Posts by mentallyfree31

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Did You Experience THIS When You Were Awakening From Mind Control?

by mentallyfree31 in

jw
friends

back in december, when i awakened from the wt mind control - i would wake up for several weeks in the middle of the night thinking "what are you doing?

you know the witnesses have the truth".

every day or so these thoughts would return.

mentallyfree31

Back in December, when I awakened from the WT mind control - i would wake up for several weeks in the middle of the night thinking "what are you doing? You know the witnesses have the truth". Every day or so these thoughts would return. This lasted 4 to 6 weeks for me probably. When this would hit me really strong - it was pretty powerful emotions..would make me feel quite anxious and nervous. I usually resorted to re-reading large portions of "captives of a concept" by don cameryn and portions of crisis of conscience and that would help me to shake it off.

Did you experience this also? What other fears/feelings/emotions did you experience? How long did it last? How did you cope?

-mentallyfree31-

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How Many Apostates Are At Bethel?

by mentallyfree31 in

does anybody personally know people at bethel that are "apostate" but still undercover?

surely there has to be a handul at least.

perhaps they are still there, until they can get things in order to leave...

mentallyfree31

jwfacts - thanks for posting. I forgot about you when I posted this. Good point about private internet access.

-MF31-

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Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

by mentallyfree31 in

who were your past circuit overseers?

i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).

ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).

mentallyfree31

Thanks Blondie for the links.

-MF31-

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Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

by mentallyfree31 in

who were your past circuit overseers?

i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).

ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).

mentallyfree31

Sam Roberson - I forgot about him. We had him also.

Here's a couple of more that served in this region: Frank Barr (thin white guy around 60 years old) and Br. Bicht (pronounced Bickt)

-MF31-

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How old were you when you got baptized...was it your own decision?

by Desilusionnee in

jw
friends

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mentallyfree31

A sister in my old hall was baptized at 9. And I have a good JW friend that was baptized at 8.

Both are so deep into this cult, I don't think there would ever be hope of getting them out.

Sad..

-MF31-

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generation overlap

by cskyjw.sun in

in 1914 say an anoited was 14 years old lived up to 80years old in 1980;and then another jw became anoited say at age of 20and lives up to 100 years old,then "this generation" would stretch to1980+80=2060.so the end would extend for another 50 years.

mentallyfree31

Remember: The teaching used to be that the last days started in 1799. People believed that for decades. Russell died believing this. But once they got over 100 years past 1799 and into the 1920's I believe, they changed 1799 to 1914 as the start of the last days.

So therefore, sometime after 2014 (who knows - perhaps 2020 or 2030) - when 1914 is well past 100 years in the past, they will update the date again. People will grin and say "wow, it's so wonderful to be in the truth.....Jehovah is just making things so much clearer as time goes on"..

-mentallyfree31-

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My Daughter Just Graduated From College!

by GoingGoingGone in

she was about 13 or 14 when i first started having serious doubts about the wts.

when i informed her of my doubts a couple years later, she took the information and ran with it.... she never looked back.

i told her she could be whatever she wanted to be if she only worked hard enough.

mentallyfree31

What a great story. Congratulations!

-MF31-

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Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

by mentallyfree31 in

who were your past circuit overseers?

i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).

ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).

mentallyfree31

Rainer sounds familiar to me also. And Mendenhall was my DO one time.

Another DO we had was Goff.

-MF31-

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Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

by mentallyfree31 in

who were your past circuit overseers?

i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).

ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).

mentallyfree31

It seems that Andy Cole is the most well known so far. Several people mentioned they know him. I didn't know him personally, but I do know 3 of his siblings and his dad.

-mentallyfree31-

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Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

by mentallyfree31 in

who were your past circuit overseers?

i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).

ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).

mentallyfree31

I don't recognize anybody so far. Keep them coming.

-MF31-