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  Is the Governing Body trolling us?

  by kneehighmiah in

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  i'm starting to believe the bethel higher ups are trolling us.

  the outright contradictions and stuff like overlapping generation is too ridiculous.

  calling out the harold camping when we did the same thing.

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  I hope they are maybe it will wake someone up. Welcome blinded GB I don't miss you
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  What did you lose your virginity to JWN? Before or after leaving the JWs?

  by usualusername in

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  i visited this site about 2 years after leaving?.

  when did you first visit jwn?.

  paul.

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  as soon as I started questioning
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  I want my donations back!

  by Hortenzie in

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  i want to ask wt for my donations back.

  i live in canada and i have income tax receipts from them so i can prove how much i gave them.... anybody ever tried something like that or heard about somebody doing it?

  what approach should i take?.

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  I'm going to write a letter
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  I need some urgent advice, please!!

  by alonein321 in

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  here's my story.

  i'm 24 years old and i live in brazil.

  i'm a 3rd gen born-in jw and all close relatives in the borg (parents, grandparents, uncles, wife, inlaws) except my little sister (she's 16 and didnt buy jw doctrine).

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  Found Sheep

  Have you read Crisis of Conscience and Steven Hasen's books if not start there
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  How Can You Spot A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  anything that you notice that would make you say, " yup, that's a jw"?

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  the zobie look with a fake smile
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  Is there anyone in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg-Pocono, or Allentown-Bethlehem area on here?

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  if so, does anyone want to do a meet up?

  pm me if you do.

  would like to meet some people who are living through this experience too.. .

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  Found Sheep

  grew up in woodstock, the farm old term, Walkill
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  On a Scale of 1 to 10---How Devoted Were You To Being One of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  as i grew up in the religion, i was a 10. i wanted to be made a "servant" because that was instilled in me from infancy.

  i diligently studied ever piece of watchtower literature and defended my religion intensely.. when i got into my 30's, i started to see little cracks in the watchtower's surface but decided to "wait on jehovah".

  then i started to research a little more critically and realized i couldn't defend the prophecies, the treatment of people and the hypocrisy that was becoming more obvious, that especially an elder can see.. it was a gradual thing---from a 10 to a zero!.

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  How many in the cong visited you when you started fading

  by joe134cd in

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  i'm just curious speaking from a person who has stopped going to meetings.

  i have heard reports from inactive ones (or from ones who the elders suspect of going to the dark side) of having so many visits from elders (cong members) that it got to the point of harassment.

  surprisingly i have to say from personal experience and from numerous others that i have spoken to that the exact opposite has been the case.

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  Found Sheep

  The only ones that called, said hi in anyway were fellow faders.

  I must say it hurt at first. I pioneered for 13 years and I was one of the odd ones that did reach out to others. I never did the come back speach, it was I care can I do anything. I did do the you can sit next to me and I'll keep the mean people away....
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  Abhor Menstruating Women.......Because The FDS say so.

  by pronomono in

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  2. beliefs

  wow.

  the insight book has some outlandish reasoning.

  i'm trying to put together a talk for tomorrow night, the number 3 on abhorrent things (insight vol 1, p 17) and the entire first half links abhorrent things to menstruating women through a "possible" derived word that might mean uncleaness.

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  I think you should give a talk on things that you Abhor. Make it bible based and JWish... Abhor judgmental thinking, unloving acts....

  just my 0.2$

  FS
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  I need help in dealing with a toxic family member!!!!

  by hoser in

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  i have a close family member who is a pro in using shame to try to make me feel bad.

  they are coming to stay at my place soon and the issue of me and mrs hoser not attending/ doing field service will come up no doubt.. i need some advice on how to deal with this because whenever i deal with these relatives they make me feel worthless.

  it is probably part because they are jw's and jw's motivate by fear and guilt.. .

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  Found Sheep

  When I first left JW's I had an elder that would call once in a while and try to make me feel guilty. I got sick of it, I was at work and said " I left an abusive relationship and refuse to be controled by guilt and manipulation" he said he wasn't doing that I laughed said I have to go and hung up. He never called again :)