The list is sooooooo long... everything said here covers it. They crush every feeling, and emotion in people. They are like the Men in Black with that little brain machine... lol, I don't want to be a JW zombie anymore!! I WANT OUT!!
lola-rabbit
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So why did the organisation cause you anxiety or depression?
by TimothyT inin regards to my other post regarding attending counselling as a jw, i was wondering what it was about being a jw that caused you to be anxious, stressed or depressed?.
for me, i knew that the person i wanted to be was constantly being supressed by the wt.
there was a battle going on in my head between who i wanted to be and who they wanted me to be.
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"You don't even exist."
by snakeface inrecently i remembered another example which shows how hateful and unchrist-like the witnesses are brainwashed into being.. a long time ago, when i was a pioneer, i was hanging out with a group of long-time pioneers after the district convention, in the stadium hallway.
some had been pioneering for more than 10 years and therefore were considered to be spiritually mature.
a woman who appeared to be a sister was walking by; she paused and greeted us and said something like, "what a great program that was.
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lola-rabbit
I had a very simular experiance with a long time friend of mine who was disfellowhiped, she was not going to meetings and had a judicial case against two elders for molesting her when she was a child, nothing was being done and she refused to enter a kingdom hall. She was very mad and bitter and with every right.
One day I bumpped in to her in the market, and my joy was so great I just walked up to her and hugged her, said "you are greatly missed, take care of yourself", and walked away... she cryed, and was in shocked that I had done this. One year later, I found out from a friend that she had been sick for several months and had died of cancer (age 34, leaving 2 kids behind).
If I would have turned my back on her that day in the market, today I would not be able to live with myself, I'm happy I was able to give her a last good bye. I was so ANGRY, and SICK of discust at her funeral, all the brothers there talking wonderful, great things about her, when while she was alive nobody cared, helped or aknowledged her. My anger GREW... when that same week she died, they anounced in meeting that "right before passing on her death bed, she had repented and had been reinstated"!!!! A little to late, dont you think ELDERS!!
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The Huffington Post has picked up the mentally diseased story!!!!
by discreetslave injust posted by vampire665 on facebook.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/jehovahs-witness-magazine_n_985479.html.
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lola-rabbit
How could we make more articles like this public to the media? I would love for a nice topic exposing the WT to "ACCIDENTALLY" go into all JW's emails.
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Today's Watchtower Lesson Really Bothered Me...
by dontplaceliterature ini was a hair away from telling my wife i never wanted to go to the kingdom hall again after today's watchtower.
the conductor mentioned something along the lines of..."if you think having to shun your disfellowshipped children is bad...you should read up on the israelites.
when one of their children was disobedient to the law, they had to take the before the judges so that they could be stoned to death...and guess who's job it was throw the first stone?".
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I feel so sad for this mother/wife of dontplaceliterature, they live in a house that is divided and that is not what God wants. The organization teachings are manipulative and controlling, none of it is biblical. The husband is simply finding a way to vent when he comes into this site and speaks his mind, something you could never do with your JW family or with the brothers. What bothers me most, is why should you be expelled, and forever stamped with "APOSTLE" simply by thinking differently, or not sharing the same ideas or belifes... why dose it have to be their way or no way?!?!? This weeks study I think opened alot of peoples eyes, when they gave the example of a son that chooses not to be part of the JW organization, he becomes dead family member, simple because he thinks differently.
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Today's Watchtower Lesson Really Bothered Me...
by dontplaceliterature ini was a hair away from telling my wife i never wanted to go to the kingdom hall again after today's watchtower.
the conductor mentioned something along the lines of..."if you think having to shun your disfellowshipped children is bad...you should read up on the israelites.
when one of their children was disobedient to the law, they had to take the before the judges so that they could be stoned to death...and guess who's job it was throw the first stone?".
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My "worldly" husband went with me this Sunday and I wanted to crawl under my seat. There must have been steam coming out of my ears too because he got up and said he would wait for me in the car. I had to stay with my parents, who did not understand his reaction to this article. That picture is disgusting, it looks as if they just murdered their son!!! Get up you idiots, your son needs parents not blinded, mentally controlled mourners! I don't know how much longer I could keep this up!
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Contradictory statement in this weeks WT
by stillstuckcruz inthis exerpt is taken from the july 15,2011 issue of the wt.
study article for sept 19-25th.
(bolding mines) this was under the subheading "when someone we love leaves jehovah".
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lola-rabbit
This weeks article was by all means very sad. I felt so uncomfortable, I could see the faces of the people visiting for the first time thinking... "what kind of organization is this?!?!"
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Are we all still FAMILY? Yes or No?
by Greybeard inhere is why, even though i no longer agree with most of what the gb/wt/jw's teach, i still feel especially close to all of us who were apart of this group.
born in or converted.
we all have had the same life experience of being raised in a over bearing mind controlling cult.
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Do I just have a dirty, filthy, perverted apostate mind...
by serenitynow! in...or does the picture on page 30 of the december 2011 awake look like the beginning of a certain act?
i mean that sword is at waist level, the shaft is long (:-d) and there is a little round dealy on the end.
the male in the submissive position has got his mouth open, the dominant male is looking like "oh yeah, get ready.
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lola-rabbit
I see myself now looking for more of these... lol! To funny!
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New here looking for some help
by angel.face inlong story short, i have been a jw for the pst 7 years.
i am married with 2 kids.
hubby is a die hard jw who is an ms and would like to be elder.
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lola-rabbit
There is so much great advise here, and I'm so happy of not feeling so alone, free to speak my mind. Having a husband open up to this is EXTREMLY difficult but not impossible, it may however take years of work. But if things get ugly, in the end, divorce is not so bad. I understand you may love him and you are a family, but do not be afraid of a custody battle... if you are not an alcoholic, drug addict or abuse your kids... a judge is always going to grant the mother custody. I went thru a divorce and I was hard in the beginning, however my kids are happy and very well adjusted, their father picks them up for meetings and preaching but they are with me all the time. I guess it's all about what works for you and your family and slowly finding a solution.
As far as your children go, In my case I have two teens and an 8 year old, and I have been able to slowing explain during regular conversations in very simple terms how wrong Society is... for example, one day I told them that I loved them so much that if they ever needed a blood transfusion I would give it to them... that God would never condemn them since it was my choice as a mother and not theirs, and how I know God being so loving would not condemn me for trying to save my child’s life. They actually agreed with me. Little by little I have been introducing MY SEED OF THE TRUTH, but with their father hounding them I know it will take time. My biggest problem now is my oldest teen being pressured to get baptized, at age 14. I want them to have the opportunity and choice to go to collage, be and do what they choose to in life; this was something that was robbed from me.
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New here looking for some help
by angel.face inlong story short, i have been a jw for the pst 7 years.
i am married with 2 kids.
hubby is a die hard jw who is an ms and would like to be elder.
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lola-rabbit
Hello, I am also new here. Although my situation is a little different, I feel your anxiety. I was born in the truth, my entire family is JW's, and my daughters (which when they are with their father drills their little brains with JW teachings, something I will have to undo and work on little by little). My current husband is not JW and has supported me in every way.
I'm still holding on because of my parents, it would be a big deception and heart ace for them if I leave the org. I go to some meetings, some assemblies, have not preaches in years... but they still consider me part of the org. I agree with Cedars post about being patient and cautious about the comments that you make, even to your husband. I know the ideal situation would be for everyone to think for themselves and not let their minds be blinded, but you will be labeled an apostate if you are not careful. I have slowly talked to my daughters about certain things, but at the same time not showing rebellion. As far as my parents go, they are old and I think I will cause more harm then good by expressing my way of thinking to them, I do not think I could convince them at this point. That is why I have decided that with time, and as I slowly walk away from the org I will not share my true thoughts with anyone in the org. I personally don’t think it's worth risking my family’s relationship over trying to convince them. It's a big risk to take. It's so sad how a supposedly LOVING org, the TRUE org will stamp an APOSTATE stamp on your forehead, never to be removed, completely exiled just because you do not agree with their teachings. :(