Suraj Khan

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  It,s time to fight back, this is getting out of hand.

  by jam in

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  any suggestions to bring a end to the attacks on us who have.

  left the borg and continuing efforts to alienate our love one still.

  in the borg.. how about this, we all send letters to hq, flood the mail room with.

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  Humbled, great idea. Although I would favor it being Ray Franz's birthday (May 8) just to make it extra subversive.
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  It,s time to fight back, this is getting out of hand.

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  any suggestions to bring a end to the attacks on us who have.

  left the borg and continuing efforts to alienate our love one still.

  in the borg.. how about this, we all send letters to hq, flood the mail room with.

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  For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in Heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. (Matthew 18:11-14)
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  It,s time to fight back, this is getting out of hand.

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  any suggestions to bring a end to the attacks on us who have.

  left the borg and continuing efforts to alienate our love one still.

  in the borg.. how about this, we all send letters to hq, flood the mail room with.

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  "Religion is a dirty game of power, money and control.

  No better example of this than the WTS./JWS"

  Eh...I think Scientology will always take the gold on that score. But the Governing Body sure is making a run for the silver.
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  It,s time to fight back, this is getting out of hand.

  by jam in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  any suggestions to bring a end to the attacks on us who have.

  left the borg and continuing efforts to alienate our love one still.

  in the borg.. how about this, we all send letters to hq, flood the mail room with.

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  If the Governing Body ever eased shunning or information control, the stream of people exiting the organization would become a torrent.

  If the testimony of broken families and suicides has not swayed them, letters will never move them.

  They are already acutely aware of their wrongdoing. Make no mistake: this organization does not exist to do Christian works anymore: it exists solely to perpetuate itself.
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  Well...Finally my coming out story....

  by Botzwana in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was known as bane on here....i have gone through alot.

  this is my story as best as i can recollect.

  it has taken alot of courage to write this and post this...be gentle.... http://monstercafesaltillo.blogspot.mx/2013/03/my-jehovahs-witness-story-part-1.html.

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  Suraj Khan

  Hi there,

  I just took the time to read what you wrote. Having experienced firsthand the cruelty of the organization myself, I get it. My heart breaks for you.

  Don't let them win. Your life and your happiness are worth a great deal - more than you can know right now, and far more than the Witness organization will ever want you to believe.

  You hold the brightest torch for your father's memory. Don't let that torch go out before its time.
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  Yet another "Shunning is good for you, honest!" quote in the June 15th 2013 Watchtower

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi folks.

  that's right, the new june 15th 2013 study edition is out now on this link.... http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/28/w_e_20130615.pdf.

  the following quote caught my eye, from the final study article on page 28.... .

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  This makes me violently ill.

  I am sure they can pull one or two success stories about the disfellowshipping practice, even if they might have to recycle the same one. This is akin to lauding Dr. Josef Mengele for his advances in the studies of hypothermia.* The slim benefit - and I would not call being repatriated with the cult a benefit - is outweighed exponentially by the suffering of persons cut off from their family and from what they may have been taught from birth as their only means to eternal salvation. As noted above, there are many examples of disassociated and disfellowshipped individuals taking their own life in response to Witness shunning.

  As I've recently shared on this site, I was shunned by my Witness family for nearly 25 years because I had the audacity to present a political opinion in a small college newspaper. The resulting dysfunction in my family will last for generations. I place the blame for this squarely on the Governing Body's shoulders for shamelessly advocating this brutal, un-Christian practice on its adherents and former adherents. And I imagine they do so, not out of a genuine desire to protect the Witness 'flock', but to shield that flock from the ever-growing body of evidence outside the Organization that damns nearly everything they have said and done for over a hundred years. It is left to us, the rejected, to bear true witness. Let us never fail or flag in doing so. ___ * Thread is now Godwinned. Sorry about that, but it's the best example I can come up with.
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  I need some advice please!!! I'm torn on what to do.

  by Gojira_101 in

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  this morning i woke up thinking about a friend of mine, i will call her sara...here's some of the back story.. we grew up together and have always been good friends, even though we wouldn't stay in touch, we would just pick up where we left off.

  sara has always been different, and i never really knew what it was growing up, but i didn't care, she was my friend.

  so we lost touch for many years and then about 4 yrs ago when i went back to my home town, we reconnected.

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  I think you would do a wonderful thing for 'Sara' to reach out to her. She's undoubtedly suffered a great deal of rejection in her last few years.

  Do understand, though, that with that rejection often comes shame and a very defensive mentality. She may reject your overtures, or see you as part of the Witness organization: that is to say, part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Be sure you let her know, before she tries to cut you off, that you believe it is up to each individual person to choose loving concern over hateful shunning. All the organization can do is influence and suggest.

  It seems you have much more love in your heart than to be led by wicked organizations into un-Christian acts. Let that heart be your guide.
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  Update on "DA'd/DF'd"...

  by Suraj Khan in

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  since many of you were kind enough to give your responses, or at least share in my confusion, i wanted to take some time to share things that went down in the last few days in my family.. to recap, i was born-in but thankfully the hogwash never took.

  i was actively dodging meetings by age 13 by faking illness, usually missing 20 to 25 days of school per year.

  i left my family to attend college and was told by a family member that an announcement was made in my local congregation the following year that i was disassociated.

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  Ron, I might have had those articles for a couple of years after college, but I threw them out at some point in my travels. They were not important enough to keep: they were just the ill-informed, self-important ramblings of a nineteen-year-old kid, as are the opinion pieces of almost all college papers. I couldn't even tell you which one was plucked out of the bunch as especially offensive or subversive. The only piece I really remember was about homeless people in New York City, which obviously had no political leanings whatsoever. Typically my articles were just human interest stories and reflective tripe.
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  Update on "DA'd/DF'd"...

  by Suraj Khan in

  1. jw
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  since many of you were kind enough to give your responses, or at least share in my confusion, i wanted to take some time to share things that went down in the last few days in my family.. to recap, i was born-in but thankfully the hogwash never took.

  i was actively dodging meetings by age 13 by faking illness, usually missing 20 to 25 days of school per year.

  i left my family to attend college and was told by a family member that an announcement was made in my local congregation the following year that i was disassociated.

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  ProblemAddict - It's been a struggle not to lash out and sever connections again.

  During the immediate fallout, and before the real reason for the congregation's action was known (to anyone but the older brother who had ratted me out all those years ago), my younger sister sent me several comments hypothesizing that the reason was fornication. Her comments, much of which were copypasta from the organization, dripped of hate and a 'blame the victim' mentality which this entire religion fosters.

  As I've noted previously on here, I was already well out the door in my heart and actions. I had been since age 13 when I participated in baptismal preparation studies and my sixth sense screamed that nothing being taught was making sense. So the congregation sending me off the pitch with a red card at 19 didn't matter to me. What really galls me is that despite my family's repeated protestations that Witnesses are a 'loving organization', their actions prove otherwise. Tearing apart families for minor or perceived infractions is inexcusable. Even had I committed a more enjoyable sin like fornication or adultery, I should think that a Christian organization should still have 'hated the sin and loved the sinner', and demonstrated through that love the path by which I could find ultimate salvation.

  I'm still sorting out what my next step should be. My younger brother concluded his phone call with "I love you," and I told him that I loved him, too. Despite all of this acrimony, I'm proud of him, and I'm grateful that he cared enough about me to try to reason with me.

  I guess it's a start.
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  Update on "DA'd/DF'd"...

  by Suraj Khan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since many of you were kind enough to give your responses, or at least share in my confusion, i wanted to take some time to share things that went down in the last few days in my family.. to recap, i was born-in but thankfully the hogwash never took.

  i was actively dodging meetings by age 13 by faking illness, usually missing 20 to 25 days of school per year.

  i left my family to attend college and was told by a family member that an announcement was made in my local congregation the following year that i was disassociated.

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  ...also, "approved associate" would explain why my younger brother would have been unfamiliar with the term, and perhaps the gravity of the offense (of writing a political article in the school paper!) would have been translated as "disassociated" when the news was broken to me.

  I wonder what I wrote that was so terrible?