People who have had doubts their whole lives (like myself) often just try to go through the motions and be good sons and daughters for their parents and to not let them down. For me, I would have just kept going along with it, except for 2 factors. 1.(and this sounds cheesy) I fell in love with Jesus along the way, by reading the New Testament, and couldn't reject him at another memorial. And 2. My kids were getting older and I didn't want them to feel pressured to be baptized and repeat this cycle. Like dozy said above, those were my tipping points.
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Why do we get TTATT and others don't?
by quest81 ini have thought about how ttatt came full circle for me.
how the connecting the dots was simple and just made sense,.
how silos of information are literally at our fingertips today.. why is it that the ones we love cannot get ttatt?.
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Praying in Public?
by Garrett inhellloooo fellow apostates, mentally diseased devil worshippers :) how is everyone?.
today, i listened to a song about praying and how one can pray anywhere.
well, this song brought back the horror of sitting in restaurants, mcdonalds, coffee shops etc and having a group of brothers and sister bow their head and pray for what seemed to be an eternity.
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FayeDunaway
I hated restaurant praying too. why couldn't people just say their own prayer if they had to? When someone wanted to say it for everyone that was just horrid. Look down, fiddle with the napkin in your lap till it's over.
I actually do not normally pray before meals (and I'm christian). I just don't like to pray then.
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Hi Everyone. Answer to prayer countdown...
by Stumpy ini've been lurking for about 3 months now and thought i'd better finally sign up.
you have all been an immense help to me as i have come to realize that this isn't the truth so i want to say a great big thank you!
what a crazy, emotional ride it is to finally face the truth about the doubts that i have carried for many years.
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FayeDunaway
I don't think it will take you as long, stumpy. You've already read all of those books! I mean many people take YEARS to ever let themselves look at apostate stuff. You will be in much better shape. Be sure to research doctrine too. Tear it apart at the seams. It doesn't take much, since their doctrine is held together by a few threads. -
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PSALMS 83: 18 What is the name of God ?
by william draper inso many of us have been taught that the name of god is jehovah , if like me many have come to really appreciate god's name .. .
more accurately we , at least many or most love the name of jehovah , or more accurately should i say this pronunciation .
does god care what we call him , of course he does , he had his name written in the bible as yhwh ( best i can do on this computer ) , more than 6000 times .
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FayeDunaway
If the exact name were so important, Jesus would have used it in his model prayer. Instead, he said 'when you pray, pray this way. Our father...'
You think any witness would ever pray without mentioning the name Jehovah (over and over and over?) well Jesus didn't mention it once! Ever. Seriously. Like phizzy said, he's just God. Yahweh was important to the Hebrews, he was their chosen people. But since Jesus came, he is everyone's God.
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Are Jehovah's Witnesses Happy?
by minimus ini know of the local congregation's issues, per an elder i know quite well.
he has said that nearly everyone in the congregation is suffering emotionally and mentally.
he said he has never seen so many witnesses with so many problems.
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FayeDunaway
Jw's are only happy when they can forget about appearances and enjoy themselves for a little bit. This means, when they are by themselves watching a movie, or with trusted friends and can let loose, when they are on vacation (and only if there aren't any extremist witnesses with you on vacation) and when they have friends to their house without the danger of someone mentioning something witnessy. If someone mentions something witnessy, everyone clams up and stops enjoying themselves...'oh yeah, we all are a part of THAT.' That crazy thing that brought us together, but is a huge shadow over our lives.
Sports and entertainment and good food helps. But no, witnesses are not happy except the times they can mentally escape at little intervals.
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Hi Everyone. Answer to prayer countdown...
by Stumpy ini've been lurking for about 3 months now and thought i'd better finally sign up.
you have all been an immense help to me as i have come to realize that this isn't the truth so i want to say a great big thank you!
what a crazy, emotional ride it is to finally face the truth about the doubts that i have carried for many years.
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FayeDunaway
At a point of lonely desperation I asked God for direction, and he gave it to me by having certain people pass thorough my life, almost daily, who offered good advice, which led me to where I am now. A new church (an intelligent reasonable one), and a new extended family. You might choose to go all secular, but if not, pray for direction.
and I am really, really happy for you and your wife!! Your life is going to get so much better and more interesting and FREE.
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Talking with JW Elders possibly..
by bradford inas i wrote in a previous post i have recently written a da letter to the elders and haven't heard anything in the way of an announcement, phone call, or visit since.
i called the elder the letter was personally written to yesterday and left a vm to call me back which he did this morning.
he said they did get it but were meaning to call me and possibly meet with me to try and see if there was anything they could do to encourage me because they of course find this very sad.
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FayeDunaway
Xkhanx, yes! Jw kids may be the only kids in the world who actually like weekdays better than weekends :/. I know I preferred going to school to knocking on doors and sitting through meetings. Weekends were the worst. they steal every bit of pleasure they can steal from you. Any free day you have, you feel guilty if you don't go out in service and do the most agonizing thing you can possibly do with your time!!
now I say, thank god for weekends!!!
as for us on the forums....I came back cuz I was curious about how the witnesses were handling 1914 these days, since it's been over a hundred years. I stayed because I saw that there's lots of people who need support, and I could have really used it myself when I was leaving as well. Plus it's fun to socialize with other ex jws.
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Where is it said , not to independently do deep study of scripture
by william draper ini do believe it is written somewhere in jw literature .
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Something a CO once said.
by cappytan in"there are only three reasons you should miss a meeting.
fever, fracture or funeral.
everything else is a sorry excuse.
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FayeDunaway
Lol omg, biggest hypochondriacs in the world!!!! And whatever disease was recently covered in an Awake article, they had it!!!
i went to all the meetings, always, even if I had just had a baby, unless I was really sick, which didn't include having a cold. i never liked the meetings. But for some reason I never let myself skip them! Probably because of my huge guilt complex. But I haven't been to one in years, and I miss NOtHING about them.
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Witnesses of Jehovah film from about 1986
by violias inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve3zp9fiyiq.
film witnesses of jehovah .
note 37:35 .
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FayeDunaway
This makes me so angry.
angry my family is still in this ridiculous scam. angry this ridiculous scam kept me from living the life I was born to live.
I wish c.t. Russell had never been born.