Topics Started by El Nunya

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Has a very poorly dog.........
by watersprout in
1. jw
2. friends
bit of background info..... we have a neighbour who is a complete psychopath, she has tried to get us evicted, turned neighbours against us, bad mouthed us to our visitors.. last year our dog who is a jack/staff and is very healthy started to go downhill.... lethergy, depression, vomiting bile, coughing.

we took her to the vets who ran loads of tests on organ failure, cancer etc and they all came back clear.

he repeatedly asked us if she could have eaten anything.
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Thanks to Those That Went Before Us
by OnTheWayOut in
1. jw
2. friends
i want to say thanks to those that have blazed the trail for others to become former jehovah's witnesses.. many were disfellowshipped or disassociated, some stopped going to meetings before "faders" existed.

many had no internet or any way of gathering with others who left the jw's.

later, the likes of randy watters and ray franz gave many a sense of a group conscience with their efforts and writings.
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To Dissassociate or just Fade into Inactivity ? Your Choice ? Reasons ?
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
this has been asked before, however i thought it may be good for newer members of the board to read some of our reasons on how we decided to exit the jw cult and why we decided to do it the way we did.. first off - i have been faded for almost 8 years.

essentially i decided to fade into inactivity and not da because i have elderly jw parents who would shun me if i did get dfed or daed myself.

also- i like keeping open the possibilities that some of my many jw relatives may in time start doubting and have questions and reach out to me in my inactive state.
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I NEED TO KNOW THE "TRUTH".
by hubert in
1. jw
2. experiences
are baptized jehovah's witnesses allowed to go to a catholic priest's funeral?.

would elders allow this?

(without them being reproved)?.
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What made you leave "The Truth"?
by Chemical Emotions in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for me it was many things.

most concerned certain teachings that invloved genders, children, sex, sexuality and sexual orientations, disfellowshipping, apostates, blood, rape, and few other things, as well as the jw's unloving attitude toward so many people..
43
Even God can't escape the Matrix
by gubberningbody in
1. jw
2. friends
the only thing god can know for certain, is what we know for certain:.

we think, so we know we exist.. .
172
Top 10 reasons why JWs don't have the truth - please contribute
by oldlightnewshite in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i thought it would be an interesting exercise to ask everybody on here what their 'top 10 reasons why jws don't have the truth' actually were.

maybe we can see some correlating views/patterns/ideas that may help us de-programme the newbies that come on this site.

if eventually most people have an outstanding gripe/concern it'll help everybody understand the ex-jw mindset a little better.
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Marking 7 Years out of the Watchtower
by lovelylil2 in
1. jw
2. friends
boy oh boy where to start?

lots of changes over the last seven years.

this week i had been reflecting on just how drastically my life has changed for the better since loosening the grip of the watchtower society.. in brief, my life seven years ago this month looked liked this; my family was very unhappy after nearly a decade of serving the "happy god" of the watchtower and being part of the "happiest people on earth".
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What's the saddest movie you've ever seen?
by JimmyPage in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm asking because i just watched "the road".

it may not be the saddest but it's up there.

"my sister's keeper" was a real tearjerker too..
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Those that just one day - were not there anymore
by just n from bethel in
1. jw
2. friends
i, like otwo in another thread, never really had a bad experience with jws.

i never had any case of molestation come up in the the many congregations i served in.

i never had any major beefs with any elder body.