JW BS is over.
Continue to honor your dad.
How is your brother doing with all this?
I'm wishing you guys the best.
discreetslave
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Update: I got the shun at my dad's funeral- the best outcome really!!
by Coffee House Girl inhello all jwn .
so glad to have that over with- it was surreal to walk in the kh after two years...it is just a building to me now (not "jehovah's house").
i must say that now i'm on the outside...what a boring sad building- the people were not joyful and friendly (just older and fatter than i remember)- i got the nervous stares and shaky "hi" when i looked at all of them and said hello.. my mom was sitting all by herself in the front row of the hall...i went and sat by her side.
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..Which has Caused You the Most Grief in Your Life..The Outside World or Watchtower World?..
by OUTLAW inaccording to the wbt$... the outside world is supposed to be a horrible place... .
the outside world hasn't caused me nearly as much grief,as watchtower world... outside world (5% grief).....watchtower world..(95% grief)... .
which has caused you the most grief in your life... the outside world or watchtower world?...
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Watchtower World Pros : Loving Husband, Wonderful Children, some good conditional friendships
Watchtower World Cons: low self-esteem, guilt over everything, loss of positivity, depresion, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, resentment, jealousy, paxil, ritalin, adderall, vyvanse, abilify, lamictal, risperdal, cymbalta, contractor br's ripping us off, debt due to rip off, lack of decent health insurance, debt due to poor health insurance, risked bleeding out during surgery, weight gain, sexual frustration, didn't look forward to the next day, never lived in the present, no college, loss of ambition, boring meetings, cognitive dissonance,false Christianity, lack of true spirituality,shunning of good friends,shutting down my children's potential, possibility of losing loving husband & wonderful children...
Outside World Pros: Loving husband, wonderful children, no in laws, guilt free sex, no meds, working on paying off debt, ambition, thinking of college & a career, finding shunned friends, finding new friends, positivity, weight loss, waking up looking forward to each day, share my beliefs how I see fit, living & enjoying the present, any movie I want, whatever music I want, weeding out negative people from my life, true Christianity & spirituality, giving my children a chance to pursue their dreams,HAPPINESS...
Outside World Cons: Watchtower still exists
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Continuing to draw the line between cults and DESTRUCTIVE cults
by sabastious inthe easiest place to start understanding a spectral concept, such as cults, is to indentify it's lowest and highest points rather than starting somewhere in the middle.. so lets call the lowest point of the cult spectrum benign and the highest point destructive.. a good example of an extremely benign cult would be the following of the not so popular 80s movie: the princess bride of which i consider myself a member (no documentation .
if you were to come up to me and claim to be part of the princess bride's cult following i could figure out whether you are a true member by asking you a few questions.
based on your answers i could then conclude that you either meet the criteria or that you do not.
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Seeing them as a cult helps cut the strings attached that lead many to go back to the Watchtower.
As for the Princess Bride Vizzini should be on the governing body
Fezzik: I just don't think it's right, killing an innocent girl.
Vizzini: Am I going MAD, or did the word "think" escape your lips? You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass. -
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VERY depressed
by youngbro ini have severe clinical depression and right now, for whatever reason it is really acting up....
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Amen to that New Chapter. You need to get out youngbro I 've been thru the darkside with this religion I almost didn't make it. Don't put yourself thru the misery. Get out live your life. The sun shines brighter when your free from the Botchtower.
It sounds like you still want to be a Christian. JW's are not real Christians. You can worship God in spirit & truth without an organized religion.
Here is a song that I find comforting
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Songs that express feelings towards Watchtower
by discreetslave inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjffzqtlwrq&nr=1.
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A song for Christian Watchtower Survivors
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Songs that express feelings towards Watchtower
by discreetslave inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjffzqtlwrq&nr=1.
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Jehovah's Witnesses have the lowest retention rate of any religious tradition. Only 37% of all those who say they were raised as Jehovah's Witnesses still identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses.
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New Light For the Anointed Rev 2:17
by discreetslave in(revelation 2:17) let the one who has an ear hear what the spirit says to the congregations: to him that conquers i will give some of the hidden manna, and i will give him a white pebble, and upon the pebble a new name written which no one knows except the one receiving it.. at this time god's has decided to reveal the name to the slave.. the name on the pebble will be lithium since the anointed are to be the salt of the earth.
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Songs that express feelings towards Watchtower
by discreetslave inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjffzqtlwrq&nr=1.
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My friend and mentor has published his first novel ... at 84 years young!
by compound complex indear fellow bibliophiles:.
today i received my own copy of who's killing all the lawyers?
from a.g. hayes, that in payment for trimming the grevillea.
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Congratulations!!!!
Another testimony to the marvels of the human mind. At 33 I can barely remember what I ate the day before. This inspires me not to give up on my brain.
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VERY depressed
by youngbro ini have severe clinical depression and right now, for whatever reason it is really acting up....
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Depression has many causes and is also a symptom of many things.
In my case being a JW was killing me. When I would reach out for therapy I'd quickly quit. I couldn't open up to the therapist. I was afraid I would bring reproach to Jehovah & his organization for being so unhappy. I opted for meds none worked. I attempted suicide 5 times. I couldn't bring myself to do it I didn't want to bring reproach to the Jehovah & his organization.
From the day I broke free from the mind control I have been the polar opposite. I look forward to each day now.
As others have already said try to pin point your triggers. Be honest with yourself & willing to admit it could be being a JW.