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  Find Local Friends

  by BiggerRed in

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  i am located in kentucky.

  i have faded out of the watchtower and i am just learning the truth about the truth.

  i am trying to find new friends to talk to.

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  Normalfulla

  Just Wikipedia beth sarim big red it's a start
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  Find Local Friends

  by BiggerRed in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am located in kentucky.

  i have faded out of the watchtower and i am just learning the truth about the truth.

  i am trying to find new friends to talk to.

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  Heya big red , I'm no where near local to you, as close as I get is Kentucky bourbon ha ha , my wife woke me up so speaking from the side of the woken spouse some pivotal points for me were learning of beth sarim ,Ray Franz and reading crisis of conscience and the UN debacle, what a slap in the face to wake me up , although I had doubts for years ,there's a depth to the indoctrinated weeds that we all have that are so hard to eradicate, tread carefully with yr spouse, so much sound advice on here , love from the bottom of the world ,laters
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  What Would You Yearn For From The Good Old Days?

  by minimus in

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  2017 and the world is probably more advanced than ever before.

  prices are high for homes, food and comfort.

  wars seem to rage everywhere!.

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  The 80s , music was riding a wave of gratuitous rebellion and the guitar solos levitated your consciousness, take me back I was a kid, I wish I could have been an adult in that time.. if I was I'd have been Michael knight or Macgyver, way better than Ralph Macchio, even when he faced the devil (Steve Vai) in crossroads
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  Normal things you missed out on as a kid (besides holidays)

  by Are you serious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since me and my siblings had to go to service every saturday, and i mean every saturday, i missed out on something so normal as watching good ole saturday morning cartoons from the 70's and 80's.

  i remember wishing i could stay home just one saturday so i could watch cartoons.

  but noooo we had to go save lives!

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  I'm with u on missing out the Saturday morning cartoons , i think i saw 1 episode of fraggle rock ha ha
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  If alcohol was a DF offense

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i guess the question which is the hardest to give up smoking or alcohol.

  many folks gave up smoking in the 70's including me but i have known some hard drinking brothers and if consuming any kind of alcohol became a df offense, i wonder.....

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  Giordano

  I remember that line from an old hale and pace skit but it was " I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy "
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  THIS Is How JWs Feel About The Cut In Magazines And Content

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i asked the question on quora "how do jehovah's witnesses feel about the announcement that the public edition of the watchtower and awake!

  magazine is being reduced to just 3 issues a year and the number of books, tracts, and online content are being discontinued?".

  https://www.quora.com/how-do-jehovahs-witnesses-feel-about-the-announcement-that-the-public-edition-of-the-watchtower-and-awake-magazine-is-being-reduced-to-just-3-issues-a-year-and-the-number-of-books-tracts-and-online-content-are-being-discontinued.

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  P.E I told my parents about the cutbacks and they too thought it was a positive thing, more constructed to making it easier to be a witness and for the preaching work , my face was as tho I was just anaesthetized .

  When I said all the signs of the cutbacks allude to possible financial trouble they said no ,the Internet is really the way people use content now so they are moving with the times , I said " correct ...but have u ever Googled jehovah's witnesses cos that's what people do if they are even slightly interested in something " again they knew the perils of that investigative path ,...1 gem was dad said an elder mate of his believes they are in financial trouble too and that must be over 3 yrs ago cos he's been df for that long

  Amazing how for the most part they won't let their minds consider the obvious
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  One of the key ways to tell if it is a cult or toxic high control group....

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife and i were discussing a sure sign of a cult:.

  when one knows more about the society / organization after leaving!.

  lets face it, most of us here on this forum, and ex-witnesses in general know more facts about the history, background, practices, current procedures, scandals, etc than the average "still-in witness"!

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  Amen to that stuck ,

  Never been so informed or so interested in what's going on in the org , don't know if it's because of my growing animosity towards the injustices or because I have many loved ones with the wool pulled over their eyes still , either way I am usually the source of the changes going on in the org for my parents who are still in ,even though my dad is df and trying his darnedest to get back in
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  Not A Day Goes By Without Me Thinking About Watchtower

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  although i consider myself completely "cured" from watchtower brainwashing, guilt tripping and propaganda, i realised today that there's not a day that goes by without me thinking of the cult we left.

  i think of my former family and what i'd like to say to them, what i'd try to explain and how i'd say it without them switching the "ignore" button and running away.. today on my instagram account my little step-brother "liked" a picture i posted.

  i didn't even know he was still on my friends list.

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  P.E

  It sux ,

  I have siblings which I care about deeply and even though we are not df they know about me waking up and ceasing to be a jw , they won't talk to me and unfriended us on social media as if my wife and I are a disease, we don't post anything apart from family pics of kids and just general normal stuff , so sad I won't have a relationship with my nephews and nieces

  So I too can't help think about the cult that binds my family in that life wasting soup of lies , if they treated me better I wouldn't feel the animosity towards the religion

  ...Waiting for the wake up call
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  Do they take the GB seriously?

  by Tech49 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so this is an honest question that i have been thinking about for some time.. do regular jehovahś witnesses in other countries (other than the usa) take the governing body in new york seriously?.

  i mean, i cant help but wonder about the publishers in japan, or south africa, or mexico, or new zealand, or even the uk, or spain, or italy...... or russia?.

  not you and i (we know what you think of them), but the regular jwś...... do they take these american buffoons seriously?

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  I tell you from down under they a revered and their shit don't stink to the rank and file , I dunno if it has anything to do with how we are all americanized to a degree down here , music ,tv etc but the kiwis and aussies I know think the gb are who they say they are ....
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  An honest question for those who were "born-in"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wanted to ask a question of those who were born in as i was.. how did you feel to have been "privileged to have been born into the only true faith - the truth"?.

  did this make you feel confident, or proud - or perhaps arrogant?.

  how did you reconcile the fact that 99% of the earth's population was not born "into the truth"?.

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  Normalfulla

  I distinctly remember looking around the beautiful area I live in thinking "this will be ours soon "

  A stupid naive assumption of an indoctrinated 8 yr old

  I do remember the entitlement felt as though u had the truth , u were someone special who was in "the know" of the real truth and therefore in line for the rewards promised , luckily this didn't go to my head so to speak and I still lived as a fairly normal kid ,kinda just living my life with that stuff in the back of my mind but it was always there ..

  Very nervous and timid to approach my high school teacher to giver her the school brochure as I just wanted to blend in and dreaded doing it but was under duress from my parents ,

  Worst thing ever was 1 sat morning for F.S the territory I dreaded most was assigned to my family and a girl I fancied lived there , we actually called on her house and omg I was so shamed then she followed us up the road with her friends on their bikes poking fun ... I was mortified as my dad could see this and as we were driving off beeped his loud horn and waved out the window ,

  Turns out the girl liked me too but that's not the way to be introduced , forever shamed out ...