Posts by All or nothing

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Anyone pissed at their parents for raising you in the cult?

by blownaway in

my mother was not the most emotionally stable person.

she was a follower and instilled in me the idea we were better than those worldly people.

its hard to go to school as a child and you can not be friends outside of school, you can not celebrate any holidays, and you are told all these people are going to die.

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I'm not pissed, but I just want them to realize that they choose to change religions as a young adult, so why is it so hard for them to realize I should be able to make the same choice for my life. This is not the same religion I was baptized in, so I think I should be allowed to just quietly leave and still have unconditional love from them. Some the cult has indoctrinated them to believe otherwise

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Did you wait for something special to happen?

by stillin in

i pretty much fell apart for about two years while i was looking at the religion through new eyes.

i prayed my heart out for two years, begging jehovah to clear a certain thing up that the elders and the organization had perpetuated.

this was supposed to be his spirit-led organization so getting things right in answer to possibly just one person's heartfelt prayers should be an easy task for the sovereign of the universe.

All or nothing

I also prayed and prayed and prayed without answers. JW BS speak would say- no answer is somethings the answer🙄. I believed everything and didn't even know I was born and raised into a cult. The org had such a Sneaky way of dodging the cult bullet. Cognitive dissonance is a concept I experienced a lot while in and never knew what it was till out.

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How do you feel you have progressed ?

by stuckinarut2 in

in the months or years since leaving the organization, how do you think you have progressed as a person?.

(or if you have regressed too i guess?).

what aspects of personal development are you happy with?.

All or nothing

I feel happier overall, I do not fear Satan and his demons anymore. After the initial shock of realizing everything I believed wasn't true, I now want to live my life in the here and now. I can't change the past and do not know what the future holds, but I feel balanced in the now and want to be a happy positive person. I am a firm believer that positive thoughts are so important to be healthy physically. I really appreciate this forum and it Has helped me more than you know! Thank you!

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A great article! Highly recommended!

by stuckinarut2 in

im not sure if anyone has posted this before?

(sorry if so).

http://exitwatchtower.weebly.com/.

All or nothing

I have no words! This was so good- the writer was able to put into words so many feelings lurking inside my soul. Is this person a member here? I want to thank him!

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Teachings/beliefs that fade into oblivion without explanation.

by smiddy3 in

"millions now living will never die" that teaching persisted for a number of years from the early 1920`s ,sad to say that their would not be anywhere near millions alive today.and with another few years their won`t be anybody alive .. the year 1925 was supposed to see the resurrection of faithful men of old such as abraham issac and jacob and noah who were to be princes in the earth.

of course no such thing happened and we don`t here anything more about that prediction anymore.. the time period between adams creation and eves creation was an excuse why armageddon was delayed in about october 1975 because they didn`t know how much time had elapsed between the two.

that`s all forgotten about now.. six thousand years of human history was supposed to have ended in about october 1872 according to studies in the scriptures vol.2 1906 , the "time is at hand" page 11 (forward 1916 ) puts the start of the one thousand year reign of jesus christ as of the year 1873. so in 1906 they the i.b.s.a.

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Spiral- my guess is they didn't understand it to begin with and then when it was gone - the typical reaction was- oh ok...lol

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what as your first jolt that started your wake up process?

by yourmomma in

jw
friends

you know when you are in a deep sleep and something happens that may put you on a different level of sleeping, not as deep.

anyway, then i thought, 90 minutes for lunch?

so, there is a group waiting to cross the street.

All or nothing

Definitely the lack of love among the congregation when that love is supposed to be the identifier of the true religion is what started it for us. Hypocrital Pharisee like attitude of elders when they were supposed to be serving the congregation was a huge red flag

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Teachings/beliefs that fade into oblivion without explanation.

by smiddy3 in

"millions now living will never die" that teaching persisted for a number of years from the early 1920`s ,sad to say that their would not be anywhere near millions alive today.and with another few years their won`t be anybody alive .. the year 1925 was supposed to see the resurrection of faithful men of old such as abraham issac and jacob and noah who were to be princes in the earth.

of course no such thing happened and we don`t here anything more about that prediction anymore.. the time period between adams creation and eves creation was an excuse why armageddon was delayed in about october 1975 because they didn`t know how much time had elapsed between the two.

that`s all forgotten about now.. six thousand years of human history was supposed to have ended in about october 1872 according to studies in the scriptures vol.2 1906 , the "time is at hand" page 11 (forward 1916 ) puts the start of the one thousand year reign of jesus christ as of the year 1873. so in 1906 they the i.b.s.a.

All or nothing

I was shocked with the implications of the types/ anti types abandonment because so many of the jw beliefs were built on that and with one annual meeting talk- poof gone- I was like does anyone in the cult slumber understand what that means?? Hello?? Anyone? Lol

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