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  I finally spoke to my parents. Best thing I did.

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  several month ago i finally got up the courage to speak to my parents about the reasons i left the borg.

  up until then things were brewing up inside me to the point where i thought i would explode in rage.. even though they were aware of the basic reasons they still had no idea about how angry i was.. friday afternoon i started by asking my mother that i would like to arrange a meeting between the 2 of them and my wife and i to discuss the 't'.

  i didn't want to get into detail at this stage because it would be unfair on just her without my elder dad being there.

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  martinwellborne

  You were so right on the point that you as their son have a right to be listened to by them. well done.
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  My Story - This is long...

  by GetOverIt in

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  here's my story everyone, .

  okay, my parents became witnesses when i was 3 or 4. i remember them both getting baptized together.

  i have 3 little ones and they were all 2.5 years apart at that time.

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  martinwellborne

  Have a happy life
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  What does freedom from the Watchtower mean to you?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  thoughts?

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  martinwellborne

  shit. almost totally lost. but am feeling my way, with a lot of help from people near by
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  -Turns out I was ALWAYS an "apostate".

  by Awakened07 in

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  2. friends

  a recent post by jcanon (of all people, lol) jogged my memory and brought back (repressed?

  ) memories from when i was just a kid.

  i remembered that i was constantly thinking - thinking of all that i learned as a jw (and at school/elsewhere), but i was always able to look at it from "outside the box" even as a kid.

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  martinwellborne

  watch that independent thinking
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  WHERE DID CLAYTON WOODSWORTH GET HIS BIZARRE IDEAS FROM?

  by badboy in

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  any ideas?

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  martinwellborne

  he was one of the originals, didn't he get booted out?
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  Dumped On.

  by RollerDave in

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  tis the season, so to speak.. this is the time of year the darkness descends like a proclamation of doom, and the light retreats like a rank and filer encountering an actual, thinking, reasoning person during the failed misery.. i don't exactly operate at a hundred percent in the dark and cold, ironic considering where i live.. so one day, we have a relatively clear parking pad, and the next we get a ton of white shit dumped on us.. such lovely fun, shoveling all the global warming from the drive.. got to take the truck out and let it strut it's stuff, that bad ol' aposta-truck was in it's element and unstoppable.

  like the unfailing assault of reason on the last tendrils of mind control left in my wetware.. see, i've been thinking again, in spite of all the trouble it's gotten me in before it's a hard habit to break.

  i drive around and everybody is getting their christmas on, and i have always felt so smug that i 'knew better'.. see, here is the witless take; you gotta get all vestiges of pagan influence out of your life, no saturnalia, no lupercalia, no all hallows eve, no 'bless you' to a sneeze, no 'pot lucks', bleh blah yadda.. yet, every day of the week and month of the year is named for a pagan deity, the planets are too.

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  helluva long post
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  My wife FINALLY quits Witnessing and Meetings admits I was right!!!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for afew years a have been fading and telling my wife how i feel about such false doctrines as blood transfusions, 607 b.c.e date etc.

  at first she would say "don't talk to me about discouraging things!!

  " since i haven't been attending meetings or field service for over 2 years she has slowly quit 1. witnessing, then 2. theocratic school which she hated anyway but was forced to do.

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  its good you are together on this now.
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  When You Left The "Truth" Did You Have Any 2nd Thoughts?

  by minimus in

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  were you 100% sure that your decision was correct?.

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  not really since i have never been that close to anybody in the borg, even though i went for over 20years and believed it for over 30. but

  there needs to be truth just as there needs to be love, shit! i just think they have taken a good thing and messed it up bigtime, but hey isn't that what happened with the reformation
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  Why aren't all of the Annointed at Bethel?

  by nomoreguilt in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this really bothers me.

  i've been reading up latelty alot about the gb and it's relationship to or lack there -in of the annointed.

  jesus' spirit begotten followers, here on earth, the citizens of the new jerusalem, make up the faithful and discreet slave, correct?

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  Was there not a question from readers or something lately telling any anointed in congregations that they must follow the directions from the elders and not try to interfere???????
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  The Greatest Movie of all times...

  by zeroday in

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  rocky 1... what's yours...

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  The ODD Couple.

  so funny