Posts by Phoebe

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Part II: it's time

by Gorbatchov in

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earlier i posted about the call from close family about that the end is expected in very short time.. today i had the opportunity to speak in person.. this is what is told to me:.

- the gb speaks to us personality through broadcasting;.

- the annual meeting was a very clear message from the gb;.

Phoebe

I've just had an email from a sister who has been a witness her whole life, now in her 70s, and she literally said: 'it's just around the corner'

She also said the world has never been as bad as it is now.

I couldn't help myself, I had to reply. I told her it has been 'just around the corner' my entire life and I'm 65.

I also said, I'd just watched a documentary on the WW2 and the horrifically cruel Nazi experiments on people including pregnant women and babies and told her that was 70 years ago, it doesn't get any worse than that, so don't go telling me the world now is worse than it's ever been.

She didn't email back.

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"Caves" from this forum on the Shunned Podcast

by dubstepped in

---------------new episode-----------------.

episode twenty four - silvers is shunned by jehovah's witnesses.

homeless at just 13 years of age, married at 16, raised by extended family that claimed him as their own to create the young jehovah’s witness that they wanted, silvers led a life that encompassed the whole toxic palette of cult life.

Phoebe

Listened to this last night.

What an amazing person to have come through so much. He is a survivor and should be so proud of himself.

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Anyone in Aberdeen?

by Farmer Jim1 in

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anyone here from or living in aberdeen area of scotland, uk?.

Phoebe

Farmer Jim1

Wales....long way from you but at least I'm in the same country.

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Anyone notice JW old publications are going way up in price?

by Tobyjones262 in

i have long collected the older books and magazines that show the jws crazy cult history.

they used to be very cheap and i have had people just give me books.

but now it seems the older stuff that shows the crazy cult history is really going up in price.

Phoebe

There's a Divine Plan of the Ages on Etsy for £386.

I'm kid of regretting get rid of a lot of the books now.

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Baptised 52 years today!

by Phoebe in

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january 29th - my baptism date.

can you remember how you felt at your baptism?.

i got baptised because my dad kept frightening me.

Phoebe

January 29th - my baptism date. Can you remember how you felt at your baptism?

I got baptised because my dad kept frightening me. He said I was old enough to make my own decisions (13!!!) and if Armageddon came tomorrow I would definitely die because I wasn't baptised.

I was also very self conscious and the idea of being in a swimsuit in front of loads of people petrified me. So when two older girls I knew were getting baptised (they were 16) I decided to just go and get it over with. At least I wouldn't be doing it alone and it would keep my dad quiet.

When I stood up to answer the questions, I knew I wasn't sure it was something I wanted to do. I felt nothing. I just wanted it to be over.

Two months later I was pioneering in the school holidays and I did that every school holiday until I was 16 and became a reg. pioneer.

The congregation overseer said 'I was storing treasures in heaven' and I thought I was.

It took me until May 2017 to finally get rid of the brain washing thanks to a lot of exJW videos, a psychologist, my lovely husband, Ray Franz's book and this wonderful forum. Team effort, huh? Just shows what it takes to break the spell the WT has over. you.

So what led you to your baptism?

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Df'd minor thrown out of home

by purrpurr in

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have you ever heard of a jw minor getting disfellowshipped and their parents then throwing them out of home?

i know of 1, 14yr old, df'd for smoking and the very same night it was annoced his mother kicked him out of the family home on to the streets!.

unsurprisingly as an adult he's never returned to his mother or the wt .

Phoebe

I've heard of several people who were thrown out for just saying they didn't want to go to the meetings anymore. I know my parents would have gone ballistic if I'd said that and for sure would have been shown the door. Sometimes it's that fear that keeps you towing the line. Where would you go? How would you support yourself?

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Hello

by Tobyjones262 in

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new to this forum.

i ran across it when watching lloyd evans videos and searching out jw links.

i left the cult many years ago after a long stint in it.the cult caused me much pain and problems even though i left.

Phoebe

Hello and welcome!

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Discontinue unproductive bible study - jw broadcasting

by Gorbatchov in

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https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-ism_2_video.

interesting video explaining how to end a bible study.. watch the kind of uber behaviour of the witnesses: make a choice or we leave.... so hard, so not christian.

no love for the person.. g..

Phoebe

I think they want to get people in asap before they have a chance to ask too many questions or do research, which is so easy to do these days.

In the old days, we took people through the Truth book, if they weren't coming to meetings within 6 months or by the end of the book, we dropped them. People were coming in so fast and I remember the brothers saying they were coming in too fast and not shedding their world habits which was creating a lot of problems for the elders!

In the congregation I have now left, there is a sister there who studied for 15 years before she took it seriously and got baptised. My dad studied with people for years, as well. They often came in - eventually. My dad said we can't hurry people...this is a big decision. He got that right!

End of the day, they want them in because they need the money and perhaps they are worried about the effect apostates are now having.

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Did anyone else have a JW "sliding doors" moment when they made the wrong call.

by dozy in

reading the thread on mind numbing meetings reminds me of the following event that occurred when i was about 19.. i'd got a full time job away after leaving school and was working about 20 miles away - thursday night meetings necessitated working later , catching a 6.10pm bus after work and walking 10 minutes or so straight to the kh , often arriving just as the meetings were starting or a few minutes late and getting the "evil eye" from some of the jws when i arrived.

my parents ( father was the presiding overseer ) would bring my clothes in the car and i would get changed into my suit in the kh toilets.. it was one of those moments when all the stars seemed to align.

i had had a particularly stressful day at work and was even more tired & hungry than usual on a thursday night.

Phoebe

Dozy.

Your post resonated with me so much.

I had that moment too and I blew it. 1977 I had a one way train ticket to start a new life in London and leave my abusive family and the WT behind. In those days moving to the bright lights of London was something no one in my provincial town did. I had a nice job line up, a flat, friends waiting for me.

My opportunity to disappear from WT and everyone that had caused me pain (family)

And what did I do?? After about a month, the fear of Armageddon and my family got to me and I not only walked straight back into a K.H but got in contact with my family. Why?? I could have totally changed my life for the better but the GUILT got to me.

My psychologist asked me, if there was anything I could change what would it be? And immediately told her the exact day in my life when I totally blew an opportunity to have a better life.

40 years later I finally did it. But the regret is real.

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Demon Posessed Rock Bands I couldn’t listen to

by hoser in

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kiss.

steve miller band (abracadabra).

eagles.

Phoebe

I've always loved rock music and my favourite band is Avenged Sevenfold but me and my youngest used to go to concerts in secret! And horror of horrors, I've even seen Rammstein ;)

In my Facebook today I've just had a post that tells me that www.thenicholasking.com is on a big tour this year! Wonder if he sings any demonic songs?

Is he still la Bethelite and pioneer?