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  my night out in a small town

  by Found Sheep in

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  we went to go to a live music show and before we ate at a local place.

  as we walked in his ex was at a table so we walked by and ordered.

  a few seconds later a jw and her non jw husband walks in.

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  we went to go to a live music show and before we ate at a local place. As we walked in his EX was at a table so we walked by and ordered. A few seconds later a JW and her non JW husband walks in. He is nice and talks to us.... she pretends not to know me... at the show we sat with "faders" and some DF walk in and sit with us but one of them doesn't talk to me because i'm "apostate"? all and all we had a great night dispite it all. I love me and it you don't... well that is your loss
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  Where Did You Think You Stood?

  by Ding in

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  consider a scale from 0 to 100.. 0 = if armageddon comes tonight, i am doomed for sure.

  100 = if armageddon comes tonight, i will survive into the new system for sure.

  back when you believed the wt was the truth, what range on this scale reflects your own assessment of where you stood with jehovah?.

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  Were you afraid of Armageddon?

  by cyberjesus in

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  i was dfd in 1995 however i still believed it was the truth until 2009. and until then i was fearful of armageddon's day.. i remember every time i'd see a dark sky with thunders and lighting i would question if that was it.

  the news of any major disaster, hurricanes earthquakes would ignite fear inside me and i would think that could be the beginning of the end.. when i was around 8 i remember going to visit my grandma and she was watching the news.

  a major conflict in the middle east had ended and some president said that the world was not in peace.

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  Had nightmaires as a kid about it would wake up crying. I would panic at airplanes flying over me... As an adult even as a pioneer and 100% in I never felt like I would survive. When I first left and still believed I thought I would survive. now don't believe it at all
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  I was an Idiot.

  by NomadSoul in

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  not too many threads like these but i thought this forum could use one.

  not going to use the inexperience or ignorance excuse.

  nor am i going to excuse that i was a born in.. plain and simple: i was an idiot for believing in the jehovah witness religion.. okay, no cat pictures.. .

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  idiot.. born in so only 1/2 and i di get out but way too long in! cheers to all us idiots
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  i saw jehovah witnesses today and actually had a panic attack !!

  by looloo in

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  i saw them in the distance going door to door , (about 6 of them plus child in pushchair ) i knew i had to walk past them but started panicking !

  i was thinking please dont speak to me or i will explain why im not interested in your religion , i left my town to get away from them !

  due to my daughters sexual abuse by a ex min servant who had abused others in the congregation also but had never been reported !

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  I would have panic attacks when I ran into them. Now for some reason I feel changed and if I see one I know I try to talk to them or wave, or smile and I get a kick out of how fast they run from ME. They are scared! I do feel sad for them when i see them waisting there time in FS
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  Out of State Employment

  by Cthulhu in

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  i live in michigan and am currently looking to leave the area, as it is no longer the land of plenty that it once was.

  i intend to move out of state, but i have this problem.

  i don't have the funds to simply move and then find work when it comes to me, so it is important that i find work before i actually relocate.

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  I live in WV and work in VA... but what do you do?
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  See you later

  by pirata in

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  it's been a year and a bit since i first joined jwn.

  the guilty fascination, turned anger, turned sadness, turned acceptance has been a journey that i'm honored all of you have have been a pat of, whether you realize it or not.

  although i haven't said much about myself personally, and probably won't as long as i still am a captive... er i mean a member of jehovah's witnesses, i appreciated reading all your posts, observations, stories and reality-checks.

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  don't go i have abandonment isues and since I left oh just about everyone I love no longer talks to me... so don't add the pain...

  no seriously I understand! This site can and has for me at times taken my time too much and I need to turn it off. I'm not a good poster like you, but this site has changed my life, for the good!

  take care! and always welcomed back

  you will not even have that "reproved" state where we need to make sure you are really back! you can enter any time you like
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  Hiding from witnesses

  by Igot2bme in

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  today a group of sisters from a different hall came to my house today.

  they were out in full force placing memorial invitations.

  instead of answering the door, i felt compelled to pretend to be not home and waited for them to leave.

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  I'm just starting to be at the point that i don't avoid them or hide if I see one in public. Yesterday I was driving through town and could see two that I used to be real close to standing on the sidewalk and the husband looked up but then said something to his wife and as I was driving by they pretended not to see me as I waved really big and said hi. It was fun for me at least
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  Anyone ever fake ring the doorbell when going door to door?

  by foolsparadise in

  1. watchtower
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  when i used to pioneer i would press to the side of the doorbell and act like i pressed it and then say "oh i think the bell must be broken".

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  as a teen sure soft knock and don't ring bell
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  Has anyone left still believing it was the truth?

  by FollowedMyHeart in

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  it seems that most xjws have left because at one point in their jw life something happened that made them start to think something wasn't right with the religion.

  when i left, i still believed the jws had "the truth".

  i was dying inside, trapped and unhappy (another poster's words, but describes exactly how i felt).

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  I was in the same boat. I hated my marriage and relaized it was suicide or get out of the marriage. Being a JW I had an affair to end it. I did the JC and they found me innocent and reproved me. Did not expect that. Low and behold the congregation treated me like crap. I moved away to clear my head and didn't go to meedings for a few months but expected to go again. It wasn't till then that i started to put the picture together and realized the problem wasn't me all along it was the cult. So I DA myself at that point cuz the elders got wind that I was back and were pissed that i married non Jw said it was because I was not repentant WFT?