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  How do you feel you have progressed ?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. experiences

  in the months or years since leaving the organization, how do you think you have progressed as a person?.

  (or if you have regressed too i guess?).

  what aspects of personal development are you happy with?.

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  I guess sometimes I get mad at myself because I KNEW a lot of this stuff but chose to go along because I didn't want to lose my family, my friends, my reputation, I kept telling myself things would improve, just wait upon Jehovah he will clear things up. I guess I still feel like I'm finding myself.

  I have improved in the sense that I empathize more. I realize now that I can be a wonderful human without the bible or religion. I feel like I'm a more spiritual person than I was before.

  I have regressed because I lost ALL my friends. I have to start over. I somehow feel like I need a new objective or purpose in my life. I still want to help people. I just don't know whuch route to take.
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  Anyone ever know gays in the hall that are lying to them selfs or others?

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i know of three situations i saw myself.

  the first one was when i lived in arcadia.

  all the people i use names on are dead and gone so no probs.

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  There are plenty of gay people in the organization. I really don't understand how they can put up with the anti-gay remarks at the meetings. I know 1 who got married and had a child. I don't know if he's still in. Poor guy. Another was in bethel for 20 years. Nice guy! He was very handsome and well-mannered. I really liked him. He left bethel, came out of closet but was still in. But 3 years afterwards he left for good. One of my ex's came out of the closet. I had absolutely no idea lol. He got baptized young. And of course you see those very close couples in the congregation who spend waaaay too much time together and have sleepovers even though their married. People accuse them but when confronted they deny, deny, deny. Oh well. Are their husbands really that clueless? Lol
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  The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.

  thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.

  we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.

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  This is beautiful news!
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  what as your first jolt that started your wake up process?

  by yourmomma in

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  2. friends

  you know when you are in a deep sleep and something happens that may put you on a different level of sleeping, not as deep.

  anyway, then i thought, 90 minutes for lunch?

  so, there is a group waiting to cross the street.

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  It was gradual for me. I started having my own opinions opposite the Watchtower after pioneer school with the generation change. I didn't actually truly wake up until I had a conversation with a PIMO. It was perfect timing too. I was having a lot of doubts and we discussed them. He was a long time trusted friend.

  So don't lose hope.
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  What is the most troubling or disturbing biblical passage you ever had to rationalise when a Jw?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now that we have stepped away from the jw faith, how do you feel about the bible itself?.

  what about those awkward sections of scripture?

  how did you rationalise or justify those sections?.

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  The one where a Levite man had a concubine, they traveled to a town where the men wanted to have sex with him. To get them to quiet down the man they were staying with threw out his concubine to the crowd. In the morning she was found dead. The levite man proceeds to cut her up and pass out her body parts to the tribes of Israel. This triggered the isrealites to start a war against the tribe of Benjamin since the men who raped her were from that tribe.

  This is from Judges 19.

  I read this when I was like 12 years old and it gave me nightmares. I was sick to my stomach for days.

  The story where Lots daughters have sex with their father also disturbed me deeply when I read it I think I was 11 or 12.

  More recently, I was studying with my son and came across the scripture where Abraham tries to kill Isaac and THAT's when I decided I wasn't going to study with him like this. The story has a different meaning when you have your own kids. I mean, even before kids it is very disturbing but now it's like...
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  what will be the next thing

  by pepperheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi what will be the next thing that watchtower will cut,if you say the leaked video that fay put up the finance guy from the watchtower was saying that they had spent $26 million in about 6 months.

  so if they are getting through money that fast then they are going to have problems.

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  COs also do account audits. In any business, you need someone to do this
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  Does anyone know of this guy, or agree with his statements on racial differences in IQ?

  by Sugar Shane in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here are some quotes by the guy, from his youtube channel.

  his name is stefan molyneux, and he’s apparently popular among the alt-right crowd.

  he’s also widely quoted on these discussion boards, by certain ex-jws, who use him to help promote their political views.

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  IQs don't equal success imo. My husband and I aren't white, my husband is 1/8 black and he was an honor student. He learns very fast it's amazing. But he's an idiot and makes A LOT of mistakes.

  My son has an IQ of 117 BUT he did terrible in school and has dysgraphia and developmental delays so WTF is up with that?! My toddler ALSO has a very hIgh IQ. He can literally memorize a whole movie or book after just watching/reading just 3 times. He can read and he's only three! BUT he is considered disabled and is on ssi because of his devlopmental delays . So WTF!

  HOW IN THE HELL IS THEIR IQ HIGH YET THEY HAVE DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS???!!! They also have autism.

  I couldn't get a good explanation from their developmental psychologist nor their developmental pediatrician.
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  Mentors: Who were yours Whom did you idolize as a kid? Who'd you mold yourself to be?

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. friends

  did you have mentors as a kid?or did you have heroes?did you model yourself after an admired ideal?.

  who were they?mine will probably make you giggle.. physically: i wanted to be steve reeves.personality: steve allen was the man.as a writer: ray bradbury was ideal.as a ladies man: rock hudson, cary grant and (don't giggle) sean connery ( james bond.

  ) intellectually: isaac asimov.

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  I had many different ones. When I was 7 I wanted to be a human version of Jessica Rabbit lol Then there was this Mexican actress I really looked up to her name was Bibi Gaytan

  Yeah, I look nothing like her hahaha. I also adored Lucille Ball. I was very upset when I was told she had died when I was 7or 8.

  
  

  As a teenager I wanted to be like Shakira I even learned to belly dance and play the guitar. I also wanted to be like Carmen Elektra omg! lol I used to have her exercise videos

  

  
  

  Now that I'm a bigger woman and a mom I look up to Ashley Graham because she's not afraid of her cellulite lol. Her confidence amazes me. I also really like Kristen Bell in general. She's an awesome mother, actress and human being. For inspiration I look to Malala

  

  

  I'm obssesed with music and I really look up to Dave Grohl. I can't get enough of him and his music. He really inspired me and kept me going when I was a teen.
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  Book of Revelation

  by Whynot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of the things that really bothered me is how most of the book of revelation isn't understood by most jws.

  most of the trumpets were already sounded many decades ago, is that still right?

  it seems like most jws just look the other way.

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  One of the things that really bothered me is how most of the book of Revelation isn't understood by most JWs. Most of the trumpets were already sounded many decades ago, is that still right? It seems like most JWs just look the other way. I remember when we got the new updated book and I was really hopeful for new info but I was very disappointed. I also remember thinking, do they really think we're going to believe this crap?

  I remember pointing out how most historians point to a different year for the destruction of Jerusalem but how we must trust Jehovah's timeline and how those archeological findings aren't accurate because they dated hundreds of centuries after it happened. I KNOW, I KNOW !!! I didn't know at the time and this was before I read Gentile Times Reconsidered by Carl Olof Jonsson. Little did I know that I put doubts in 2 people attending there lol

  Seriously, I'm surprised it took me this long to wake up
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  Celebrating a birthday for the 1st time

  by Whynot in

  1. social
  2. family

  after almost a year of thinking and eh feeling, not sure... i decided to throw a small birthday party for my son.

  this feels so strange, i have never been to a birthday party.

  my husband doesn't feel comfortable with it but he decided to play along lol.

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  Whynot

  Cofty, bahaha! I promise I won't behead anyone lol