Spitfire

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  Greetings...its been 5 years since my last post...

  by Spitfire in

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  15 years ago

  i have been "out", for 7 years now.

  i spent two years on this site, reading, posting, sometimes debating.

  this site (all the contributors) played a role in helping me deprogram some very deeply held beliefs.

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  Spitfire 15 years ago

  Mentallyfree - Congratulations! And how do you feel????

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  Greetings...its been 5 years since my last post...

  by Spitfire in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  15 years ago

  i have been "out", for 7 years now.

  i spent two years on this site, reading, posting, sometimes debating.

  this site (all the contributors) played a role in helping me deprogram some very deeply held beliefs.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 

  15 years ago
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  Spitfire 15 years ago

  Thank you for sharing your experience with the Witnesses. Since you did not completely "buy into" their teachings, and left mentally as a young teenager, bidding your time before you could physically leave, is there anything positive from the experience that you "took" with you?

  I'm curious. In what ways do you "judge"? and lastly...are you now doing what you love?

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  Greetings...its been 5 years since my last post...

  by Spitfire in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  15 years ago

  i have been "out", for 7 years now.

  i spent two years on this site, reading, posting, sometimes debating.

  this site (all the contributors) played a role in helping me deprogram some very deeply held beliefs.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 

  15 years ago
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  Spitfire 15 years ago

  Mentallyfree - I have had times of great happiness, confusion, anger, sadness and it has all been beautiful. I am now at a point of living what excites me.

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  Greetings...its been 5 years since my last post...

  by Spitfire in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  15 years ago

  i have been "out", for 7 years now.

  i spent two years on this site, reading, posting, sometimes debating.

  this site (all the contributors) played a role in helping me deprogram some very deeply held beliefs.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 

  15 years ago
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  Spitfire 15 years ago

  Heaven... yet we were once apart of that "life". My mindset was exactly as you described above, was yours?

  Thank you mentallyfree. Are you physically free?

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  Greetings...its been 5 years since my last post...

  by Spitfire in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  15 years ago

  i have been "out", for 7 years now.

  i spent two years on this site, reading, posting, sometimes debating.

  this site (all the contributors) played a role in helping me deprogram some very deeply held beliefs.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 

  15 years ago
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  Spitfire 15 years ago

  Heaven... I just had an additional thought. Thinking of your father, and my mother, and relating to my own experience as a Jehovah's Witness, it may be the "judgements" placed that keep them within the organization. As a witness, you are taught to judge everything, even though lip service is paid to "not judging". How they view others outside the organization may play a part in what keeps them "there" perhaps out of fear of being "judged" like they judge others.

  I never knew the meaning of unconditional love or free will until I left the mindset of being a "Jehovah's Witness".

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  Greetings...its been 5 years since my last post...

  by Spitfire in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  15 years ago

  i have been "out", for 7 years now.

  i spent two years on this site, reading, posting, sometimes debating.

  this site (all the contributors) played a role in helping me deprogram some very deeply held beliefs.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 

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  Spitfire 15 years ago

  I chose the same username that I use to use.

  My mother also is a witness and has been for 62 years. Its wonderful that you are able to help your father, because it is an act of love for him. It will provide for him, if he choses to "see" it, a contrast - an understanding that your love (from his perception) stemming from a worldly person is of more service to him than the love (from his perception) of a religion that is restrictive in how it expresses love.

  There are no "mistakes" in life. Regardless of the road chosen, it is all of service ( not the good' ole door-to-doore service <which is non-the-less a "service">).

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  Greetings...its been 5 years since my last post...

  by Spitfire in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  15 years ago

  i have been "out", for 7 years now.

  i spent two years on this site, reading, posting, sometimes debating.

  this site (all the contributors) played a role in helping me deprogram some very deeply held beliefs.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 

  15 years ago
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  Spitfire 15 years ago

  I have been "out", for 7 years now. I spent two years on this site, reading, posting, sometimes debating. This site (all the contributors) played a role in helping me deprogram some very deeply held beliefs. I stopped posting about 5 years ago and decided today to "drop by" and say THANK YOU - all of you - for the various roles you played in assisting me on my journey.

  The last 5 years has been an adventure in self-discovery. If there is anything you wish to ask me, please feel free - I'd love to share with you my perceptions, thoughts, understanding...and perhaps in the same way those that shared with me, many years ago, was of assistance to me...I may be of assistance to you.

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