Posts by poopsiecakes

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What is the most embarassing moment you've had while still a JW?

by african GB Member in

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i remember having to preach to my girlfriend/classmate while i was still at school.

i was with one of the elders and it was my 'house' to preach.. wished i could vanish from the surface of the earth..

can we get some predictions for 2012?

by cptkirk in

how bout a nice layout, predicting every crazy insane thread that will appear on this website in the year 2012?

(1.5 months away).

down to who will post it, and what it will say.

poopsiecakes

Fear not Nancy, Shamus will return like a thief in the night, spreading his monkey love all over us.

I predict that 00DAD is absolutely correct in his fearless prediction.

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The Prodigal son...rejected.

by Londo111 in

i was a third generation witness, a ministerial servant twice in my life, a failed pioneer (i only made it six months).

when the article about higher education come out, my family finally decided it was okay for me to get a two year degree.

and that enabled me to provide for myself--before that is was impossible.

Londo, I feel your pain. The way you describe your JC was pretty much the way mine went down. I was inactive for a year and a half and had moved, so these men knew nothing about me whatsoever - I was a stranger to them. I cried and begged them to get to know me and mildly chastised them for not bothering to show any interest in me at all until they heard a rumor from someone back home. It took them an hour and a half to give me the boot and when that happened, I knew I would never go back. And this was before I had really started thinking - to me this was still the 'true' religion.

Looking back I know why I felt the way I did. I grew up under tight mind control, as did you. Now I know that what happened to me was the luckiest thing. Had they been 'merciful' and not DF'd me, I don't know where I would be right now but I suspect I would still be under that familiar and gripping mind control. While it's been scary having to let go of family and friends, I wouldn't change it for anything. I hope you can get to that point as well and start really enjoying your life and your newfound ability to think. It's really quite wonderful.