Congrats! I enjoyed reading your book. Great job. You really must have known that it was just a cult and a big scam. You disassociated while everybody, including myself, were hunkered down and expecting the Big A to hit soon after 9-11. They were counting on this being the start of the "Great Tribulation!" You walked out and never looked back while the world was in turmoil. Many inactive and interested ones started flocking back at the Kingdom Hall and the dubs were cheerfully waiting for hail stones to pummel everyone that wasn't a JW.
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My 20 year anniversary
by new boy inafter being a jehovah's witness for 52 years, today marks my 20 year anniversary of being out of the borg!
i turned in my letter of disassociation on september 18th 2001. it was read to the congregation on september 19th, my wife's birthday.
of course the years have had its difficulties but it has also had many wonderful experiences and epiphanies.
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What Do You Know of JWs Getting Away With Stuff?
by minimus ini realized that teenagers and young witness adults were getting away with murder per my daughter.
she told me that all these exemplary young people featured at assemblies and conventions were not real good examples.
after she got married years ago to a “ worldly “ man, she told me about all the kids who were fornicating and getting drunk and high, including elder’s kids.
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exjwlemming
When I was a JW and running with the JW teenagers in high school, I had a friend that would sneak out to the car at lunch and get hammered. He would keep a hidden flask in school and knew where he could get served without any issues. He regularly got into fights and beat the crap out of several kids. He was all over the "worldly" girls yet his parents wouldn't let him do after school activities or sports because of bad associations. He had many girlfriends in high school. Elder's kids having sex, partying, drinking, light drug use, drag racing, and stealing were common after "JW time." Ironically, they would be used as a fine christian example in meeting and assembly parts. We thought it was funny because he was the worst of the worst. Only 1 out of about a dozen are still a JW.
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I have a tee shirt idea
by mickbobcat ini have an idea for a jw tee shirt.
jehovah's witnesses redefining words since 1914.
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exjwlemming
"Ask me why 8 million people are shunning me"
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Have You Had Any Experiences With “Karen’s”?
by minimus inhave you ever had to deal with these crazy intrusive people flipping out on you?
just curious.
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exjwlemming
My ex is a literal Karen. She is named Karen and was a Karen before the term Karen was even coined. I think she was the first Karen about 25 years ago. Look up Karen in the dictionary and the picture is probably her....hence...the reason why she is my ex.
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What is your status (as of today) as a Jehovah's Witness?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inactive believer...still attend meetings, go out in field service, believe it's ''the truth''.
active non-believer... go to meetings and field service to please family... living a double life .
inactive believer...don't attend meetings but believe it's the truth, one day might go back to kingdom hall.
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exjwlemming
Is there a 5? Stopped attending all meetings, don't believe it's the truth, bible is fiction, and will never step foot in a kingdom hell ever again.
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Do JW women expect LESS from their man than Non-jw women?
by pistolpete innon-jw women usually expect their man to have some type of social status.
whether it's education, money, fame, etc.. these days, feminism also plays a role in a future, marriage.
(the man is not the head, maybe the women is the head).
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exjwlemming
It may not be a priority for a JW woman to want education, money, and fame. There are other things. My ex was hardcore PIMI. She kept complaining and pressuring me to reach out for more "privileges." She wanted the status of having a MS or an elder as a husband. She would rise on a social level and I guess others would look up to her. Go figure? That why she is my ex. Now, she's a social outcast by being a measly divorced publisher. ;)
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Wt needs to be full of gratitude to have an apostate like me.
by joe134cd inok here is tonight’s scenario.
i walk in the door to see my elderly father sitting at the dinner table.
i switch on the tv and sit down.
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exjwlemming
I completely agree with both of you. My parents are in their late 70s and early 80s. I'm POMO and Dfed for sometime. At this point in their life, I would hate for them to learn TTATT. It would completely devastate them to learn that was a farce and all lies by a man made organization that has nothing to do with true worship. This org had forced them to cut me off from my family and they have lost so many years with me. They have wasted their life in FS, conventions, and meetings. It's best that when they pass, they will think that they will wake up in paradise as faithful JWs.
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Jw spokesman Says door to door preaching not coming back!
by nowwhat? inhttps://youtu.be/uaaztatkhkg.
hope link works.
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exjwlemming
I guess the "rocks will have to cry out now."
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Witness fancy dress party huge fails!
by Witness 007 inso some special pioneers in our cong thought it would be awesome to spice up our boring country town lives with a witness fancy dress party!!
wow what could go wrong?
it was 1993 well one pioneer wanted to out do every one so he turned up in drag as a ballerina in full bad make up...some had costumes with guns swords knives...i mean a cowboy does not have a watchtower in his holster!
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exjwlemming
I knew JW husband and wife that threw a"murder mystery" dinner party. It went over like a lead balloon with the local body of elders. They were called into a JC and publicly reproved along with those in attendance.
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Would You Ever Go Back To The Witnesses??
by minimus inevery once in a while you hear people say they actually “miss” their old witness friends and or family.
some would have even stayed in the organization if they became a bit more liberal and open minded.
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exjwlemming
"like a dog returning to it's vomit"....no thank you!