in october of 2000, i faded away from the watchtower.
like most people, i have family and friends who are jw's (including my wife and parents).
fading is generally the best method for people in that situation.
Excellent suggestions here on fading or even for building a new life however you left.
In time, I'm hopeful that my family will start to think for themselves, but I will not force the issue, because to do so will lead to slamming doors.
I wonder if Expatbrit is still around and if his wife eventually left?
if you haven't seen it already, skip to 1:14:30 in lloyds video and watch the craziness unfold.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2y7f7-k5wo.
i'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.. they're digging themselves a great hole here, in about 30 years time they'll be claiming this video was a mere "speculation" and that "some people" got the wrong ideas..
Seeing someone rambling on about wild beasts, Babylon the Great and Gog of Magog I now think, mad as a box of frogs.
officer james givens has served with the cincinnati police department for over 26 years, but has never quite experienced anything like this before.
he was sitting in his patrol car in a parking lot when he got an unexpected visitor.
a goose came up to his car and started pecking on the side of it.
Thanks for this Hecce. There are so many stories on Facebook of people rescuing animals in trouble, I'm amazed the lengths some go to to help them. Good people.
in the movie "roma," a man is shown making some martial type moves with a sword totally naked.
and the scene is not so brief, giving a clear glimpse of his private parts.
it is a very graphic scene.
I think the appropriate term is "wingdangdoodle"
Nah it's wobbly bottom.
here is australia the race commissioner has claimed senator o'sullivan is in violation of racially derogatory language.
senator sullivan has said the biggest threat to biosecurity is ' some bloody old chinaman that brings in his favourite sausage down the front of his undies' chin tan said using the word chinaman is offensive.
makes you wonder is englishman or australian man or scotsman is also just as offensive.
We have many races in my city but it's getting awkward to describe someone these days. I often want to say at work when I don't know someone's name, oh that Indian lady or the Asian man.
Sometimes I've described someone like that and the person I'm talking to looks shocked and changes it to, oh you mean the tall man or the lady who always... whatever. When something as obvious as race identifies someone it seems insane not to use it to describe them.
I was on a bible study years ago and someone knocked at the door so I looked out the window as I was nearest and the lady of the house said, who is it, black or white? I guess to her black probably meant a relative. What's wrong with that?
l recently went to watch green book , which l thought was excellent , it had everything , it took me though the whole range of emotions , from anger to joy , laughing then wanting to cry .
the quiet dignity of dr shirley mixed with volatile nature of tony lipp and seeing their emerging friendship was wonderful .
what really shook me was that these attitudes existed in my lifetime , not that long ago .
Well Green Book won the Oscar Jan so a lot of people agreed with you. Olivia Coleman got best actress even though the film wasn't brilliant. I'm glad, she's done a lot of good work like Broadchurch and The Night Manager, it's about time she had some recognition.
a dragon aurora over iceland.
i've seen auroras, both northern and southern, but nothing like this.. .
while not nearly as spectacular as a dragon aurora, if you think of it take a look at the super snow moon tonight.
Frozen I'd love to see the Northern Lights, hoping I might in April in Norway.
(before you read anything i was born into this religion and am just counting down the days until i can leave) so i made one other post before because i signed up thinking that this was just a one time venting thing for me and everyone that replied on my last post was super helpful and i thank you if you’re reading this one but shit.
i’ve never released this much emotion especially to strangers, not even with my own parents and with you guys i feel like i can say anything about how i feel and it’s all good because you all feel the same as i do.
but anyway i just got into some shit with my mom and step dad.
It's frustrating I know. I was discouraged from going to university because they were having sex in the corridors! My mother was like yours, blind as to how the world works and she wanted to keep her kids naive too.
JWs are taught the world is a terrible place full of immoral, vile people. It's cult indoctrination to keep them from finding out about normal life or educating their children. As surely as night follows day education will mean the kids realising they're in a cult and the leaders don't want that.
Hang in there and keep posting here. It's good to vent but please could you try writing in paragraphs? It's a little hard to read without them. Thanks.
a while ago the user vinman started a forum thread called: "ray franz was an idiot".
the reaction to it was quite negative but i have to admit that the title of that thread was intriguing to me.
by nature i am an iconoclast.
ThomasThomas, I'm not quite sure what you mean but Ray Franz continued to be a Christian so I presume he believed he was going to heaven when he died. His second book which I didn't read but I believe was called In Search of Christian Freedom might tell you more.
i need to vent about some stuff that this religion does to just about anyone at this point.
so i was raised in this religion and when i was 12 or 13 i told my mom (and step dad which has made my decision much firmer) that i didn’t want to be a witness because it’s too restrictive.
my mom proceeded to cry and guilt trip her way into ending this conversation.
Hi and welcome. We know exactly what you're going through. I was born in and pioneered at sixteen, I wish I'd gone to college instead. Well done insisting you go back to school.
All you can do is get an education and hang in there until you're financially independent and leave home. I know it's hard but that's all you can do.
Perhaps you could make up with your real dad to get him on side to let you go to football,
