Posts by BeautifulMind

That's what I said to my husband. I dont want to subject our kids to any more of that and we had to get out regardless of the consequences. Bad enough It took us a little while to deprogram our 3 year old, the other is just 1 so that's nothing to worry about thank goodness!. We had been telling him the same things we were being told at that age - everything is bad!! Birthdays are bad, Christmas is bad, this is bad, that is bad and on and on. But we apologized to him and told him it was ok to watch or listen to those things and like them. Now he just can't watch things that are not age appropriate including Caleb and Sofia, we threw that trash out!!

Perfect example. There is a channel here, Baby1, and there is a segment on in the morning with birthday wishes for that day. I would tell him 'no baby, no birthday, remember? Its bad.' So at first, and this is after we cut off all activity, when that came on he would look at me and say, 'birthday is on, change the channel mommy!' Broke my heart to see that I was beginning the harmful cycle. So I would tell him it's not bad and its ok to like it and sing along.

Fast forward to now, he is completely deprogrammed! He's had his first birthday celebration and loved it. He said it was his best birthday ever! He told me happy Halloween the other day and he is constantly talking about Christmas lol!! It makes me happy to know even though I didn't have a normal life our kids will. Oh, and not just holidays but EVERYTHING will be normal. Soooooo worth it!!

38

My First Birthday.....

by The Marvster in

i awoken today and realised immidiately i'm 44 today... and after 3 years of being out, decided to acknowledge my birthday.... i'm off out to treat myself to a big hearty breakfast with cup of tea in the local weatherspoon's by the massive pond full of weird bird-life, later today i'm giving myself a gift of a 90 minute relaxation session in a float tank down by canary wharf in london.... only really have 2 close friends (it's a slow process trusting people agian) and they probably won't be able to see me today, but i'm sure i'll have a belated surprise from them both.... the first thing i did when i remembered was to rush to the computer, connect to the web and put on stevie wonder's 'happy birthday', as i listen to it, tears stream down my face... all those years of my life stolen ' but..... i'm free....'.

BeautifulMind

Happy Birthday!! 😆

31

The fade did not work

by BeautifulMind in

not long after learning ttatt, my hubby and i decided it would be best for us to fade.

his entire family is in, but not in the same cong.

we made it to the region convention and one sunday meeting after that.

BeautifulMind

To respond to everyone, I agree with a lot of what you said. There is no love in that religion at all and what's worse they are out of touch with reality and what life really is all about. It's a sheltered existence and I just couldn't do it anymore. I am so happy that I woke up from it and have my hubby with me too.

31

The fade did not work

by BeautifulMind in

not long after learning ttatt, my hubby and i decided it would be best for us to fade.

his entire family is in, but not in the same cong.

we made it to the region convention and one sunday meeting after that.

BeautifulMind

Not long after learning TTATT, my hubby and I decided it would be best for us to fade. His entire family is in, but not in the same cong. as us. We made it to the Region Convention and one Sunday meeting after that. The RC was easy. We have 2 toddlers so we had plenty of reasons to get up during the day and leave early before the session ended. But that last meeting did us in! We left feeling like we did not belong anymore. Everything was under the microscope for us now. The entire time we were giving each other looks when we heard things from the platform, watching moms place watchtowers on their toddlers lap instead of a children's book or toy, the obligatory 'hi how are you' surface conversations going on before and after the meeting and other observations. It was an odd feeling since we both were born in so this had been all we knew. It was a pretty silent car ride home and at one point I looked at him and said 'we aren't going to fade are we?' It was more of a statement than a question because I knew what we were both thinking. He said 'nope, we're done.' We haven't been back since, we just stopped all activity with no regrets whatsoever. Best decision we ever made!!

54

Paranoia after today's Watchtower

by Truthexplorer in

boy oh boy did i feel paranoid at today's wt.

not only are we to watch our associations outside of the congregation, but also watch our associations 'within' the congregation.

this was emphasised by the wt study conductor.

BeautifulMind

Yup, dealt with this growing up also. We were considered " good association" so our parents pretty much was on us to make sure we don't associate with this one or that one because they weren't regular in service or the meetings, etc. And these kids were in our classes and lived on our block and we genuinely liked them. Awful thing to do to people, especially children.

13

"Our Preaching has no Time Limit": wt talk outline.

by prologos in

twice in the public talk this admission by wt was repeated from the official outline.

you thought you were done with "service" by 2075 according to the overlapping anointed?

--- assignments await you even in paradise.

BeautifulMind

Rules & Regulations My hubby and I had this discussion just the other week and couldn't understand how we believed that either!! That's just evil. Sounds like this God gets pleasure out of teasing and torturing ppl. Sickening.

64

E-Mail, Just recived. About Bethell adjustments.

by DwainBowman in

i just read an email from a friend, and she shared some very interesting emails from her friends about information on changes now happening at the bethels around the world.

here is the email: .

---------------------------------thanks sally, jesus is directing the org and all decisions and instructions to us may not seem practical from now on, neither will we understand the reasonings behind many of the changes that the organization makes.

BeautifulMind

They did so well with telling potential members that if they study with Jehovah's Witnesses, they will be "persecuted" by family and friends. It was viewed as "prophetic." Virtually nobody noticed it was obvious that if you study with a cult, concerned loved ones will try to help you get away from that cult.

I realized that too once I started to wake up OnTheWayOut. Creepy

91

Anthony Morris III: Jehovah Blesses Obedience

by wifibandit in

http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodprogramsevents/pub-jwbmw_201509_1_video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9j7qs7bvm.

obey.

BeautifulMind

AMIII = foolery. That is all