Topics Started by HappyGal

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Something to laugh about
by HappyGal in
1. social
2. humour
when you've been in a cult and then get out what should you do?.

laugh about it!

find the funny.. that's what the ex-jw in this you tube video did.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r60wd-k0nc.
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Do you feel regret?
by HereIgo in
1. jw
2. experiences
to help me move on after leaving the org and to maintain my sanity, i have worked on not regretting the time i spent in it.

granted, i have only been out 6 years and was 22 when i left, i still was an active jw from age 16-22. those were prime times of my youth that i will never get back.

i wanted to play high school football and basketball but couldn't.
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My 1st Unwitness
by HappyGal in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i have seen the witnessing carts pop up around our city.

there were no such carts when i left the jw's in the 1980's.

since leaving the organization i have survived (and thrived) by: .
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How have you felt since you learned TTATT?
by tornapart in
1. jw
2. experiences
it's been 4 years since it happened to me.

an almost overnight experience.

i read ray franz coc in 3 days and that was it.
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How was it for you when you had to shun someone?
by Anator in
1. jw
2. friends
i remember a good friend when i was in and active who was d'fd.

when he started coming back, for me at that time is was gut-wrenching not to say 'hello' or at the very least encourage him to continue.

i thought even at this time, does this act of shunning really effective?
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"..Witnesses suffer from anxiety, depression, addiction...many have been lost to suicide. After reading this story, you may understand why.”
by Penelope1 in
1. jw
2. friends
from the book, the least of gods priorities, by bo juel.

please support bo in his efforts to expose the truth about the watchtower organization a secretive and destructive cult posing as gods organization on earth.

his publication is now available in paperback or kindle through amazon.com.. check out chapter two--but grab some tissue first!.
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Do you have J-dar?
by JWdaughter in
1. jw
2. experiences
today at work i had an interesting set of co workers.

one was telling us about her side job selling sex toys(also a l&d nurse).

the other one, very beautiful, intelligent woman told us of her 2 kids.
138
My Mother Died Two Weeks Ago
by Perry in
1. jw
2. friends
none of my jehovah's witness relatives called to tell me or my family.

just found out this morning.
103
My life ... and how JWD came to be - Part 5
by Simon in
1. jw
2. experiences
my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 1. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 2. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 3. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 4. i swear, i thought it was only a couple of years at most since i wrote part 4 of "my life and how jwd came to be".

i re-read it after someone posted to it and brought it back on active topics and it was kind of prophetic in a way ... well, i had the 5 years part right if nothing else:.

it would be nice to visit the site (or whatever one is around then) in 5 years time to let people know how we're doing and find only a few of the same people still around.
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So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?
by nicolaou in
1. jw
2. friends
i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..