OMG YES!!!! I was 19.They (especially one. BROTHER SELFRIGHTEOUS UPCHUCK) went to my parents (even though I was out of school and working/living on my own) and told them HIS version. I didn't know this for 25 years. Several years afterward the initial event one "kindly" elder showed my mother "notes" on the meeting. No notes were written while I was in the room. In my 50's my mother and and I finally talked about it and figured out the real truth of the matter. I was not disfellowshipped but was publically "reprooved" reprooved at the initial event. Then followed 25 yrs of misunderstanding with my mom. Notto mention loss of friends.
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Do you regret confessing your sins to the elders?
by asilentone inyes, i do!
i did it 20 years ago, but the elders still remember what i did, sometimes i wish they never knew about it.
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Two books sent to me by xjw
by dogisgod ini just finished reading "i'm perfect, you're doomed" by kyria abrahams and am trying to hurry thru "the spanking room" by william coburn.
i would have laughed out loud at the first if it were not just an east coast version of my early years.
the second i don't think i can read too closely as it just goes over the same stuff only more of a guys view.
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I just finished reading "I'm Perfect, You're Doomed" by Kyria Abrahams and am trying to hurry thru "The Spanking Room" by William Coburn. I would have laughed out loud at the first if it were not just an east coast version of my early years. The second I don't think I can read too closely as it just goes over the same stuff only more of a guys view. I don't think I will read any more of these as they just kind of drag me back into the holy muck and egg life vision/version. They leave me kind of teary. Has anybody else read these?
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real fake friends
by diamondiiz ini wondered how did your "best" jw friends react to when you told them you're leaving wts?.
after i found out all i needed to know i called up my old friend who i thought was a good friend but i knew he was a die hard dub and i told him to write down a book and read it.
i was refering to russell's thy kingdom come.
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When I left it was during my divorce and that ache in your chest sometimes isn't there but then it can surface sometimes. I think it's called a broken heart. Life can be very dissappointing.
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Are YOU Shunned By Jehovah's Witnesses At All?
by minimus insome witnesses speak to me quite normally/.
others avoid me like the plague.. how are you treated by the witnesses?.
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Hi - new kid on th block
by nearlyfree ini have been looking at this website for about 2 months now and feel i am now ready to say hi and intoduce myself.i dont want to give out too much info at this point in time as i still am in the org, but have only been to 2 meetings since the district convention in august and last time i went out on service was in march.
i was basically raised in the truth as my parents became jw when i was 2. i was married in my late teens and after 21 years of being married to a total control freak he left me (yay).
anyway since me ex left, i had been doing a lot of thinking about being a witness, and i wasnt really going to a lot of meetings - just didnt feel like it.
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Welcome Kiddo.
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Living With Regret - what do YOU regret about being in the org?
by babygirl30 in1. getting baptized at 14 and not knowing what the heck i was 'signing' up for.
2. dating worthless, lazy, no work ethic, selfish 'brothers' who were supposedly approved all because they were baptized - but in the end - were a waste of my time and younger years in dating.. 3. subjecting my bf (back in the day) who was a non-jw to the whole jw experience!
i demanded that he study, i demanded that he change his religion in order to be with me, i made him sit with my parents and listened to them berate him (and myself) while they fed him all their haughty beliefs and requirements in order to date their jw daughter.
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I hear y'all. I regret all those years I lost to them. Not dating. Not having a childhood. But I'm pretty happy now. Now that my mom has died I don't hear anything about it . Just move on as best you can and it gets better.
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My life changing dilemma
by teel inhello all, although this is not my first post here, this topic was the main reason i joined here, so i can get different views on this.
my native language is not english, so i might make a blunder or two.
please bear with me, my story will be long.. as you can guess, i am a jw, and currently still am one, this is my 10th year.
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Ily feel for you and hope that if she will not go to counseling that you will treat yourself as the valuable man you are and go for yourself. When I was divorced I did not look forward to "being alone" but I found myself good company and I think the happier you WILL become will be very attractive to some wonderful thinking woman. When you have someone with somekind of mental illness combined with mind control it will not bode well for your future to be happy. It would only get worse. Just start with counseling and the great reading you are doing and keep us posted. Just wondering, can you move to another town? A new start with new people can be better than trying to reactivate people you have let go.
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New here
by Heartbreaker ini have no idea what i want to convey in words here on this site, and have surprised myself by even joining at all.
i intended just to read, and get a few pieces of information, and now am a member, and spend many hours looking through posts old and new alike.
i am a current jw, born into it, and lets just say i'm in my thirties, female, and a mom of more than your average kids.
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Hey Heart. Welcome. Yeah, the awakening is jolting. Don't beat yourself up about it. We are here for you no matter what happens. xoxo
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Were You Surprised By How Ted Kennedy Was Revered For His Life?
by minimus inteddy was considered by many as "the greatest senator" ever!
he was one sharp politician---no question about it!.
but his personal life was glossed over by the media and friends.
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I am not surprised at all. In church I lit a candle of sorrow since the pastor started the process of candles of joy and sorrows with mentioning the death of Teddy. It kinda of got my goat a bit so I lit a candle of joy for things he accomplished but mostly a candle of sorrow for all the women that this patriarcial family marginalized, denigraded, used and threw away not the least of which was Mary Jo Kopecnie, Marylin Monroe, his first wife Joan and hundreds of others we will never know about.
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Michael Vick convicted "Dog fight" organiser allowed by the NFL to play football again...you guys suck!
by Witness 007 inresponsible for organised dogfights and the death and torture of a huge number of dogs, michael vick can now play football again thanks to the nfl.
what kind of "sports superstar" example is this for our kids...the nfl have no morals and suck!
i hope he gets booed off the field...scumbag!.
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Michel Vicks should have to rehabilitate dogs used for fighting for the rest of his life. One dog at a time until a child can own it. Then he gets his nest dog to work on. During the complete time he must be in intensive psychoanalisis to rebuild a conscience and empathy.