a wonderful childhood but everything went down hill when i started to have my own opinion on things.

The-Borg

Dianna,

Welcome and congratulations. Leaving a cult can be a very difficult emotional wrench to your system. This might be why you are feeling depressed, it's a bit like going through the grieving process. Things you held dearly as truth have been taken away from you and lost or shattered. All this coupled with the loss of people who you thought of as life long friends. So just hang in there it does get better. Keep building up your knowledge and strength and try to make new friends. Never, never, never give up the right to have your own opinion on things again. You sound like a strong lady, so I'm sure you'll get through this just fine.

The-Borg.

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IS YOUR FEAR LESSENING?

by Dansk in

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friends

many here are afraid to come out into the open with their identity because they still have friends and family in.

however, it is noticeable that there are many newbies here and more and more exposes on watchtower.

do you, therefore, feel less intimidated or afraid now?.

The-Borg

Dansk, The fear has COMPLETELY gone, however my significant other has family members still in the collective. So I have to respect her wishes.

Looking forward to meeting you at the apostafest, I'll be there with Mrs Borg and a couple of others.

David.

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You can't blame The Truth anymore.

by wanderlustguy in

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friends

someone related a story to me a couple of months ago over the last few days it sunk in.

there was a time it was so easy for me to get mad and angry and virtually meditate on how the organization systematically stripped me and so many of my loved ones of their lifethe life that could have been.

real love was replaced with a recipe of what love is, putting god first and then defining what the perception of god was supposed to be, to include a group of men directed by a corporation that decides who we can or cannot speak to, as well as who we can or cannot love in the common sense of the word.

The-Borg

You are right of course. But people do need to go through these stages of fear, anger and grief before they can release themselves from th grip of th Watchtower. Spending the rest of your life obsessing about the Borg is not healthy and a person should move on at some stage.

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Why am I still fearful?!

by Maddie in

i've really been trying to put it out of my mind because i don't want to have these fears, but they wont go away!!.

i really thought that my mind was free from the mind control of the borg but i don't think it can be completely.

ever since reading the postings about all the changes they are going to make i feel panicky and i think it is because they can still get to me.. i don't want to feel like this and i am fighting against it but i am finding it is getting to me.. does anyone else on jwd have any of these fears still?.

The-Borg

Hi Maddie,

This is normal, we all go through it. Its the years of conditioning coming out. Just keep reading and learning and using your right to question everything.

If you still believe in the scriptures have a look at this:-

"‘However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. And in case you should say in your heart: "How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?" when the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With presumptuousness the prophet spoke it. You must not get frightened at him.’ Deut 18:20-22

Regards

David.

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Is it all just a 'Cosmic Crapshoot'?

by AK - Jeff in

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first my faith in the wts went away.. later my faith in religion [for purposes other than fellowship] went away.

to date, my faith in the existence of the 'great cause' remains, but is tarnishing in some respects.

i have no clear picture of what we really are, where we are really going, and why we exist.

The-Borg

I'm convinced there is a creator, evolution for me takes an even bigger leap of faith to believe in.

What I can't reconcile is the idea of a loving heavenly father. What possible reason can there be for the amount of suffering that has gone on and still continues. I have a horrible feeling our individual suffering is not that important to him.

The example of Job is a good one to look at, God obviously thought is was worth the argument to let Job's daughters be killed to prove a point.

Maybe it's a perspective thing, we don't care when we squash a bug do we?

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MONEY MONEY MONEY GIVE GIVE GIVE!!!

by Gill in

well, it's that time of the year again!!!.

the november the 1st watchtower is demanding money from the r and f and in no uncertain terms makes it clear that no matter how poor they are they should be giving their money to one of the richest companys in brooklyn, the watchtower bible and tract society!!.

the 'inspiring' article on page 17 is entitled:.

The-Borg

'A 14 year old girl wrote to the Cameroon branch of jehovah's Witnesses: 'After buying my school supplies for the year, I was able to sell two of last year's textbooks for 2500 francs ($5 US). I am contributing ($1.82 US ) from my savings. I would like to encourage you to continue the fine work you are doing. Thank you for the Watchtower and Awake! magazines. They make us think seriously.'

That's a disgrace, Cameroon is a third world country. These people have next to nothing and those crooks take their last pennies. They deserve to rot in Hades.

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