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  need to talk/vent. wifey wt problems

  by unstopableravens in

  1. watchtower
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  my wife ask me if im going to make up the assmebly, i reminder her that i in clean conscience can not go anymore,as soon as the word anymore came out the tears started flooding.

  it hurts me to see her like this.

  i talked to her calm trying to explain why i cant worship with doctrine that is so clearly wrong.

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  finally awake

  I'm sorry that she's freaking out on you. Just do your best to reassure her that you love her and want to be with her.
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  Have You Changed Since Getting On To This Site?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you the same poster/person now?

  i have seen many posters mature here.

  some still act like jws but others have shown recovery and progress from the witness mentality..

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  finally awake

  I think this site has accelerated my reversion to my authentic self. I'm sure that some - perhaps many - people would say that my authentic personality is no improvement on my cult persona, but I'm no longer in the business of repressing myself solely to satisfy someone else's preferences. I am also finding this site useful in discovering new ideas and new ways of looking at things that I had not considered before.
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  I Still Can't Celebrate Xmas. Can You? Christians vs Atheists

  by Malsonilla in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while in the organization we learned one bit of truth regarding christmas; that it was originally a pagan observance, the summer solstice, adopted by christians much later in church history, and has nothing to do with jesus christ whatsoever.

  no biggy for most true believers who left the organization who have slipped into (or fell back into) the grind of commercialized christmas with all the trappings and traditions of ritual binge spending that takes them even farther away from jesus than christmas' pagan roots ever could.

  these true believers might say something like, "i know xmas has its roots in paganism, but we celebrate anyway because of x y z", perhaps echoing or paroting the frustrating responses we use to hear from "worldly" goats/folks when we would explain to them how christmas is not a christian observance whatsoever.

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  finally awake

  This is my first Christmas outside the Borg. Last year we didn't celebrate because we were still coming to terms with our true beliefs and deciding how we wanted to live our life. We had just stopped attending meetings in mid-November 2011. In the past year, I have moved from believing that the WTS has the "Truth" all the way to being an atheist. Right now, I don't believe in any sort of God entity, nor do I even believe that Jesus is a real historical person, nor do I believe that the Bible has any special meaning beyond other pieces of historical literature. I am, however, celebrating Christmas in a big but purely secular way this year. I am not using any overtly religious symbols in my decorations, or attending any religious services, but I intend for my kids to experience a family holiday the way it should have been all along. If other people want to insert Jesus into the pagan winter festival, they are free to do so, but that doesn't make the holiday into something I can't participate in due to lack of religious belief.
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  Scouts Accept Atheists

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  the youth scouting movement in the uk have agreed to a new form of their membership oath that does not contain reference to god.. .

  the existing scout promise reads: "on my honour, i promise that i will do my best, to do my duty to god and to the queen, to help other people and to keep the scout law.".

  bbc news...

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  finally awake

  Good - now they just need to get over their homophobia.
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  If you could leave the truth again what would you do differently?

  by usualusername in

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  2. friends

  if you could leave the truth again what would you do differently?.

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  finally awake

  I'd do it a lot sooner
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  What will you do to celebrate Oct 2 2014?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  like most people reading this, i was convinced that by 2014 the new system would 'definitely' have been operating for at least a decade.

  now that i know this is not going to be the case i am going to have to think of some way to recognise 100 years of wts let downs and failed predictions.

  there is no point fretting over the past so i think it will be a good time to celebrate.

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  finally awake

  will there even be a Watchtower presence in Brooklyn by then? They may have closed up shop and moved to Wallkill by then.
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  JW tour bus crashes in Florida, with fatalities-

  by moshe in

  1. social
  2. current

  miami - a bus carrying 32 members of a church group hit a concrete overpass at miami international airport after the driver got lost, killing two elderly people on board and leaving three others critically injured, officials said saturday.. the large, white bus was too tall for the 8-foot-6-inch entrance to the arrivals area, said airport spokesman greg chin.

  buses are supposed to go through the departures area, which has a higher ceiling, he said.. chin said the passengers told him they were part of a group of jehovah's witnesses headed to west palm beach.

  police said in a news release that the group had chartered the bus to take them to a church convention there-.

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  I saw a picture of the bus stuck under the overpass - you would have to be darn near legally blind to miss the warning signs. I guess the driver was really flustered or panicky or something. The article also said that the company only owned 3 busses, so I guess they were little more than a mom & pop operation. The regular bus drivers who do the airport routes seem to know the area well enough to drive it blindfolded.
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  Circuit Assembly Highlights. Day 1

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well things were actually pretty boring.

  i mean really boring.

  that's the price of fading i guess.

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  I'm glad you kept the cash Data-Dog. I found out months after we quit going to the hall that Just Ron had pretty much stopped putting in any money. It was in the monthly budget, and I wrote a check for cash to cover it and some other regular expenses, but I never asked if he was actually putting the money in. I'm glad to find out that I wasted less of my money than I thought I had. Maybe some day your wife will also be glad to find out that less of your money went to the pedophile defense fund.
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  A new life with my long lost brother...

  by TimeBandit in

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  2. friends

  as some of you may know, about two years ago my brother contacted me on fb.

  i hadn't seen or heard from him in roughly 12 years before that.

  things progressed well once he found out that i and the wife had left the jws.

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  finally awake

  It sounds like your life has taken a huge turn for the better!
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  Wife's FS report for last month... Zero!

  by Captain Obvious in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i could just be reading too far into this but... even with plenty of opportunities and time to go, she didn't seem to make it out last month.

  last night she said she was gonna go out today (the 1st) but... she's downstairs at the moment sipping coffee watching tv.

  a few weeks ago on the long drive back from the assembly we talked about fs.

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  finally awake

  Hi Watcher, I look forward to hearing from you in 25 years when nothing at all has happened, assuming you are young enough to still be alive in 25 years. Good luck with your mental health until then.