Topics Started by Happeanna

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My mother's treatment. Unreal.
by quellycatface in
1. jw
2. friends
i disassociated myself 3 years ago but have never told my mother, as she lives quite a distance from me in the uk.

i've have told her that i no longer go to meetings, neither does my son, who is 16.. i haven't seen her for 3 1/2 years.

i offered to come visit this week but she was incredibly offhand with me and said she couldn't meet with me today as she was on the ministry!!
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Do You Remember When JWs Relished Explaining Their Beliefs?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i bet most witnesses could not explain their blood policy, their understanding of the slave, and even simple biblical doctrines....they are an embarrassment to any old timer..
63
"Just around the corner." The dumbest song that I have ever heard..
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm at my quasi-thanksgiving dinner with relatives.

i hear a haunting sound from another room.

"is that a children's song?
41
That One Defining Moment That Changed Your Life.
by new boy in
1. jw
2. experiences
it seems that many times in life there is a moment or an action that changes your whole world.

it could be just a look that someone gives you.. many times it can be something rather small.

something hardly noticeable by anyone but you.
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"Watchtower Beliefs Clarified", JW.ORG site Ripe for the Picking.
by FatFreek 2005 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i can just hear them now.

oh, how wonderful that the faithful and discreet slave is by going to bat for us against those wicked apostates who are always trying to dig up mud, especially from the older publications.

hey, they even go all the way back to the year 1870. hey, they even concede, with this timeline, the triple flip-flop of changes that the superior authorities teaching was changed to position no.
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Help with fading, please...
by longgone in
1. jw
2. experiences
i just left about six months ago and i'm going through the emotional whirlwind that comes with it.

i would really appreciate some advice on how to keep this fade from turning into my being disfellowshipped.

i'm another born in, third generation.
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Fifteen years later, I went to the UN in person.
by biblexaminer in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
of all the things that the watchtower has done wrong, what would you say is the singular most powerful thing that you could point a jw to, to crack their eyes open?

what is the singular thing that can be expressed bluntly and conclusively that might shock a jw to their senses?

if you could only carry one arrow in your quiver on your way to war with watchtower, what would it be?.
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What a Gifted Musician!
by The Searcher in
1. social
2. entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8xmslmb1dg
21
The physical effects of Cognitive Dissonance
by stuckinarut2 in
1. jw
2. experiences
most of us here have gone through, or are going through the various stages "cognitive dissonance".. this is a term used to describe a situation where our minds, and hearts just know that something is "not quite right", and therefore we find ourselves in a muddle trying to reconcile the things we know with the things we are hearing or being told.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cognitive_dissonance.

so just wondering, how many of you found yourselves (or still find yourselves) becoming phyiscally ill in some way during the time of fading?.

i know that when i look back, for several years even before i was awake to the many issues and facts about the society, i would feel ill at assemblies or conventions.
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Kingdom Hall sold. Now a mosque.
by punkofnice in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so much for dedicating the kingdom hall, hallfields lane, peterborough, .

pe4 7yh for 'true worship(tm)'.. it's now a mosque.. not that i care anymore, i have finished thinking much about the jobos.

moved on and glad of it.. just thought you'd be interested.. now i'll sod off again for another few months.