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  Are you DF'd? Share the weirdness, I'll start.....

  by Pickler in

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  2. bible

  so i started a reply on the topic of "what's your status?

  " and it made me think about my df hearing (sorry i can't remember the exact term for what happened).. so i was fading, living in a different country, working & making rare appearances at my kingdom hall.

  i was flat sharing with a sister though.

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  I left after my daughter got disfellowshipped and they told her she might have to move out. My wife left me and I was on my own for about a year and got close to a family friend who has always had trouble with her husband. She hadn't been and was inactive and left her hisband and we hooked up. The elders went after her(not me as they would've copped it) and disfellowshiped her. She got reinstated, for her kids as she was shunned. After she got reinstated, I rang the pompous elder that went after her and gave hima gobful. His son had been caught visiting prostitutes and when eventually found out got porivately reproved. I let him have it. I hate this CULT.........................

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  I am new here and need help...or just a listening ear

  by Fallingaway in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my husband and i have two small children, one of which recently became an unbaptised publisher and joined the school.

  my husband is an elder and firmly committed to our family and loves me deeply as i love him.

  i would like to find a way for all of us to fade away as we have family in the organization that we do not want to lose.

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  Welcome falling away,

  Hope you find some answers, we worry and think where else shall we go, but it is a CULT. You should have gone to the police, no-one and I really mean no-one should be abused. Keep esearching and asking questions, but look things up for yourself and check and re=check them. On this board you will find love and support, it has definitely help me.

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  I'm so offended by what happened today at the KIngdom Hall!!

  by Vienna Angelika in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so today we were late for the meeting as usual.

  this is because i take a really bad medication where i literally cannot function in the first part of the day but without it i am even worse.

  we got there near the end of the talk and it was in my opinion very anoying.

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  CULT CULT CULT CULT CULT CULT

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  Anybody watch the Louise theroux ? show on" Americas most hated family" ?

  by smiddy in

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  2. friends

  at least i think that`s what it was called , and you think we as former witnesses had a problem , sheeeesh ,if i didn`t know any better i would have said" unbeleivable".

  was it called the west boro baptist church ?

  i`m sorry i`m only going from memory here.

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  I saw it and 2 of the kids are out. It was so interesting how Louis says so little but get the point across at how nuts they are. I don't know if anyone noticed how they belief in 144,000 being chosen, but are jews that open their eyes. Cult Cult Cult just like the JWS.

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  I've emailed ABC 20/20

  by mauiboy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  it was so easy i should have done it long ago....i went to www.abc.com, filled in the search bar with "20/20" and then clicked on 'email us'.

  my request was simple "please do an expose' on j.w.

  's and how they hide and protect pedophiles and then require those same pedophiles to go into public neighborhoods....putting them in contact with innocents, while not even being known amongst their own congregation members for the vile persons they are".. if enough of us make similar requests.....maybe,just maybe, we'll get our request.

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  Good on you mauiboy. I'm from Australia and I've emailed radio stations and the Prime Minister, because she is starting a royal commision on child abuse. I hope more people email her or the government

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  Looking to speak to current & ex-JWs in Australia

  by nomoreklondikes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope you don't mind me posting.

  i'm a freelance writer, and am currently writing a story on the jehovah's witnesses church for a melbourne magazine.

  i've spoken with an elder/spokesperson of a melbourne jw church, who explained the official positions of the church at length, but i'm really interested in getting more of a sense of the day to day experiences of jws, both current and former.

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  I would love to talk to you and answer any questions, but my children and their children(my grandkids) are still in and if they found out, I'd be shunned. ITS A CULT. By the way I'm in Sydney and was raised a JW.

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  When You Were Sitting During The Meetings What Were You Really Thinkng About?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i used to listen to all the stupid comments and wonder if i could sneak out of there and scram!

  even after i resigned as an elder, i went for a while and eventually began missing more and more meetings.

  but while i was there, i'd listen to comments, chuckle to myself how dumb it all was and then go home with the knowledge that my days were numbered there..

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  I'd be thinking about golf and how I would try and par eavh hole.

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  Apostasy Trial - behind the scenes video of how I recorded it

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  behind the scenes footage of how i rigged up my iphone to video record my secret judicial meeting with the elders.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lq9xav12h4m.

  the thumbnail that youtube chose is actually pretty funny...mia is looking like a flower child lol!

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  Hey ray, did it work? Where is the meeting?

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  TRUTH BE TOLD the film

  by Jaime l de Aragon in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  one week to go until the november 5th premiere of truth be told in denver, co at the oriental theater!.

  http://www.hotlist.com/e/truth-be-told-%28documentary-film-screening%29-q-%26-a-with-director-gregorio-smith-after-the-film/286711321434122.

  https://www.facebook.com/gregorio.smith.7.

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  Is it going to be available in Australia?

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  Serena Williams wins....but as a Jehovah's Witness will not toast.....New York Daily News Story

  by Balaamsass in

  1. social
  2. physical

  u.s. open sponsor moet leads champagne toast to champion serena williams, a jehovah's witness who does not drinkreporters on tight deadline wait for inappropriate-feeling homage before williams can begin press conference.comments (7).

  by filip bondy / new york daily newsmonday, september 10, 2012, 12:00 am.

  howard simmons/new york daily newsserena williams is thrilled about winning the u.s. open, but she will not celebrate with a champagne toast due to her religious beliefs.. there was an awkward interval sunday night in the press interview room, when the u.s. open sponsors, moet, delivered a trolley of small champagne bottles to the assembled media who already had waited an hour to ask post-match questions of serena williams.. before williams could begin answering questions, usta ceo gordon smith led a toast that basically called williams victory the greatest match in open history.. .

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  ShirleyW, can you let us know if she responds to you. I'm shocked that she has represented America in the olympics.

  Etna