Its really hard when your raised as a witness..... its the only way you know HOW to worship.....
sister x
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Ok I left the WBTS..... now what?? kingdom hall withdrawal
by sister x inso my last meeting was in december 2010. i was attending the english and spanish halls for a year and just english for 6 yrs..... lots of meetings.
i had only two friends at the hall and no boyfriend/husband.
i live in a town where i know no one, no family and when i became a witness i left the one job (air force) where i had people who cared about me..... now im alllllll alone!
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Ok I left the WBTS..... now what?? kingdom hall withdrawal
by sister x inso my last meeting was in december 2010. i was attending the english and spanish halls for a year and just english for 6 yrs..... lots of meetings.
i had only two friends at the hall and no boyfriend/husband.
i live in a town where i know no one, no family and when i became a witness i left the one job (air force) where i had people who cared about me..... now im alllllll alone!
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sister x
Thanks alot SizeMik..... I will take your advise... and those are good words to describe the way I feel "Spiritual Wilderness"......
I do feel like im lost.....
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses feel as though they are the only ones assisted by God in their lives?
by stillstuckcruz ini was thinking about this while staring blankly at the assembly speaker today.
a prestigious member of the gb.
o joy.
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sister x
I have wondered the same thing myself. I see other christians who talk about their fantastic relationship with GOD. and I would think to myself, If WE are the only true religion, then how can God be approving of you, be a friend of yours if your not a Jehovahs witness???. I always wondered if they were making it all up, they couldnt possibly know Jehovah because they are not "one of his people".....
The truth is, I personally had a wonderful relationship with God BEFORE i got babtized... after babtism it was all downhill.
One pioneer sister who studied with me a little while -right after babtism asked me how I came into "the truth". I told her that I started reading the bible everyday by myself, asked God for guidance and I began to understand and that no one came to my door, I just found the local hall and came to meetings myself. I told her that I found Jehovah myself.
She got upset after I finished talking and told me that what I was saying was impossible, that I had to brought in by someone IN the Organization..... and that there was no way I found God without the aid of one of his witnesses to teach me the truth. I sat there at my kitchen table and just looked at her like she was crazy.... needless to say that was our last book study together.. i did not want the crazy sister in my home anymore. She didnt like that I was honest with her, she wanted to hear something different....
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Ok I left the WBTS..... now what?? kingdom hall withdrawal
by sister x inso my last meeting was in december 2010. i was attending the english and spanish halls for a year and just english for 6 yrs..... lots of meetings.
i had only two friends at the hall and no boyfriend/husband.
i live in a town where i know no one, no family and when i became a witness i left the one job (air force) where i had people who cared about me..... now im alllllll alone!
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sister x
@ the Max..... I know I can... master at it. I know I would walk in the hall with a Big grin on my face and walk out even happier...
I think it would be different this time because now I KNOW what Im walking into vs. being deceived like before.....
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Ok I left the WBTS..... now what?? kingdom hall withdrawal
by sister x inso my last meeting was in december 2010. i was attending the english and spanish halls for a year and just english for 6 yrs..... lots of meetings.
i had only two friends at the hall and no boyfriend/husband.
i live in a town where i know no one, no family and when i became a witness i left the one job (air force) where i had people who cared about me..... now im alllllll alone!
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sister x
@lamallcool......No i wasnt at Tyndall Air force Base...... Sheppard and Lackland AFB
@Aussie 0z Its not being shunned by family or even wanting my friends back... its just the worshiping... I cant stay home every sunday and not worship God.... I guess im so use to that KH regimen that now I have so much free time on my hands....
@ Transhaman68, I agree, its just a bunch of publishing company volunteers.... I know that, but they dont..... I dont want to go out in service or anything, I just miss the talks, insight on the scriptures and personal study I use to do. Now I dont have anything..... I noticed my weekends consist of researching other faiths, being on websites like jwn forum and others....... not really anything positive and spiritual.
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Ok I left the WBTS..... now what?? kingdom hall withdrawal
by sister x inso my last meeting was in december 2010. i was attending the english and spanish halls for a year and just english for 6 yrs..... lots of meetings.
i had only two friends at the hall and no boyfriend/husband.
i live in a town where i know no one, no family and when i became a witness i left the one job (air force) where i had people who cared about me..... now im alllllll alone!
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sister x
so my last meeting was in December 2010. I was attending the English and Spanish halls for a year and just english for 6 yrs..... lots of meetings. I had only two friends at the hall and no boyfriend/husband. I live in a town where I know no one, no family and when I became a witness I left the one job (air force) where I had people who cared about me..... now Im alllllll alone! this sucks.
Not only am I alone but I have no way to worship God now.... I feel like I still have a spiritual need that is not being filled. Some nondenominational church came by my house and put a flyer on my door to come fellowship with them tommorrow, Im thinking about going....
Im so fustrated with the whole WBTS being a big lie, and with my life now, im thinking about going back to the meetings again.... just so I can worship God the best way I know how...... now that I know the whole thing is all made up, i dont have to become enslaved again like before, I can just come and go as I please.... what do you think???
kingdom hall withdrawals
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A Former Jehovah's witness involved with the writing department of The Watchtower Society comes forward and speaks up.
by koolaid-man insat april 30 -2011 ,7 pm est.
on the six screens tele-network..... former jehovah's witnesses presiding overseer and watchtower historian richard rawe interviews a former jehovah's witness who was involved with the writing department of the watchtower society.. richards guest comes forward and speaks up, he is no longer inhibited or concerned with what the watchtower has to say.
wait to you find out what he was disfellowshipped for.. it is easy to get on the conference call.
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sister x
Hey koolaid-man,
Does this guy have a webpage we can go to, to make sure he is a real person?
Does he have contact info/email he can share with us??
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Jehovahs Witness Suicides
by sister x inim noticing that alot of witnesses commit suicide.
one sister i knew a few yrs back, in her early 40's, was having marriage problems in the hall for yrs and everyone knew it.
they only told her to rely on jehovah and asked the elders for guidance.
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im noticing that alot of witnesses commit suicide. One sister I knew a few yrs back, in her early 40's, was having marriage problems in the hall for yrs and everyone knew it. They only told her to rely on jehovah and asked the elders for guidance. One day she parked her car in a parking lot and shot herself. She left behind her husband and two teenage girls.
Another brother in the nieghboring hall choked his mother to death and then killed himself.
My sister after being molested by a brother in our hall tried to commit suicide twice, but she lived both times.
And one of my mothers very very dear close friends who was a sister for 30+ yrs killed herself a few yrs back.......
I see alot of this in the organization... what are your experiences??? and why do you think this is such a problem?? I personally blame it on the organizations control over its members and isolation.....
Michele
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What was your "aha" moment....
by botchtowersociety in....that made you decide to leave the botchtower society?
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sister x
I always had doubts..... being that when I started my study of the bible it took me from mans creation to 92 BC..... then the witnesses pick up at 1897 until now. I kept asking my family who are babtized, What happened from 92 BC to 1897??? where there not true christian on the earth? and what where they called, because the name Jehovahs witnesses was not used until close to 60 yrs ago??? No one had an answer, it was so irritating and the question just lingered. At the meetings they dont address the almost 2000 yr gap, when witnesses didnt exist, they just talk about the organization "moving forward".....
Last yr i attended the assembly and heard the "overlapping generation" theory for the first time announced. When the brother on the platform finished explaining it, I heard the whole auditorium get silent. you could hear a pin drop. No one believed what he just said. .... after the meeting I stood in line for 2 hrs trying to get a chance to talke to the brother who gave the talk, couldnt believe i was standing in line to see/talk to a MAN!
I decided to do my own studies, read the first studies in the scriptures volumes, read about the pyramids, how he used them to predict 1915 and then 1914, they now claim that they dont follow that doctrine and changed it since. Right then I realized how easy it was for russell/organization to combine his thoughts with scripture, twist the reasoning, give parralell meanings to scriptures and very easily PASS IT OFF as the Truth... Then it dawned on me that this man had enough money in time to start his own religion, and thats just what he did.... bought a printing press with Daddys clothing store money and started printing his "christian journals" and telling all his niave followers that God was using him as a channell of communication to reveal simple bible truths...... gee wiz. cant believe dedicated myself to this faith without investigating its background first : ((
the bible fortold us that this would happen, that in the end men would lead others away for themselves with false teachings............
Michele
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Video - Jehovah's Witnesses and Their Unseen Adversaries
by sabastious inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9uyw-l3ii8.
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sister x
I also had an EXTREME fear of demons when I was younger, and my mother told me that if I was ever attacked by them to scream the name of Jehovah and they would shudder in fear and run away........
Wow PC, Im so happy you shared that experience. I had the same thing happen to me, I was sleeping on my stomache and tryed to get up out of the bed but felt like someone was sitting on my back, I could feel them. I tried to get up and when I realized I couldnt move, I tried to scream as loud as I could but no words came out!! I really started freaking out then and tried harder to scream, but still no words. A few seconds of this went by and by then I was crying and still couldnt move.... I will never forget that experience.
A second time, the same thing happened, but this time I started to scream Jehovah, nothing happened. I said his name again and again, but they were still there... when the episode was over, my big brother came in the room and asked me what was wrong. I told him that I cried out to Jehovah and he didnt answer me.... i just kept crying. Later I felt like i wasnt important to Jehovah and that his name only protected people he loved, not me..... parents should not teach their children about demons and spirits when they are only 7 or 6 yrs old....
Michele