Posts by mademoiselle

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How Long Have you Been Out of the Witnesses ? Have you Moved On ?

by flipper in

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i have been out over 5 years now.

i feel we all start healing at different speeds depending on how much hurt we went through in exiting ; and how much we've educated ourselves about how and why we were sucked in by a mind control cult.

at first i felt anger towards the organization , but after learning about mind control within 3 years of leaving the cult i felt sorry for those who are still trapped inside the witnesses being deceived.

mademoiselle

I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness from birth, to when I was seventeen and went away to college. (What a fight it was to be able to do that! So many obnoxious elders sticking their noses where they didn't belong: my education). I'd not believed in the JWs for years, and had just been showing up at the meetings because I was required to, then zoning out for two hours. When I left, I didn't really look back at all. It doesn't effect me anymore, and I don't feel any real anger or annoyance with them. They're just confused.

It's just weird to have all this knowledge in your head, to hear the words "field service", "get together", "theocratic ministry school", and realize no one you know will ever understand what those mean. So, I guess that's why I'm here. I'm not fixated on the JWs, I just want to talk to other people who're familiar with them.

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What Was The Very First Thing That Came Across Your Eyes That Lead You Down The Road To Doubt?

by Yizuman in

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any of you remember what was exactly the first thing that crossed your eyeballs to lead you into doubting the wts?.

mademoiselle

I was eleven, and I loved reading Harry Potter on the sly. I saw no rational reason why I had to sneak these fairly innocuous books around, and was pretty annoyed by the whole thing.

Then I discovered the internet, which pretty much finished it all off.

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JW Teens Can Be Very Mischevious..... And Other Internet Observations.

by AllTimeJeff in

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when i first got the internet in 1998, i was out in fs with 2 young bros in their teens, best friends.

they wanted to check their email, and i said that they could use the computer.. i went upstairs, and found them in a chat room.

(this was before the first article on chat rooms, i think.

mademoiselle

I know about the "borganization", and am lacking notoriously in the pain and angst department. I realized very early in my teens that devoting any more time, energy, or emotion to JWs than the minimum required of me by my JW parents was a huge waste of time. Surely I can't be the only young person to leave ~*the troof*~ and not look back. It's rare for me to even think about the JWs, it never comes up in conversation, and people are always surprised to learn that I spent seventeen years as one.

It wasn't painful for me to leave, it was natural. Maybe I'm the weird one, though.