Posts by Magwitch

i'll call them dave and kathy.. when they got married 15 years ago, kathy was a hard worker who did this religion mainly to keep her parents happy ( dad was the po).. dave was starting his own business, he never held a real job in his life, and he was pretty zealous for the jw way of life.. over the years they had their ups and downs, but around 5 years ago they both stopped attending the meetings, and were doing a textbook "fade".

we would hear from them about every 2-3 months, and his business seemed to be doing well, kathy was a stay at home wife who worked pt at home doing computer work.

Magwitch

Deadbeat = Dave

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Still Amazed to Have Escaped

by leavingwt in

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i escaped the wt more than three years ago.

yet, even today, i'm still amazed, surprised and thankful that i got out.

it's easy for me to imagine having never getting the information i needed to make a clean break.

Magwitch

I am so thankful I escaped! I guess I can thank my ex-husband and many of the chauvinistic, hypocritical elders for being so unreasonable. They finally gave me the courage to stand up and say - I am out of here and I am taking my daughters with me - Just try and stop me!

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What is the ULTIMATE goal of the Watchtower Society?

by MrDarkKnight in

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in a number of different threads comments have been made about the motives of the gb and the wtbts.

it made me think, what is their ultimate goal?

what is their end game?.

Magwitch

Power and control. Life and death power and control over the entire lives of millions of people. That's all. No drug in the world can match the feeling.

Nickolas nailed it!

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Can you think of anything that is postive about being A JW?

by jam in

they make good neighbors, why because they.

stay to themselves..

Magwitch

To be fair....My 80 year old father had open heart surgery recently; the witnesses have brought non-stop meals, flowers and cards. They also have kept up my parent's huge back yard by mowing, watering, weeding, trimming. They do take very good care of my parents.

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Can you think of anything that is postive about being A JW?

by jam in

they make good neighbors, why because they.

stay to themselves..

Magwitch

They do a very good job cleaning my house and I do not have to worry about them stealing anything.

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WTS Controlling Tactics Similar to Phillip Garrido's on Jaycee Dugard ........

by flipper in

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........ and of course, that should come as no big surprise considering phillip and nancy garrido were jehovah's witnesses either before, or quite possibly at the time they abducted & kidnapped jaycee and stole her life away for 18 years.

i will share some excerpts from jaycee dugard's new book " a stolen life " and see if you also identify similar mind control tactics garrido used on jaycee that the wt society uses on 7 million members.. notice this quote from jaycee about schools and education , " i, however, have mixed feelings about high school.

on the one hand, for eighteen years i had been taught ( by garrido ) that schools are bad and kids learn bad things there and peer pressure can ruin a child's life forever ; but when i consider who i heard all this stuff from, a kidnapper, rapist, pedophile, narcissistic, pervert, i can only come to one conclusion.

Magwitch

Shocking, but very similar to the Org. They drilled it in us constantly that were our protector - our refuge from the wind, when in reality they were our captor.

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assemblies and my lovely wife

by stillin in

i finally put a couple of pieces together that have boggled me for years.. i would take my family to the conventions and assemblies and for some reason, my wife would always be upset or start an argument in the car on the way home, or in the week that follows.

i realize now that her frustration is that i am not the guy in the demonstrations.

you know, the guy who has the bestfriend/elder who always says the perfect thing and the guy is so humble and does this little talks-to-himself thing where he reveals his deep spirituality and applies the ever-so-wise words of his friend and after that life is just great again!.

Magwitch

I know how you feel. My ex-husband was always disappointed in me spiritually. Constant friction after every meeting, assembly, convention etc........

He now has a JW wife half his age that leads him around with a noose. He has to walk the plank 24/7 - she is an absolute religious nut.

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VERY depressed

by youngbro in

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i have severe clinical depression and right now, for whatever reason it is really acting up....

Magwitch

Youngbro - I am so sorry you are going through this. The sooner you get out of that cult, the sooner you will start feeling better. Let me know if you are on facebook. I would love to befriend you.