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  Memories from the Edge

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when waking up it often isn't an instant switch, there's a period of time when your conflicted feelings are heightened and most uncomfortable.

  can anyone remember specific instances in the time before you fully woke up that made you uncomfortable or guilty, despite you still being a 'believer'?.

  i can think of two right now, both about a year or two before i woke up:.

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  WillYouDFme

  Muddy - Me too. Amazing the power of a cult.
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  These days it not really that hard being a witness.

  by I believe in overlapping in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if you are a true believer, then you are toast.

  because you will be a slave to everything the watchtower, circuit overseers, elders, pioneers, imply.

  believe me, there are not many true believers anymore, and the majority of them are old.

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  WillYouDFme

  This is not my experience nor of any of the people I still know in the congregations in the area.

  It is the opposite! Everyone still in is amped up more than ever.

  I say 90% of what you said is Fiction.
  
  
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  Memories from the Edge

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when waking up it often isn't an instant switch, there's a period of time when your conflicted feelings are heightened and most uncomfortable.

  can anyone remember specific instances in the time before you fully woke up that made you uncomfortable or guilty, despite you still being a 'believer'?.

  i can think of two right now, both about a year or two before i woke up:.

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  WillYouDFme

  Lost in the fog. Yea it is hard when you combine the 2 things of something you are good at and love and thinking you can help others.
  But now I am ashamed that I was really good at motivating people to "love jah".
  I am sad that I had a part in keeping people in the cult.
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  What Does Secular History Tell Us About the Twelve Apostles? - From National Geographic.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the national geographic web-site publishes this story:.

  these 12 men shaped christianity—but were they real?.

  link: : https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160306-bible-apostle-jesus-christian-religion-ngbooktalk/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=facebook::cmp=editorial::add=fb20181222culture-resurfapostlesbooktalk::rid=&sf204668865=1.

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  WillYouDFme

  It has as much truth to it as Grimms Fairy Tales.
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  Any Good 1975 Stories?

  by Think About It in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  despite denial by the wts of any 1975 armageddon predictions zealous jw's did believe it, openly talked about it, and some even sold houses & belongings in anticipation of it.

  do you have or know of any good 1975 stories?.

  here's mine.........i was a freshman in college and had quit attending the kh back in hs.

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  WillYouDFme

  I was a little kid standing at my moms side. She had only been a study at the time.

  A pioneer sister was explaining to her that if she did not get baptized before 1975 that she and her kids would die.

  My mom asked her about her kids, and she explained that if she was baptized gods love would cover over her kids.

  Thus my life in the cult began in the winter of 1974
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  Memories from the Edge

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when waking up it often isn't an instant switch, there's a period of time when your conflicted feelings are heightened and most uncomfortable.

  can anyone remember specific instances in the time before you fully woke up that made you uncomfortable or guilty, despite you still being a 'believer'?.

  i can think of two right now, both about a year or two before i woke up:.

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  WillYouDFme

  My big conflict didnt have to do with thinking maybe JWs were right.

  My conflict came form two other things.

  1. I was an elder for a long time and saw how elders in my hall often did so many stupid things that negatively affected the congregation or individual members. Most of this came for having Uneducated, Ignorant, Power hungry elders (who were not bad people) that thought they were doing the right things but were really not. Almost always feeling they had to be the RIGHT HAND of god dealing out punishment. I hated that so much. Also they could not speak or teach their way out of a paper bag.
  I Felt that I needed to stick around to help mitigate the damage.
  

  2. I spent years of hard work and special training I paid for to become a very good public speaker and teacher. I really enjoyed it and people responded with great appreciation.

  Mostly because I was real and spoke to issues that made a difference in people's lives, and not just following a stupid outline. I talked about love a lot as well. I was used at conventions on talks that elders don't generally ever give. I also was giving the big talks at Elder Schools.

  I LIKED IT. Since I gave up a real education and pursuing a career I really wanted to just do work to get my, this was my MAJOR VALIDATION in life.

  It was hard giving it up.
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  How do the G.B. of J.W. get away with this scam.?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah`s witnesses pride themselves in volunteering to help build k.h.`s ,witnesses who are in the building trades such as plumbing ,electricians ,plasterers , builders , tilers ,etc, that i know of gave of their time and effort to build k.h.`s free of charge ,and in many cases donated said materials as a gift to furthering true worship.. all at no cost to the g.b.

  of jehovah`s witnesses at h.q.

  usa.

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  WillYouDFme

  It's the same phenomena that plagued Fox Mulder in The X-Files.

  It is how we all used to not notice the herd of elephants in the Kingdom Hall.

  
  
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  What JW Beliefs Did You Find Difficult To Explain?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are a lot.

  anything blood related was difficult to reasonably prove from a witness perspective.. 1914 was another one.

  what can you add to the list?

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  WillYouDFme

  Haa, all of them. Here are a few.

  1. Why god would introduce to Adam and Eve a weapon and the concept a of weapons when he kicked them out of Eden. Flaming Swords.

  2. Flood. I could not suspend disbelief after a while. So utterly stupid and falsifiable in a 1000 ways.

  3. Balam. That a talking donkey would not be unusual to him. Instead he argues with his talking donkey.

  4. That god would somehow codify slavery as ok, that jesus had nothing to say about it.

  5. That a girl could get raped, but if no one heard her scream out she could be killed.

  6. That a raped girl could be forced to marry her rapist.

  7. Generations (haaaa)

  8. The whole order of the creation account being somehow accurate. (its not)

  Really everything.
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  Any exJW meetups in New Jersey

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven’t been to an exjw meetup for sometime.

  i live in new jersey.

  are there any meetups here?.

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  WillYouDFme

  Hey I would love to go to a meetup in NJ! Please let me know.
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  Archaeologists discover ancient 4,400-year-old tomb decorated with hieroglyphs in Egypt

  by naja in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how could this survive noah's flood?.

  https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/archaeologists-discover-ancient-4400-year-13737092.

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  WillYouDFme

  Sorry for the typos:)