There's loads and loads and loads of new ones hubby and I are one of them
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Nomoreguilt is BACK!
by nomoreguilt inhey there all my dear ole friends in jwd land!
wow!, what a trip!
it's not that i haven't been thinking about all of you, just had some new adventures that i've been involved in.
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How Long Did It Actually Take You To Leave The Organization?
by minimus ini started reading "apostate" books when i was a teen at the library.
it was more curiousity than anything else.
at home, i used to read all the old publications and i'd notice how beliefs had changed.. with ray franz's books that i read clandestinely, i started to realize the truth about "the truth".
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From the time we found out the truth about the truth after months of research and soul searching and sleepless nights the penny finally dropped. But we had been three years in the wilderness not going to meetings still believing but confused and unhappy. once the penny had finally dropped it took three months to send letters of resignation, then finally walk away and close the book on this chapter of our life.
RosePetal and hubby
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Friends
by snowbird indo you get a warm, fuzzy-wuzzy feeling when certain posters show up on your threads?.
i most certainly do.. syl.
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Yes sylvia you brighten my day too and I love your cheeky sniggers. And outlaw makes me laugh and I love his mutley dog, but there are many on this board that have brightened my day and made me belly laugh. those pictures are something else outlaw.
Love you sylv. RosePetal
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A Few JWs and Apologists are showing up...
by mrsjones5 incould it be the holiday weekend and they don't have anything better to do?.
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Yknot thank you for the info I had not read any of that. I couldn't find where he gave names to the Gestapo could you find me a link!
Thank you RosePetal
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H APPY B IRTDAY
Mrs Jones RosePetal
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Ray Franz has had a stroke
by coffee_black injust setting the record straight.
there is another thread that notes a claim on wiki that said that ray has died.. he had a stroke yesterday, and is in the hospital.
he is still alive.
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RosePetal
We are sorry to hear that Ray is poorly both Ray and cynthia are in our prayers. We wish him a speedy recovery RosePetal and hubby
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Hard question
by dgp ina question for all those who managed to do it.
when you realize that it's unrealistic to expect someone in the wt to ever leave, and when you see the damage it does you to keep hoping, and to keep trying to get them out, how do you manage the pain?.
what do you do when you know that someone has spoiled the only life that person will ever have, yet you can't reach to them?.
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sorry about spelling mistake [should be accept you as existing] typing too fast.
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I have a question
by XPeterX inmy friend had sex while he was an unbaptised publisher.now he is baptised but he never told the elders.is he still considered a sinner,not accepted by jehovah?.
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betterdaze Well said
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Hard question
by dgp ina question for all those who managed to do it.
when you realize that it's unrealistic to expect someone in the wt to ever leave, and when you see the damage it does you to keep hoping, and to keep trying to get them out, how do you manage the pain?.
what do you do when you know that someone has spoiled the only life that person will ever have, yet you can't reach to them?.
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Doubtfully Yours; you sound highly smug for a DUB who has been one for not more than five minutes, wait till you have been the next thirty years and see if you feel the same. I find most smug people haven't been through enough in their lives. Have not experienced the unloving treatment and harsh judgements from so called elders and brothers and sisters in the congregation. Through the years I have known JWs look down their noses at others going through difficulties, health, financial, emotional problems, judging them harshly, my family included, until something happens to them or they are in the same boat. Many Elders and their families seem to think they are the only ones with genuine problems, unless it's of a serious disciplinary nature , then it's kept quite if possible.
Most JWs work hard for years trying to live up to what is expected of them in the org. only to burn out as it is 'never enough'. I think you should go on freeminds and read some of the stories to wake you up to what's going on, I thought that all my experiences where fairly local and was shocked and taken aback when I read the stories of JWs experiences and realised mine just paled into nothing in comparison and these problems were worldwide. Some of the experiences brought me to tears and that old chestnut 'WE ARE ONLY IMPERFECT' does,nt wash any more. It,s a pity the org doesn,t use that maxim to show mercy not judgement!when interacting with others.
And that's apart from what else I found out about all the cover ups and lies. 'Live and let live' may be a good moto, but once you seek life outside the watchtower, jws won;t except you as exsisting, let alone living!family jws particularly. Lives that have be used and abused would like nothing better than to to 'live and let live' and walk away!forgiveness will be apart of the healing process and most victims will not hold a grudge indefinitely with any individual, however exposing a religion that claims exclusivity but allows or turns a blind eye to injustice, for many becomes a mission to help others trapped in this insidious cult!
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Where do I begin?
by Backspacer ini'm new here but have been reading/lurking for several months.
it's good to know that i'm not alone in my ex-jw status and that my story and experiences are not unique.
i have no bitterness or anger anymore.... that's long gone since i left some 12 years ago.
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Sorry the first post was supposed to say from my hubby Mr Bumble he read your story.