Oh, that was a good one!! I like it :)
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dum blonde
by mouthy ina guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game.
great seats right behind their team's bench.
after the game, he asked.
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by Heartbreaker init was just asked (by whom i'm not certain, sorry!
i can't go back!
you can never go back!!
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Thank you for your replies. Misery, I think you are correct in that there are many more lurking and on the edges, playing the game for whatever reason they need to. I would say it's quite possible that even you fit in that catagory. I appreciate you chiming in, sharing your observations from the inside. The couple you mentioned that would fake a study or some other activity, that was totally me, for most of my life. I never felt like the "ministry" was a life saving work, it felt like a forced-farce activity, and I hated it. Always hated it.
Man in the middle, I too can't post on my phone. I'm hopeful that the new site will allow this.
Hortenzie...my sisters and parents fit into this "put too much into the promises to allow myself to think differently now" class. For them it'd be misery for them to leave. Jehovah fixed them, you know? He did! He made my father no longer a molester, and he helped my sisters forgive and forget, and move on and still have a close relationship with my father! Jehovah did it...isn't he amazing? Take that away, and well then they've just all been fools.
Poopsiecakes...I just love your name, and thanks for replying :) And for "getting it".
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Does anyone here ever feel that they don't fit in
by cantleave inyou no longer fit in with the jw's and aren't yet accepted by those outside either?.
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I didn't really fit in very well in the witnesses, always on the edges of what was going on, never really in the middle. Had few friends that I would consider close, felt like a third wheel. Now that I'm out, I have a few people I am trying to draw closer to, but I'm running into two problems here.
1) I don't really know if I WANT close friends, in that I would have to let people in, expose myself and my past, and I just don't want to deal with that yet
2)Once again penetrating into an already established circle of friends, feeling like the outside perimeter person again. I just don't think I can handle it.
I leave myself open and friendly, accept invites and go with the flow. Inside I'm afraid I will only have my husband and children, and well children leave.
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Google Win
by TheClarinetist ini found this mildly amusing while searching for the alleged quote where the watchtower quoted someone quoting them in the creation book.
i figured that i may as well take advantage of the nice university library while i have the chance.
on that note, if anyone knows the quote and what it is taken from, send me a pm.. .
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Don't have the reference you are looking for, just wanted to comment that I LOVE that auto suggestion. Total win on that one.
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by Heartbreaker init was just asked (by whom i'm not certain, sorry!
i can't go back!
you can never go back!!
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I'd love to kiss the monkey. Call me a freak.
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by Heartbreaker init was just asked (by whom i'm not certain, sorry!
i can't go back!
you can never go back!!
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Wow, 53 views, and not one comment. Do I have ANY friends here? Maybe I've decieved myself. Huh.
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by Heartbreaker init was just asked (by whom i'm not certain, sorry!
i can't go back!
you can never go back!!
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It was just asked (by whom I'm not certain, sorry! I can't go back! You can never go back!! ) why we left the WT, what the final straw was. I was wondering if anyone felt as I do, which I will explain below.
And here it is. I know you are all holding onto your seats with anticipation.
Now that I've seen the real light, not the blinking ever changing WT light, I cannot FATHOM how others can't see it. How can they read the things about the generation, and about how you should not think, and not question, and not this and that and the other. How can they sit, and listen, and not SEE?! And especially when it's gently or boldy, or otherwisely (yes I made that one up) pointed out to them. I've read about cognitive dissonance, and cult think, and the like, but it's just so MADDENING, even knowing all those terms.
Have you ever stood at the mall, in front of one of those "3rd eye" pictures...look long enough and sure enough! Dolphins jumping, and look, but not too quickly, there is another one over there! Wow!! It's so clear once you've seen it, the truth about "the truth" it seems that all should be able to see it. You so clearly see it, and it's obvious to you now. Another person walks up and is staring at it, and saying they don't see it....some give up and walk away, thinking that it's not worth trying to look. They are happy not seeing it, have no interest. Fine. Others stand there and try, and try, but it just doesn't happen. Maybe you are tricking THEM! Maybe it's not there at all! You are CRAZY!! Some don't see it for a long long time, then finally BLAM there it is. I would liken it to that, this finding the REAL truth.
I'm often reminded of the scripture of the scales falling away from the eyes, and thinking getting OUT was more of an application of that. WT would have you believe that listening to them is what makes your eyes see, but oh, how much a pile 'a poo is THAT business.
Anyone else?
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leaving the wt - why?
by rockmehardplace inso for some people, there is the one breaking point that makes people leave.
for me, not so much about doctrine, but about how people treated one another.
i always heard that we show we are the true religion because we have love among ourselves.
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The straw for me was something I didn't think had anything to do with the religion. I wanted very badly to break a couple of the rules, and was torn up over the fact that by doing do I was going to doom myself, children and husband if I dragged him along with me to die at Armaggedon by the hands of the God that I served my ENTIRE life, and never really got anything back from. I was however promised Paradise, that I JUST might make it into, but knew from a very young age I'd never make it to...see the first sentence. I craved "badness". Of which I won't get into now, but suffice it to say that once I did those things, stopped meetings, remembered the abuse of my sisters and I by my father, realized the congregation covered it over FOR him, DESPITE us for all those years, I grew disgusted. I figured I was already a toasted marshmellow....bird food if you will, that it wouldn't hurt it I at least looked for other people like me, that knew we were *just about to die. Soon. From God.
It became absolutely ridiculous, and the more I read, the more I realized that I was hiding from a fat rosy cheeked insufferable asshole behind the curtain, certainly not any Jehovah God persona, and I was certainly not going to die. Nor my children. Not for that.
Funny thing, once I allowed myself to do whatever was once bad...I didn't really want to do it anymore. I am however grateful it was what led me out of that "truth" and into LIFE.
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I heart Mr Diety.
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I'm excited about life! ;-D
by AwSnap ini just wanted to let you know of something that has liberated me recently.
i decorated my office with hearts for valentine's day this year.
my family has known for over ten years that i do not want to practice the jw faith, although i am not df'd or da'd.
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I'd love to hear that story Michelle!