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  Hello and my exit story from WTS

  by free2Bme13 in

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  i thought it was fitting for me to share my freedom from the witnesses story on independence day weekend.. i dont have any secret info, just experiences that happened to me and started to open my eyes.. i was a third generation, raised in the truth kid who was never supposed to be born, and then never supposed to graduate high school.

  ive now been out of high school longer than i was in school.. the beginning of the end started a little less than a decade ago.

  i was late 20s at the time.

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  laverite

  Thank you so much for your beautifully written first post. I enjoyed reading it, not because of the sturggle, but I thought you wrote it so well. I wonder, free2be, how many others have the issues and questions about the Watchtower Corp that you had but are struggling silently, plotting along going to meetings anyway? It is interesting that your parents also have issues. Again, I wonder how many others do as well. Watchtower Corp has done a good job, though, of creating a culture where it isn't possible to share any concerns out of fear for your spritual, and therefore, physical life.

  Congratulations on escaping the cult.
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  Passed my Post Grad with 'Outstanding' grade! Shows it's never too late.

  by Lozhasleft in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've just had the official results on my pgce.

  i'm not posting here to boast, but to encourage any who may have abandoned education because of the pressure as a jw, and who may feel that it's too late to return and achieve such goals.

  in the 1980s i stopped halfway through my b.ed honours and accepted a dip.h.e.

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  laverite

  Loz - I used to be a senior lecturer at a university in England. I am very familiar with the PGCE. Congrats!!! Well done, you!
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  Forum cleanup and archive

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  i mentioned i was cleaning the forum archive when i bumped this thread by oompa:.

  damm i miss jwd...this place will always be jwd to me.... rather than turn that into a discussion of the archive, i'll answer slimboyfat's concern here.. the things i'm clearing up are either:.

  time specific and non jw related (e.g.

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  laverite

  I can't stand clutter. I get rid of things left right and center, even things I wind up needing. I am the opposite of a hoarder.
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  Smoking Gun?

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was unable to insert the pic from the april 15,2013 pg 29 but leaving jesus christ out of the illustration on page 29 is no problem for the governing body as they have now substituted themselves for christ.

  the following quotations substantiate this:-.

  ''the faithful slave is the channel through which jesus is feeding his true followers at this time of the end.

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  laverite

  Billy - absolutely. But how many Dubs will recognize this? I am sure with each new bat-shit crazy thing Watchtower Corp comes up with, some wake up. Perhaps many stay in due to fear. Sadly, I can't see this (or anything else for that matter!!!) as ever having much of an impact beyond those who are ready tow wake up and face the lies that have been told to them for many years.
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  1 yr anniversary since last meeting!!!!

  by outofthelionsden in

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  laverite

  Billy,

  If you do ever get the chance to disfellowship one or more dubbies, can you please post about it? I'd love to read their reaction to being notified that you disfellowshipped them.
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  Billy asks for your prayers...

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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  2. friends

  if any of you still believe in god(s), please pray to him/her/them and ask that she/he/they send(s) bad enough weather to my area to hinder travel, but not cut off power.. is that request too weird for this forum?.

  someday i'll share more details.

  peace, love, brotherhood..

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  laverite

  Billy,

  You promised someday to share more details.

  This is just a gentle reminder.
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  The Pioneer Wife

  by Rattigan350 in

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  the pioneer wife:.

  in public -.

  she is active in service,.

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  laverite

  Good point, Julia. But this is a stereotype with some real truth behind it. However, that said, there are so many who are giving their all. I know some of them.
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  My mother continues with these creepy letters

  by sosoconfused in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as i continue to post these letters just to let people see what they can expect through a fade, i hope they are not annoying anyone.. if so please let me know and i will no longer post them.

  however i think these letters help you to see how cultish and crazy this religion causes people to become:.

  evening <name removed>,.

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  laverite

  Soso,

  You write:

  I dont have much affection for my mother. Not just because of this fade but because she has always been obsessed with the org over her marriage and her children. I dont talk about personal accomplishments much but as a young child I was given the chance to go to a special school for free because of my tested intellectual abilities. I found out about this after I was married. She said she knew that if she let me go I would have not lived a life dedicated to Jehovah. Thanks Mom

  My sister was thrown out the house as a teenager because she wasn't progressing like the other kids in the hall. She came back pregnant and all my mother said was, "Inever thought that my first grandchild would be a bastard"

  Then there was my brother who was always the favorite. Pioneered / communter bethelite / full-time Bethelite / special pioneer with his wife. Always the apple of her eye.

  When I came along and tried to follow in the same footsteps it was never good enough. They lived 15 miles from me while I was in Bethel and never came to visit me once. However my lazy as brother was recieving nearly every dime they made while he was a special pioneer so he could have a nice car.Nice clothes etc... they even packaged FROZEN MEAT TO SEND TO HIM IN HIS ASSIGNMENT. WTF

  So all of this talk about hurting her etc... means nothing to me. This organization has raped her of all her resources and her common sense. There is nothing I can do at this point.

  I would so be tempted to send that to her if I were you. Probably not the best idea, but imagine what a reality check that letter would be. Enough to wake her up? Probably not but it would sure be powerful. Not suggesting you do that; just saying I'd be very tempted.
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  My first talk with JWs at the door while on vacation

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was the first time in almost eight years i have had a conversation with a jw .

  we were on vacation last week at my son and daughter in laws home .

  one morning the doorbell rang and as i went to answer it my daughter in law said she thought it was witnesses .

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  laverite

  I am finding the same thing -- that the witnesses currently do not know what their beliefs are. I wonder if this is what the bOrg wants? Does this somehow work in favor of the bOrg?
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  I have a good chance of seeing the great tribulation

  by zound in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so just to clarify the overlapping generation this.

  it's two generations overlapping.. what is the definition of the individual generations then?

  the original generation changed from those who saw and could understand the events of 1914 to those who were born in 1914.. so let's be generous and say it was those born in 1914 and give them a lifespan of 80 years (1994).

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  laverite

  And no human alive today has the chance of welcoming in the year 3000!!