Posts by moreconfusedthanever

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I am getting disfellowshipped

by CitizenofEarth in

maybe some of you remember me, maybe not.

for general information i am now 19 years old, and living by myself.

for the past 1 year (more like 1.5 years) i have been quietly fading out of the hypocrisy of this organization, but since i still live in the town i grew up in it has been hard, and filled with different challenges.

moreconfusedthanever

They already said you would get disfellowshiped when they met with you the first time. What is the point of the JC meeting? Just so they can say they followed proper procedure and tick the box on whatever forms go to HQ.

Like everyone says, going now only gives them the impression that you accept their authority over you. Do you? No and rightly so.

No need to communicate with them at all, ever. They will disfellowship you anyway.

Good on you for being a true friend, it is so rare in the religion we grew up in.

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Catch up

by Jrjw in

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friends

facebook is great for finding old friends.

i found a friend who is an ex witness who i haven't seen for about 7 years coz she left the society and we lost touch and i got in contact with her the other day on facebook and she came for tea earlier and we had a great time talking about experiences of the wts and it's strange doctrines and remembering our school days.

we chatted for about 5 hours and are going to keep in touch.

moreconfusedthanever

I got my brother back. He left years ago and while I didn't shun him, the relationship did change. It's nice now to be able to have open and honest conversation with him and my sister in law.

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This Message Board Is Boring

by ctrwtf in

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friends

any chance simon can make arrangements to have the gorilla channel run on this site?.

moreconfusedthanever

Message board? Who are you expecting messages from?

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Generation

by Jrjw in

please could someone explain to me what the generation thing i keep seeing in people's threads was that had lots of people leave the wts coz it was way before i became a witness.

moreconfusedthanever

Sparrowdown you are hilarious. I love the Buzz Light-year generation. Lol.

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Biting my tongue

by Jrjw in

i'm really biting my tongue at the moment with a certain witness.

he said he hates how the churches have lied to people, misled them, controlled them, got money out of them.

gouge can he noht see the wts has done that, i really wanted to say something so badly.

moreconfusedthanever

Yes keeping your mouth shut when you want to shake them and say WAKE UP is so hard.

I have taken to saying "yes religion is a snare and a racket". They nod in agreement and you are saying the truth.

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Family Insists on Having Relationship with My Child -_-

by Cimarrona in

hi gang, i'm a single mother of an 8 month old baby boy.

i've been df'd for over six years now.

my parents are super dubs and most of my siblings are dubs (on paper - a couple have been inactive my entire life but still claim to believe) with the exception of a brother who was never baptized.

moreconfusedthanever

Good for you. Stick to your resolution. If they won't have a relationship with you then why should you allow them to have your child in their care to indoctrinate in your absence.

It may be harder for now but it will get easier.

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Avoiding Service Tips?

by Kohanic in

back again!.

so as i'm still pimo and living under my parent's roof, how can i get out of service?

cause i really don't want to go and i feel dirty just knowing i could be influencing someone into this garbage..

moreconfusedthanever

You could just refuse to talk at the doors due to anxiety. No one wants to work with ones too anxious to do their half of the doors. If you do find someone happy to have you walk with them while they do the doors you can just see it as getting exercise.

After a while you can refuse to go altogether because you don't feel it right to count time witnessing when you actually don't witness and you still can't do it due to anxiety.

You can then say you will stick to informal witnessing. Done.

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Anointed Delusions of Grandeur

by Kohanic in

so here is something i've been wondering about.

how do the 'anointed' come to the conclusion that they are chosen?

is it some weird collective delusion of grandeur and how is it manifested in such ones?.

moreconfusedthanever

I was always told that they got to know a "special song" that only anointed ones would just spontaneously get in their head and that would be their evidence of being a chosen one. This was because of Revelation 14:3

3 And they are singing what seems to be a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, and no one was able to master that song except the 144,000, who have been bought from the earth.

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Is it 16?

by Jrjw in

hi can anyone tell me if it's true the society says parents must take their child to meetings until they're 16 even if they don't want to?

my ex is being a pain about me not forcing my 12 year old to be a witness.

he doesn't know i'm becoming inactive at moment so i have to be careful how i word things to him.

moreconfusedthanever

If they are happy to baptise children as young as 7 and hold them to this life choice for the rest of their lives then they must also accept that children as young as 7 can choose never to join the religion.

When I was growing up and not wanting to go to the meetings I was told that as long as I live under their roof, I would need to go with them and do as I was told.

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Introduce myself

by dantoole87 in

i'd like share why i went from being a teenager determined to work in full time service for jehovah my entire life, to now being on here commiserating with you all.

i use to be an atheist but i now believe in god.

but i'm not preachy about god.

moreconfusedthanever

What a story. Unfortunately yours is not a unique experience and for this reason it is obvious to me that Jehovah and/or his spirit is not with the JWs at all.