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  YOU EVER FEEL SCARED IT IS THE TRUTH?

  by Cordelia in

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  just wondered as im prob about to give up so much, coz i dont think it is the truth but its come as such a shock!.

  my family believe it so much, my dad feels he can answer any question i have, and being brought up in it sometimes it scares me.

  coz my family believe it so much, .

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  Brainwashing can tend to cause you to question whether they may be right after all. No matter how much one can be shown how wrong they are, there is that nagging dread. Once I researched cults and mind control, those nagging doubts stopped.
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  Fading ain't goin' so well.

  by atypical in

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  i've been wanting to post updates for awhile, but i have been paranoid that my posts would make it too easy to identify me.

  right now i don't care, so here's what's happening if it's helpful for anyone else who is trying to fade.. first of all, as of my last update i was still hanging around some of the witnesses socially and it came back to bite me.

  after that mess, i pretty much gave up on even trying to pretend i can have much in common with most of the people at the hall.

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  Re: Fading ain't goin' so well.

  ROFLOL, Looks like you are handling it just fine.
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  weekend poll- which was the best Superbowl Advertisement

  by stillajwexelder in

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  weekend poll- which was the best superbowl advertisement.

  i did not think any stood out this year - i thought they were all pretty average-

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  I liked the Budwiser, where the colt was pulling the cart (with a little help).
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  I just sent my JW family packing

  by unbeliever in

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  my mom asked me if some of her jw relatives from ca could come and stay .

  with me for 2 days and see some of the sites.

  mom told them all about .

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  They then said we had nothing in common
  
  because I was not spiritual and had an attitude problem

  I love your "attitude". I admire you for not letting them push you around.
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  Which avatars are your favorites?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  some people's avatars make me smile, others make me think.

  there are some that i just love to look at.

  here are some of my favorites off the top of my head.

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  Just went to grocery store.......

  by Chimene in

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  lol!

  i just went to the grocery store about a little while ago, came around the corner of an isle, and there was a jw i used to know pretty good.

  he smiled real big and said hello how are you?

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  LOL, I can hear him in his Homer Simpson voice saying: "Doh!"
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  This may be my last post…so goodbye and thanks

  by seven006 in

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  i never thought i would do one of those infamous goodbye i cant take this board anymore posts where the person shows up again a week later and looks like an idiot.

  when i had enough of this board and needed a little break i would just quietly leave for a few months and hopefully nobody noticed.

  that is not the case this time.

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  bttt

  Dave, hoping you are doing okay. Just wanted you to know I was thinking about ya.

  Hugs

  Karla
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  List of family/friends lost to the Watchtower cult? (suicides)

  by hubert in

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  after reading about puternuts (ari) suicide, and also reading about sabine and js losing their daughter to this cult, i think it would be a fitting memorial, so to speak, to write a list of all the people we know who died because of this cult.

  i also know that cruzanheart lost her dad to it, too.

  i'm sure there are many here that can make a list of suicides brought on by the shunning/threatening policies of the watchtower cult.

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  I don't want to disclose names due to respect to the victim's and their family's privacy. I knew two friends one a young family man who jumped off a building after being df'd. He had a kind personality, he went through a lot throughout his life, yet he was positive towards others. Too good a person to be in such a destructive cult.

  The other was a friend through my teen and early adult years. She was the maid of honor at my wedding. There were a lot of sad circumstances contributing to her suicide. She had been df'd multiple times, but all she knew was the jw environment. She had problems with bi-polar disorder. The circumstances that probably contributed to her suicide were pure hypocracy. I may start a thread on it sometime, her story should be told.

  I know of a third suicide, it involved an elder (my jw brother's best friend) caught in an affair. He saw the curtains dropping and opted out.
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  Anyone else in PUTERNUT's shoes? Despairing? COME TO US!

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  hey guys,.

  listen, we were all "brothers" and "sisters" at one time and it didn't really mean shit.

  i'd've turned my back on the lot o' ya when i was a jw and i found out you were apostates.. but now we're all truly brothers and sisters.

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  Don't solve a temporary problem with much-too-permanent solution.

  Well said Dave.
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  looking for new friends in TN

  by witnessscorn in

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  i'm looking for new frindes that know what i'm going thru and will not be judgemental.. i live in maryville tn.

  used togo to walland cong, then moved to maryville east.

  have been inactive for 6 to eight months.

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  Hello and welcome witnesscorn. I live in northren middle Tennessee. I haven't been to the east side of Tennessee in years. I have a friend (non witness) who grew up in that area.