Reopened Mind

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  Hey I am Back

  by mouthy in

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  did anyone miss me????.

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  mouthy,

  Welcome back! Do tell us what you have been doing since you left.

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  Any Bone fans?

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  my wife and i watch the new season of bones last night and they killed off sweets!!!

  it just a tv show but this is one we have always enjoyed.

  still totally add.

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  blondie,

  I, too, am a stickler for spelling and grammar. But my husband Still Totally ADD

  has a difficult time because he suffers with ADD, dylexia, and PTSD, due a large

  part to his upbringing in the cult, being raised by a fanatically zealous father and

  a paranoid schizophrenic mother whose first language was Lithuanian. Not to

  mention his eardrum was pierced by a parasite when he was in elementary school.

  If I am nearby when he is posting I help him with spelling, but mostly I just let him

  write from his heart.

  I have a great deal of respect for you on this forum. Perhaps you can explain what

  precipitated this little tirade of yours so I can understand you better.

  With love,

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  How old were you when baptized?

  by Coded Logic in

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  i was baptized at the age of 11. like most of us, my commitment wasnt to honor god but rather i was gang pressed into the service of the wtbts.

  and, at such a young age, it was impossible for me to appreciate the enormity of my actions.

  honestly, how could i possibly have known any better?

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  I was baptized at 20 after studying with some girls I met in junior high school. My parents opposed my association with the Witnesses so I waited until I moved out on my own. I felt I was pleasing God (the WT) rather than men. I was just as ignorant of the workings of the Society as those who were dunked at an earlier age.

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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 08-31-2014 WT Study (FULL POTENTIAL)

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).

  united nations http://www.randytv.com/secret/unitednations.htm.

  newly baptized brothers (not sisters) because the wts needs men to reach out.

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  Blondie,

  Nice to see your comments again. They have helped me hone my reasoning skills.

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  A STRANGE thing happened on the way to the Psychiatrist...

  by PaintedToeNail in

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  he's gone apostate!

  as some may remember, when i started my fade, my husband freaked out and thought i was going to leave him.

  he wanted to see someone about our marriage.

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  PaintedToeNail,

  You were smart to mention HIPAA to the doctor. My husband was so desparate for help he would have agreed to almost anything. Besides he trusted the therapist and didn't have any df'ing offense to divulge.

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  A STRANGE thing happened on the way to the Psychiatrist...

  by PaintedToeNail in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he's gone apostate!

  as some may remember, when i started my fade, my husband freaked out and thought i was going to leave him.

  he wanted to see someone about our marriage.

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  PaintedToeNail,

  What a wonderful story!

  My husband went to a witness therapist who diagnosed him with ADD (he posts here as Still TotallyADD). As a result of her diagnosis and medication he began to wake up to the TTATT. That therapist had him sign a paper that she would divulge to his elders anything that was a disfellowshipping offence. The last I heard she was still a JW and a regular pioneer.

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  If the Governing Body Told You They Love You All Very Much, What Would Your Reply Be?

  by steve2 in

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  2. friends

  in a letter in the 2013 yearbook of jehovah's witnesses, the governing body sign off with the words, "we love you all very much".

  these words were later echoed by one of the governing body in an address to french jehovah's witnesses in july this year.

  these words sound so marvellously compelling and heartfelt - goosebump inducing, even.. imagine the governing body wrote these words to you or expressed them to you in person- yes to you reading these very words.

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  What have you done to prove it?

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  What did you do with old WT/Awake magazines?

  by naazira in

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  when you were a witness, what did you do with your old watchtower (public/ study versions) and awake magazines?

  i know for some throwing away a magazine is comparable to burning a quran.

  i never threw them out!

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  I would save the older ones to leave in doors where no one was home, inconspicuously of course! After all they counted as placements. But that still left a pile at the end of the year. When I received the bound volumes, then I would clear out the ones for that year.

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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.

  i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.

  this has left a huge hole in my soul.

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  Hello purrpurr,

  I can sympathize with the journey you are on now. My husband was a born-in who, like you, had known no other belief system his whole life of 55 years when we left. I had converted in my teens. When we woke up I went back to what I had believed before for the most part. We were not in a rush to lock into another set of beliefs. We talked a lot, read a lot, explored the internet. We went to the little country church I had attended as a child and another Christian church with some friends. Neither one of us felt comfortable there but desparately wanted a sense of community. We looked up a Unitarian Universalist congregation and began going there. We immediately felt at home because there is no dogma or doctrine, just the acceptance of everyone for who they are. People of many different beliefs make up our small congregation and we find it a wonderful way to explore without the pressure of conversion.

  I can tell you now it is a relief to not HAVE to believe what is spoon fed from a hierarchy. But it can be a little scary too. As Witnesses we had answers for everything. Now it is OK to say, "I don't know." Everyone here is giving you permission to explore; now give yourself permission.

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  Today is my birthday !

  by mrquik in

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  after missing 63 years of birthday celebrations, i'm making up for it in spades.

  cake, presents & parties.

  i tell everyone i meet that today is my birthday just to hear them say "happy birthday".

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  HAPPY BIRTHDAY mrquik!! And many more.

  Reopened Mind