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  Has anyone else recently been contacted by a once close JW friend or relative? Could this be a new JW tactic?

  by Latte in

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  hmmmm...yesterday my long life friend called my landline after many years of silence.

  now the shock has subsided, i am wondering if i can forgive and forget the fact she chose not to keep in touch throughout a time in my life which was very stressful.

  sadly, i gathered that she is still involved with jehovah’s witness faith.

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  @stuckinarut2 Yep! I'm feeling very pressured and "watched" by Witnesses. As recently as today, I had another sister contact me to say "Try and get to all three convention days please? Ask your mom to have [son's name] so you can soak in the encouragement!?"

  I replied, "I've already done all three days : )." The John Cedars rebuttal counts, right?

  She wrote back, "Great. Pray please to not isolate yourself of seek out worldly people to befriend ... Satan wants your life! Jehovah promises to give you the real life if we can be patient!!"

  I'm not waiting for a satisfying life to live after I've died. This IS the real life. WAKE UP. Of course, I didn't say that. Sheesh, though. I assured her I'm alive/doing well. Things are great, just taking time to myself (absence from the meetings). And I get that frantic "SATAN WANTS YOUR LIIIIFFFEEEE" message. For f*ck's sake.
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  Why the vitriolic hate?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  i am sure we have all thought of this before, but it struck me again today:.

  why does the society promote such vitriolic hate toward, and about those who have left "the truth" ?.

  surely it is obvious that such critical attitudes towards ones like us who have left, only serves to proove that they do not have "the truth"?.

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  @pale emperor "Similar practices ... have been recognized by courts of law as a fundamental right."

  Courts of law? Yeah, maybe a "judicial" court held in the back room. To the rest of the world and humanity, this very practice is a VIOLATION of basic human rights.
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  Do you feel comfortable being an apostate?

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i always found it uncomfortable to informal witness to people but trying to convince a jw to jump ship brings much more pleasure..

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  @stuckinarut2 Great video, thanks for sharing.
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  Do you feel comfortable being an apostate?

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i always found it uncomfortable to informal witness to people but trying to convince a jw to jump ship brings much more pleasure..

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  It's hard for me because I'm only a fader and not disfellowshipped, so I don't get to flex my apostate muscle as much as I'd like because I'm always looking over my shoulder.

  Sh*t got real when I discovered the apartment next to me got snapped up by a sister from another congregation who knows me well. Just not well enough to know I'm OUT of the cult. It's going to be so difficult hiding my identity and trying to avoid judicial action, especially since she's asked me to drive her to meetings/witnessing and show her my local congregation. I mean, we're sharing a wall, for crissakes. I can't even be an apostate in the privacy of my own home.
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  My live as video gamer and JW

  by ironsnake656 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  one of my strangest things that happened to me during my life as jw was that i loved (and still i do) video games.

  i started playing super mario bros in a nintendo entertainment system (nes) from my cousin and from there i developed an attachment to the video games.

  i remember that i asked for a gift the nes to my dad and my wish come true!

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  My father told my that the society apparently said that violent video games were Satan's way of training the masses for the Great Tribulation. Ordinary citizens would suddenly know how to manage complex weapons and kids will be skinning other children alive to create zombies as though it were the most casual thing in the world to do.
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  New Research at AJWRB

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  the latest research article published at ajwrb estimates the number of jehovah's witnesses who have died from following or being coerced to follow watchtower's blood policy.

  the numbers are staggering.

  http://ajwrb.org/jehovahs-witnesses-and-blood-tens-of-thousands-dead-in-hidden-tragedy.

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  @jwfacts My father used to muse that if people would drop dead after one glass of Coca-Cola, they'd ban the poison. But because the internal decay happens over a long period of time with plenty of variables occurring in each consumer's lifetime, the deaths cannot be measured accurately.
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  Killing in the name of....

  by Confusedalot in

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  2. experiences

  my story:.

  i grew up as one of jehovah's witnesses with all the normal complications which include but are not limited to: having no friends because the other kids are worldly and the other witnesses are not spiritual enough, being tormented every day at school for not saluting the flag, not participating in birthdays, not swearing, being a virgin and using the name of god.

  this was not only verbal and emotional torment but even progressed to physical abuse.. through all this jehovah was my only friend and i used to pray a lot, and felt that all of these things don't matter as long as i have him.. after school and starting work i met someone and we got married.

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  I think former Governing Body member, Raymond Franz's In Search of Christian Freedom would really resonate with you:

  https://www.watchtowerlies.com/linked/in_search_of_christian_freedom_franz.pdf

  Like you, Ray Franz also valued a relationship with God without the shackles of a corrupt organization like the Watchtower.

  I wish you all the best as you continue to embark on your journey through "Christian Freedom".

  Liberating, isn't it?
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  Stoned at the meeting.

  by Fader812 in

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  besides myself who else went to the meetings stoned?.

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  While I was out in 2013, there was some special three hour meeting with a live streaming from the headquarters, or something. My parents convinced me to attend. I was fully into my descent as a drug addict back then, so there were frequent trips to the bathroom to snort cocaine off the toilets in the ladies room. I'm sorry, but even as a sober person, how could anyone sit through a three hour meeting?!
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  Jw mummies boys

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've had the misfortune to encounter quite a few mummies boys in the cult.

  men aged 20-40 who although in men's bodies think,act and behave like children.

  their mother's had them tied to the apron strings tightly.

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  I think the whole waiting for marriage thing initializes these men, keeping them in a boyish state. Many still live with their parents when the rest of the men in the world have moved out, experienced sex and know a thing or two about how the world operates. As a woman, I know which of the two I'd prefer.
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  Mr. Rutherford took a lesson from Christendom's clergy!

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jv chap.

  6 pp.

  69-70 a time of testing (1914-1918) - "march 15, 1918, the watch tower society released the tract kingdom news no.

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  Thanks for sharing. Which publication is "jv" an abbreviation for?