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  I asked my wife why the memorial was not on Nissan 14 in April, and why is it in March

  by goingthruthemotions in

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  the initial conversation had to do with someone who has the ability to reason for them self's.

  i than asked her.....why is the memorial in march and not in april when nissan 14 is?.

  her response..."pray to jehovah for understanding.

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  Rejecting Jesus is their most important event, etc.
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  I dont know how i can leave my family!

  by BlackWolf in

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  my mom and i were talking today about how next summer i will be 18 and she said that just thinking about it might make her cry.

  that made me think about how much more it would hurt her if i quit being a jw.

  i really do love my parents, i know they are just being cruelly manipulated by a cult and that they really think they are doing what is best for me.

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  Family shuns for various reasons, have never had family come and visit me outside of my daughter's and son. It always seemed we were the ones visiting them. Never thought much about it until I spent one entire year barely hanging on to life. Not one visit no children or siblings at all. Many excuses but no visits, was living alone trying to take care of myself and eventually got better. Hung onto life for 14 months and also needless to say no one from local congregation either . Yeah being forgotten and or shunned is a bitch. Had lost 54 lbs in a two month period lived alone. My wife was in the PI with our young son and no visa yet so she could come and take care of me.

  Had a weeks stay in hospital upon arrival back in states. Two weeks later drove from Wildomar California to my home in Texas. Only people that showed or gave any concern were friends from base commissary. Had two of my first wife's sisters and their husbands living I n town

  One one occasion had to go to emergency room, called my former brother in law for a ride and he of course bitched about it and wondered why I just didn't call an ambulance. Was a 7 mile drive from his house to mine and a 9 mile trip from my house to the emergency room. This of course after my having driven him to emergency room on several occasions. Was in hospital 9 days and not one visit from former in laws. They had been in laws for one month shy of 35 years, nice family huh?

  So yeah I know about being shunned am just permanently inactive will never go back. Am returning to states for a few months in April and won't see children as they want nothing to do with new wife and their new 4 year old brother. Yet they complain that its been over two years since they seen me. Well its going to be even longer, their choice not mine.

  You just have to suck it up, do the best you can, and live YOUR life, not the life others want you to live. Lost all that weight do to my body not absorbing nutrition.
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  How many of you are health nuts?

  by Harvard Illiterate 411 in

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  there was/is a sister in my old hall who was a pharmaceutical sales rep and she was a huge proponent of anything in the drug industry.

  when someone had a headache, she was the first to say "take an asprin.

  " now my husband and i are what you might call old hippies.

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  I try to workout 6 days a week I lift weights twice a day and on two of those days it's 3 times a day. Am 68 years old BP 105/60 :HR rested 56-60. Try to do goblet squats and Hindu squats pushups too. Stay very healthy or at least try to. Lots of sea food and vegetables, don't handle other meats like beef very well, stomach doesn't like them. A little rum or beer daily.
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  Why the Deficit at the Circuit Assembly?

  by JT-LadyC in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  have you ever wondered why there is always a deficit at the circuit assembly?

  did you realize that before the program begins, the circuit is already in the red?

  many of the friends thought they were paying for the use of the building and covering the costs of the utilities, etc.

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  I had asked that very question about the eternal defecit from an elder at those meetings. He tried to say it wasnt my concern and I told him yes it is I want to make sure the money donated (actually by my wife) was going to care of the hall and why are they donating money to the society without covering expenses first? Then I said anyone donating money prior to paying the bills is an idiot himself included. Of course later, several weeks later, was invited to the back room told them I have nothing to say to any of them. He or they didnt like it but they never followed up.
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  Good idea or bad idea?

  by stephanie61092 in

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  first and foremost, thank you so much to so many of you who have reached out to me over the past few days since my post on sunday.

  i'm not totally in the best mental state, however, i do have a very small amount of people that i can lean on for support.

  i relayed my feelings to a friend (my only friend, really), who took the initiative to inform my family.

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  If your filled with so much anxiety being at the hall, then why go there is it really worth it? How is you anxiety level when your not at the hall, does it dramatically go down then that in an of itself shows you being there is unhealthy.
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  Do You Remember The First Time You Looked At "Apostate" Material?

  by minimus in

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  i was always fascinated by it.

  as a kid, i used to go to the local library and secretly read books by so called apostates.

  later, i would sneak into christian book stores and quickly buy a book or two.

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  It was reading through encyclopedias that started the awakening process.
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  What Are Your "Senior Moments" Like?

  by compound complex in

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  dear friends:.

  i imagine by now we old timers have adjusted to the fact that we are getting older and, one day, will make our exit.

  are your "senior moments" ever a cause for worry to you?

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  Occasionally go into look for something and have to take a few moments to remember what I came searching for. turned 68 today 7 Feb. Still pumping the iron, doing pushups, pull ups etc.
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  EXJW's in Mensa?

  by Luther bertrand in

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  any exjw's or faders out there in mensa?

  any online groups for this niche?

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  Went to mensa site took test scored 147 whatever that means?
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  Daughter FINALLY escaped!

  by MindBlown666 in

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  wow....has it been a while!

  i hope many of you are doing good!

  it's awesome to see many of you holding strong, and keeping the site going!.

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  Great news
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  Stepping out of the shadows

  by contramundum in

  1. jw
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  i have been lurking on the site for a few months and thought it about time i plucked up the courage to step out of the shadows and say hello.. i am in the process of fading after realizing all is not right with the organization i had trusted implicitly for over 40 years.

  there have always been 'truths' i have struggled to accept entirely, even as a child, but was confident that trusting in jehovah, building my faith and remaining patient would be enough to settle any nagging doubts that remained, so i pushed any inconsistencies to the back of my mind and concentrated on being the best witness that i could be.. over the last few years, however, i have been preoccupied with a number of crises in my family and stepping back slightly from 'theocratic' activity has allowed me to re evaluate a number of concerns and research sources other than the sanitized wt publications.. my eyes are now wide open - i found things which have appalled me and left me feeling extremely let down and disappointed by people i had really trusted.. i tried gently raising a few subjects with my mum (who was baptized early '70s and still remains a staunch wt supporter) but she will hear no criticism of the organization.

  i understand this because the best part of her life has been invested in the religion and to acknowledge it may have got things wrong would be to recognize the last 40 years have been a vain waste.

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  Contramundum tell those that ask via text are you sick tell them yes. You don't have to explain your sickness is jdub related.