Posts by FayeDunaway

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Pick your belief system

by Giordano in

i think we've all noticed a ton of newbe's these past months.

one part of escaping or thinking about escaping the jw's is coming to terms with what you believe now and/or what direction you are leaning towards.. here is a site that has a quick quiz that may be of some worth or just for fun.

i took it when i first signed on here and the results surprised me because it was pretty accurate.. you don't have to sign up for anything and when you finish you will get a percentage answer on 20 major belief systems.

FayeDunaway

Orthodox Quaker for me. HRmmm....I DO like oatmeal....

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shunniversary

by Question_Mans_interpretation in

as of the first week of february i had my one year shunniversary and i'm just now getting around to commemorating it and what better way to do that than share my story here.. im a fourth generation jdub.

my greatgrandparents learned the "truth" on their farm back east somewhere and now here i am with a whole lot of jw indoctrination and a huge jw family.. i first began to wake up in november 2011 when the two part series came out in the watchtower on the discrepancy of the destruction of jerusalem dates.

my husband, bless him, had said to me a couple months prior that he wanted to start taking a closer look at the 1914 doctrine because some of the dating calculations didn't seem right ( he's a total numbers guy and is extremely good at math) so when these two part articles came out the timing was just amazing and helped us to start seeing the holes in the societies reasoning.

FayeDunaway

Qmi, yeah I could hardly believe how open minded people are at church. It's funny how witnesses are so terrified of losing their 'unity' if people have different viewpoints...when there are so many different viewpoints inside my mainline Protestant church whose history goes back hundreds of years. It was actually shocking to me to see how people believe differently about evolution, gay preachers and weddings, types of music, women preachers..and we get along really well despite that!

im really sorry you lost your family even when trying not to :(. It sounds like you lost everyone but your husband. this religion sucks.

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I'm Ready... Thank you

by Garrett in

jw
friends

hey guys,.

so, something amazing happened recently.

i recently met with an old and very good friend of mine.

FayeDunaway

yep, no family. No real friends in it. If you want solid closure then go ahead.

im really glad you got together with this old friend. see eachother often.

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Has anybody got a copy of the older New World Translation ? (pre : the new simplified version ?)

by ukgirl in

hey so i'm currently doing a uni project and making a film exploring my leaving of the witnesses.

i wanted to begin with an intro where i revisit the genesis account of god creating the heavens and the earth.

i remember it to be quite visually descriptive, so i wanted to take the account and illustrate it myself with narration over the top.

FayeDunaway

Wow interesting, thanks cappytan!!

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How many of you still believe in God or are still Christians?

by JWCartPusher in

hello, i asked a new but old friend how many people are still christians after leaving the watchtower's mind control agency, for statistical purposes do you mind if i do a survey and see how many of you are believers?.

please don't post if your not a believer out of respect for this poll, we need to sharpen each other's sword and help build each other up and meet new friends over the internet with faith in god or some other force of the universe.

i asked another person how we can still manage our faith after getting burned by the high group mind control, he had a few ideas but he's not really involved with god because of how life burned him.

FayeDunaway

Cart pusher, I'm not sure what you're after...you want us to tell you where we stand, unless we're atheist? How is that a poll...

anyway, mark one for Christian here.

james, that was beautiful and I get you.

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My wife is frightened about the end/ What to say without sounding Apostate?

by suavojr in

jw
friends

my wife called me at work saying she is scared after reading today's daily text.

i don't read it anymore, therefore i went online and found this.. tuesday, march 3 .

those days will be cut short.matt.

FayeDunaway

Yeah, tell her to not be scared. The early disciples couldn't WAIT for Jesus to return, it was something to look forward to, not fear, because if their love for him. And if you believe God's kingdom means good things for the earth, don't be scared, it's a positive thing.

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Has anybody got a copy of the older New World Translation ? (pre : the new simplified version ?)

by ukgirl in

hey so i'm currently doing a uni project and making a film exploring my leaving of the witnesses.

i wanted to begin with an intro where i revisit the genesis account of god creating the heavens and the earth.

i remember it to be quite visually descriptive, so i wanted to take the account and illustrate it myself with narration over the top.

FayeDunaway

How do the first 3 verses of the new bible read??

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JW literature cart spot pinched by another church group!

by stuckinarut2 in

jw
friends

sooooo funny!.

the spot that is used by the local cong in our town for the literature cart has been taken over by another church group!.

the witnesses arrived to set up, and another group was in the exact same spot, with a table, and brochures and a sign..... it will be a great thing as it dilutes the effectiveness of the witness activity, by making it look confusing to the local town people!.....

FayeDunaway

I want pictures!!! Lol

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A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?

by Village Idiot in

when i first came to this forum i was of the belief that those of us who were still in due to family reasons were few in numbers perhaps one in a thousand in the jws.

soon i came to the realization that there were many more.

we have dozens of posters here who are mentally out but still in.

FayeDunaway

My guess is 1 to 2 percent underground apostates coming with their wives or husbands (mostly wives).

25 percent have SERIOUS doubts about beliefs but figure where else are they going to go, and leaving is way too messy, and society might be right anyway, who knows. These may eventually come around at some point in their lives to being apostate.

50 percent on top of that have some doubts. The society is imperfect humans, but the truth is definitely there.

and less than 25 percent are true believers and suck up anything the WTBS says.

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How to get my kids out

by SaneAgain in

i've been disfellowshipped for about 5 years and extremely happy to be out.

my ex wife is still a regular meeting attender and takes our two young kids with her (8 and 6 years old).

i recently saw some of the caleb and sophia videos on the jw.org website and was completely appalled, i remember what i was taught as a kid growing up in the organization but this seems so much worse and now that i'm out i can plainly see the mind control.

FayeDunaway

It's true....I saw my first snippet of a Caleb video yesterday and could hardly believe it. Sick.

Say simple things about extremism, like 'some people want to be different than other people and they point at something other people are doing and say you can't do that. You can make them happy and not do it for now, but when you are older you can decide what you want to do, and do what makes YOU happy.' Yeah don't say 'mind control' until they have the ability to think abstract thoughts, starting at 13 or so.