New light for you
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Do you notice a difference in new relationships out of 'the truth'?
by New light for you inits 3 years since i (we) left, we somehow didn't have a committee or anything, but were able to leave with no friends, but still able to have contact with my jw mom.
in these 3 years of "learing" how to get and have friends that aren't witnesses its been quite the learning curve.
how do you meet people?
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witness "poem" with scriptures sited... what would you say?
by New light for you ina dear friend, who found out i left 'the truth' sent me this poem, and was actually sweet about it and said that if i ever wanted to come back jehovah and the brothers and sisters would lovingly take me back and the angels would rejoice (after they put me thru hours of committee meetings for celebrating holidays and birthdays and then dfed me, but after that they'd rejoice).. anyway, reading the poem... made me remember (only left a year and a half ago) how great of an idea it all was.
wouldn't it have been great to be true instead of a whole elaberate freakin lie?
anyway.. whith all these "scriptures sited" how could you dispute it???
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Why must they be so mean to the children?
by New light for you ini havn't posted in quite a while.. i thought we could move on.. .but my 8 year old is the most incredbly hurt brokenhearted girl by having her life-long friend ripped away by us leaving the organization.
i tried to leave quietly, we're not dfed or anything... but her mother, my former best friend will not let the girls talk.. write.. contact ... period.
my daughter is still crying all the time.
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Being DFed without having the title....
by New light for you inso my friends have all dfed me... ignoring me, refusing to speak.. but i've never had a judicial committee, in fact, the elders were nice and encouraging to me, i'm not even bad association.
anyway, long story, but now my (former) best friend and i started emailing, i decided to be the stronger person and say "we needed closure.
i want to respect our friendship and meet for a goodbye meeting".
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Mother-in-law said she will not talk to us anymore...... feel the love.
by New light for you inyes, so my children talking to mom i hear "no we dont go to meetings anymore" and i'm thinking "crap!!".
so then the phone gets passed to me.. and my husband is of course out of town for this.
i get asked point blank if we're witnesses anymore.. and i said "no we're not".
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Next step- I said goodbye to my best friend- and she was terrified of me!
by New light for you inso the next step i realized after meeting with the elders monday night was to say some "goodbyes" while i'm still able to.
now, the elders kept "wanting" me to "fade" .
.. again, many people are telling me that they might be nice, but when they report back to the whole body, they could decide something else.
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The elders came last night and i stood my NEW ground!!! be proud!
by New light for you inso yes, the brothers came for "encouragement" and of course, my husband is out of town on business... so it was me and the kids.. so i did let them in, i like these brothers...these are some things we discussed.... 1. i went over how that stupid "obey" email got all this started, got me to divulge to my girlfriend how i was feeling about the whole religion.
about how at the end of the call she said that she can't associate with me anymore, and then right after that call/ 30seconds later while i'm crying a pioneer called and asked "do you consider yourself one of jeh witnesses anymore??
" and i thought that was crazy for someone to try to trap me when i was sitting crying on the phone, upset with the last call... i told them that for all purposes i am already dfed since noone will talk to me anymore, and only one friend called to see what happened, everyone else just listened to the gossip of whatever spread, and wrote me off even though i'm technically in good standing.
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If it was 10 years from now where would you be and how would you refer....
by New light for you into ponder.... if it was 10 years + from now, all this jw stuff was just a thing of the past and you made it thru and life is good now... where would you be?
what you would be doing?
and how would you now refer to this "past" or would you?
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There can be NOONE who has used their brain LESS... factually.
by New light for you inso.... i'm thinking.
i'm thinking cuz i was at my shrink's today... and i'm cleaning... those 2 things get my brain working and i was thinking..... i am (was) a jw (ex) who is a housewife, "at home mom".
could there possibly be anyone else in the whole friggin world who has ever used their brain less???
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What great churches there are out there in babylon the great! I cant wait!
by New light for you ingoodness have i been missing out!!!
i just signed up my daughter for day camp at a local church... they have daycamp, they have a music school, they have preschool, they have girlscouts, boyscouts, moms night out, family night, orchestra at the services.... the list goes on!!!.
why why why do witnesses fight any social interaction at the church!!!
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