Topics Started by milligal

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The problems with my JW family
by Ima Apostate in
1. jw
2. experiences
this may be a rare thing on this board, don't know, because this is my first post, but i was raised jw and officially 'checked out', in my own mind, at 14 or so, because it just didn't make sense that god would destroy so many good people who are wholeheartedly trying their best to please him and worship him in truth.

i actually did not pray or give god a passing thought for 12 years or so because the god i had been raised to know was no one i wanted to worship.

but here in the past year something brought me around to him.
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Text Message I Just Received From An Old Witness Friend
by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up in
1. jw
2. experiences
this is a text message i just received from a guy who was in my old congregation.

(ps, no there was no shenanigans going on there, i wasn't interested in this guy in that way...even though he was possibly the best friend i had ever had within jws).. "hi rob.

please come back to the truth.
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What's the BEST thing about being "out" of the "truth"?
by B_Deserter in
1. jw
2. experiences
for me, it's having friends that i don't have to hide my lack of meeting attendance/service from.

it's amazing how they teach you that only jws can be your real friends, but in reality, it's all contingent upon your religious "performance.

" sure, if you're not going to meetings, they'll try to be "friends," by encouraging you to go back.
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What Its Like To Be A Gay Ex JW....
by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up in
1. jw
2. experiences
i 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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question....being hounded by some 'gifts in men'
by Brother Gallagher in
1. jw
2. experiences
im being hounded by elders intent on having a judicial hearing with me.

im recently separated, (i left my spouse) and i believe they are after me to df me for adultery as ive taken up with someone else.

i havent returned their calls, (they've been coming the last 2 weeks or so)
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I think I just need to tell the story to someone who will get it?
by aimless in
1. jw
2. experiences
hi everyone, im new.

i've been feeling a burden on myself for the years that i have been out and i just don't know how to ease it.

i can't talk about the organization or the people in it to anyone... if i try i immediately feel sick and want to close up and just disappear.
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An interesting discussion with my wife
by 10p in
1. jw
2. experiences
last night i had an interesting talk with my wife in bed.. oprah had a show on recently about gays.

now i don't normally watch oprah, but she was watching a taped one in the evening, so i was just overhearing stuff.

anyway, i think my wife puts more faith in oprah than in the gb :).
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JW relatives....ughh
by milligal in
1. jw
2. experiences
i'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this (sorry it's kind of long): both my husband and i are df'd.

both our families are active witnesses.

his family has decided to shun us 150% (you know what i mean, no phone calls even when you're dying).
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New family situation, and I'm HOT!!!
by bluesbreaker59 in
1. jw
2. experiences
ok, so this morning i get a call from my aunt (active jw), in a panic.

she's telling me about what happened to her this weekend.

apparently my scumbag of an uncle (non-jw, he faded) came home drunk, and pushing her around, raising cane, and apparently hit her a few times.
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Suing the tower
by Tired of the Hypocrisy in
1. jw
2. experiences
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/157788/1.ashx.

in the above thread, otwo made a comment about how someone might sue the wt based on their shunning policy.

i have not seen the topic discussed here and have been unsuccessful in getting the search function of the site to gather information about it, but i wonder if we as a group could sue the washtowel society.