Posts by Clint Bussey

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Studying my faith away

by the-illuminator81 in

i want to introduce myself.

i'm a 28 year old active, married jw from belgium.

in the preceding months (i'd say starting from about march) i've been slowly losing my faith.

Good for you! Thank you for searching to find truth, and 'make sure of all things'. This is the same way that I left. You are trying to pick between fading or DAing yourself. I say that there is another option, one that takes a bit more fortitude, but will help you out more in the end, and may help others out too. I say DO NOT WRITE A FORMAL LETTER OF DISASSOCIATION! Here's why: A. It is an option that the JW organization gave you so that you can easily be shunned and ignored. B. You should let your fellow brothers and sisters know how you feel about things first, not run directly to the elders so that they can kick you out of the congregation. Fading is the cowards way out, and you are just setting yourself up to be silent about what you know to be falsehood until you get the courage to stand up and speak. Come clean! You will be respected in the end for doing that, and the sooner the better. Really I say that it would be good for you to just speak what you have found in your research and not worry about getting DF'ed. If the elders want to talk to you, just tell them what you have found, Ask them questions, perk their interest in these things. Don't cower to them, tell them like a man to their face, showing love of course and empathy, and go about your business. Don't allow them to kick you ou t or disfellowship you for telling the truth and showing love to your brothers and your family. They need to hear the facts and face the real problems with their current dogma and the high minded 'slave' classes hijacking of JW's spirituality. If the elders say that they want to meet with you, just ask them questions you know they can't answer on the spot, and say, if you can't answer my question then there is nothing to "meet" about. Do not recognize their imagined authority. If you can stomach it, keep going to the meetings long enough to speak to the JW's about what you have now found, and STAND YOUR GROUND! Others will follow your strong stand, they will! Believe that. This is no time for people to be cowardly fading or running from the KH with their tails between their legs. If they tell you that you cannot come back to the KH, ignore it and keep coming. Anyway, that is the only way to put an end to the strangle hold that the WT has on memebers of the organization. Right now would be a great time to take such a stand. I think that your family and brothers and sisters would really appreciate your bravery and honesty and may take a stand also.

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Wore a Shirt to the D.C. Telling Witnesses About the U.N. WT Affair

by Clint Bussey in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysztoujjudo.

Clint Bussey

I'll stick with wording it the WT joined the UN. They can look up all the details and if they want to stay in denial about their leadership they can say they just joined the DPI or were an NGO, as if that is better. The way I see it is that they joined the U.N., by helping them. I appreciate your critiquing, but to each his own. I just want them talking about it, because they have no idea that this occured. We know, because we check up on these things, but JW's for the most part are clueless. However we say it, they need to know. This nut will crack if we stand up and reveal there most carefully concealed secret, or should i say, most damning secret.

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Wore a Shirt to the D.C. Telling Witnesses About the U.N. WT Affair

by Clint Bussey in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysztoujjudo.

Clint Bussey

I am not always taken seriously, but you can rest assured that the JW's in my area are all talking about this and the fact that the WT joined the U.N.

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Wore a Shirt to the D.C. Telling Witnesses About the U.N. WT Affair

by Clint Bussey in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysztoujjudo.

Clint Bussey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YszToujJuDo

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Before the Solstice Playing "The Golden Age" LIVE

by Clint Bussey in

here is the link to youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lffjsafrlp4.

Clint Bussey

@Stonewall. Thank you! You are a jawja boy? Where do you live? The congregations and people that I contacted have been affected in a large way. Some have awakened to what is going on. Others have talked to me for extended periods of times, and yet still others who are df'd or whatever have taken a stand themselves. Many more however, like you said, are terrified, and talking up a storm. Much controversy! At least they are talking about stuff.

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Before the Solstice Playing "The Golden Age" LIVE

by Clint Bussey in

here is the link to youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lffjsafrlp4.

Clint Bussey

@LeavingWT Thanks for making it clickable. How do you do that? Oh and about the song, Thanks you! I am Glad you liked it.

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Before the Solstice Playing "The Golden Age" LIVE

by Clint Bussey in

here is the link to youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lffjsafrlp4.

Clint Bussey

Here is the link to youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lffJsAfrLP4

Before the Solstice Playing "The Golden Age" LIVE

by Clint Bussey in

Clint Bussey

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How a teenage boy helped end the Cold War with Russia

by moshe in

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friends

sometimes people claim than an individual can't change the world, but i guess matthias rust , a 19 year old west german, never heard that one.

in 1987 he flew a private all the way to moscow to plead for world peace and his unbelievable flight probably did more to end the cold war than a bevy of professional diplomats.. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/26/ar2007052601262.html.

i am hoping an idealistic young person will bring down the wt org, too..

Clint Bussey

BP & Moshe I agree with both of you in a way. It is VERY hard to lose your relationship with your family (trust me I have and know), but being silent isn't the course of action either. After 10 years of being treated different and talked down to by my parents, and shunned, and keeping silent my thoughts on the world in front of them, I finally bit the bullet and made that painful decision. I have no relationship at all with my parents right now, and in fact I told them that I would rather not talk to them at all if they don't treat me like a son. But my brother was able to break free from that mind control, and just two weeks ago, he gave them a call and told them what he really thinks about their insolent treatment of their children. In fact, several people have stood up to the WT authority structure in my area after I became very vocal and active. Once you make a stand, you will feel better, and actually losing an abusive mentally diseased family is not that bad. Moshe I am idealistic like you seem to be, and I get impatient too. It may seem like the end of the world to cause such a social earthquake, but it is worth all the sacrifice. And you may gain your family eventually.

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Mission 1 For the Vast Apostate Army: Attend The Memorial...

by Tuesday in

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friends

hey folks!.

i made another propaganda-esque video for the vast apostate army's first mission which is to attend the memorial.

since alot of people liked my last video for the vast apostate army i figured i'd post this one too.

Clint Bussey

That would be funny! Yeah, let's get the word out! I am talking to some of my local ex-JW friends too, to try and get them to go. I hope that some people go this year and take a stand against their abuse and against their suppression of truth and freedom.