http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dbfc4rclay&nr=1&feature=endscreen.
her blog.
http://jehovahs-witness-cult-control.blogspot.com/.
Welcome AC, your video was excellent. Nice breakdown of the talk.
It is impossible for others to understand what we are going through which is why forums like these are so important for us. Keep posting and keep us posted as to what is going on in your world.
Congratulations for getting out of the cult and learning "TTATT" we may not be able to bring the bORG down, but we can sure slow down their growth
last year i wrote a letter to the religion writer at the local paper.
didn't get very far...but thought i'd do it again.
can't hurt, right.. here it is:.
I hope it get's past their mind numbed, newspaper media brains. Though maybe they know that nobody really cares and they're just filling paper with ink because hardly anyone reads the newspaper anymore. For that matter, hardly anyone cares about the Jehovah's Witnesses nor are they interested in what they are doing for their weekend summer vacation.
remember the drama about persecution,suffering, that a modern-day job experiences?
the jw's under ban in a " landmark ruling", our faithful brother conversing with job in the new world, it' all too wonderful!
especially job wearing pants and a tunic style shirt!
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT:
From now on only married people are allowed to hold hands but only in their bedroom and the door must be closed.
are the governing body, 8 pope-ettes, just jealous?.
what group of people doesn't want their finest minds to be educated?
(facepalm) .
When people get educated, it is much harder to fool and control them.
Which is why I don't understand why they haven't founded there own institution of higher learning (JWU) or they could call it "Rutherford University"
that way they could control what people learn and still keep them in their control
i have thought a lot about what to say when i am approached.
it will kill my fade, but oh well.. "after the new light i had to test my faith and i couldn't prove to myself that the slave was limited to the governing body.".
if cornered by an elder...."can you prove to me from the scriptures that matt.
I agree with whathappened
i purchased a condo late last year and due to my personal schedule, i wasn't able to redo it to my preferance until a few months ago.
all the heavy work is done.
now just replacing electrical outlets, fixtures and such.
years ago, I took all of my boxes of old WT books and magazines to a KH nearby and stacked them in front of their door early one morning.
On top of the boxes I attached a large piece of paper with the scripture from Eccl "to the making of many books there is no end....."
we all were told, even in these stupid songs we sang at the kingdom hall that our brothers would die for us because they loved us so much!
they had the love of jesus christ so deep, they would do anything to make sure we stayed aboard the patterson ark.. .
now i can't create a fancy time-line like the july 15, 2013 watchtower that shows all those cool pictures and charts.
Never, never ever.
And we were pillers in the cong. I was an elder and PO, my wife was a support to those that had problems and I provided good jobs for some who would have had to struggle.
But I don't care and at this point in my life, would not want to see or get involved with any of them. I have moved on.
so while making a you tube video of my dad today, i came across this in a dvd of home movies from way back, i didn't even know about it... originally shot on super 8 film, shot off screen with camcorder in 1992, with open mic, transfered to dvd in 2010 .. made to you tube in 2013.... check out the food service, without paper plates no less .. it's only a couple minutes on convention then, a little seatle conventions were a family vacation when we were growing up ... .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teslivkoak4.
I'm quite familiar with Seattle, nice to see some shots of the city taken way back when.
What year was that taken?
I wonder what stadium it was held in.
my name may be a bit premature...because i'm actually still active within the org, but i guess you could say i've already "left" in my heart.
i'm just scared to take the first steps, because i don't know any "ex's" in my neck of the woods, and i'm very scared of loosing my family.
i just need someone to talk to.. .
Welcome,
It sounds like the best thing you can do is take it slow and start a gradual fade. Depending on your circumstance, you could fiegn some sort of malady like depression or anxiety. These work well because so many of the rank and file witnesses have either or both of these.
My fade was based on my high blood pressure which I did have while on the watchtower wheel (two BP medications per day) down to one small med now and now BP problems.
Depending on how close you are to your family this tactic may very. Use your imagination on what excuses you start to use for missing meetings.
that comes with being disfellowshipped for reading "apostate" literature.
the movie is on youtube i would post the link but i am not sure if we can do that... (copyright and all).
at the 24 minute mark she is at a mall with this worldl guy and sees her df'ed brother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIDwXYACfmM
It's broken up into 8 sections on you tube this is the link to part one
