Posts by mercedes

70

JW Longo Story on ABC TV July 11th "Final Witness"

by AndersonsInfo in

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20120611abc02/.

final witness*.

air date: wednesday, july 11, 2012. time slot: 10:00 pm-11:00 pm est on abc.

mercedes_29

I'm watching it on the East Coast. The depiction of JW meetings is fairly accurate as is the description of being disfellowshipped.

33

Has Anyone Seen "Prometheus"?

by Low-Key Lysmith in

i loved it!

but then, it went right along with my own personal beliefs concerning mankind's origins, so i'm a little biased.. wondering what a religious person's thoughts would be?.

mercedes_29

I saw Prometheus and I thought it was a creative way to explain human origin. I don't know what to believe anymore so I watched the film purely for entertainment.

15

My not-so-grand arrival.

by Trismegistus in

jw
friends

this is mostly a test to see if the forum will allow me to write.

it didn't on a different browser that i was using- here's hoping!.

Was There Anything You Actually Enjoyed About Being A JW?

by MrFreeze in

i'm sure this question has been raised a lot but it is always good to look back.

the last 5 or 6 years of me being a jw, i did not have a very good go of it.

one thing i actually did enjoy was going to the international convention.

mercedes_29

I liked having an excuse to buy expensive suits and shoes. I also thought I had one really good friend who was like a real sister to me. Apart from that I don't miss anything.

51

I want to release the motherload

by Anony Mous in

i have collected and assembled hundreds of letters, documents, publications, personal communications, e-mails from the branch etc.

etc.. my original intent was to make some type of searchable database but my time has been taken over by more important things in life for me.

i don't care about the jw's all that much anymore and who or what gets what information i don't really care.

mercedes_29

Thank you Anony Mous. I can't believe the details they keep on people - it's sickening that they force people to sit in a little room and tell them intimate details of their lives.

79

How ManyYears Did You Waste Being A Jehovah's Witness?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i was raised as a jw and i haven't been to a meeting in about 8 years..

I have listed 10 facts I have learned coming on this site,please feel free to add yours

by smiddy in

jw
friends

i would like to list 10 facts i have learned since coming on this site ,facts i wasn`t aware of while in the movement and facts that have set me free from a religous movement that really is not interested in facts per se.. these are not listed in order of importance , and feel free to add your own list that applys to your circumstances.

1.the wtb&ts involvement with the u.n.. 2.the wtb&ts investments/shares some of which are questionable.. 3.their real estate properties around the world, millions if not billions, of $$$, while being a not for profit organization.

4.their pretense of obeying the law on" blood" while conveniently adjusting it to minimise their legal obligations in threat of a lawsuit.

mercedes_29

I learned that I was in a cult.
Apostates are regular people leading normal lives.
Corrupt Elders are all over the country.
There are others that hated field service as much as me.
The Governing Body is a group of sexually repressed old men.
I learned about the inner workings of elder meetings and judicial committees
I learned a lot of the history of the humble beginnings of the JWs to the soul-sucking, bloated corporation it is today
I also am happy to learn from reading other experiences that people are "waking up" and leaving the JWs no matter how long they have been in the cult or how involved they were.

102