Posts by GoneAwol

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Are YOU In A Good Place At This Point In Your Life?

by minimus in

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i think the longer you're away from the watchtower, the better you feel..

GoneAwol

If just one thread still keeps you attached to the borg somehow, like a relative who is a jw, then you can never realy feel normal. They are the constant reminder of wasted years. If you are activly trying to get them out, its worse as the frustrations wear you down. Only when every member of your household, friends, relatives are out can you start to feel normal. Even then its takes a long time to realize you do feel normal...after all, what is normal? How can we know how we are supposed to be? Who are we? What should we have been like without the cult damaging us every day?

We will never be normal! This stoopid cult is seared into our brain...

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A new start? Watchtower renaming at HQ Columbia Heights

by Gorbatchov in

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friends,.

who was in any doubt that our jw believe is a marketing model, see this pictures of the still existing hq of jw at columbia heights.. earlier comments on jwn that something is going to change in the organisation, these comments are true.. in a few years we will not talk about the watchtower society, we wil talk about jw.org.

i think the current leadership will make a transfer to a new start.

GoneAwol

Maybe they'll get rid of the name Watchtower on the rags and just have the title JW.org? Even more distance from its wacky history..

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Game: Caption this pic

by rebel8 in

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i'll start.. .

GoneAwol

I'm not coveting my neighbours Beemer! I'm lying on this warm bonnet cos i,m udderly friesian.......

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The murmuring phase is the beginning of an ex-JWs progression towards fading.

by Stand for Pure Worship in

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i suppose part of the fascination i have with this board is, the exotic nature of those making up the member population.

i say exotic because, as you yourselves will agree with, folks such as yourselves don't hang around the christian congregation for long upon making the decision that truth is not for you.

(rom 1:25) this "fading" thing spoken of here likely plays a role into why christians such as me find the average ex-jw to be a bit fascinating.

GoneAwol

SFPW, hi! I,ve not had chance to post much lately, but I do enjoy your posts. Can you answer a question for me? I have just read Jude and I cant seem to see where it says 'governing body'. Can you help me out?

Cheers!

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monthly report

by search4truth in

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has anyone refused hand in monthly report with explanation that this practice is not biblical and what were the consequences of that ?

GoneAwol

This was the first thing my dad stopped doing. If he gets asked for his hours now, he tells them to put down what they want. Its a young elder that does the rounds, so he's probably scared to come back with nothing.

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-13-2013 WT Study (ENRAGED)

by blondie in

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wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).

enraged against.

GoneAwol

"Doing" his watchtower every week is one of the last strings my Dad has connected to the borg. Your resilience and hard work mean that I can point out the real meanings behind these programming pamphlets. It really really helps him to open his eyes.

I just hope the sick bucket is a big one! Much respect Blondie!

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Growing up in the Watchtower has left me with an Aversion to Whispering!

by cofty in

i can't stand it!.

if somebody starts whispering in my presence i have to walk away quickly.

it's a visceral reaction i can't control.

GoneAwol

HI BILL! hee hee! I will pm you when I get a weekend off. Promise

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Do you detect an underlying sadness ?

by Phizzy in

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whenever i talk to jw's, and even in some of the jw official videos, i detect a definite vibe of sadness coming off these people.. i am very sensitive to "atmospheres" and to peoples emotional state, you wouldn't think so, because more often than not i do not react to what i detect, i just let people get on with it.. but i do get this feeling that they are sad, probably because very, very, very deep down they realise that it is all false, maybe ?.

GoneAwol

I saw this sadness firsthand this morning. I was in Newcastle city centre working (I know, on a Sunday!) and a 1 day assembly was on at City Hall. As usual, and I remember doing this with my family, all the J-dubs wandered down to the Maccy d'd to get brekky. All of them, and I mean ALL of them had this hang dog expression on their faces. Non looked happy to have given up a Sunday for more brainwashing. It was as if they knew they were being watched?

It was eerie looking in from the outside.

AND SO LIBERATING!

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This WT book allows one raised as a JW to do a critical review of the religion and elders can't go against it.

by EndofMysteries in

i love this gem, it was taken off the jw.org website, it seems only material after 1990 is up now, but it's here, http://www.scribd.com/doc/5472988/the-time-for-true-submission-to-god .

page 6, "the need to search for the truth".

says this....and i couldn't agree with it more!

GoneAwol

Wow! This is like new light! Sent it to my muvver. She will read it cos its from her masters in crooklyn.

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My Walmart encounter with the dubs today

by poppers in

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yup, there were 3 of them camped out in front of the store with their display of materials - first time i've seen them there.

he said he converted 5 years ago from the presbyterians, and that he had learned more in 1 year with the jws than all his time with the presbyterians (the usual stuff, jesus died on a stake, paradise earth, etc).

he claimed he didn't know about the invisible return of jesus, he was dismissive of the impact of disfellowshipping and that people can leave with little consequence, he claimed that the romans didn't use a cross until 200 years after jesus died on the stake.

GoneAwol

Julia, thats the 'cult in a kinder egg' right there! I'm going to print this off for my Mums bible study. There's hope for him yet...

GA