St-Jacques

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  So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?

  by nicolaou in

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  i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

  in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

  i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..

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  For starters: The Matrix. When I was about thirteen, I saw the movie and asked my dad, "How do we know we aren't living in The Matrix?" and his reply was "Because we have The Truth." Later, I argued with my mother that there was a chance, no matter how small, that we were wrong about the truth. Her reply was that there was absolutely no chance that we were wrong. None whatsoever. When pushed, she finally agreed that there was only a 0.01% chance that we were wrong.

  The other big one: In grade eleven, I read W.O. Mitchell's 'Who Has Seen the Wind.' It revealed to me the Problem of Evil and how the Christian God really is a logical impossibilty. Needless to say, that kinda clinched things.
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  What do you miss the LEAST and what do you miss the MOST about the Borg?

  by nbernat in

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  what i will miss least.

  the last talk at any assembly or convention that seems to drag on forever although it's supposed to only be 1 hour long.

  what i will miss most.

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  The least: my dad never being around because the flock was SO much more important.

  The most: the odd times when my dad stopped being an elder and was just... yknow... my dad.
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  How do you fell when you look back at your time as a JW ??

  by karter in

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  to me not all bad taught me some good life skills howerever 38 years i could have done alot with that time...............karter

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  St-Jacques

  Every once in a while I'll be talking with an old friend from high school, and they'll mention something typical but extremely rude/stupid/illogical I said or did as a Witness back then, and we have a good laugh at it.

  On the inside, I'm burning up with hatred for not only the people that made me that way, but for myself for not seeing what a joke my beliefs, actions and entire life was.

  In short: embarassment and hatred.
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  Ehhhh, can you hear this ???

  by JH in

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  http://www.jetcityorange.com/mosquito-ringtone/mosquito-ringtone.mp3.

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  http://www.jetcityorange.com/mosquito-ringtone/mosquito-ringtone-mp3.html.

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  St-Jacques

  14 khz at 19 years old.... too much Rage Against the Machine. Or maybe my headphones are broken..... either way, too much Rage Against the Machine.
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  Strange painting of a rose, a clock, and some blood

  by JimmyPage in

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  when i was in high school i took art.

  one semester we did oil paintings.

  one of my paintings was very salvador dali-ish.

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  St-Jacques

  Sounds a lot like me in high school... I don't know how I lived with the belief that the woman I loved would die very shortly.
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  EXJW facebook group tries to find 10,000 exJWs

  by Sirona in

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  this facebook group is trying to get 10,000 exjw members.... join up!.

  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22272829408.

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  St-Jacques

  Now that we're advertized on here, hopefully it'll fill up faster. :D Three cheers for being a facebook apostate!

  Oh, and for those of you who don't know, there are active JW groups on facebook that are rediculously easy to troll, pretending to be a Jeho. Could be somewhere we can make serious progress... in the past week I've had about three JWs add me as a friend after seeing me in the group, saying something like "It's great to meet brothers and sisters from around the world! :)" ......effin priceless.
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  Anyone DF'd and you DID'NT know why?

  by avishai in

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  almost never in all the halls i've been in, it was always common knowledge.

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  St-Jacques

  I don't even know why I was diffed. I mean, there were so many possible reasons, and I didn't go to my judicial meeting... I still don't know which one they got me on.
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  How to get a friend out of "the truth"

  by St-Jacques in

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  i'm sure threads along these lines have come up dozens of times in the past, but i'm not exactly sure how one would go about searching for this topic.. i was approached about a week ago by a girl named eve, with whom i share a mutual friend.

  our friend is someone i knew when i was a witness, and is one of eve's close friends at school.

  now, over the course of high school, eve has been trying to get her friend to realize the truth about the sham that the watchtower calls a religion.

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  St-Jacques

  Thank you all for your advice. Unfortunately, I believe that I failed to mention that she won't talk to me as I'm a former Witness myself. I'm deemed "bad association" and don't really have the ability to talk to her. So somehow I need to find an alternative method.....

  SJ
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  How to get a friend out of "the truth"

  by St-Jacques in

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  i'm sure threads along these lines have come up dozens of times in the past, but i'm not exactly sure how one would go about searching for this topic.. i was approached about a week ago by a girl named eve, with whom i share a mutual friend.

  our friend is someone i knew when i was a witness, and is one of eve's close friends at school.

  now, over the course of high school, eve has been trying to get her friend to realize the truth about the sham that the watchtower calls a religion.

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  St-Jacques

  I've been out for about a year and a half. I spend quite a bit of time on the internet, but I've never really posted on forums (besides the facebook group boards) much before. I came here because I was hoping, if anyone could give me some pointers, it'd be you guys.
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  How to get a friend out of "the truth"

  by St-Jacques in

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  2. friends

  i'm sure threads along these lines have come up dozens of times in the past, but i'm not exactly sure how one would go about searching for this topic.. i was approached about a week ago by a girl named eve, with whom i share a mutual friend.

  our friend is someone i knew when i was a witness, and is one of eve's close friends at school.

  now, over the course of high school, eve has been trying to get her friend to realize the truth about the sham that the watchtower calls a religion.

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  St-Jacques

  I'm sure threads along these lines have come up dozens of times in the past, but I'm not exactly sure how one would go about searching for this topic.

  I was approached about a week ago by a girl named Eve, with whom I share a mutual friend. Our friend is someone I knew when I was a Witness, and is one of Eve's close friends at school. Now, over the course of high school, Eve has been trying to get her friend to realize the truth about the sham that the Watchtower calls a religion. This has been to no avail. Eventually, she came into contact with me. Now, I'm by no means an expert on the situation, but I'm the closest thing our hick town has to one. Now, we have this herculean task before us: de-convert a Jehovah's Witness before the end of June, at which time our Witness friend will graduate, forget about her worldly friends and go on to become another unthinking drone in the Jehovah corps.

  So I'm going to need a bit of help. Suggestions would be great. I'll take any sort of help. Anything that you know of that has worked in the past and could work now.

  Saint J