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  Did you Fade Gradually or Stop Attending Meetings Quickly ? Reasons ?

  by flipper in

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  been thinking about this and curious about what makes us all come to the decisions we came to in our fade/exiting the jw organization.. i think for myself having been born-in & raised a jw my doubts about the generation doctrine had simmered for years within me quietly and by the time i finally left in 2003 i had reached my breaking point.

  also seeing unjust treatment of rank & file witness ( myself included ) just propelled me into my decision even quicker.

  so - one day after meeting with 3 elders in a back room before a meeting and seeing their judgmental aggression towards me - i just told myself " enough is enough ".

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  I started doing research last April and was shocked to learn this religion wasn't what I thought it was. This caused me to have anxiety at the meetings, and I couldn't sit and listen to the talks without my heart racing. I used that as an excuse to stop going, and we haven't been back since. We have had many elder visits, monthly at times, but we don't answer the door or just tell them we're busy. They have finally cooled off a bit. Ideally, we would have moved to a new hall to fade successfully, but our circumstances didn't allow it. And I don't think my husband is ready to be a full "apostate" yet. He's stuck in a weird limbo, probably because he has his whole family to lose.
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  Was I threatened by a student?

  by laverite in

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  well, the new semester has just started.

  as some of you know, i'm a college professor.

  i was in my large lecture course yesterday (a couple hundred students).

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  What a relief to hear the threat was taken seriously. A student like that does not deserve to be there, and I hope he is identified and expelled. If he was working at a company and made a comment like that to his boss, no doubt he would be fired.
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  Who or What Helped YOU Get Out Of The Watchtower Mindset?

  by minimus in

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  was there a person, a book, a situation that helped you see that the "truth" was not what it was supposed to be?

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  I had a baby and that changed everything. There was no time to study or listen at meetings, and my mind was no longer being constantly indoctrinated. A question about "how do I know this is God's organization?" crept in and I did research to try and prove it true. Instead my whole belief system came crashing down.

  This site has been tremendously helpful for research, and learning how to think critically...something my born-in brain had trouble doing on its own.

  The "new light" about the overlapping generation led me to this site. And it was after reading Crisis of Conscience that I realized the Governing Body were just men and not inspired by God like I had believed my whole life. This was just another man made religion, except for its horrible cultlike control of its members.
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  Front Load Washers. Are they good?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i have been thinking about getting front load washer for my home, but i have not decided which brand, etc to get.

  any recommendations?.

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  I like mine. It uses a lot less water and detergent than the top loaders. I bought a Frigidaire 8 years ago, so it's not as fancy as the newer ones. Mine is a smaller one (3.1 cubic maybe?), so I really need to cram my duvet or large loads in there. They come out clean though.
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  BOE LTR Dec 9, 2010 (copy/paste) DC listings removed from March 1st WT!!!

  by yknot in

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  christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses'.

  same meeting.

  meeting.

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  I'm not sure if this was true in all halls, but at mine they would make a very big deal about how to book a hotel room. (Pretty silly considering it was a DC city.) The elder would also tell people to make sure they call the first hotel on the list, and if that was full, proceed to the next one on the list. You weren't supposed to just pick whichever hotel you wanted on the list.

  I was always surprised by the crappy hotel/motel choices they used...mostly older ones I would never stay at. No Best Westerns or other newer hotels were on their "list." They always stressed how much work and months of preparations the brothers at Bethel spent negotiating good rates, and it was important not to get a hotel not on the list so everyone could benefit from their negotiated deals. Talk about guilt mongering.

  Too bad the list isn't up for USA and Canada. Time to face the music with the family!
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  Sept 2010 Watchtower - Anyone have a pdf copy?

  by Nice_Dream in

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  2. bible

  does anyone have a pdf copy of the study copy of the sept 2010 wt?

  thanks!.

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  The link is coming up as the October 15th issue. Do you have the 09/2010 issue? It's not on the jw.org site anymore. Thanks!

  Thank you for posting some quotes LostGeneration...this is quite the quote: "... by following the lead of the modern-day Governing Body, they are in fact following their Leader, Christ."
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  Sept 2010 Watchtower - Anyone have a pdf copy?

  by Nice_Dream in

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  does anyone have a pdf copy of the study copy of the sept 2010 wt?

  thanks!.

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  Thank you. Sending you a PM Black Sheep
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  Sept 2010 Watchtower - Anyone have a pdf copy?

  by Nice_Dream in

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  does anyone have a pdf copy of the study copy of the sept 2010 wt?

  thanks!.

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  Does anyone have a pdf copy of the study copy of the Sept 2010 WT? Thanks!
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  Canadian top model a JW?

  by behemot in

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  i read somewhere that this top model is a witness:.

  http://www.coco-rocha.com/.

  anybody can confirm?.

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  Nice_Dream

  She was at this summer's DC. Sending you a PM.
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  Video Of JW's WItnessing

  by Pig in

  1. watchtower
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  new cartoon, i hope this isn't considered spam but this one took me a while and i'd like to share it.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_pqu0bln74.

  one criticism (god, that word reminds me of the tms) was that my other videos weren't boring enough to match what it's really like as a jw, i think i've captured it a bit better in this video.. also, it's meant to be fairly non offensive because i hope jw's can take a sneaky peak.

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  Great video! There was a brother in my hall who looked just like the one with the sunglasses on his head...trying to be "cool" in service, lol. I loved the dog barking at the door too. Great job nailing the experience! I can remember being in groups with people I didn't like or know very well as a child...not fun!