Posts by macys

But your story hits close to home. I almost gave up a full paid scholarship at a top school for this cult but I decided to live my own life.... and YOU DO TOO!

Live your life! Do not live it for your mother. Do not live it for your friends or family. Do it for yourself!

And please I beg you to take that whole congregation of shitty hypocrites to the court and sue their lying pedophile asses!! Take them for all it is worth!! And please get your singing dancing ass back to that talent agency and tell them you were under the influence of a brainwashing cult and warn them to stay away from this cult.

BTW You are so welcome here. I am new here myself but I already feel welcome and so will you. Look up and be happy because I think that this cult is going to get chopped in half soon and then fade away into nothing over the next 10 years. It is just my feeling but it looks like the internet is really helping people learn TTATT.

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Hey everybody! Just droppin' in :)

by macys in

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it feels so good to be free from the jdub cult!

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macys

Hi LUHE That is fine! No hard feelings at all! Just love!

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Need advice

by Darkknight757 in

hi.i've been pouring over this site for the past few days looking for some advice and i hope there is someone here that can help a guy out.

i'm desperate.....short bio: i came into the organization after high school and shortly after married a wonderful girl who was born-in.we have been happily married now for nearly 20 years and things were well until 2015 hit.

by the way, i currently serve as an elder and have the ""privilege"" of being the "watchtower overseer".. either here nor there, we were told we would never have children but late last year my wife became prego!!

macys

Hi darkknight I can understand your pain. I can not give you much advice except that losing family might become a reality and you need to face that. I know I did. It hurt me so much but it made me a stronger person. I could no longer live a lie. But if you are going to go out with a bang then you might as well sneak a few words about 607 and UN membership in there. You know get some people to look around and start asking questions. You might move a whole congregation to get up and leave.

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Hey everybody! Just droppin' in :)

by macys in

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it feels so good to be free from the jdub cult!

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macys

Hi village ok so maybe it was less than 2 weeks say 10 days

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Isn't it ironic that JDubs are the most judgmental people of all? You all know what I am talking about!

by macys in

matthew 7:1-5. do not judge, or you too will be judged.

2 for in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

macys

The JDub cult claims they have no hierarchy but that is a complete lie! I remember the service overseer of my hall used to throw big fancy dinners for the elite of bethel and the district overseers and anyone with special status. He used his connections that he made to get out of being removed as an elder when his own wife wrote a letter to the society claiming he was abusive and a monster at home. Which he was. We all knew about his fits of anger. They responded to her basically telling her to be submissive and a good little elder wife who needs to know her place and shut the fuck up. She did. He is still an elder.

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Hey everybody! Just droppin' in :)

by macys in

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it feels so good to be free from the jdub cult!

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macys

Again thanks for all of your support and kind words. It means a lot to me. Being kicked out of my own house at 18 forced me to grow up fast. I am making traveling the world one of my favorite pastimes. I was in France this past summer, and I am going to visit my family in Germany for the Christmas markets in December. I have been to Turkey and am planning a visit to Egypt in 2018. Escaping the JDub cult has opened my eyes to see how freaking big the world is! Get out and live!

Hi wingcommander I know exactly how you feel. I have been sexually active since I was very young. Umm, are we allowed to discuss this here? IDC but around the time I got baptized I had a phase when I was feeling guilty for masturbating and having sex and it made me stop and repress my sexuality. I almost went insane. I think I lasted about 2 weeks before I had to find release. I literally could not go without it. I told my mother that I want to seek professional help without telling her the real reason and that I wanted to speak with a psychologist but she would not let me because she said the psychologist will "try to take me away from Jehovah." I did not push the issue but I am sure that if I went to a psychologist they would have told me to get out of this cult. So mother was right.

I know from reading the comments that some of you are still not ok with my bisexuality and thats ok with me. I get it. But maybe someday you will understand that I am not harming anybody and that being bi is a part of who I am. I do not go out seeking love with strangers in bars if that is what you are thinking. I actually have a steady boyfriend right now who is fine with me exploring my sexuality with another girl if that comes up. Again I do not go out around town looking for sex with random girls. Usually it is among a group of friends, someone I already know that I hook up with. My last tryst was with a friend I grew up with in school, and was while she and I both had boyfriends. It happened so naturally. The attraction was overwhelming and we had a tension building up since high school but neither of us acted on it because I would shy away because I was still a JDub at the time. Like I said it was the judicial committee that helped to shape my decision and finally explore that aspect of my sexuality that was repressed.

Whatevers. I am free! Best of luck to U as well!

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Isn't it ironic that JDubs are the most judgmental people of all? You all know what I am talking about!

by macys in

matthew 7:1-5. do not judge, or you too will be judged.

2 for in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

macys

Matthew 7:1-5

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Seriously. I remember when I was still going to meetings how JDubs with special status, like pioneer, aux pioneer, ministerial servant blah blah blah, would look down at you if you were "just" a publisher. But it went deeper than that! Sisters would judge my "spirituality" if my skirt was above the knee or below the knee and how much above the knee and how much below the knee. If I wore a skirt that was down to my ankles then suddenly Sister Backstabber would talk to me and ask how I was doing. If my skirt was above the knee she would ignore me as if I was not there even when I came over to say hi. It is not like I ever wore a miniskirt to the meeting! And then when the secretary would find out how many hours I did in service each month he would either be friendly or not friendly to me. I remember one time I filled out 15 hours on the slip to see what would happen. Suddenly I was invited by Brother Zealot secretary and his family to dinner. But if my time was below 5 hours then I was almost shunned. I even got marked by a whole family because I gave their daughter a usb stick with music on it they did not like. If I gave an answer at the meeting then I must be spiritual. If I did not answer then I was not spiritual. If I shook my head in agreement with everything the speaker was saying then I was spiritual. If I sat there quietly and thought about what he was saying then I was not spiritual. Tell me your stories. I know you all experienced this.

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Watchtower HATES being compared to Catholic Church - but if the shoe fits...

by Zoos in

remember this?.

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well how about this?.

macys

Epic! Thank you for finding this. Do you know if they really had a hidden stage to protect the GB or is that your own opinion?

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Reading the Bible in 6 months isn't "anything to brag about" - Anthony Morris

by mac n cheese in

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the 2015 annual meeting, specifically, part 1, right about minute 27, has anthony morris emphasizing that "you're better off reading one chapter (of the bible) and really absorbing it" than just reading the whole thing "as a challenge".

while i agree with the the whole idea of meditating on anything you read, it was doing this very thing that brought up so many unanswered questions.

i also came to the constant realization that the jws did not have a clue about what the bible really said.

macys

Before I got baptized I was forced to read the whole Bible by my father and because I wanted to make them happy I did. I read it from cover to cover in less than a year. Reading it was on the best things I did because now I have no doubt that the Bible is nothing but a book written by misogynists, narcissists, bigots, goat herders high on power trips and abuse and that the old testament is nothing like the new testament. Finally, this book of bloodshed and insanity ends with a man who was high as a kite, eating scrolls, cutting his beard into little pieces and writing the craziest fantasy ending of all time. Stephen Lett can go fuck himself.