my take on it is if you were a polite mannerly person before leaving the JW, that is still the sort of person you are. If someone seems to be different after leaving the JW, they are likely just being their true self that they hid as a JW-but finding out they have been made a fool of for years fuels the bad behaviour/attitude. Just an opinion, but I have read enough comments on this page to discern that even when IN the org they had bad attitudes. All that being said, why should be expect goodness to come out of a bad organisation. I looked for good while inside, but I could write books about the spousal abuse, perversions, theiveries, lies, etc. Their personalities changed with the clothes they put on/ took out for meetings. So who are/were they /we really? ( so much for knowing it's the truth because of the love among themselves.)
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Manners and Respectfulness
by IWant2Know ini would like to know if there are any ex's or formers who still appreciate good manners and respectfulness?
but i hope this question isn't offensive to this forum.
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It’s started 🤦♀️
by MissDaSilva ini already have a friend who is trying to tell me that my mental health is causing my disillusionment with the jehovah’s witnesses.
funny that a mental health therapist has told me my mental health issues are caused by being a jehovah’s witness.
i’m still not going back.
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enoughisenough
MissDeSilva, which is worse? your mental illness or my spiritual sickness? LOL don't they like to label us?
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I hate the way they talk.
by Riley inwhat is with the jw cadence when they speak.
do they think they are teaching people ?
they sound like pro wrestlers doing promos or shakespearean actors.
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My thinking is they talk like the listeners are small children.
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Christmas weather forecast
by BoogerMan inmrs.claus asked santa, "what's the weather forecast for christmas?".
santa replied, "it looks like rain dear!
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lol
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Nobody else understands
by ElderBerry inif you once were fully pimi and truly believed jw doctrine to the core like i once did, when you come to the reality that it is not the truth at all it can be extremely devastating.. i think only other ex jws could ever understand.
i wasted my entire life i thought the real life was yet to come to wasted the best years knocking on doors.
now i’m so angry.. i can understand why so many top themselves when they realise it was all lies..
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I wasted 50 years! I think myself an idiot for not getting out sooner. The cracks were there, I just ignored them because I knew men were imperfect. At anyrate, try not to beat yourself up or be depressed about it. Instead of woe is me for all the nonsense I have seen over the past 50 years, I am thankful to be out. Try to view it from a point of gratefulness and thankfulness and gladness not to be their slave...FEEL BETTER not bitter.
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We’re getting out.
by MissDaSilva inbeen in for 20 plus years but decided to get out with my son.
can’t do this anymore.
never seen such hypocrisy and clickyness anywhere else.
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MisDaSilva--the real reason to get out isn't because you can't take it anymore, but the simple truth is, it isn't the "truth" and never has been. I wish I had read the history before I wasted 50 years of my life and made bad choices because of the JWs that left me homeless for awhile. It isn't God's organization( according to the Bible, Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life-not a man made organization.)
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Life in a spiritual (UN)-paradise
by Reasonfirst ina long, long time ago, when i was young, i became a 'special' pioneer.
it meant that i had to spend 150 hours a month, and i received a small allowance.
i was then assigned to a small country congregation, in western nsw (australia).
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I never could figure out where that "spiritual paradise" was...the more I got to know people, I could discern their unchristian behavior-the selfishness, greed, lying, theivery,immorality.
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We’re getting out.
by MissDaSilva inbeen in for 20 plus years but decided to get out with my son.
can’t do this anymore.
never seen such hypocrisy and clickyness anywhere else.
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enoughisenough
the GB updates woke me up when they were promoting the jabs. People could get df for smoking, using drugs, or alcohol because it was harmful to the body, yet they promoted jabs that injured and killed saying we showed we had faith in God if we listened to them. There were always things I thought they were off the mark on,but you know they always said to wait on Jehovah...what fools we have be made! Yes, Get yourself out...you will feel better.
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If 1914 gets tossed
by Leathercrop init feels like the change in reporting of hours becomes a fundamentally bigger deal every day.
the weight and importance placed on quantity was enormous, and now it's just gone.
even tho most witnesses really didn't keep "accurate" records so to speak hehehe.... this could very well be a precursor to even bigger doctrinal changes, like 1914. damn, would would happen then?.
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if 1914 gets tossed, r and f will become discreditied apostates if they show others publications where it was published as God's truth...just like other bygone dates
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Is There Going to be Money in the New System?
by NotFormer inif not, what's in it for the gb?.
but seriously, how is it supposed to work?
pictures of jws in paradise show them raising crops, wearing clothes and building houses.
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DIY ( build your own house and live in it , plant your own vineyard and drink the wine you make -so who needs money when you are so self sufficient!)