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  Disfellowshipped/disassociated – How did your parents handle it?

  by Richard_I in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  to those who were disfellowshipped/disassociated – how did your still-in parents handle it?.

  i don’t want to fade, so i am thinking about disassociating soon – i don’t care if i’m playing by the org’s rules, i just want out.. however, i am concerned about how my parents will react.

  i don’t want them to become super depressed or whatever due to me leaving the org.. i don’t want them to be hurt by my decision to leave the org, but i feel like there is no way of avoiding this..

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  Freedom rocks

  Unfortunately there's no easy way out of the organisation. They've made it that way to keep people trapped. You could feed them the odd question about some of the teachings before you leave without mentioning where you got them from. Jwfacts has great information to help with this. In time maybe those questions will make them have doubts themselves. Its not that long since I D'A myself and I feel so free and happy now and like a massive weight is off my shoulders. I wish you the best. You can not let the fear of hurting your family by you leaving the cult stop you living your life the way you want to. Live your life to the full, make new friends, have fun!
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  When You See A JW Approaching What Are Your Thoughts?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i used to get a weird feeling in my stomach when i would see a witness approaching.... almost a sense of dread.

  now, i really don’t care.

  i have even made it a point to do the approaching when i see a witness trying to convert an ignorant person..

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  Freedom rocks

  My heart starts racing but i smile coz I'm happy not to be part of the cult anymore and want them to see you can be happy not being a jw. Wish i could go tell them to free themselves and enjoy what they have left of their lives.
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  Questions For Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here are some tough questions designed to determine honesty of the witnesses you meet.. 1. is post secondary education currently discouraged by your religion?

  2. does your religion teach, that with rare exceptions, only baptised jws will survive armageddon?.

  do you believe jehovah will completely destroy billions of people at armageddon?.

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  Freedom rocks

  When I'm in town on Saturday shopping I will see carts everywhere and its so tempting to ask them the 2 questions above

  How would you be required to treat a Jehovah Witness who leaves your religion?

  - Are Jehovah's Witnesses instructed to shun ex-witnesses who no longer believe that your organization is directed by God?

  And then once they answer I'll say "Well you shouldn't be talking to me then. But if you're interested as to why myself and many others don't believe it is the true religion then I'll be happy to discuss it with you".

  I also like these 2 questions coz they'd be so difficult for the jw you ask to answer but easy for the person asking to have a comeback and make them think (or they'd freeze maybe and not have an answer).
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  Preaching From The Platform While Secretly A Satanist

  by Teufel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello one and all.. i've been a lurker on here for a few weeks now and i am finally starting to post on some threads.

  a lot of the subjects that i wanted to talk about have already been covered so i wont bother restarting a topic that's been done to death.. im a 3rd generation, born-in, jw.

  currently faded.

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  Freedom rocks

  Yeah i don't quite get how you can be a Satanist if you don't believe Satan exists.
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  suicide

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  who among us has known a jw who has committed suicide.

  i believe this as a separate subject has not been covered..

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  Freedom rocks

  I know of 2 adult jws who did. I know of 2 jws children of which 1 tried to hang herself but her mum walked in and the other who was thinking about it but went to the school counsellor to talk instead thankfully
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  Preaching From The Platform While Secretly A Satanist

  by Teufel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello one and all.. i've been a lurker on here for a few weeks now and i am finally starting to post on some threads.

  a lot of the subjects that i wanted to talk about have already been covered so i wont bother restarting a topic that's been done to death.. im a 3rd generation, born-in, jw.

  currently faded.

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  Freedom rocks

  Welcome refuel. If God Reilly protected the congregation then there wouldn't be paedophiles or wife beaters either, its a paedophiles and abusers paradise. The whole religion is a cult and run by 8 power hungry men and is damaging people's lives
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  memorial talk, the Sunday before the memorial

  by nonjwspouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my husband just realized that our trip out of town to see lots of extended family members is over the saturday of the memorial.

  he looked all disappointed.

  (in light of his recent behaviors this kind of surprised me).

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  Freedom rocks

  I would just give him time and feed him little tidbits of information about "The truth".
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  A joke I found

  by Freedom rocks in

  1. social
  2. humour

  sorry but found this joke on jwsurvey and thought it was amusing so thought i'd share.

  sorry if its already been posted before.

  q how do you confuse a gb member?a put him in a round room and tell him to find a corner.q how does a gb member confuse you?a he finds one.. by the way, this joke also works if you substitute donald trump and the oval office..

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  Freedom rocks

  Sorry but found this joke on jwsurvey and thought it was amusing so thought I'd share. Sorry if its already been posted before

  Q How do you confuse a GB member?
  A Put him in a round room and tell him to find a corner.
  Q How does a GB member confuse you?
  A He finds one.

  
  By the way, this joke also works if you substitute Donald Trump and the Oval Office.
  
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  Blood Card Issue

  by pometerre21 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i posted this on r/exjw, but i thought i might post it here as well.

  so the elders in our kh are moving to get us to sign new simplified blood cards and keep them on file.

  i really need to not rock the boat in my current pimo status because of circumstances.. my cousin knows i have doubts about the blood thing, but i can’t show her that my doubts are getting to me.

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  Freedom rocks

  The elders never even read my blood card anyway when i was pimi they just signed it. They never asked me for a copy either apart from when I was pregnant. You could fill a couple of parts in and then after they sign it just add on the document that you accept all blood components. Just keep forgetting to give them a copy if they ask.

  Or just keep shrugging them off with excuses til they give up asking and don't fill anything in.
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  Oh Boy! Beards are "stumbling blocks" again ... from Stephen Lett

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so this week's midweek meeting video about stumbling others has lett spouting and gurning rubbish again.. if you can't take the whole 9 minutes go from 5:50 to get the context and 6:45 for the "beard" mention.. https://youtu.be/ezv1ici5cwo.

  oh, well - at least they shoot themselves in the foot with this doublespeak.

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  Freedom rocks

  I've never got the beard thing coz In bible times they all had beards. Jesus apparently had a beard