Topics Started by wildfell

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OTWO and others with mates still in....please help!!!!!!
by oompa in
1. jw
2. friends
i have always been a very social person with many friends....a bit of a partier my whole life.

my wife of 11 years is not like that, and not like me in so many other ways....but hey, we had the third cord in our marriage (not god...wt).

now since i am leper now, i have virtually no social life.
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Newbies Exiting the Witnesses - How Do You Feel ? Steve Hassan Explains
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
hello folks, how are you ?

i am just about done reading the steve hassan book, " combatting cult mind control".

thought i would share some of the points here for newbies and all others to see just what a person exiting a cult, or jehovah's witnesses might go through psychologically so they can better know how to deal with the various emotions of anger, guilt , and sadness that can accompany leaving the witnesses.
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Wow, I can't believe I'm doing this....
by megawatt in
1. jw
2. experiences
welp...

it's been a crazy ride for over 25 years, pretty much raised as a witness (ever since i could remember), rebelled against my parents, came back, straighten out for a little while, married within "the truth", but the last 5 to 7 years, i've been seriously questioning the changes and doctrines established by the wts.

never thought i would be looking from this side of the fence.
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this could make you laugh or be really angry !
by looloo in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i recently bumped into a jw i know that told me that her watch had been pinched at an assembly , she then went on to tell me that a lot of worldly people go to assemblys ,so she should have been more carfull !!!!!!!

this is someone that knows im "worldly" i was gobsmacked when i had recovered from my shock i informed her that i would not dream of stealing something despite being "worldly".

i dont even think she realised how offensive it sounded and she is not usually a judgemental person , so it must be all that self righteous association she has been mixing with lol
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Confronting my JW teachings and beliefs. Just read Crisis of Conscience.
by digderidoo in
1. jw
2. friends
i have just finished reading crisis of conscience by raymond franz.

i only stumbled across this book on wednesday in the town library while waiting for a public computer.

the last couple of days in the uk has seen miserable weather which has effected my work so i have had plenty of spare time to read this book.
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Newbies - Tell Us What You Dealing with - Getting out of the Witnesses
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
hello newbies and all others !

with all of the newbies the last few months joining the board i wanted to provide a thread for them to express what stresses they are going through in exiting the jehovah's witness cult .

so please all newbies- we are happy you are here , tell us what you are going through , and some of us will help if we are able to.
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WELCOME NEWBIES - all of you! Check in here, I'm losing track of you.
by AWAKE&WATCHING in
1. jw
2. friends
i just saw the eighth post by botheyesopen.

i noticed aliciaj, dogaradodya, chicken little, cognac, hypnotic, mochalatte.. some have been welcomed and some have not.. .

we have so many i can't keep up so.... .
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How many Memorials have you attended and missed?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
since 1987, i must have went to about 16 memorials and missed about 5.
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As a Witness I Hated Personal Study- How About You ?
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
i started a serious thread on cult mind control- so i figured i'd start a sarcastic funny thread, or serious, your choice how to explore it , on personal study !

i got so sick and tired as a witness with that expression being crammed down my throat !

" personal study " they told us !
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Quotable Quotes; Please Add Yours ...
by compound complex in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the endeavor to compel all men to think alike on all subjects,.

culminated in the great apostasy and the development of the .

great papal system; and thereby the 'gospel,' the 'one faith,'.