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  Role Reversal: Placing 1969 Awake with JW's Manning the New Portable Literature Displays

  by snapdragon4 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in recent weeks the jw’s here in the uk have been setting up their new portable watchtower literature displays in my local town square on a saturday morning.

  as they hadn’t knocked on my door for at least five years, and consequently feeling somewhat neglected, i thought that i would pay them a visit instead.. .

  the first thing i needed to do was arrange my literature.

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  Confusedandangry

  bumping this post for newbies/lurkers. Almost 50 years since this Awake was written. They are still preaching the same thing..

  
  
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  Motherly Love, that "Unbreakable Bond"

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my father died a couple of months ago.

  he'd been ill for some time and had many health scares and heart troubles over the years but always managed to keep on going.

  then one time he didn't.. i'm glad i got to know him again and spend some more time with him after so many years missed because of the wts but those years will always be lost forever.

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  Confusedandangry

  Simon, I'm sorry about both of your parents. My sincere condolences. Thank you for sharing this with us.

  I guess as long as you tip your cap to their authority, they don't care if you molest children, commit crimes or any number of things that they claim to abhor.-- That is something I cant wrap my head around.
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  interview with an apostate- morpheus

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i saw simons thread and the "interview" series of threads that came from it i really enjoyed reading the life stories of those that shared.

  a bump for newer people seems like a good idea and i figured i would add mine as well.

  again, thanks to simon for the concept of a guided interview thread and the template.. tell us a little about yourself and your family.. hmmm... easy question, hard answer.

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  Confusedandangry

  Thank you for sharing, I find these very interesting. I also woke up trying to defend the org. From comparisons to other cults (Scientology) and the 'apostate lies' about the ARC. The more I researched the worse it got.
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  Interview With An Apostate: Pale.Emperor

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  tell us a little about yourself and your family.. 33yp guy from liverpool, england.

  2nd generation, born in.

  baptized at 19, left age 31. divorced with a 4yo daughter.

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  Confusedandangry

  Thank you for sharing. I would also like to return to University so I can help ex-Jw's. Not many therapists (at least not here in US) are familiar with the JW cult. They think its just another religion and fail to see how traumatizing it can really be.
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  I got my first teaching job!

  by paradiseseeker in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in case you haven't read me, i am a spanish pimo who is preparing himself to become an english teacher.

  well, i just wanted to share with you that i've been called to work in a high school and my first week of work has been amazing!

  this job is not permanent, it will end in july, but finally i got rid of many doubts about my adequacy for this job: i love it!

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  Confusedandangry

  Congratulations ! Felicidades!

  I agree with what Desirous of Change said!
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  Are you a woman? Do you know one?

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if you can answer yes to either question, you should consider listening to the latest episode of "shunned".

  in it, brenda tells her story inside the flds cult, a story of women and what they go through.

  this is happening right here in the united states.

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  Confusedandangry

  Dub are you on Insta? I saw this post earlier on there but I haven't checked it out yet. I will have a listen on my way home from work. Keep up the good work!
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  How many people have been woken up by the A.R.C??

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know of 1 that watched the video and never went back.. i think for some it was a the sum of the total or the "last straw" if you like.. karter..

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  Confusedandangry

  Can I just add that back in early 2016 one random night after the meeting and elder came up to me saying he knows it must be hard being a female and if I had ever been sexually abused I had to forgive, pray & rely on Jehovah. Then he read me some scriptures from his bible. I was so stunned by his words I couldn't even respond. What do you even say to something like that? It was in the middle of the hall, anyone could have heard. This was a 70 year old man who never had a single conversation with me during my time in that KH. Talk about ODD! Turns out they told the same spiel to several other sisters in the hall. Sorry if I went off topic, just wanted to get that off my chest. I just wonder if that had anything to do with the ARC.
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  How many people have been woken up by the A.R.C??

  by karter in

  1. jw
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  i know of 1 that watched the video and never went back.. i think for some it was a the sum of the total or the "last straw" if you like.. karter..

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  Confusedandangry

  I lived in Australia from 2015-2017 and never heard of the ARC until Feb 2017 when i was visiting the U.S! But once my spouse showed me a video of it, (trying to defend the org) that was it for me. Within one month of countless research I knew I was done.
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  Rejoice cos God's tent is.... Disintegrated by a cat 5 truth storm

  by Normalfulla in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just had to share... a former friend of my wife's, has just left our house, unbeknown to us, her and her husband have been inactive for about a year and a half, they have pre teen boys too.

  she reached out to my wife as she had heard that we were apostates etc and needed someone to talk to.. .

  after her father dying she was in a bad place mentally and emotionally and reached out to her cong for support, apon receiving 0 she turned to the bible for comfort only in her raw emotional state to realize that jehovah was a murderous unfair god and then her wheels of rational reasoning started turning.. she questioned things and was outspoken about things and attracted elder attention... long story short she wanted to connect with a friendly ear and she splurged she's never going back, the bible is all bulls**t and it's a cult, despite not knowing most of ttatt we all shared experiences and watched her eyes boggle at (stuckinarut... the first euphoric high) the un scandal, beth sarim, ray franz, 607, arc.

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  Confusedandangry

  Great post, its great to hear about people waking up - thanks to the active witnesses own selfish actions.

  Wingcommander- I got teary eyed reading your comment. I had a similar experience. The so called 'worldly people' showed more love & support than any of the JW's in my parents hall.
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  Judge Orders Jehovah's Witnesses to turn over Internal Documents re: Childhood Sexual Abuse

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://nixlaw.com/news/judge-orders-jehovahs-witnesses-to-turn-over-internal-documents-related-to-childhood-sexual-abuse/.

  judge orders jehovah’s witnesses to turn over internal documents related to childhood sexual abuse.

  april 12, 2018. .

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  Confusedandangry

  Oh no...I sense another GB member Loesch denial affidavit declaring..."I don't answer to Watchtower...I'm not an employee of Watchtower...I have no part in making Watchtower policy decisions" or something to that effect

  Wow he really said that?? Is this on video or in writing & Does anyone have a link to this?