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  Honoring Our Dead

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yesterday, i was driving around on a beautiful fall day in arizona and thinking about how lucky i was.

  how my dead friends could never enjoy this day or the thousands of other days they had missed over the years.

  i'm still alive yet they are gone..... .

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  The Bethelite

  Yesterday, I was driving around on a beautiful fall day in Arizona and thinking about how lucky I was. How my dead friends could never enjoy this day or the thousands of other days they had missed over the years. I'm still alive yet they are gone.....

  Halloween has been a special day for me for 46 years.

  It was on this night 46 years ago that James Olson (the Bethelite) killed himself at the factory at Brooklyn Bethel.

  He was the first Jehovah's Witness I knew of, that took his own life.

  Sadly over the last 46 many more of my friends and family would follow in his foot steps, including my own Father in Law Robert Stillman.

  Their life of guilt and pain was so bad that death was their only option....their only way out!

  I hate this religion and what it has done to people. They are truly blood guilty.

  I miss my friends,
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  What happens to Bethelites?

  by rickroll in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so if someone puts their life into serving the cult for free at bethel, then say after 25 or 30 years they are not able to for one reason or another such as illness, or family issue or old age, does the cult have any safety net for these people or is it you serve until you can't and when you can't you just go away?

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  The Bethelite

  "Some not cared for properly, some asked to leave, some moved around."

  GOOD!

  Sorry no pity here! How are they any different than the other tens of thousand people who got screwed over and lost everything they had including good jobs family members their health and even their lives worshiping the Watchtower Bible and truck society!

  Ah the poor Bethelites........really how about the many years they got fed, housed and clothed for free....unlike the rest of us.

  The mother church abandon them just like it did the rest of us!

  Welcome to the real world of life inside a cult.
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  PIMO Elder with a Dilemma

  by xjwsrock in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i haven’t been on here in awhile and this is my second user name because i was busted by my pimi wife on the first one.

  i have been basically awake since 2013. i have a super dub wife that i love and don’t want to lose and my sick mom in the hall that is a true believer.

  stupid religion has gotten between my wife and i (of course).

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  The Bethelite

  "I have remained an elder to keep up appearances....."

  Keep up appearances for who? God, mother, wife?

  Your in the program....OK. Why be a leader in the program?

  Your in the "good old boy country club" of elder hood.

  How are you helping anyone in that position?
  
  
  
  
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  Role Call, Number of Family Members Who Have Shunned You!

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just one left, my sister.

  i haven't talk to her in over 15 years.

  the rest are all dead.. i'm not counting my ex wife and all her family.... .

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  Just one left, my sister. I haven't talk to her in over 15 years. The rest are all dead.

  I'm not counting my ex wife and all her family....
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  The Watchtower stole from me and you too

  by rickroll in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  think of how much time and money the tower stole from any who were in the cult.

  think of the vacations as a child you could have taken with your families the memories you could have made instead of sitting in a hot bs week of echo talks and propaganda.

  they stole so much from us.

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  The Bethelite

  Yes what could have been if I just.....

  All those forks in the road of life.

  The great "what if"

  Of course people are upset about all the things that have been stolen from them because of their association with this contaminated thought system.

  For me dwelling about those 50 years and what my life could have been doesn't serve me.

  By living my life now as one of their victims they would still have power over me. I have to bless all my experiences in life and think only about the present.

  Not wasting my time with "what could have been" I'm only concerned with what can be.

  Other wise I'm just drinking poison hoping they will die.
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  I finally did it

  by paradiseseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's done.. during the last month i've been talking with my closest friends about leaving the org and yesterday i finally talked with my parents.. it's been almost 5 months after i said that i would do it, but i think that this extra time has been beneficial.

  i've said several times that i would opt for sending a resignation letter, but after talking to my best friends some of them suggested me becoming inactive and blocking my congregation's elders.

  i've changed my mind and i will do that because the people that i care the most now know what's going on so they won't be worrying about me not attending the meetings.

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  The Bethelite

  Today is the first day of the rest of your life!

  I've been out 18 years and I never had even one day of regret.

  Yes you have broken the yolk.....and now anything is possible.

  Good job!
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  Our Spiritual Heritage of Failed Expectations

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last sunday's watchtower tells the story of a man who:.

  was baptized in 1908 at the age of 20. he was very confident that he would soon receive his reward.

  in fact, when he proposed marriage in 1911, he told his prospective bride, pearl: “you know what is going to happen in 1914. if we are going to get married, we better do it soon!” did this christian couple give up the race for life when they did not receive their heavenly reward in 1914?

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  The Bethelite

  So we have completely screwed over hundreds of thousands of people's lifes....

  All we have to say to that is.....

  "Keep busy!"
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  "This is Where They Lived Happily Ever After Begins"

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw this sign (i'm sure the bride must have bought it) at a wedding rehearsal dinner yesterday.. yes, the smiling bride was there ordering her soon to be groom around as they were setting up their party decorations.

  i'm sure today october 5th will would be the happiest day of their young lives.. have you ever noticed that many movies end at the wedding ceremony?

  because for the vast majority of marriages that is the best it ever gets!

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  The Bethelite

  Great remarks for sure!

  Don't get me wrong. I'm not down on marriage or even "falling in love" whatever that means?

  Because I have been "in love" 5 times and married once in my 70 years on the planet.

  All I'm saying is nothing stays the same, especially relationships.
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  "This is Where They Lived Happily Ever After Begins"

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw this sign (i'm sure the bride must have bought it) at a wedding rehearsal dinner yesterday.. yes, the smiling bride was there ordering her soon to be groom around as they were setting up their party decorations.

  i'm sure today october 5th will would be the happiest day of their young lives.. have you ever noticed that many movies end at the wedding ceremony?

  because for the vast majority of marriages that is the best it ever gets!

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  The Bethelite

  I saw this sign (I'm sure the bride must have bought it) at a wedding rehearsal dinner yesterday.

  Yes, the smiling bride was there ordering her soon to be groom around as they were setting up their party decorations. I'm sure today October 5th will would be the happiest day of their young lives.

  Have you ever noticed that many movies end at the wedding ceremony?

  Why is this? Because for the vast majority of marriages that is the best it ever gets! The pinnacle point of love.

  Fast forward five, ten or fifteen years and with most people the bloom is off the rose.

  Of course, there are couples that have been together 30, 40 and even 50 years but we all know they are the exceptions to the rule not the norm.

  With the vast majority of people divorcing once, twice or even three times and if you look inside any Kingdom Hall they are not immune to this norm either. If fact their percentages my be even higher because of their children wanting marriages at at a time in their young live they barely know themselves let alone someone else.

  So why does this seem to be the case?

  Why for most of us we seem to have more than just one "soul mate" in our lives?

  How and why is it that we seem to fall "in love" and "out of love" so easily?

  I guess the Buddhist said it perfectly "Everything changes"

  Simply put we change!

  At the same time the person we are with, the love of our lives. changes too.

  Who knows maybe love is like milk cartons they all have an expiration date on them. Maybe yours is 60 years of maybe it is 60 months.....how about 60 minutes?

  Enjoy your milk while it is still fresh because it will.... change.
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  Hellooooooo!

  by Frenchy in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  hey, how come no singles in here?

  suppose we open up a bar in here?

  would you come to a singles bar?

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  The Bethelite

  Thanks for checking in....see you in another 19 years