its was strange my comment on this thread 4 years ago and was clearly not what I was thinking at all, Dougs comment about " not being religious" really couldn't be further from the truth as I have first hand testimonies from friends who dared disagree with Doug on small doctrinal issues, points 1 and 2 are clearly not so either, also all those years back they passed my contact information to some nut who was a pastor at an evangelical church and who phoned me at very inconvenient and unplanned times ( bear in mind I was still married to a JW and the relationship was certainly struggling) and my wife was not only getting upset but incredibly suspicious about who these calls were from, he seemed kind of agitated and kept repeating how urgent it was that we meet, I dont know if I was being groomed for some sort of "exit counselling" I told ROT and this nut to take me off their so called support network, its was all very strange and weird.
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Is the Reachout Trust about to fold its tent for good?
by slimboyfat inas for a few others here, i know the reachout trust in the uk played a part in my mental journey away from the jws.
i get the reachout newsletter by email and the last few mentioned that they are scaling back their operations because of financial shortfall and that doug is no longer taking a wage.
i also wonder whether mike and ann thomas are no longer associated with the reachout trust because i can't find mention of them anywhere of the website.
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Cappytan has made a video. Here is the link
by joe134cd inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsbfnzrbiqq
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What I thought CLAM meant , can you think of anymore ?
by smiddy infor a while there i was confused as to what clam stood for .. ideas that crossed my mind .
christ left a ministry , or meeting .
children`s lives are mine .....( pedo`s in the borg ).
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Books I read when I deprogrammed
by OrphanCrow inblondie suggested someone start a thread with a list of books that are valuable to read when exiting the jws.. i will start.. i left the jws way back in the early 70s and didn't actually deprogram until into the 80s.. one of the first books i read was "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses" by gary and heather botting.
canadian exjws from calagary.
an excellent book and one that still resonates with young people today.
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What I thought CLAM meant , can you think of anymore ?
by smiddy infor a while there i was confused as to what clam stood for .. ideas that crossed my mind .
christ left a ministry , or meeting .
children`s lives are mine .....( pedo`s in the borg ).
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Did you KNOW Ray and Cynthia or the legal copyright holder? Only a few maybe had limited contact.
by blondie ini have known all of them over the last 15 years, talked at length with them, and knew what their wishes were, the copyright holder and spouse spent even more time with them socially and helping them set up their arrangements for when ray and cynthia passed.
i don't believe that anyone else on this board or others was a confidant.
there is no need to prove it to anyone but the copyright office which is satisfied with this.
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but if legitimate legal downloads had been made available from some time back it would have counteracted the bootleggers need to offer copies, how many times does this need to be repeated, its basic common sense and logic,its like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted and needn't have been like this -
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JW Expressions We Hate
by Socrateswannabe ini was browsing through stuff on jw.org recently and ran across some expressions that really grate on my nerves: loyal love, loving-care, and loving-kindness, as in: "please exercise loving-kindness toward your servant.
" who talks like that?
they must be relics of the fred franz era.
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I cant think of any that I would be pleased to hear ever, during my JC the jumped up PO of my cong was summoned to testify against me and did he enjoy so, his particular phrase which he like to use on me was "he may have been in the truth but he was never part of the truth"
what a tosser!
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Honeymoon over for the carts
by Deltawave inspeaking with inlaws i another congregation today who said exactly what is being said in our own hall.
the trolly work is long and boring and no one even notices they are there anymore but walk right on by.
jehovah really is speeding up the work lol.
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I had to almost choke on my tea about a particular experience by one of the brain dead who was explaining that the general public love to have to WT and Awake magazines to read on the trains/tubes and buses on their commute to work every morning! not only is that boast such an utter lie I take it she has not been on a train in the rush hour,even the free newspapers struggle these days, 99.9% of people are glued to their smarphones with earphones plugged in their ears -
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Your Jehovah’s Witness Is Showing
by David_Jay insince i just signed up and posted a few times without doing this yet, here is my story..
i think that i became a jehovahs witness because of my immaturity.
i had some quirky personality traits, and i joined finding that i fit in because, as i said to myself: these people get me.
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I really do get where you are coming from D_J, years of indoctrination, arguing, standing up for what you think is right no matter how absurd it is are personality traits that we take to our graves, I remember the first couple of years after coming out of the WTS and trying to assimilate and be accepted within the new group of friends I had made, and how awkward and difficult I must have been, I found personal relationships hard to maintain and wanted to remain isolated , I would often turn down requests to gatherings and party's etc because I preferred to be on my own, the lady you spoke of who uttered those words " your jehohvahs witness is showing" I'm sure would have been often spoken about me, but behind my back, and my new group of friends new nothing much about my previous life really at all and if they did you definitely didn't understand it . I sometimes wondered how they perceived me , sometimes I thought and felt I was a weird loner, maybe I still am -
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Honeymoon over for the carts
by Deltawave inspeaking with inlaws i another congregation today who said exactly what is being said in our own hall.
the trolly work is long and boring and no one even notices they are there anymore but walk right on by.
jehovah really is speeding up the work lol.
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thanks Paul for that chart, the magical 8000 hour mark is very close!