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My tale of woe

by serenitynow! in

i guess i should tell my story.

i'm a born in.

both parents are jw, they did the pioneer serve where the need is great thing.

James_Slash

So sorry to hear this story, but just another typical example of what mentality exists in the org.

If you are well liked, going to the meetings, putting hours in on field service then as far as the Elders are concerned then you are an 'asset' and deserving of praise - regardless if your conduct on the outside of the KH is questionable.

I wouldn't expect any justice from the Bethel.Without going into detail, but my Mother (still an active JW) wrote to them regarding a serious issue regarding slander and lying which was committed by a 'sister' in good standing. Instead of dealing with the issue in hand, they proceeded to tell my Mother that instead of focussing on what had happened, she needed to concentrate on improving her own spirituality and spending more time in prayer and service.

You have to remember that they are striving by all accounts to protect the name of the religion so they are not interested in peoples domestic problems. That may sound harsh, but that is the reality - especially if you have now left the org - as far as they are concerned you are a liar with an axe to grind, and that your Dad is an 'upstanding' member of the congregation.

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my own story

by James_Slash in

i've posted here on and off for the past couple of years, but i've never revealed my reasons behind leaving the watchtower.. when i was younger, i was brought up in the faith (i don't call it the 'truth' anymore for reasons i will explain later).

my father had not long died (he was not a jw) my mother had been converted in 1984.. like many, as a young child i often found the meetings boring.

i used to dread them and in particular the conventions.

James_Slash

I completely agree Mattieu.

Obviously, since the paedophile story broke then it became obvious that holy spirit does not appoint Elders or MS.

Like you said, it all depends on if you play golf with the Elders on a Saturday after the field service. lol

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my own story 2

by James_Slash in

i got up to the point where i spoke about my daughter.. so in 2007 i was stopped from seeing my daughter by my ex-wife with the help of her good standing jw family.. my mother is still a jw and remains as one.

we both suffered lies and slander perpretrated by this family which continues to this day.

in late 2007 i was cleared of any wrong doing and i retained a relationship with my daughter.

James_Slash

Hi,

I got up to the point where I spoke about my daughter.

So in 2007 I was stopped from seeing my daughter by my ex-wife with the help of her good standing JW family.

My Mother is still a JW and remains as one. We both suffered lies and slander perpretrated by this family which continues to this day. In late 2007 I was cleared of any wrong doing and I retained a relationship with my daughter. Against my wishes, my Mother contacted the Bethel with regard to the slander and lies that had been told. I had already reached the conclusion that the Bethel were corrupt and do not follow the teachings of the bible so I wasn't expecting much from them. They didn't disappoint. They wrote back with the idea that in order for my Mother to feel better then she needed to focus on improving her own spirituality.

If it hadn't already, I guess the above made my decision to completely leave the faith for good. I couldn't see how I could attend meetings and conventions crossing paths with my ex-wifes family in this so-called 'United Brotherhood'.

I still retain 2-3 JW friends but as my research grows and my distrust of anything 'Jehovahs Witness' then I can't see this continuing for much longer. Since 2008 I launched into a new relationship with my current partner and now we live together and have a 6 month old son and I am so much happier in myself and not having to live a lie.

Recently I met up with the Elder I spoke about in part one. He still seems disappointed that I have decided to turn my back on the faith. He doesn't seem to understand my reasonings, but it goes a lot deeper than the issues that I have outlined above.

I feel extremely uncomfortable about the constant policy changes with regard to the blood issue and generation and that doesn't include how difficult it is to comprehend the damage that has been done to victims of paedophilia in the religion. There is also the issue with the UN collaboration.

I also felt uncomfortable by the actions of many people. Many who I know still knock doors but are fornicators and drunkards. Elders children are protected by their Fathers position when it comes to wrongdoing or public reproof. What ever happened to keeping the congregation clean?

In summary, I am delighted that I am free of this evil cancer. Unfortunately, like many the JW thought process still plagues me and it will take me a long time to recover from this. I am 30 now and I live with the nightmare of my brainwashed past every day.

This is why I am so concerned for my daughter. My ex-wife has since moved away from her family and she has a new partner and has stayed away from the JW faith. However, on occasions my daughter has raised things that she could have only learnt in the KH. This petrifies me. I have told my ex-wife that I don't feel comfortable with her being involved whatsoever and I think she has taken this on board.

It is strange, but when I meet with any of my old JW friends, it seems a million miles away from where I am now. I actually pity them. Yet, they still try to convince me to give up my life and return to the faith. It will never happen. I have sacrificed far too much for a faith which believes in condoning wrongdoing, moving goalposts and treating the underprivileged like dirt.

I'm sorry if I've rambled on here but I really wanted to tell people that there is a way out if you want it. Its all about analysing the JWs for what they are actually about and you'll know if it is right or not.

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my own story

by James_Slash in

i've posted here on and off for the past couple of years, but i've never revealed my reasons behind leaving the watchtower.. when i was younger, i was brought up in the faith (i don't call it the 'truth' anymore for reasons i will explain later).

my father had not long died (he was not a jw) my mother had been converted in 1984.. like many, as a young child i often found the meetings boring.

i used to dread them and in particular the conventions.

James_Slash

I've posted here on and off for the past couple of years, but I've never revealed my reasons behind leaving the Watchtower.

When I was younger, I was brought up in the faith (I don't call it the 'truth' anymore for reasons I will explain later). My Father had not long died (he was not a JW) my Mother had been converted in 1984.

Like many, as a young child I often found the meetings boring. I used to dread them and in particular the Conventions. However, when I was 12 (1992) an Elder took me under his wing and offered to work with me in the ministry and we became good friends. We would often do things socially as well and he really took time out to always be on call if I needed someone to talk to.

His involvement was the catalyst to me 'progressing' in the Faith. I appreciated his influence and he gave me some extremely good advice in life in general.

I was baptised in 1996 at the age of 16 and a large part of this was down to this Elder. At that point I felt on top of the world. I believed that I could achieve anything I wanted to in the Faith.

Over the following four years I followed the religion to the letter of the law. I attended at conventions,, doubled the national average in field service, read the Watchtower, did talks, did public prayers and practically ran the sound and microphones single-handedly as the sound servant was never at the KH. My ambition was to become a MS and I was certainly on the right path.

However, in 2000 I was overlooked to become a MS and someone else (who hadn't been in the faith as long as me) was appointed. This destroyed my belief and my love for the faith was over. I met someone in the 'world' and I was later reproved. Again, I took the advice that was given to turn my life around by getting back to the level I was once at, but things never recovered. The so-called 'spiritual' friends I once had deserted me and I was left with friends on the 'fringe of the congregation'.

I would often sit motionless at the meetings after that. I was disinterested and would often think about what I was going to do when I returned home. I had made friends with people who would have been classed as 'unspiritual' and we would often go clubbing and drinking.

Obviously, my conscience troubled me given the brainwashing that had taken place over the past 4-5 years.

Then in 2004 I met a 'sister'. We got married quickly yet it was the biggest mistake. I was expected to live life now as a spiritually driven married man, but I couldn't be untrue to myself but I thought I was doing the right thing. During that time I researched the JW Faith via the internet and found many inconsistancies. She had also turned her back on the faith following marriage. We had a little girl in 2006 and we eventually separated in 2007. My ex-wife also had a strict upbringing with her Grandmother and following our separation her Grandmother and so-called spiritual JW family helped my ex-wife block contact between me and my daughter for 10 months.

I will continue this in part two.

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JW Facebook Group - anarchy at the Memorial LMAO

by James_Slash in

i'm sorry but i haven't a clue how to link this so i will just put the address.. http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=342204186793.

this group has been set up by a guy that i knew from my days in the org.

he is the biggest hypocrite going.

James_Slash

I actually agree with Keyser to a degree. I would have gone there with newspaper clippings of JW child abuse scandals and documentational proof from WT literature showing evidence of changes in doctrine. Ranting and raving about 'Jesus' isn't going to win anybody over. But if you knew this guy Chris, you would have paid money to see this.

I remember years ago he turned up at the KH with a lunatic who he'd met in the park en-route. He brought her to the meeting and she started ranting and raving during the public talk. He is a clown, with a chequered history but now on his 'holier than thou' act. A typical JW.

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JW Facebook Group - anarchy at the Memorial LMAO

by James_Slash in

i'm sorry but i haven't a clue how to link this so i will just put the address.. http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=342204186793.

this group has been set up by a guy that i knew from my days in the org.

he is the biggest hypocrite going.

James_Slash

Michael Belkin has probably crippled the site with his post LMAO

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JW Facebook Group - anarchy at the Memorial LMAO

by James_Slash in

i'm sorry but i haven't a clue how to link this so i will just put the address.. http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=342204186793.

this group has been set up by a guy that i knew from my days in the org.

he is the biggest hypocrite going.

James_Slash

I'm sorry but I haven't a clue how to link this so I will just put the address.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=342204186793

This group has been set up by a guy that I knew from my days in the org. He is the biggest hypocrite going. It wasnt so long ago that he was D/F for fornication and now he's back in the 'truth' and 'doing well' he thinks he is a direct link to God.

I loved his story regarding the Memorial night disruption.

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Paedophile used religion to keep abuse secret

by behemot in

paedophile used religion to keep abuse secrettuesday, march 30, 2010, 06:30a paedophile raped and sexually assaulted women and girls over a period of 40 years by using their religion to keep the abuse secret.. despite one revealing it to the jehovah's witness elders, no help was given, a court heard.. now george arthur cockerill, 78, has been jailed indefinitely after he admitted 19 rapes, four counts of sexual activity with a child, six counts of indecency with a child, one sex assault and two counts of indecency with a child.. judge roger thorn qc, sitting at hull crown court, said: "you have pleaded guilty to 32 serious counts that reflect your sexual depravity.. "the reality is that, from beginning to end, it is extended over 40 years.

you have wasted your life and caused untold misery.. "as one victim said, you have stolen her childhood.. "you have been the most terrible hypocrite, passing yourself off as a law-abiding member of the community and using religion as a tool of subjection to control your victims.. "that is why i'm satisfied this remained a secret for so long.".

cockerill was sentenced to imprisonment for public protection for a minimum of six years.. he will not be released until the parole board believe he is no longer a danger.. cockerill, of hull, was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.. he allegedly had five victims, three of whom were subject to the convictions he pleaded guilty to and two more have made allegations against him.. police believe there could be more.. in a statement read to the court, one victim said: "he took my childhood away.".

James_Slash

Another one of 'Jehovahs holy spirit appointed Elders' abusing children. How far down the blasphemy route do the WT Society want to take this when judgment day arrives?

This was a classic response from an Elder I once knew when I asked him about how they appoint someone to an Elder/MS.

"We pray for Holy Spirit when making the decision to appoint someone to a position of responsibility. Then we get the Bethel to rubberstamp it".

I guess they can blame it on Jehovah now.

Two in a week Jordan...your argument is fast falling apart.

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Someone going for it on this UK parents website...hats off!

by James_Slash in

jw
friends

http://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/lifestyle-8/faith-religion-97/353422-cold-calling-johovahs-witnesses-3.html.

page three...there is a joanne using 'classic' jw terminology.

i guess whoever richard b is, he's hammered her into touch!

James_Slash

http://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/lifestyle-8/faith-religion-97/353422-cold-calling-johovahs-witnesses-3.html

Page three...there is a Joanne using 'classic' Jw terminology. I guess whoever Richard B is, he's hammered her into touch! lol

A similar dispute going on here between the same two:

http://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/lifestyle-8/faith-religion-97/376400-honest-advice-jw-ex-jw-needed-please-5.html

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There is life after Jehovahs Witnesses

by James_Slash in

i've been a member on this site for a number of years but i have never posted what i really think of the jw's and the org.. i left about 10 years ago - mentally.

but i have only made the long term decision to leave and never go back over the past 2-3 years.. it was difficult.

i have family and many friends who i still converse with on a regular basis.. being on the outside now i see what a major farce and a hypocritical state of affairs it all really is.. i often hear the comment "only people in the truth are really happy" and being a friend 'on the outside' many of my associates on the inside are far to easy to reveal exactly what they get up to when they are not at meetings or out knocking doors.. pre-marital sex, drunkenness, nightclubs, dating websites...the list goes on and on.

James_Slash

Whatistruth...I am extremely sorry you are stuck in such a quandry. I have got to the stage in life where I don't see the point in wasting my life on anything which doesn't improve my standard of life. Thanks to the WT Society, I have never put forth the effort in employment or education and now I find myself 30, unemployed with no hope of finding a decent job.

Between 1996-2000 were my strongest, most zealous (or what I'd like to now say "brainwashed") years in the org. I was a glutton for WT Propaganda. I got to the stage where I wouldn't watch any film with swearing or violence. My other passion however was football (or Soccer) as it was called in the US. On Sundays, the CO would organise matches with other congregations. Often these matches became overly competitive and often ended in near-violence. This is no joke, it was true.

To sum it up, one Sunday years ago we had a talk given at our hall by an Elder from a nearby congregation. It was all about the power of prayer and keeping a close relationship with Jehovah. He attended the Soccer match following the meeting and after becoming overly competitive and aggressive during the game looked at the sky and said with a smirk "I had better pray to Jehovah tonight for forgiveness for my behaviour". All the people (including Elders) were in earshot and all laughed with him. I remember thinking at this point (I was 10/11 years old) whether being a JW was serious or whether it was all a joke?

I think the difference between WT propaganda and application is another major issue which made my decision to leave. Brothers and Sisters would often comment how the talk/WT study on Sunday had moved them yet I saw little or no application at all. This again pointed towards that many JW's said one thing and did another. To quote the NWT : "Faith without works is dead".

I am just glad that I am not alone. I still believe in God and Jesus Christ and still put my faith in them. However, the WT Society have already been exposed that they are not God's representatives on earth.

Charles Taze Russell founder of the WT, links to the Satanic Bloodlines and Maisonry, false predictions, blasphemy, broken promises, colluding with the UN, a large mass hypocritical following who live double lives, destruction of the family unit, paedophilia, major changes in blood transfusion policies...I could go on for hours.

Would Jesus Christ affiliate himself with the above? That is why they are not Gods representatives.

James_Slash

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