Topics Started by Finally Left

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Finally ready to join the crowd.
by Silent Knight in
1. jw
2. friends
hello, all you damn dirty apostates!

please, allow me to join this community of diseased minds.

i have been lurking here for over 2 years and tonight i decided it's time to come out of the shadows.
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Broadcasting live from the belly of the beast
by NikL in
1. jw
2. friends
well unfortunately i was unable to get out of today gracefully so here i am in sacramento california at what i fear may be the most boring convention to date.. heck there aren't even any entertaining apostates to watch .

anyway,i am just posting as a quiet f.u.

to the org..
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Day 1: The Night of Anger, Tears, and Pain
by Saethydd in
1. jw
2. experiences
my freedom came with a heavy cost.

i couldn't stand the dishonesty so when my sister went out of town on a trip i told my parents that i no longer wanted to be a jw.

when my sister got back and i told her she was so angry, said she really wanted to slap me, then she ran off sobbing, a few minutes later she deposited every gift i ever gave her in front of my door.. my entire family has turned against me.
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My husband reinstated our son
by Finally Left in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
dear friends, we were so touched by your warm welcome and all of your comments to my ballroom dancing post.

thank you so much for your kindness.. i have more to tell you, but i wanted to share this with you.

we have a son that has been disfellowshipped for 18 years for smoking.
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42nd class Gilead Sept 1966
by lepavoux in
1. jw
2. experiences
for thaisun vivienne ainsworth, maurice le pavoux, guernsey, channel islands [email protected] drop me a line .
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Feeling Alone. Need Emotional Support.
by Doubtfully Yours in
1. jw
2. experiences
please chime in if you're one of my kindred spirit that happens to literally be trapped in due to strong family/friends ties, or plain fear of being abandoned in old age.. although leaving the org is my ultimate wish and desire, fear of the unknown, fear of how it would change my family dinamics, plain fear alone paralyzes me.

how do you cope in this difficult situation?

dy.
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How ballroom dancing helped our exit
by Finally Left in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just wanted to say hello and thank you for all of your comments.

when i finally figured out this was not the truth it was nice to know i wasn't the only one - it was a surprise to learn how many there are.

february was my last month of service after 43 active years.
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How Many Here Used To Sneak Looking At "apostate" Material?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i did!

even when i was in junior high school i would go to the library and look for anything that was about charles taze russell or millenial dawn or jehovah's witnesses..... maybe i was an "apostate " in the making..
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Crossing the Elders
by Cold Steel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
few things draw my interest as much as people on this board who talk about the elders, the insidious little toadies who lurk around kingdom halls, the proverbial big fish in little ponds.

it amazes me the terror and the veneration they inspire, as well as the occasional ridicule.

it makes me wonder how they're selected and whether most of them come into the position with a sense of power, entitlement, authority and control, or whether many of them are pretty nice people and that i'm just hearing about the bad apples?
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2017 Convention Video To Be Shown Regarding The 1975 Failure
by pale.emperor in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3arnnsfkk&feature=youtu.be.

no mention whatsoever that it was watchtower themselves that strongly hinted towards this date.

instead they blame those who "put their trust in a date, not jehovah".. let's recap... .