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  Interview with an Apostate: Suraj Khan

  by Suraj Khan in

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  tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i am married (my second marriage, her first) and have two teenage daughters.. were you a born in or a convert?.

  i was almost born in.

  my mother had witnesses knock on her door on my second birthday while i was surrounded by presents.

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  The elephant in the room swishes its tail

  by Suraj Khan in

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  my believing mother, with whom i've recently reconnected after twenty years, and i had a mostly pleasant conversation this weekend.

  i had planned to visit one of these weekends before the weather gets rough and she called to warn me away this weekend - a vicious storm was coming through.. she mentioned that my uber-dub sister and her family would also be there.

  i carefully and calmly explained that being there at the same time would not be a very good thing.

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  Finally sending a letter to the elders today

  by Suraj Khan in

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  figured i'd give them a shot to explain why i was expelled from the congregation 23 years ago without counsel or a jc.

  dear sirs:.

  i attended the xxxx congregation in the mid-1980s as a teenaged unbaptized publisher.

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  The college newspaper article from 1989 that got me kicked, at last

  by Suraj Khan in

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  many months ago, i shared the experience of my removal from jehovah's witnesses.

  to quickly recap, i had faded from meetings as an unbaptized publisher starting at about age 14 and had later decided to attend college against the wishes of my family.

  as i liked to write stories, i sought a job at the college newspaper and became a columnist.. i brought some of my newspapers home during the winter break of my sophomore year, the one time i visited my parents during college.

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  Feeling cheeky this morning. Pick what I should do!

  by Suraj Khan in

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  friends, it's time for a real-life "choose your own story".

  you remember those, right?

  your choices for this morning are that i.

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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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  DA'd vs. DF'd

  by Suraj Khan in

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  sunday's wt study really opened some old wounds in my family.

  by age 13 i was faking illnesses just to get out of thursday and sunday meetings.

  i stopped attending altogether at age 17 and headed to college, never really looking back.

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  Just wanted to say hello

  by Suraj Khan in

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  i've only very recently discovered this site and have been reading many compelling personal accounts and testimonials.

  i'd like to share my own as well.. i was born into 'the truth' in the early 1970s.

  along with my several (fleshly) brothers and sisters, i went through the usual travails of a witness boy - not celebrating birthdays, not pledging allegiance to the flag, not singing christmas carols in the class chorus.

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