Posts by daringhart13

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How did you find the strength to leave?

by SAHARA in

to all of you exjws, i'm sure you've been asked this question one way or the other many times and i'm sure the answer is different for many of you, i'd like to know directly from you never having a chance to hear or read many exjw's answers to this.

knowing that you would be cut off from your family and friends and other consequences for your decision to leave, how did you ever get the strength to do it?

i mean really, i find it fascinating to know that there are so many of you who were at one time very devout, if not at the very least loyal to one of the most successful mind-contol organizations ever who believed all if not most of what the society taught and still you found the courage to risk everything once you accepted that it isn't what it claims to be.

daringhart13

After years of loyal service as an elder....after being raised in "the truth".... after knowing about the lying and corruption among elders.... after watching my son made fun of by field service groups while at lunch/them at a 'break'...... after watching an adulterous woman get away without so much as ONE meeting to deal with her......... it finally came down to this:

I was away on a business trip in the exact opposite corner of the country. I got a call letting me know I was being slandered. I returned home and never went back. Enough was enough.

Easily.....in a landslide.....the worst collection of people I've ever been around.

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My Family Being Verbally Abused by MS

by daringhart13 in

someone talk me out of going to jail.. i just found out an ms called my sister and verbally abused her.

told her she was 'unspiritual and inactive and he doesn't have to listen to her'.......he then continued with what a 'crappy mother she is' etc.. i'm in a blind rage.

daringhart13

Thanks to all.

I didn't sleep much last night.....it got worse. This clown actually text my MINOR nephew and encouraged him to sneak out and come to his house.....that he needed to talk to him alone. He says in the text "don't tell your parents"

This guy is in his 40's.

I think he pissed his pants when I got him on the phone. I was told brothers were alert at the hall in case I showed up and drug him out by the throat.

These people are out of control.

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My Family Being Verbally Abused by MS

by daringhart13 in

someone talk me out of going to jail.. i just found out an ms called my sister and verbally abused her.

told her she was 'unspiritual and inactive and he doesn't have to listen to her'.......he then continued with what a 'crappy mother she is' etc.. i'm in a blind rage.

daringhart13

I don't know......I'm just so incredibly livid right now....... I'm on the phone now with a brother who says he called her an apostate....

These people are just evil......

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a question for experts on disfellowshipping

by poor places in

jw
friends

can you be df'd for atheism?

if you only tell the elders that you don't believe in god, and as a result will be decreasing your activity, will they reprove you and/or df you if you aren't repentant over time?

pretend that you aren't telling them anything about your feelings regarding the organization or governing body.

daringhart13

They can DF you for any reason that suits them.

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My Family Being Verbally Abused by MS

by daringhart13 in

someone talk me out of going to jail.. i just found out an ms called my sister and verbally abused her.

told her she was 'unspiritual and inactive and he doesn't have to listen to her'.......he then continued with what a 'crappy mother she is' etc.. i'm in a blind rage.

daringhart13

Thanks gang. Unfortunately......I lost it with him on the phone. A total smart ass punk. Those "brothers" all know me....... they are likely posting guards and now looking for a way to DF me.....

I can't believe the things he said to my sister. I can't believe they are allowed to talk this way. After all this time.....and 17 years as a servant......I'm still shocked to see that they can do this and get away with it......

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My Family Being Verbally Abused by MS

by daringhart13 in

someone talk me out of going to jail.. i just found out an ms called my sister and verbally abused her.

told her she was 'unspiritual and inactive and he doesn't have to listen to her'.......he then continued with what a 'crappy mother she is' etc.. i'm in a blind rage.

daringhart13

I just got him on the phone an unloaded .....he was at the KH....I'm sure they posted guards.... they all know I will march in there

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My Family Being Verbally Abused by MS

by daringhart13 in

someone talk me out of going to jail.. i just found out an ms called my sister and verbally abused her.

told her she was 'unspiritual and inactive and he doesn't have to listen to her'.......he then continued with what a 'crappy mother she is' etc.. i'm in a blind rage.

daringhart13

Someone talk me out of going to jail.

I just found out an MS called my sister and verbally abused her. Told her she was 'unspiritual and inactive and he doesn't have to listen to her'.......he then continued with what a 'crappy mother she is' etc.

I'm in a blind rage

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I HAVE JUST BEEN APPOINTED AS A MINISTERIAL SERVANT.

by african GB Member in

after being reinstated in 2008, i was finally appointed ms last night.. i am so excited now that i have a certain measure of 'power'.. ex-ms's/elders, what types of challenges come with this priviledge?.

what will be expected from me?.

daringhart13

I'm going to say you're drowing in crap.....

You can't be appointed to service privileges only 2 years after being reinstated.

I'm going to call liar.

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why are women so forgiving in jehovahs witnesses ?

by looloo in

jw
friends

i saw a jw girl i used to work with a few weeks back who was married for about 8 years and has 2 children , she was in a right state and told me her husband had just left her for a work collegue and said he no longer loved her !

within a month i see her again and she took him back within a wk of him going to live with this other woman , she told me she blamed herself for not having sex often enough !and they were working on their marriage !

why would you want someone who said they no longer loved you ?

daringhart13

There are a ton of 'sisters' that are just as bad as this guy.

But sisters go through HELL in the org. They wait and wait to marry some 'prince'.....read 'servant'....who is then just some dude that could ride around in a mini-van for 10 hours a month...... they marry him....... they start making babies. Keep in mind they rarely can support themselves since they didn't go to college.......so they start weighing out the 'benefits' of taking the loser back.....

...a lot of them take them back. Then cry and cry due to unhappiness.

Its truly a criminal situation.

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Was it EX JW literature / WT's or the BIBLE which woke you up? Post scriptures if any....

by EndofMysteries in

i considered myself immune to ex jw stuff.

no amount of old watchtowers or anything would change me.

it was seeing treatment of others by elders and the bible itself, which woke me.

daringhart13

As an elder....it was a sister we had DF'd.....when I called her to tell her we were reinstating her the next night....she cried and said thank you....and said she was going to kill herself the next day

I woke up.

Disfellowshipping....something I NEVER agreed with....is what did it for me.

Next came the GROSS lack of love among JW's..... especially the elders and CO's.....some of them are just terrible/dysfunctional people .....