Posts by Xanthippe

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Volunteering.

by Jeannette in

since i left the watchtower a couple of years ago, i started volunteering 3 hours a week at a wecare center.

it's like goodwill.

well, i've been there approximately 9 months, and yesterday i received a lovely thank you card from them.

Xanthippe

Xanthippe wrote, "All I got for pioneering for 10 years was a demand letter to give my discount literature back when I stopped! Charming."

You have got to be kidding, right? I understood that they were tight and greedy by that's extreme so.

Imminent1975, it's quite true. I remember opening the letter, realising it was from the society and scouring it for a single line of gratitude for my hard work. Not a word! I had to stop pioneering because I was so exhausted and ill so I remember needing some encouragement that I had done well, but I didn't get any. Never mind it was another nail in the coffin of my WTS beliefs. We left a couple of years after that.

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Hello

by lurkernomore in

i thought it was high time to introduce myself (without my name of course).

as my name would suggest i have been reading your intriguing post, thoughts and discussions for some time now.

around 3/4 months to be exact.. i guess to start with it would seem fitting to give a little background on my current situation.. i'm a born-in, but have over the last few years found that through a number of varying occurences, (some of which i may discuss in future posts) that my 'zeal' has gone from regular field service and meetings to no service in over a year and very sporadic meeting attendance.

Xanthippe

lurkernomore I am so glad your wife is with you that makes so much difference. Keep posting, keep reading

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Perfect Relationship, He Still Broke Up With Me

by tiff21390 in

last month, my best friend of four years and boyfriend of six months came home from a jehovah's witness convention.

he'd been acting strangely the entire weekend and i knew something was wrong.

i initiated a discussion and he said, "essentially our relationship is wrong and i'm not supposed to be with you.

Xanthippe

Tiff, welcome and we are here for you.

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Advice about going to Meetings...................oh why didn't I listen...LOL!!!!!

by KateWild in

i have been back to meetings for a month now.

prepared for them all except for when i went on holiday.. todays wt is about jehovah's organisation, it's clear loaded language and manipulation through fear.

i am not perturbed by it in the least.

Xanthippe

I don't know Kate why didn't you listen? xxxxxxx

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Just curious...how did you find Jehovah's Witness Net?

by cultBgone in

jw
friends

the influx of new posters made me wonder if the push to view jw.org is helping curious ones find this support site?.

please post whether you found jwn during an internet search or if someone told you about it.. i myself was directed here by a df'd family member once i shared my doubts with that person..

Xanthippe

till cantleave stepped in and reassured everyone i really am a mentally diseased apostate - bigmac

Lol, I like your posts you make me laugh.

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And the bear will lay down with the... Crow!

by Dis-Member in

cool bear saves not so smart crow from drowning.... .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_3bn0m7s8#t=64.

Xanthippe

Cute animal vids to lift my spirits. Thank you Dis and Apog. Just what I needed

Sometimes nature is not 'red in tooth and claw' and there's probably some good evolutionary reason for it but what the hell it cheers me up.

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hello everyone

by purrpurr in

jw
friends

i've been browsing the site for some time as things that the society teach just are not adding up much these days.

by exploring some of the threads on here i'm starting to see why.

a brief bio.

Xanthippe

Hi purrpurr, I think you are one of three people to join the forum today, glad to have you with us

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Volunteering.

by Jeannette in

since i left the watchtower a couple of years ago, i started volunteering 3 hours a week at a wecare center.

it's like goodwill.

well, i've been there approximately 9 months, and yesterday i received a lovely thank you card from them.

Xanthippe

That's great Jeannette. I've been volunteering for a mental health charity for three years and they have sent me thank you cards and I got a certificate for outstanding service (or something) can't remember the exact wording. So lovely and it will come in useful when I have to apply for my own job for the second time this Autumn.

All I got for pioneering for 10 years was a demand letter to give my discount literature back when I stopped! Charming.

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Just curious...how did you find Jehovah's Witness Net?

by cultBgone in

jw
friends

the influx of new posters made me wonder if the push to view jw.org is helping curious ones find this support site?.

please post whether you found jwn during an internet search or if someone told you about it.. i myself was directed here by a df'd family member once i shared my doubts with that person..

Xanthippe

A colleague at work told me about it. When she started at my workplace she was still 'in' but left shortly after. It was so great to laugh at the religion, all the funny things people say on here about it. Brilliant! I'd never laughed at it before. Just what I needed.

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For those of you that LEFT.....

by DocHouse in

...did you also toss your faith as well?.

Xanthippe

No I did something dangerous, I started reading books. Anything I wanted to read! Remember the 'Creation' book, big red one, that said that there's only a dining table full of fossils? Not true, found a library book with photos of neanderthal skulls. Found a second hand copy of Lucy by Donald Johanson about the discovery of australopithecus. Then found a second hand copy of Astral Projections by Robert Crookall and many others including books by neuropsychologist Peter Fenwick. Read many more but no time now, concluded we have evolved and are still evolving.