Posts by FayeDunaway

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Have you ever had your oven door explode?

by Ucantnome in

the other day the glass in my oven door exploded and sent glass into the next room, fortunately i wasn't peering in at the time.

about a year go the previous oven door shattered one morning.

the oven was cold.

i've been df'd for about six weeks now.no one has broken the obligation to "honor the disfellowshipping decree".that's the way notorious co paul kohler describes the "loving arrangement" that is jw shunning.

( just "serving" napa ).

so, my wife's family has been "loving me" ( barf ) when out of nowhere, one of them sends home homemade soup for me.... well, i got super pissed.

FayeDunaway

I think overall, it was a nice thing she did. If I was you, I would leave a message on her machine, saying 'thanks so much for the comforting bowl of soup. It was a very nice gesture and I needed some comfort, since I am being shunned by everyone I was ever allowed to be close to, simply for changing my mind about their religion. It was so nice you thought of me, and I am never going back to that cult and I am enjoying making new friends and being able to live my life as I feel is right. Thanks again! Bye.'

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Hello from an exmormon

by Cold-Dodger in

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someone named john free popped in on one of my posts at exmormon[dot]com and mentioned this website.

i have a lot of questions.

i never knew much about about the jw church.

FayeDunaway

Loved your post, CD. Thanks for that. I have always had a particular vitriol towards Mormons... Then I figured out it was my own frustration with myself being raised a JW,...venting against Mormons was sort of an indirect outlet!! So many similarities, yet discussing how WEIRD and what a CULT mormons were was a favorite pastime!!

Did you really believe 6 kids gets your family your own planet?? And can a man say his wife's secret name to ensure her salvation??

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I registered to vote yesterday.

by Zoos in

i had to take the drivers license was up for renewal so while filling out the paperwork, i checked the motor voter box.

(explanation of motor voter: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=utf-8#q=motor%20voter%20law ).

they already had all my information.

FayeDunaway

LOL that is hilarious NJ.

zoos that is awesome. im going for Bernie. Hillary did a nice job at the debate, but it's ridiculous to think she will help heal divisions in this country, didn't she mention that was her goal? Yeah....

i really like voting for local issues too. But presidential elections are great. I love staying up late at night watching the statistics come in across the country. good stuff! I will be sad to see Obama leave tho. It's so weird thinking he won't be president anymore.

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Intriguing - but Unsubstantiated!

by The Searcher in

according to one source on a western european 'apostate' website, the org's plan is to abandon the name "jehovah's witnesses" in the future, and replace it with "worshippers of jehovah.".

http://www.bruderinfo-aktuell.de/index.php/fixnews/#comment-4313 .

the gist of the account appears to be a repeat of rutherford's re-branding and debunking of old predictions made by the previous shower of fakers.

FayeDunaway

The Christian Congregation of Jehovah Worshippers...this mouthful reminds me of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. :) well actually their current name is just as awkward isn't it? Seriously, wipe the slate, just call themselves THE TRUTH already. (And here we can call it THE LIES.)

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How was it when you were a JW as a kid?

by nevaagain in

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whats worse than being an adult jw?

when i was a kid i always had a bad concience all the time.

i believed i would not survive armageddon for the fact that i didn't like going to service and i didnt like going to the meetings.

FayeDunaway

The witness fun I had growing up, was socialization with other witnesses-picnics, 'get togethers', outings, that had everything to do with the people, and nothing to do with the WTBTS. Everything to do with the WTBTS was either negativity, boring, stifling, or flat out painful. We bore it. We got through it. Just so we could just be together in our free time.

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Intriguing - but Unsubstantiated!

by The Searcher in

according to one source on a western european 'apostate' website, the org's plan is to abandon the name "jehovah's witnesses" in the future, and replace it with "worshippers of jehovah.".

http://www.bruderinfo-aktuell.de/index.php/fixnews/#comment-4313 .

the gist of the account appears to be a repeat of rutherford's re-branding and debunking of old predictions made by the previous shower of fakers.

FayeDunaway

Worshippers of Jehovah, or Jehovah's Worshippers, is still a funky, awkward, late 1800's or early 1900's sounding name. If they were going to change their name, they should start over.

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Nice moment today

by Theburstbubble in

so it's been a few months since i last went to a meeting but i've still had lots of guilty feelings about leaving, such as am i doing the right thing, thinking about friends and family, where do i go from here etc etc.

but i think once you stop believing you can't go back.. anyway, today i had a very nice experience.

my daughter had been to nursery today and when she got home i asked her what she had done and she excitedly told me they had been doing pumpkins.

FayeDunaway

It's such a nice thing to embrace the seasons, kids love this stuff, because they are just learning traditions and the cycle of life. It's such a huge relief not to have to say 'um, sweetie, actually that's BAD!' but instead to simply smile and say 'how wonderful! Aren't pumpkins great, how you can make faces in them and then light them up from the inside?'

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Hey! Wanted to say Hi!

by Miss Worldly in

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hey!

i've been hanging around her for a while.

this is the third attempt at my 'hello'.

FayeDunaway

Hi miss Worldly!!

Does anyone remember that old MasterCard commercial??

MASTERCARD! International. So WORLDLY, So WELCOME.

miss worldly, you are so worldly and so welcome :)

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

FayeDunaway

My first experience with anti cult views was probably field service. We went out in service a LOT. We lived among a very educated population. Many of those people liked to get in long discussions about philosophical/theological issues, often for their own entertainment I think, and I still remember many of the conversations. It's interesting, because of course you are SUPPOSED to go out in service and have discussions with people, but doing that exposed me to all sorts of interesting ideas :).

So, I followed along with my parents, trying to be a good kid but always, always doubting. Eventually I hear indirectly that my cousin has slowed down going to meetings because, nope, it's not his job craziness like he excuses it to be, it's actually that he doesn't really BELIEVE IT. Whoa! Shocker! Someone in the family who doesn't really believe it!! I think this made it easier for myself to admit my own doubts. Still, when I researched a particular issue I was going through, I COVERED THE COMPUTER SCREEN with my hands, to try to filter out any apostate stuff I didn't need to see, and tried to keep my eyes on just my particular issue.

When there were signs outside the DC, I would say to myself 'just look down, don't read the signs, JUST LOOK DOWN!'

For me, it was doctrinal issues that made me take the big step. Otherwise, I was going to go along. Simply reading the New Testament instead of listening to the circuit assembly one day, I finally found Christ. I couldn't stay in any longer. Just in time too, before any of my kids were baptized. The first Ttatt fact I learned was about Beth Sarim. Sounded like Bethel, and I had never heard of it, there was an article in he 30's in LIFE magazine about it, and it WASNT IN THE PROCLAIMERS BOOK?? What???