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It's my 25th yr anniversary of freedom

by rebel8 in

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approximately 25 yrs ago today, i left the borg forever.. .

thank you jwn/jwd for helping me heal by listening to me.

there are not many greater gifts than freedom..

RetroNewt

It's been a little over 10 years for me. Last time I went was I think around February of 2004

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Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - The Day My JW Faith Began to Die (finally)

by AllTimeJeff in

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it was late june of 2001 that i was appointed as an elder at the amazingly seasoned age of 26. a true lifelong goal had been achieved.

i had to be appointed an elder before 30. already, peers were starting to be appointed.

i had to make it.

First post...been lurking very on again off again for about 8 years. My mom was on again off again JW that would take my brother and I to the meetings when she felt the need. I had just started at a community college a couple weeks prior to 9/11, and it scared the life out of me. I was stuck there and I didn't know anyone, no license or car. My mom would pick me up on her lunch break everyday and take me back to her work (she works at a library). The TV's were all set out showing everything, but I couldn't even handle watching it. It made me shake like crazy to even think of what was going on...there was a downstairs area where employees took lunch/snack breaks and they all let me stay down there and read because they could tell I was so visibly upset. All I could think, like so many of you, was this was how Armageddon would look...and I couldn't even fathom it happening on an even more widespread scale.

My mom wasn't really "in" at the time, but all I could think was that the local Witnesses would be out at our house very soon to try to get her back in. And, what do you know, a van pulled up that Saturday afternoon. Ugghh, such a crazy week on top of it, we had a tropical storm blow through that weekend as well.