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  Smily kelly

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  New here

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  for the record, i am not a native english speaker, infact i recently just started studying english about 18months ago.

  so apologies for any error you may encounter in the process of making sense of my logic.. i am from a small village in a destitute and war ravaged african country, 80 percent of people in my town live on less than 50cent in a day and myself included, no roads, no hospital, no public institution, no social welfare support, no national security institutiion, nothing, just tribal factions exchanging agricultural produce and i have always wondered why jehovah would have to put the preaching work ahead of a poverty eradication program at this desperate time of our existence.. .

  it was an emotional adventure on finding answers to that question that led me here.

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  New Beginnings

  by LouBelle in

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  this week monday i started my new job.

  initially i didn't have much to do and was left alone in an office for 3 days.

  i felt very isolated and uncomfortable.

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  All the Single Ladies put your hands up!

  by mojonogo in

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  hi, i read a lot on here, and i am still active, i get about 3 hrs a month in service so not really that active.

  i know there are ones on here shaking their heads at me, i do believe the basic teachings, what brought me to post a thread was a thread that hit home, the topic of dating in the oganization, it brought up a lot of hurt feelings for me.

  see, i used to pioneer and i basically burned out, i was working mon wed friday sat and sun 2nd shift so i could go to the meetings on tue and thurs.

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  Just wondering about the slangs used to describe disfellowshiping

  by 20yearfader in

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  Things which have no meaning have meaning

  by Terry in

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  this sentence is invisible but has meaning when it is not invisible.

  in the above box we have a sentence that contains "meaning".

  but, it only has meaning because you are curious enough to find it.. without curiousity and a drive to discover we can't even see the things which have no meaning that have meaning.. .

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  Question for lurkers...

  by Smily kelly in

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  there is a saying that goes .no man can for any considerable time wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without getting bewildered as to which one is the true one...so do you find this to be true, when you have to wear a different face when you are among jws ..do you get tired of it all?.

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  There is a saying that goes .’No man can for any considerable time wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without getting bewildered as to which one is the true one…’So do you find this to be true, when you have to wear a different face when you are among JWs ..do you get tired of it all?

  I know I do, and I hope one day there will be support groups in all parts of the world,so that we don’t have to live double lives,( this is no way to live), I am sure if there was a formidable one, the WT would go easy on the shunning doctrine as so many would leave? I wish we didn’t have to hide.........

  Have a lovely week.
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  Why was satan roaming to & from the heavens for so long before Jehovah kicked him out?what's your take on this?

  by Smily kelly in

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  My experience......from East Africa

  by Smily kelly in

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  its a long read.sorry.

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  Smily kelly

  Its a long read.Sorry

  In a nutshell…I am not a born in.. I am the only one in my family in the borg.

  I was an agnostic before I was converted to this cult..in hindsight now, I think I was preyed on.You see,I was working in another city away from home ..was homesick,and my parents had died..so basically I felt alone in the world… I guess I was perfect target for the witnesses, they gave me all the right answers on why people suffer,what happens to us when we die..bla bla bla ..you all know how it goes(I regret never doing research on their doctrine.)

  I studied but couldn’t make much progress, ..problem was that I was a workaholic and had no time for meetings.I had to work two jobs to make ends meet,also because I knew back home there was no chance of getting a job. I was shown Heb 10;24,25..assured Jehovah would provide ..I moved back home after about one year and nothing..Jehovah didn’t provide been unemployed ever since.

  Good thing is that I have really wonderful siblings who have supported me no matter what I chose to do,or what religion I chose to belong to.

  What made me wake up is;1. the shunning..how my familys’ love was unconditional as compared to the Witnesses friendship.2. the change in doctrine,new light.. 3.the hypocrisy of the Witnesses ,I got to know a few living double lives,4. The class distinctions within the congregation, for example pioneers and children whose fathers were elders were favoured as compared to the rest of us..5.There was no real love among the witnesses and there was a lot of backstabbing and gossiping.6.I also could not understand how we could go into a slum area to preach,see people suffer,people with no food..and just leave them with magazines..My congregation is mostly middle class so I just wondered why we couldn’t help this people out once in while something like giving them food and clothing…the answer I got always when I asked was that preaching to them is the best gift we could give them and AGAIN Jehovah would provide once they knew the truth. Yet JW’s here send their kids to high quality educational and medical institutions run by the Catholic church.

  I gave up my job because I was lied to..I feel at times really stupid ,but I will not allow myself to go there at least now I know now I am not stupid as I have woken up to all these BS.

  I am also glad though I never got married in this borg..and my future kids will never be in this borg..yipee!

  There is also a growing middle class in Africa..so the WT is really benefiting from this..for example my halls’,and assembly announcement on the circuits contributions were always in the surplus to the bills we had to play ..so while in the western world contributions are declining, here its quite the opposite.

  Thanks for reading my post and a quick question to you in the western world is ;How do you arrange your meet up groups so that you trust whomever you meet with, is genuine and won’t snitch.I would love to have a support group here in this part of the world which I am sure would help more people leave the borg as I have noticed a few of my JW friends have doubts but are just terrified of the shunning…

  Nice weekend to all and sorry for any spelling mistakes English isn’t my first language ..I speak two other African languages….and as were are often told here..English came to Africa by ship and half of the ship sunk……
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  My introduction/experience

  by happy@last in

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  i have only just recently found this site, in fact only recently gone online to do research of my own about jws.

  before i left i had only gone on my gut instinct, not even realising i was not alone with my feelings.

  the week i was appointed an elder some 11 years ago, i had had to write to a congregation many miles away from me about how unloving they were (more details below).. not long after i started to have concerns about jws, expecially as the message of 'following the bibles message' subtly changed to 'follow the fds', this did not sit well with me.

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