Posts by whathehadas

you maintained a level of personal decency and integrity that you almost certainly would not have had if you had chosen another direction.. sure, you would have had some very "colorful" friends and experiences if you had gone another way, but you still chose the more "edgy" people in the congregation as your friends and you still enjoyed yourself, even if there were a lot of phony constraints.. you looked for ways to be of value to others.

don't stop doing that!.

you kept the darker side of your personality in check.

whathehadas

I feel for you Magnum. I was so angry after reading your post, I laughed in pain. I'm still young but I feel the same way. Born in and having some good years taken away from me by that cult. My years in may be small in comparison to yours but it stings the same. I TRY to not think about that cult day to day, but it's hard when you're constantly reminded of it. When you come across people in convos about their life and think of yours. The experiences they had growing up with their friends from school. Just thinking of my experience in high school is just a empty blur. I had chances to connect with so many people but passed it up because of the WT rules. I was SO scared of the "world". I kick myself(figuratively) everyday because of this. The journey to rebuilding your life after the WT is so tough.

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Another Shooting Massacre

by whathehadas in

http://abcnews.go.com/us/santa-barbara-shooting-suspect-calls-loneliness-darkest-hell/story?id=23855994&ts=true.

whathehadas

@DATA-DOG I agree with most of what you stated. Defenseless people are targeted the most. There should be more self awareness to potential threats. There has been a few cases of people going RIGHT in a Police Station and opening fire. Recently in California too. http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/lapd-officer-wounded-gunman-opens-fire-police-station-cops-article-1.1749159

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Another Shooting Massacre

by whathehadas in

http://abcnews.go.com/us/santa-barbara-shooting-suspect-calls-loneliness-darkest-hell/story?id=23855994&ts=true.

whathehadas

http://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-barbara-shooting-suspect-calls-loneliness-darkest-hell/story?id=23855994&ts=true

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Is it true that the GB is soon planning on ditching the 1914 doctrine?

by yogosans14 in

or atleast tweaking it again... apparently there has been rumors of this coming out of bethel.

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whathehadas

Uggh.....IF it is true and does happen......it will go over MOST JW's head. Most can't even show you how to come up with the date by using the WT's interpretation of the scripture. They just shake their head to it and repeat. When the WT comes up with the "New Light" of not using that date, most of the JWs will just accept it as a progressive change. Such a shame.

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Embarrassed by Aggressive Apostates

by ShempLives in

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xjw protests & videos.

.. i am disturbed by some of the more aggressive apostates posting videos on youtube,like "a jw memorial to remember" where a drunk man goes to a memorial and downs the whole glass of wine as a sort of protest.

this video and others like it received positive comments from aawa members.

whathehadas

I find some of the behavior puzzling, it makes me uncomfortable. But I am not responsible for what other ex JWs do, we are not one group, just individuals trying to recover as best we can from our time in a destructive cult. Current JWs buy the Watchtower lie that we are angry and bitter, so they can hardly think any less of us.

That sums it up right there. We may have similarities with our experiences in the Org but the reason we left is too have FREEDOM from that oppression. You escape one label to be put under another. What would be the solution to this? Have a Governing Body of Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses? It may be embarrassing to see what some ex-JWs do but at the end of the day they're their own individual. THAT'S something the Watchtower never let us be.

Which pic is more scarier?

Both pics are how "apostates'' are percieved by JWs

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Aposate crashes the memorial!

by Batman89 in

i should have posted this a few weeks ago, anyways this guy tony prime has guts!.

check it!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uadqh8-3qa0&list=uu7urkksine92mtdj2s33gwq.

whathehadas

Holy_Cheeses is right. There is no grade of apostates to the Jdubbs. How can one "apostate" give ALL apostates a bad name when ALL apostates are viewed as evil by the Jdubbs? When I was in the Borg, I always thought of Apostates being the sly talking people who slipped in hateful speech about the Borg like "Satan's tactics" of tricking people into lies. I didn't think there must be "good apostates". Let's be honest with ourselves about this Borg. The people that are in and want to leave, leave because they are SICK of what's in that Borg.

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How I Ended Up On JWN...

by Divergent in

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this is the story of how i ended up here on this site.... .

i was stuck in a situation where reaching out took forever, an eternity.

it was ridiculous - no matter what i did, there was always more to do.

whathehadas

Before I left the Borg, I seened situations like yours. Where there was a Brother who had been reaching out for Elder and kept getting turned down. He eventually left and became a "apostate". While it is good that people leave that cult. The reasons people leave in your situation are transparent to the Witnesses that are still in. It adds to their perception of people who leave the "truth". The funny thing to me is when you have Brothers who don't care about reaching out as much and they get pressured to get positions. The ones who don't want it get it and the ones who want it don't. What a Org that is? 😯 They always cry about needing help to strengthen and make new Congo's and end up pushing men out because of their bad judgements

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2 Jdubs at a door

by whathehadas in

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this video was posted on a viral site.

there's 2 witnesses who are put on the spot by a very simple and thought provoking question.

i read quite a few of the comments posted on this video and most of the people are critical of the jw and you can tell that some have researched about the cult.

whathehadas

People know about the Jdubbs LOL

Kaisha DocLoveless Hemphill Raging Bull • 6 hours ago

I have family members who are JW and from what I've seen, that shit fits right in the description of a cult. They cant date anyone outside their religion, cant celebrate anything not even their birthday, they'll even tell yu to kick your own child out of your house if they dont become a member. What religion tells you to turn your back on your child? a CULT

Raging Bull PICA$$O BAE YEEZY • 7 hours ago

they'll wright your name on a slip, and then keep going back until you or someone answers the door. Plus behind your back they laugh about you saying "People scared to answer their own door." That's why they think the average Christian is not a true one - because they never "defend" their stance. it's always "I have my own religion" or "Not interested" they believe they have the ONE TRUE RELIGION. But if you research them and their movement, it's easy to prove to them that they are false prophets.