FayeDunaway

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  How many members left the Watchtower because of all the Hatred and Anti-christian behavior? Were you exposed to betrayal, lies and slander against your family?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

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  i am trying to wrap my head around 2014 and all the evil we experienced while the elders and overseer said "wait on jehovah because that's what all the true believers do!

  " and i explained it's too painful to see the wicked people who brought my family suffering giving talks and providing other witness families with instruction we are to use when the end comes.

  why are the quite members those who get treated like trash while members who call down evil upon the organization get everything they want so they will keep their mouths shut?.

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  FayeDunaway

  There were always people I didn't like so much because they were more self righteous or judgmental, but mostly I loved the witnesses I knew, and still love them. I know being in elders meetings with them they take on different personalities, but in real life they are just hard working people trying to do their best, and they are being fleeced by the org and told they are never good enough.

  I tended to avoid uber witnesses and not get close to them, but there were plenty other nice almost normal people. Some of them I love so dearly that it hurts to know they think I have gone down the wrong path and think ill of me. But ultimately you have to live your own life, no one else can live it for you. You have to suck it up and not think about what other people are thinking, but do what is best for your own sanity and your soul and your children.
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  "Gerson Therapy" in Tijuana, Mexico

  by OrphanCrow in

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  2. medical

  since at least back to the 1960s in canada, jws have been travelling to mexico for cancer treatment.

  and, i believe, other medical treatments.

  because i watched my uncle die of cancer back in 1962, unable to receive treatment because the doctors couldn't operate without blood, i have always been curious as to why the jws with cancer were going to mexico.

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  FayeDunaway

  What I heard about this is anecdotal. There was a rancher who had cows who ate grass from a certain hill. He noticed the cows who had abnormal growths would eat the grass from this hill and the growths would go away. So a doctor made a concoction using the special mix of greenery from the hill and blends it together in an herbal shake and gives it to cancer patients.

  The nuttier sort of witness falls for this. I actually can't read the right hand side of your post above, but I heard that this is part of the Gerson Therapy, if not the main part. But these ARE witnesses we are talking about, delusional people susceptible to pipe dreams.
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  she passed faithful to the end to them!

  by jookbeard in

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  2. experiences

  just found out (second hand of course) and by someone on here that my faithful jw mum passed away within the last couple of days, dont know the exact day, and what cause, she spent the last few years living with my fanatical sister, she was 65 and survived my father by 10 years, bitter, angry and hateful till the end and never as so much enquired or asked how her 2 grandchildren ever were , they are 5 and 7!

  feeling a mixture of emotions right now, they were lousy parents in all honesty, she suffered health wise so maybe its for the best, dont even know when the funeral is!

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  FayeDunaway

  Jb she was still your mom and I know this is a very sad situation for you. You didn't much say hello in later years, and didn't get to say goodbye. You have no feeling of closure. I would suggest getting some pictures together and making an album.

  the only thing you can do is accept that she was who she was, and this cult no doubt made her worse, and it was not your fault. I hope she rests in peace and you can take whatever happy times you shared and remember them well.
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  Happy Easter!

  by J-DUBBED in

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  2. friends

  yes a big happy easter to all the ex j-dubs........and to all those that want to be ex j-dubs.

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  FayeDunaway

  Happy Easter to you too
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  Life After the Being Separate from the World

  by yodastar in

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  2. friends

  realised that after leaving many years ago i don't have much of a social circle!!

  has anyone else realised that we were not taught to be good in social circles except those that were approved associates?.

  i recently went to a birthday party of a 45 year old guy and thought wow - this is what it is like to have formed a healthy social circle.

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  FayeDunaway

  How about hearing that all worldly people will be destroyed and picked apart by carnivorous birds because they aren't witnesses, and going to school the next day and sitting in class and thinking about all the other children around you and imagining that happening to them :/. It screws with your head, it makes you weird and socially awkward to say the least.
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  The Lords Evening Meal: Partaking and Awakening

  by Generation Me in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i chose to attend the memorial last night.

  it was a hall i don't usually go to but chose to go there because i felt like it would be the closest.

  mind you i am not a jw and was never raised a jw and don't have any family who are jw.

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  FayeDunaway

  Crazyguy probably finds it hard to believe that you were THAT gutsy, and that lucky, to talk to a study as well.
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  YouTube video: Five Stupid Things About Jehovah's Witnesses

  by cedars in

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  great video.

  this is how we are viewed by outsiders.

  there's no fooling some people!.

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  FayeDunaway

  This guy is brilliant!! Holy moley how does he know so much about them??
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  The Watchtower are Right About Blood...

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  ... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.

  it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.

  they take pride in obedience.

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  FayeDunaway

  Yes, very good points to remember oubli.
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  In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?

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  FayeDunaway

  Omg oubli, do their parents know they are being taught science by an EX witness? SCIENCE? Lol.

  I love that you are focusing on evidence in class with them.
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  The Watchtower are Right About Blood...

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.

  it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.

  they take pride in obedience.

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  FayeDunaway

  The blood doctrine is the first time I admitted to myself that the society was wrong about something. Saying it aloud took many years to be able to do, but I had considered it deeply in my late teens, and in my late thirties finally said out loud, 'no, I couldn't follow this. I couldn't let my daughter die', which was a big first step in turning away. After that first time, the other honest disagreements I had with doctrine and witness tradition were easier to admit to.