ok maybe bias but at least there is some people out there exploring the possibilty of mental abuse, esp if raised, if raised in it, you dont have a mental illness or any personal problems to join it, you are just in it, I related to it as being brought up in it, the anguish of leaving if you are in a family of generations of JWS, your mental state when you know you are being lied to, you know its all wrong. The anguish of spending lots of important developemental years of your life in something that is a lie, you leave only to see that you have not got anything to show for all those hard years of work, apart from no education, no real friends lack of confidence when it comes to sex, who wants to start over again in their 30's 40's or 50's. Every dream you ever lived for, a lie.
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Article on Mental Health and witnesses
by chikikie inall i can say is wow!!
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http://www.seanet.com/~raines/mental.html.
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OBEY! T-Shirt Design for Ex-JW's
by sacolton ini couldn't find my earlier post, so .... here i am wearing my t-shirt:.
get yours today!.
http://www.cafepress.com/xjwtees.
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chikikie
a girlie v neck t would be more flattering for females, abit fitted lovely
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Article on Mental Health and witnesses
by chikikie inall i can say is wow!!
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http://www.seanet.com/~raines/mental.html.
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thanks, thought i did the link right, lol
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Article on Mental Health and witnesses
by chikikie inall i can say is wow!!
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http://www.seanet.com/~raines/mental.html.
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All i can say is wow!!
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Found this today - My Book of Bible Stories
by kurtbethel ini was looking in a thrift store and found this gem from 1978. .
quick!
hide it from your children!.
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come on Kurt it is hardly a book worth ripping apart.
why dont you rip apart others like the creator book etc or the young people ask.
I know it seems like Im defending this little yellow book, but really i cnt see what is gained by taking this one apart bit by bit. The Bible is a cruel book and some of the stories have particulry grim endings, but it does tell the stroies acurately, i mean if your going to be an adult, reading bible stories doctored to tell only half the story isnt that a dis-service to children anyway. Life doesnt always have an happy ending and awful things happen.
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Why do many of us keep refering to IT as "THE TRUTH"?
by ldrnomo inbecause that was the name the borg placed on it's religion, "the truth" it seems to be stuck with many of us.
i am making a concious effort to not refer to it as "the truth".. it is not the truth, it is not the way, and it is definitley not the life!.
so let's stop it people!.
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i opened the door to a couple of them by acciedent when I was staying at my sister beckys. They said 'Its Naomi isnt it' errr yes (obv not aware Im DAd) then i shouted at becky saying its the 'witnesses'. i called it the JWs or i refer to them as witnesses, not Jehovahs witnesses because I dont believe they are Gods people.
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What Its Like To Be A Gay Ex JW....
by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up ini guess its time to throw my little story out there.
i keep reading everyones stories and thinking how brave you have all been, coming out of the organisation and facing all the repercussions of doing so.. .
i only last august disassociated myself.
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Your story spag has really touched me, welcome to the board, and you are going to be ok! I moved away from all my friends in 2000 (the only way to leave the witnesses without gettting hassled!) to start a new life, I have made close friends now and am happy in my worldly life. Sometimes I think about going back but its always around my baptism anniversary and is a brief time of anxiety in which it helps to read posts on here to help me keep my resolve! Anyway I look forward to your many many thoughts and reflections!
take care hunny! and WELCOME!!!
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Found this today - My Book of Bible Stories
by kurtbethel ini was looking in a thrift store and found this gem from 1978. .
quick!
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Children are funny creatures, as a child when i read them, i never really understood the details anyway, i mean i thought the solomon staory was my favourite, as well as the Daniel story and the LOt story, never really noticed the killing part. Funny as a child you gloss over what you dont really understand, its only as an adult that you see true meaning, lol
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Something Else I Was Thinking About...
by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up insometimes i look back at my 27 years as a witness and am astounded by the amount of double speak that goes on in the organisation.
god loves unconditionally, but only certain ones, god is going to save the world from its downward spiral, but first of all he is going to destroy millions of evil people.
it is all so fatalistic and unkind.
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Your gonna be ok spaghetti! GL
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Found this today - My Book of Bible Stories
by kurtbethel ini was looking in a thrift store and found this gem from 1978. .
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It was the only book apart from my bible that I kept, I used to love reading it as a child. My daughter has read it too, doesnt mean she wants to become a witness tho, I think its a nice book of stories, Its hardly a crime to like it tho is is it?
Left all my bible books when i moved house, couldnt throw them away and didnt know what to do with them so i just left them lol!