Posts by dazed but not confused

I was 13 and felt an overwhelming feeling to serve god and thought the end was SOOOOO CLOSE. Plus I was making my mom and close friends really proud. I wasn’t pressured into it. I thought it was my “obligation” to Jehoober.

My wife, “Dazeds Better Half” – told me recently that she got baptized because she thought she had to in order to date me as she related on the first page of this topic. I was raised by and OOBER JW and became a fanatical oober JW.

I even considered going to Bethel with her to live out the last few years of “this old system of things” TM . This was before we had kids and way before I woke up.

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New TATT Documentary coming to Brooklyn in March!

by mind blown in

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this is legit!!

truth be told feature documentary exposing the jehovahs witnesses religion debuts in brooklyn, new york march 27th 2013. .

if you do not serve jehovah, you will die.

dazed but not confused

Looks good. I will be seeing it.

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Since You Were In A Cult Do You Consider Yourself Still Dysfunctional?

by minimus in

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yes, i said "still"..

dazed but not confused

dys·func·tion·al

/dis'f?NGkSH?nl/ Adjective

Not operating normally or properly.
Deviating from the norms of social behavior in a way regarded as bad.

No. Quite the opposite. I felt out of place and didn’t know it as a JW. I always felt bad for the things I did, felt and thought. Now I realize how dysfunctional I was because of the org. Now I know I was a normal human with normal thoughts and feelings and the organization made me out to feel like a monster. Fuck their dysfunctionality. I hate their unbelievable negativity toward the rest of the world and it’s inhabitants. The JW's are a blackhole of dysfunctonality.... if thats even a word...

Now I feel normal, a normal contributing member of society.

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My mom unfriended me on Facebook...

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dazed but not confused

My sister gave me a hard time a while back for "liking" Sam Harris' End of Faith and A Letter to a Christian Nation.

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My mom unfriended me on Facebook...

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dazed but not confused

I will have to watch it when I get a chance.

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IMPROMPTU APOSTAFEST in DFW area this Sunday Feb 24 1pm

by Terry in

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sorry for the late notice.. this is an informal get together.

barbecue and beverages guaranteed.

all else you bring yourself.. .

dazed but not confused

Wish I could make it. Looks like about a 13 hour drive from Denver.