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  The elders are 'letting me fade'

  by TableForOne in

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  2. experiences

  i attended my last meeting in january 2014, having realised that i'd been lied to for 20+ years (i'm now 43 y/o).

  rumours spread of my 'apostasy'.. in may, cobe contacted me inviting me to a private meeting with elders at the kh.

  (no mention of the meeting being a jc).

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  whathappened

  Nice!!! Happy it is working out so seamlessly for you. Me too, I have the same experience and am loving it!
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  Fading, Stopping Meetings, DA or DF'ing, Thoughts on Getting the Hell Out Of There

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i read some threads about why someone remains a ministerial servant or elder, or why they are still active jw's.

  others are telling stories about how they cut back slowly, and some of them got removed as ms/elder/pioneer or whatever.

  yet others tell of how they just up and stopped going one day.

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  whathappened

  My sister, my nephews and I all quit cold turkey. We just couldn't do the slow fade thing...as it seems so hypocritical. Yes, it did cause a stir and some people are hurt, but none of us has been called in for a JC so we are all happy. It has been well over three years for all of us. So far so good. We are shunned by most in our old Kingdom Halls but that is an acceptable trade off.
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  Watchtower Approved Blood Transfusions

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  we have just published a new article at ajwrb entitled:.

  watchtower approved blood transfusions.

  http://ajwrb.org/watchtower-approved-blood-transfusions.

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  whathappened

  Nicely done!
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  Sole CHANNEL of communication?

  by Batman89 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has the gb ever explained exactly how they supposedly communicate with god and get new light or other "inspiration" for their "spiritual dog food"?.

  do they all sit in a room together and hold hands and join one conciousness??.

  do they fall asleep and go to the dream world and talk to jehovah there like the movie inception or something??.

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  whathappened

  Yes, and how do the annointed people know they are annointed...they just supposedly "know" and we were too respectfull to ever question them about it.
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  Seventeen-and-a-half glorious minutes with the irrepressible Mr Lett

  by rory-ks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can't...tear...my...eyes...away.... .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8db7m5mzq.

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  whathappened

  Could not force myself to sit through this. Got about 60 seconds into it and had to shut it off. Barf fest!!!
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  National newspaper interview with JW's using the JW.org trolley

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a dutch national newspaper (trouw) published an interview with some jw's using the jw.org trolley near the trainstation of utrecht.. the local coordinator of the trolley work acknowledged that many witness are not enthusiastic about preaching.

  it's a wide spread rumor in our organization.. but the witness elders will remind them personally that preaching is nessasery.

  then there is an question asked about the witness selection procedure for the trolley work.. the good looking pioneer sister answered she can imagine the need for selection because nobody would take a book from an old age leaning forward woman without teeth.. g..

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  whathappened

  The elders called on my nephew about two weeks ago because he hasn't been to meetings in the past 3 years. He told them he couldn't come back because he didn't want to go door to door and have to explain about the generation teaching, which he doesn't understand. They told him the preaching work was coming to and end, they are not focusing on it much anymore. They said the end is so close, the "door is closing" and they were just instructed to try to reach out to the inactive ones...WOW!!! What BS!!!
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  My frist email letter from my JW Dad. So sad...

  by suavojr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am in my early 30s and woke up to ttatt in late 2012. my dad just turned 65 in june!

  wow, i never saw that being possible.. .

  he just got himself a computer and was able to get internet in a remote location where he is serving as an elder with my mom (where the need is great) i was happy to see how he was able to send me a few notes saying hi and i was able to share some pictures of my wife and family, etc.. .

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  whathappened

  This letter could have been written in the 1950's, all except the part about the computer!!!!
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  We are an Evil Aposta-Family

  by Skinnedsheep in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the last 6 months my family and i have stopped attending cold turkey.

  it is incredible to me to see how our so called friends have dropped us like we were a snake covered in spiders.

  we actually havent really said anything to anybody about why we stopped.

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  whathappened

  Yes, we are being shunned for having quit cold turkey also. There mouths drop open in panic when they see me at the store. They act like they didn't see me. So funny. I have lost all my friends from the first 57 years of my life. Your kids are the "lucky" ones. You have done the right thing by not continueing to raise them in a hateful cult.
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  The Bible Teach book illustration about the child having to be put through a painful operation

  by defender of truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  had you going there for a minute ;).

  now you're here... there are several problems with that illustration, as i see it.. ..... 1) god is the one who inflicted the life threatening ailment that requires an operation.

  (he supposedly decided what sin would be defined as, then once adam 'sinned', he cursed all of adams descendants to sin, grow old and die.).

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  whathappened

  I love your post and am on my way to have dinner with my ex JW sister and will share your perceptions with her.

  This reminds me of the illustation about the alcoholic who wouldn't be allowed by his doctor to take alcohol intraveinously so that blood transfusions are the same thing. It doesn't make any sense because a doctor would give an alcoholic alcohol intraveinously if it would save the alcoholic's life.

  The other illustraion is about miracles. The Watctower says years ago, people wouldn't have believed that jet planes could transport us so far so fast and compared that to miracles that happened in the Bible. Lousy logic the Watchtower uses. It all needs to be trashed.
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  Ready to step my apostate game up...

  by Joliette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just dont know when i'm gonna be able to do that.. right now, i am working full time, i go to school part time, etc.

  i want to start traveling more, doing more activist work, visiting more apostate friends, and helping to get people out of this 'so called religion.'.

  in other words, i want to start going to un-preach where the need is great.

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  whathappened

  Today I am ordering business cards printed up saying:

  Jehovah's Witnesses will be calling soon!

  Don't be fooled by them.

  Get the facts at

  www.jwfacts.com