well let me start with my age is 13 and i have been thinking about this jw thing and i need help i just dont know if i want to be one any more.. the help i need is some one to send me some links to places i can research i just dont know if i want to study with a jw any more..
Hi Akid48,
you sound a really smart kid. I wish I had been as smart as you at 13.
Everyone on here will help you. Get a good education and above all, listen to what everyone has said and do not get pushed into baptism. No matter what they say, do not do it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/investigation-leads-to-improvements-in-safeguarding-at-jehovahs-witnesses-charity.
If I wasn't flying under the radar so to speak (trying to fade away quietly) I would share this all over my social media accounts. Well done BBC for such good coverage.
These vile elders make me sick. This is now becoming such a common story and JWs are so utterly blind they will read this and think it's Satan attacking them.
As a victim myself of sexual abuse by someone who became an elder, I am continually appalled by the extent to which elders will go to protect themselves and each other.
Sorry. Rant over :)
i don't mean for anyone to get into argument over this, i just want to hear what people believe.i hope that no one will mock or argue with someone else about their beliefs, i know that i won't in this topic.. i still believe in a christian god, not what jws believe, but believe that there has to be something after this life.
i am not sure about how armageddon would go, would it be like how evangelicals believe with a rapture or timing or anything, though i still believe in a form of armageddon.
i do think that all good people will go to heaven but i don't believe in a hell.
@James Jack
I'm with you, too! So confused.
i don't mean for anyone to get into argument over this, i just want to hear what people believe.i hope that no one will mock or argue with someone else about their beliefs, i know that i won't in this topic.. i still believe in a christian god, not what jws believe, but believe that there has to be something after this life.
i am not sure about how armageddon would go, would it be like how evangelicals believe with a rapture or timing or anything, though i still believe in a form of armageddon.
i do think that all good people will go to heaven but i don't believe in a hell.
John Davis
I may be in the minority but I do still believe in God. I still believe there is something else other than this life. I hope there is, I really do.
tonight i had an argument with both my parents.
my parents are aware of my feelings towards the organization, and it saddens them because i am their first born son.
they had high expectations of me, my father dreamt of him and i serving together as elders.
No, you are not being selfish. You cannot be something you don't want to be just because they have high expectations of you. I know you love your parents dearly but this is your life and you must live it the way you see fit.
You are young and free...go live your life! I wish I had instead of allowing myself to be controlled by my parents and then the WT.
Good luck (I can say that now I'm out, can't I?!)
the longer you are out the more you see how a cult steals all your time, resources and energy.
we wasted so much because we were witnesses!
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I gave them my entire life - 64 years.
I could have gone to university, I could have done so many, many things but was constantly stopped by the WT.
If I allow myself to think, I get so angry. But I won't give them a second more.
hey guys i just wanted to share with you all a video we made this week for watchtower victims memorial day.
cheers!
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Just watched it and it's so powerful. Well done.
Keep up the good work, you are helping so many people.
And for what it's worth, I'm old enough to be your mother and I'd be proud to have you two as a son and daughter.
I cannot, and never will, understand how a parent can throw a child away because a cult tells them to.
Much love to you and Katja.
recently quit being a jw because i realised that beyond armageddon i was going to be ruled by people who cover up child abuse, not telling the congregations by their letter where the money they donated in the box is going towards paying compensation for legal battles which they caused, and also i was bullied by elders and discriminated against for being homosexual, even though i am not practicing it.
it wasn't until i threatened legal action for a breach of confidence that the elders were deleted.
so through the media and my own personal experience, i realised that they were no different to corrupt businesses in the world.
Hi,
I'm in the U.K, too!
first i just want to say that i'm up over 5000 downloads now, which is awesome!
i'm hearing from exjws and people with jw family members or friends and people that are just curious.
just 10 days ago the show crossed the 3000 download mark, and it has gone up 2000 in 10 days!
I have loved listening to you. I don't want it to end!
You made me smile when you talked about self help books and psychologists. My husband was made to get rid of all his self help books when he started studying and in the past year I've been seeing a psychologist against the wishes of the COBE who said it was 'dangerous'. However, when I insisted on going a 'friendly elder's wife' had a word in my ear to tell me not to mention I was a witness as 'there was no need for my psychologist to know about that'
Naturally, I didn't take their advice and told the psychologist everything!
how many jdubs are going out in service anyway because "they have to get their time in.
" that's some "best life ever!
" you guys got going on!
Well, you know....after years of feeling guilty because I wasn't doing enough in the ministry, guess what I did on Saturday morning?
I went on a zip wire ride! Had the best fun - ever.
I would not have even considered doing something like this a few months ago. Everyone said, why are you doing something so scary (actually, it wasn't scary at all) and I said that I've spent my whole life being frightened and it's my way of saying, hey, I'm not going to be frightened anymore. It was liberating!
