Posts by whathappened

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Any seniors looking for association?

by cultBgone in

life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

whathappened

It is difficult. I left three years ago and all my lifelong friends are now not allowed to talk to me. I go to movies and go mall walking, etc. it does get lonely but you can't go back to a cult, you know.

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I just got to play householder!

by Laika in

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i was a little nervous and a bit dazed, i think i will do better next time.

he offered me the memorial invite, i told him i had jw family who would invite me and he got interested and wanted to find out more, so i told him i wasn't interested in the jw religion, he asked why and i said i find it too controlling.

he thought i was talking about moral rules so started on about how jehovah doesn't want to restrict us 'blah blah', so i pointed out that i meant they're not allowed to read certain materials which is wrong if it's as true as they are confident of.. he then went on about how satan uses false teaching to manipulate us and so we have to be careful of what we read.

whathappened

Good job, you have him thinking!

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Should Passive Resistance Be The Weapon Of Choice For Those Stuck In The Watchtower Corporation Cult?

by frankiespeakin in

what can a person do who is stuck in the watchtower cult movement but don't want to be shunned or disfellowshipped but want to follow a course of passive resistants, like ghandi did to the brits to get them out of control over india?.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nonviolent_resistance.

whathappened

Now that I read some of these suggestions, I realize I was doing most of these things long before I left.

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Troubling experience at 1 day assembly re: little jw child

by williamhconley in

just had my 1day assembly this weekend.

an experience given by the bethel speaker was quite troubling and shows how jw's live in constant paranoia, anxiety and they isolate themselves from normal living.. a first grade class was having a fire drill.

everyone ( except one) lined up and stood outside away fron the classroom in the grass.

whathappened

There are so many things we as Jehovah's Witnesses are not allowed to do it would be difficult for a small child to catch every single BAD THING!!!

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My Daughter Begins to Reason on Her Own About the Witnesses

by losingit in

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success!.

today my oldest daughter attended her first birthday party ever for one of her best friends at school.

we actually crashed because we didn't get an official invite or even an email, but it ended up working out and the mom was happy to have us there.

whathappened

Wonderful news! You have your daughter in a good place where she feels she can talk to you without being punished or judged.

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The Bible Says the wt says.. Who should we trust?

by objectivetruth in

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the bible says -.

john 14:6 - 6 jesus said to him: i am the way and the truth and the life.

no one comes to the father except through me.. jeremiah 9:4,5 "everyone, be on guard against your neighbor, and do not trust even your brother.

whathappened

Who should you trust??? Don't ask a question you really don't want the answer to. I think you already know the correct answer, you may not be able to bring yourself to say it.

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Jehovah's Witnesses Baptism Fraud

by Watchtower-Free in

i found this on youtube .........................emotional video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtxasmyxtyq.

"in the summer of 1946, i was baptized at the international convention in cleveland, ohio.

whathappened

I am so sorry your grandmothers are so deluded that they can ignore their natural feelings of affection for their beloved granddaughter. You are a sweet girl, I know this or else you wouldn't give a damn what those two old ladies say and think about you.

I was raised from infancy as a JW. My mom didn't approve of young people getting baptised too young, so I was 17 when I got dunked.

I only had one question before I got baptised. It was "how could a religion that is only 100 years old (it was 1971 at the time), be the only true religion. I asked the pioneer sister who I trusted the most, how did JW's get started. She said they started as a small group of Bible students who got together and studied the Bible and discovered that none of the churches were really teaching the Bible. She said nothing more, nothing less.

Well, I trusted and respected her and got baptised. Three years ago, in 2010, a full 39 years later, I found out I was outright decieved and lied to. I was furious! If you have to lie to people to get them to join your religion then what does that say about you? When you tell people they cannot look at any information that is derogatory about your religion, what does that say about you? When you know that if you leave the religion, no one will talk to you or help you, it is emotional blackmail.

That about sums up how honorable Jehovah's visible earthly organisation is.

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Not willing to cooperate

by happy@last in

just thought i would let you know there appears to still be no change when it comes to assisting the police here in the uk.

i am in the process of pressing charges against my abuser who was and is again a jw.

during my interviews with the police i did not mention jws as it was not relevant to the case, however during one if his interviews he stated that he had been 'punished' by the jws by being disfellowshipped, and now he was a jw again he had 'paid his dues'!.

whathappened

More importantly than your abuser getting punished for what he did, is the fact that you can now move on and take steps to make your life better. Take care of yourself and be sure you get any help you need. Sometimes you don't think you need help but you do. Keep close to those who love you and want to help you through everything you've been through.

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Do You Try To Avoid The Witnesses When You See Them?

by minimus in

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i think i typically don't want to be either love bombed or questioned.

i happen to see jws a lot while visiting my mom.

they don't go there with me, which works well for all concerned..