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  EXJW Book Reading in Atlanta

  by The Doc 58 in

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  i have a reading scheduled on may 15th in atlanta, ga. it is a new restaurant called the lamplighter cafe.

  as an exjw, my book is about the experiences me and my friend faced gowing up in the religion and trying to be normal adults.

  my book is called 'the colon chronicles'.

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  Also Nathen, yes, it will be available in English, Gibberish, and Asshole (your native language).
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  When there is dead end in your life...

  by justhuman in

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  after being disfellowshiped from the wt, i was born in the "truth", i find it hard to start a new life.

  i was for 6 years innactive, and 2 years that i have been disfellowshiped.

  unfortunately i didn't had any college degree and i have hardly finished high school.

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  The worst dead end period of my life was spending the summer solstice in Anchorage, Alaska with Nathan Natas

  Seriously, though, I can understand your plight. I had a career and college education, etc, but when I became depressed after trying to adjust to life outside the organization and shunning, etc. I couldn't keep my job. I make a lot less money, but at least the stress is not as bad.

  Have you tried therapy or medication? That has helped me a lot.
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  EXJW Book Reading in Atlanta

  by The Doc 58 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have a reading scheduled on may 15th in atlanta, ga. it is a new restaurant called the lamplighter cafe.

  as an exjw, my book is about the experiences me and my friend faced gowing up in the religion and trying to be normal adults.

  my book is called 'the colon chronicles'.

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  Sorry Nathan, I only gave talks in the B-school.
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  wackjob response to my inquiry

  by DaCheech in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today i approached this elder in the hallway to pick his brains.. i said: "i've seen a couple of buildings sold in brooklyn?

  is there plan to sell all and move out"?.

  he said: "brother these are truly the last of minutes, and day there might not even be any bethel in us...... the persecution is going to be so extreme that bethel might be in...... rome, islands, or bla bla".

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  Yes, clearly a wackjob.
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  EXJW Book Reading in Atlanta

  by The Doc 58 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have a reading scheduled on may 15th in atlanta, ga. it is a new restaurant called the lamplighter cafe.

  as an exjw, my book is about the experiences me and my friend faced gowing up in the religion and trying to be normal adults.

  my book is called 'the colon chronicles'.

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  Hey Nathhhan Natessss:

  I am still slightly retarded from JW youth indoctrinationnnn, so I uck up on grammarrr and speeling. Forgive me if I am coming here for support, I didn't realize I would be critiqued with a fine toothed comb like I was in the JWS. I am coming here to get away from that and I have written a book and published it to be an inspiration to people that are scared. If negativity is what you are bringing through sacrastic and useless comments then don't respond to my posts, go celebrate Mikael Bakunin while singing song number 118 in your written review boxer shorts.

  Thanks Valvetann, you are a nice person and I look forward to you reading my book.

  Now's the time.

  Benton
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  EXJW Book Reading in Atlanta

  by The Doc 58 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have a reading scheduled on may 15th in atlanta, ga. it is a new restaurant called the lamplighter cafe.

  as an exjw, my book is about the experiences me and my friend faced gowing up in the religion and trying to be normal adults.

  my book is called 'the colon chronicles'.

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  Nice questions, I appreciate the feedback. Yes, I do not use the usual JW jargon i nsome cases in the book. There are two reasons for this.

  1. When i started writing the book I was still a JW and married to a JW and I guess I was doing some sort of disguise so maybe I could still publish the book. Any exjw or jw can very easily see that what I am talking about is the jws.

  2. Yes, I did want to make my book a little more univeral to all people that have face situations and circumstances where they don't belong or feel extremely uncomfortable with their surroundings.

  I have a degree in literature. I was a public school teacher in english for seven years, so my book is not just a sensationalized version of life in the jws. It is a book with literary merit that deals with the subtle nuances of growing up and being a JW. My name is Benton Fazzolari and I grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. I attended the Lackawanna and Southside Congregations. I was a JW and so where all my friends. My family lives in Las Vegas. My father is an elder/pioneer, my brother elder.pioneer, my sister ex-bethelite/pioneer, my mother a pioneer, etc. So, I lived it and it hurts. As I mentioned I am in therapy and on meds. I have made a great recovery and written this book. I live in Los Angeles, but my wife is from Atlanta, so we visit back.

  Velvetan, i am sending you your book tomorrow.

  Please ask more questions. I am exorcisinf my soul and I KNOW that anybody that reads my book will understand.

  And I encourage all of you to be yourself and don't disguise who you are by a username, etc. I am out and I know who I am, despite shunning, etc.

  Thanks,

  Benton
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  EXJW Book Reading in Atlanta

  by The Doc 58 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have a reading scheduled on may 15th in atlanta, ga. it is a new restaurant called the lamplighter cafe.

  as an exjw, my book is about the experiences me and my friend faced gowing up in the religion and trying to be normal adults.

  my book is called 'the colon chronicles'.

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  I have a reading scheduled on May 15th in Atlanta, GA. It is a new restaurant called the Lamplighter Cafe. As an exjw, my book is about the experiences me and my friend faced gowing up in the religion and trying to be normal adults. My book is called 'The Colon Chronicles'. My avatar is the cover. For a description of the book you can go to the publishers website: www.junetwentyninthpublishing.com or go to here: http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Benton-Fazzolari-Watchtower-Jehovahs-Witness/dp/0615194370/ref=tag_stp_st_edpp_ttl

  If you are interested in coming to the book reading, please let me know. I can give you directions and so forth. Again, it is in downtown Atlanta. Here is a link to the location: http://www.junetwentyninthpublishing.com/629promotionalevents.html

  Also, here is an excerpt from my book. A large part of the content of my book is humor. Although living through the ordeal of surviving those truly uncomfortable social situations as a jw was painful. Humor can found during the reprogramming of the mind. Enjoy:

  Here is an except which shows a JW character getting that visit of encouragement from the elders: Fisher's glowing explanation was interrupted by a knock on the door.Two Alfred Hitchcockesque silhouettes stood outside holding brief cases.Rich's eyes opened, he wiped drool off his mouth and felt frightened.His fear was confirmed when Fisher completely abandoned his treatise entitled, "Of Gravity Bong" and shouted to Rich, "Rich, Rich, it's a couple of old guys from your church."

  "Ahhhhh.What do they look like?"

  "They're both obese and bald.One has some severe razor burn and the other has a clip on tie.It looks like the slightly fatter guy hasn't shined his shoes in a decade."

  "Shit."The unkempt shoes gave it away. Brother Michael Beagley was visiting with "encouragement" and at that moment it started to rain.

  Fisher did what he knew would really perturb Rich.He let the obese churchmen inside.Immediately, Brother Beagely's large enflamed nostrils contracted with condescending energy.Then he glanced quickly to the other fat man, Brother Collar, and nodded with his dangling chin flapping one step behind.A whisper could be heard, "Smells like grass."

  "Hi there Fisher, is Richard available?"

  Fisher had a choice and of course chose the thing that would most upset Rich."Yes, I'll get him."He walked down the short hall, opened the bedroom door and stepped with one bare foot onto some tweezers covered in cat excrement.Fisher recognized it as Blinky's shit."Rich, your church elders are here to encourage you."Rich stumbled from the bed and walked to the living room.

  "Hello, Brother Stadium," said Brother Beagley, "this is Brother Collar.Brother Collar, this is Brother Richard Stadium.We were in the neighborhood visiting Brother Chuck Knox, so we thought we'd stop by and talk for ten minutes.Can we have a seat?"

  "Sure" said Rich.

  "Brother Stadium, it seems like you've been toting the line lately with your conduct, association, and attitude in general.Do you realize that bad association spoils useful habits?In fact, let's look at that scripture, shall we?"

  Rich walked into his bedroom, head down, and searched intensely for his bible.It was an early nineteen seventies green edition with his name etched in pseudo gold leaf on the bottom left hand corner.It was a gift from a Ugandan church member twenty-three years his elder and ten years earlier.They read the scripture together.Just behind the skin of his forehead his skull trembled insanely.He thought he could feel the fixed joint separating like the crusts of land under ocean waters.He could sense the tendons in his knees aging rapidly.

  "It seems that you're missing several of our church meetings.I noticed that you've missed twenty three of the last thirty one meetings, most of which are on Thursday night, can you explain yourself?"

  "I've been busy."

  "Too busy for the lord."

  "Well, I've been under stress from…"

  "If you come to the meetings then that stress will disappear."

  "But you don't understand, the church meetings give me stress."

  "WHAT! That's crazy.The church is a place of refuge from this evil and corrupt world."

  "My parents…"

  "Listen, we could all blame our parents.My parents were Catholic, now what could be worse than that?"Brother Collar piped in, "Did your parents ever force you to speak in tongues?"

  "No, but…"

  "Your parents raised you the right way.Read this, it says, 'Do not forsake the gathering of yourselves for to incite to fine works.'Do you know what incite means?It means to sharpen.I sharpen you, you sharpen me."

  As much as Rich wanted to rejoice in that reciprocal formula and as much as he admired the behemoth eloquence spraying from the church elder's mouth, he couldn't agree.His central nervous system wouldn't let him; neither would his colon.But he did comply.

  "I will be at the next meeting."

  "Well, that's just fine Brother Stadium."

  Rich thought the visit was over and was about to thank the churchmen and walk them to their cars, much like the conclusion of an average nineteen fifties date, but it wasn't over.
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  Who has lost faith?

  by logic&reason in

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  2. experiences

  i am curious about who (after leaving) went on to other religions vs. lost faith completely.

  once i started questioning the wt society, i began to question everything.

  as jw's we are taught from childhood up that other religions are false - so it seems easy, after elliminating the last one, to be rid of religion altogether.. .

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  I have lost faith.
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  Today I got diagnosed with PTSD... I thought only people that went to war

  by cognac in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  and things like that got ptsd... .

  anyways, my husband and i talked and i said that i can't take the anxiety of going to the meetings anymore, so either i'm not going or i'm bringing and ipod or something... he's very supportive.

  he felt bad about pushing me to do it.

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  I have been diagnosed with PTSD as well. I recommend therapy and medication. They have both helped me. Also, I left all of the unhealthy relationships in my life, such as my parents, my exwife, and other jws. I know doing something like that takes a lot of time and planning, but you should start by establishing some non jw friends and possibly relatives. You'll need the support, but you also need to get healthy and leaving the jws is what will do it.
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  The Watchtower Society Shows Their True Colors Again

  by TooBad TooSad in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  in the new may awake magazine there is an article "is philanthropy the answer?

  i knew what the answer.

  was going to be before i even read it.

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  It's amazing how brainwashed jws are. Within five sentences of each other the society says we don't tithe or solitcit funds, but then they ask you to include them in your will. Why can't the jws see through this. It actually makes me really angry.