thanks again, dgp.
aSphereisnotaCircle, this year would've been my ten year baptism anniversary so it'll take me ten years to reach that goal.
Broken Promises and purplesofa, I'm glad you're past this stage.
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Does this happen to anyone else?
by doublelife inthis doesn't happen a lot but every once in a while, on a day that used to be my meeting night, i'll get a weird feeling.
it happened today.
it's hard to explain what it is.
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Does this happen to anyone else?
by doublelife inthis doesn't happen a lot but every once in a while, on a day that used to be my meeting night, i'll get a weird feeling.
it happened today.
it's hard to explain what it is.
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aSphereisnotaCircle, you described it perfectly. I didn't think about it as being like PTSD but it is. I'm glad to know this is normal...well, normal for an ex-cult member at least.
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Does this happen to anyone else?
by doublelife inthis doesn't happen a lot but every once in a while, on a day that used to be my meeting night, i'll get a weird feeling.
it happened today.
it's hard to explain what it is.
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Oh, and welcome to the board, kgirl!
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Does this happen to anyone else?
by doublelife inthis doesn't happen a lot but every once in a while, on a day that used to be my meeting night, i'll get a weird feeling.
it happened today.
it's hard to explain what it is.
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Thanks, dgp, for telling me I'm not just being a drama queen.
Kgirl, I've only stopped going about 5 months ago. I quit cold turkey, didn't bother with fading. I've heard people talk about having dreams but I wasn't sure if people randomly got a feeling during waking hours like the one I described.
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Does this happen to anyone else?
by doublelife inthis doesn't happen a lot but every once in a while, on a day that used to be my meeting night, i'll get a weird feeling.
it happened today.
it's hard to explain what it is.
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This doesn't happen a lot but every once in a while, on a day that used to be my meeting night, I'll get a weird feeling. It happened today. It's hard to explain what it is. In my mind I know that I don't have to go to the meeting. But I still get the same feeling that I used to get on meeting nights when I would go. I feel stressed out, almost like anxiety. I was at work thinking, "It's Thursday." So automatically, I started thinking, "Oh, no. I have to rush home, cook dinner, and get ready for the meeting." I started feeling a panic. I told myself it was all in my mind but the reaction I had wouldn't go away. I had to stop working for a couple of minutes and calm down. The rest of the day I felt on edge though. I felt irritable because my body thought that I wasn't going to be able to come home and relax for the evening but instead go to the meeting. Does this sound weird to you? Am I just being a drama queen as my mom likes to call me?
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What religion would you recommend for those who want to leave the WTS?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inafter i decide to leave the jehovah's witnesses one day,i will not look for a new religion.
the damage that the wts has caused me leads me to mistrust all men and religion.. i trusted these men from the wts .
i gave up 35 years of my life to find out that the wts is just a printing and real estate corporation disguised as a religion.
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Restored Reformed congregation of the Dutch Reformed Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2nd Synod, Afscheiding schism.
Wow. I thought this was a joke. I googled it and it turns out to be real.
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Jesus' family tree
by doublelife inin the insight bk, vol.1, page 915 it says:.
"reliability of the gospel genealogies.
the question arises: why does matthew leave out some names that are contained in the listings of the other chroniclers?
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Here's a link that compares them side by side.
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Whatever you do reflects on Jehovah
by dgp ini heard a witness say this.
sorry if my question seems stupid, but i'm not a jw and i don't know any better.
i have the feeling that this phrase means that you have to carefully weight your every word and action so the worldlies won't have a bad opinion of the wts?.
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dgp, "And this also means you will often do what you wouldn't, just because your actions would reflect on Jehovah?"
I don't know if this is what you're referring to but going out in service, commenting at meetings. I hated doing those things and it went against my quiet, reserved nature. When I was in school there were clothes that I wanted to wear but didn't because it would bring a "reproach on Jehovah's name." There was always things I would or wouldn't do because of how it would reflect on the organization.
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How Much are Your Conditional Friends Worth?
by leavingwt inupon learning that wt was not "god's organization", i was devastated.
for two decades i had spent valuable time building friendships, mostly with jws.
during my stay at bethel, i made many fine friends, some of them very close.
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How Much are Your Conditional Friends Worth?
They're not worth my sanity and freedom. The thing is, several months before I found out the truth about "the truth" I knew all my friends weren't real friends. After the meetings I would leave immediately. I never stayed to socialize with anyone. My husband was a little worried about it but I just didn't want to waste energy on fake people. Once I made the decision to become inactive I knew that my friends would stop talking to me. We had a girls night in October and I went out with them knowing that that would be the last time I would being hanging out with them. It was a little sad but I knew that it couldn't be any other way.
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New Here
by CuriousButterfly inhi new to this message board.
i was trying to contact the admins or mods and the link at the botton if the message board does not appear to be working.
am i able to pm them?.
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Welcome!