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  HOW LONG WERE YOU A JW?

  by hamptonite21 in

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  93 did the dunk!

  99 df'd

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  LeslieV

  Started studying when I was a teenager in 1973, baptized three months later, DA'd in 1996.

  Wow 23 wasted years!!! Glad I got out before I died hahah. This thread is fun to read.

  Leslie
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  Why the Ambivalence?

  by Robdar in

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  for the past day or two, i have been having conflicting feelings of hatred and then nostalgia for the org.

  after reading bay64me's thread entitled "crisis of wardrobe!

  ", i fondly recalled shopping for those dowdy dresses, trying to find the perfect match between what i liked and what the society dictated for me to wear.

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  All the experiences in our life make up who we are today. The good and the bad. Being a JW for most of us was not bad all the time. Especially for those that were raised in this religion it has a hudge bearing on ones development. As a child you are developing your personality, standards, values etc. You know that old expression there is a fine line between hate and love.

  Leslie
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  Please participate in my survey

  by Zechariah in

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  i have received inquiries about how i was trained by spirit as a psychologist.

  i was led to many sources of enlightenment.

  books routinely was i led to that it was important i read.

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  Were/are you Anointed?

  by onacruse in

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  i was very sure that i was, for several years (in the 80's).

  never ate/drank the emblems.

  don't feel that way now at all.. i knew a few others my age that had a similar experience.. fantasy?.

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  LeslieV

  I also like Wildfire was married to someone that still partakes of the emblems. Even though he was young no one ever questioned him. He was a special pioneer elder. Still is an elder today. Just like wild mentioned he also has three children that he nothing whatsoever to do with. The love JW's speak of is a joke. They do not even love thier own flesh and blood. My daughers are teens and they believe that JW's are a cult. He is to afraid to acknowledge them, then maybe someone might question his annointing.

  Leslie
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  another fun psych test, try it

  by terabletera in

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  > > make sure to change the score on the subject line.

  > > b) make a quiet entrance, looking around for.

  > > to your head.

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  LeslieV

  Scored 45. I will have to have my husband take the test, it was fun. Actually it is pretty accurate.

  Leslie
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  At long last...Freedom!

  by NancyJeanne in

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  hi everyone!

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  LeslieV

  Wecome Nancy, glad you are with us. Welcome to freedom and real life.

  Leslie
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  Which "APOSTATE" Site Helped You Out ...

  by minimus in

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  h2o and watchtower observer were the ones that helped me the most.

  of course, jwd is the best discussion forum on the net.

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  LeslieV

  The first site that I went to is beyondjw.com. Then I came here, and I actually read here more then I post, but have learned lots from reading. Thanks everyone for all your input it really does help others.

  Leslie
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  I AM A NEWBIE, NEED HELP

  by wildfire in

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  i have been lurking around here for some time,,, i personally know laurie fitzwater and what she has gone through we lived in bradenton.

  florida in the late 80's .... she is the one telling me to come here for help ,,, a hug ,,, i have a nightmare of a story which involves married to a professed annointed one who made me and my childrens life pure hell on earth....i guess he needed to be replaced as he was df twice and was never a ms or elder..... go figure i suffer from severe depression and post-traumatic stress and have tried to end it all numerous times... but the turning point for me was this demon--inspired internet and all the truth it contains i also read george orwells.. 1984 --big brother is watching ,,,, doublespeak;;;; its us versus them just to name a few of my eye---opening events i have 5 children,,, and only one my baby (16) in the borg....... i really cant go on ,,, i have emailed lady lee and she helped me alot .... but i have to be careful...... there are spies everywhere....i still attend meetings.

  to some extent... missed the assembly this weekend tho.. so please be gentle and reasure me.... i am baby--stepping,,, i am doing the work.............

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  Wildfire;

  Yes we will have to compare notes. My ex is still a practicing JW annointed pioneer elder. But he has alot in common with your ex. He has never paid child support for his three children. Nor does he have anything to do with them. Since they believe the borg is a cult...he is to afraid they reflect on him..They are all still in school and he has had nothing to do with seeing them even in a school setting. He uses the excuse that their mom is DF'd so he can't come around.

  Keep coming back and welcome to living!!!!!

  Leslie
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  I AM A NEWBIE, NEED HELP

  by wildfire in

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  i have been lurking around here for some time,,, i personally know laurie fitzwater and what she has gone through we lived in bradenton.

  florida in the late 80's .... she is the one telling me to come here for help ,,, a hug ,,, i have a nightmare of a story which involves married to a professed annointed one who made me and my childrens life pure hell on earth....i guess he needed to be replaced as he was df twice and was never a ms or elder..... go figure i suffer from severe depression and post-traumatic stress and have tried to end it all numerous times... but the turning point for me was this demon--inspired internet and all the truth it contains i also read george orwells.. 1984 --big brother is watching ,,,, doublespeak;;;; its us versus them just to name a few of my eye---opening events i have 5 children,,, and only one my baby (16) in the borg....... i really cant go on ,,, i have emailed lady lee and she helped me alot .... but i have to be careful...... there are spies everywhere....i still attend meetings.

  to some extent... missed the assembly this weekend tho.. so please be gentle and reasure me.... i am baby--stepping,,, i am doing the work.............

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  LeslieV

  Welcome to the board. It takes alot of courage to begin to post. Take it slow, allow others in, take the time to heal. I also was married to someone who still partakes of the emblems. That in itself has its own dynamics. Welcome and keep coming back.

  Leslie
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  Greetings loved ones :)

  by kes152 in

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  much crying, much complaining, much demanding, much irritation all directed against the holy one of israel, and our lord jah-eshua the mischa-jah has called your acts to mind.

  "today if you people hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as at meri'bah as in the day of massah in the wilderness, when your fathers put me to the test.

  they themselves saw all the things i did, and they themselves examined me.. for forty years i kept feeling a loathing toward that generation, and so i said, "they are a people that go astray in their hearts, they have not come to know me and they have not come to know my ways," and so i swore with an oath in my wrath, "they shall not enter into my place of rest.".

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  Hi Aaron;

  Hope all is well with you.

  Leslie