FayeDunaway

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  Who leaves first, the husband or wife?

  by snugglebunny in

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  when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.

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  FayeDunaway

  I was out mentally before my husband. Now we are both physically out.

  My sister is in mentally but her husband is out mentally. They are both in as far as I know.
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  Pick your belief system

  by Giordano in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FayeDunaway

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

  by Question_Mans_interpretation in

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  2. experiences

  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.

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  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

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  2. friends

  hey guys,.

  so, something amazing happened recently.

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

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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.

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  FayeDunaway

  Wow interesting, thanks cappytan!!
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  How many of you still believe in God or are still Christians?

  by JWCartPusher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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.

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  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

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  2. 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!.....

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  FayeDunaway

  I want pictures!!! Lol
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  A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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.