Posts by All or nothing

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Have you ever gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

by stuckinarut2 in

just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

(perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).

with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.

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Rules and regulations- thanks for making me so eloquently understand why I choose my name here.

And no- I don't want to ever go back- jw zombies for me no more lol

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Mind control

by Jrjw in

ive just watched on youtube the b.i.t.e model of cult mind control by steve hassan.

all 23 steps apply to the wts.

its awful knowing i was tricked and how subtly it was done without me even knowing.

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Also it's important to note he WASNT ever a jw so the whole apostate objection doesn't apply to him or his books

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An Active JW Sister Modelling For Me

by pale.emperor in

since leaving the borg i jumped both feet first into classes i've always wanted to do but was never "allowed" to.

two of which are life drawing and photography.

i've been studying for almost two years now and have seen more nude men and women in our classes than i care to remember.. today in the photography studio i was working in with three others (two women, one man) we were told we had a new person modelling for us.

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I did some modeling in my early 20's and the elders in my hall strongly advised against me posing nude at our local art college when i stupidly blinding asked their opinion 🙄

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My New Year Present to Everyone

by new boy in

jw
friends

i have lived in sedona arizona for over five years.

we own the largest wine tour company here and take out more people to the vineyards in this area then anyone less.

so my new years present to anyone (governing body members excluded) here that reads this thread is 2 free wine tours if you visit sedona.

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Thanks -we will contact u when we can plan a visit! 😊🍇🍷

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Introduce myself

by dantoole87 in

i'd like share why i went from being a teenager determined to work in full time service for jehovah my entire life, to now being on here commiserating with you all.

i use to be an atheist but i now believe in god.

but i'm not preachy about god.

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Loved this story, your reasonable honest nature is refreshing! Those hypocrites couldn't handle you. Someday I will post our story, sadly there are the same undertones of unloving people pretending to be the true religion

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So here is my long winded story....

by GTSfromSY in

thanks for the warm greetings all.

wow!

i am very moved, really.

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Welcome! I really enjoyed your story and it wasn't too long! It resonates with me on so many levels. Born in- but no friends- I hear that. The hypocrisy of what Jackson said at arc was a big deal to me too. You can't force us to believe one thing and then change it aka lie when it suits u. I was really over that. We had a foreigner in the foreign language ministry force us to do research that made us question a lot but he wasn't ex jw. He was just reasonable and not blinded by the cult. We were pioneering at the time and I was bothered that I couldn't defend the truth. Now I realize I couldn't defend it cuz it wasn't the truth. Still feels weird typing that...

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Poisonous chicken

by zeb in

jw
friends

last night my wife prepared dinner.

chicken and veg.

as she was cooking the chicken it gave off the most vile smell.

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I'm not sure why the bad smell wasn't a tip off that it was inedible or not safe to eat?

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JW Baptism Anullment

by Farmer Jim1 in

jw
friends

has anyone ever successfully annulled their jw baptism?

especially if they were very young when baptised?.

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So I was thinking about how I was baptized as an infant in the Catholic Church and later after that my parents found the jw cult. Then I was baptized as a teenager to officially be part of the cult. So since I was baptized 1st in the Catholic Church, wouldn't that make me still a Catholic? I seriously doubt my parents contacted the Catholic Church to ask them to remove us all from their membership- any thoughts?

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Biblical incidents that bothered me.

by EverApostate in

i wanted to discuss the (supposed) biblical events that disturbed me a lot when i was a jw.

these incidents were just read and discussed in the kingdom hall as if these are normal and justified, which clearly weren't.

perhaps this led to my awakening.

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Thank ever apostate for liking my post 😏

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Biblical incidents that bothered me.

by EverApostate in

i wanted to discuss the (supposed) biblical events that disturbed me a lot when i was a jw.

these incidents were just read and discussed in the kingdom hall as if these are normal and justified, which clearly weren't.

perhaps this led to my awakening.

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Also this whole belief system that in his perfect justice (that we can't question or even understand according to the GB) all the 6000 plus years of human existence filled with so much injustice and suffering - that he still watches it all and lets it continue on to wait on humans to realize he has the right to rule. If I worked for a boss that let bad things continue over and over again to happen and did not take control of the workplace properly I would rightly conclude that this boss does not have the right to govern. My conclusions from reading the bible was that it contradicts itself and it does not prove it is inspired of god. I really don't think there is a god. Science has proved that humans have been on this earth longer than the bible and GB teach. A positive thought I try to hold on to is that perhaps with science researching about our DNA they may learn how to extend our life during my lifetime- it still stings so much to accept we won't live forever like we have been taught from childhood