Yeah.....
I'll bet that undercover apostate had to beat it outta there pretty quick after a comment like that.
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Looking for someone, thought they might be here.
by Shador inso, the kingdumb hell i usually go to is being gutted and renovated.
still, needing to keep up appearances, mostly for the sake of my still-in parents, i went to another nearby.
anyhow, the weekday meeting was tuesday there.
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My apologies to everyone.
by DATA-DOG ini just wanted to openly apologize to anyone that i have ever offended on this website.
i have been thinking about this lately.
we all seem to go through the same various stages of learning ttatt, anger, sorrow, frustration, bible champion, agnostic, atheist, ect.
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If I offended some here.....
..........it was probably on purpose!!!!
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First Post - Emotionally Torn
by scaredtospeak ini haven't been on here long but i found this site a couple days ago and quickly realised it had a lot of posts by people going through similar experiences as me.
i read some of the answers and it helped relieve some inner anguish i've been carrying since everything i came clean to my parents about everything i've been reading about.. .
i just have been going through a rough patch right now; that might be an under or overstatement depending on your own personal experiences with this kind of stuff.
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The pressure will go away.
the one thing I've learned in life is that it makes life difficult to almost impossible for you to be happy and sure of your own thoughts and accomplishments if there is too much concern about what other people think of you or how they feel about your life choices. And that is typically what every JW and the organization wants you to do. What you might want to do or think for yourself is always subject to the scrutiny and discretion of the organization and what is of the conscious stricken JW personality you're ever around.
There is so much time beholding to the demands of the organization that you literally lose who you are.
FOG
Fear, Obligation, and Guilt are the primary tools this organization and people in it use to hold others captive. Once you learn to effectively deal with these three emotions the WT use as a means of control, the pressure will subside and you'll live a much happier life.
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once again I am convinced these people are deranged
by franticfran injust heard from my daughter,her husbands mother has just sent him a text to tell him his grandmother has died.
no telephone call,no visit.
his crime?
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SoP
that may be.......
but this religion sure seems to amplify screwed up people's dysfunctional tendencies.
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I be a walkin......
by out4good3 inacross that stage tommorrow dressed in graduate garb picking up a masters degree.. .
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12 Years......
I haven't kept up but......Wow.......
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I be a walkin......
by out4good3 inacross that stage tommorrow dressed in graduate garb picking up a masters degree.. .
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I be a walkin......
by out4good3 inacross that stage tommorrow dressed in graduate garb picking up a masters degree.. .
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across that stage tommorrow dressed in graduate garb picking up a masters degree.
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Any Suggestions on what to say if elders ask why you stopped going in FS?
by BU2B ini was curious what might be some good things to say if i am questioned by the elduurs about my decline in fs.
anything too honest may get me a jc (although that would be for the best in the end..) the co visit is this week so they may be getting more agressive than usual.
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Then told them they have to go because i. Amgoingto the range
Nice......
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Any Suggestions on what to say if elders ask why you stopped going in FS?
by BU2B ini was curious what might be some good things to say if i am questioned by the elduurs about my decline in fs.
anything too honest may get me a jc (although that would be for the best in the end..) the co visit is this week so they may be getting more agressive than usual.
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Three pages of beating around the bush and coming up with self deprecating lies and deceit.......
I'm with Mitness My Fury on this one.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with telling someone who asks you why you aren't doing something "because I don't want to"......period.......and disengaging from the subject altogether. If they press, ask them politely "what part of "because I don't want to" you didn't understand?"
I'm not so sure I agree with the passive willingness of people's primary instinct and\or suggestions to go into defensive mode when talking to JW's when the best way to throw them off their game is to go into full offense mode and throw their question right back at them.
They can't eat you........
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How did you tell your spouse you want out of the JW religion?
by leaving_quietly inwhat did you imagine would happen?
did they react the way you expected?
how did you bring it up?.
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The 2 books are now hidden in our home. If she finds them, my wife will go nuts.
When I finally came out to my wife, this was the biggest obstacle I had to face.......her feeling that JW-esque boundaries extended through her to the curb and that I had to answer to her if I wanted anything she deemed unfit as an active witness in the house.
This was something I had to be a little brutal about waking her up to. That I had just as much right to exercise my conscious and bring things I wanted not necessarily WT approved into a house "I" was paying for as she did. She's had the "happifying" privilege of not having to work for the past 16 years and I'd be damned if I was going to let her governing body goons in Brooklyn run my house by proxy.
We both help each other out with events we want to hold in our house.
I am planning for my family to have Thannksgiving in our house this year.