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  Why did I really leave?

  by tdogg in

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  so i was working alone the other day and my mind wandered back into the past.

  there are things that we do that we do not understand untill years later.

  i read about the heroic efforts some make to leave the jw's and i read about the noble reasons that many have for leaving.

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  So I was working alone the other day and my mind wandered back into the past. There are things that we do that we do not understand untill years later. I read about the heroic efforts some make to leave the JW's and I read about the noble reasons that many have for leaving. But I had to make an honest oberservation about myself and the one thing that finally drove me to begin to leave the organisation.

  There are of course many contributing factors but the one powerful force that drove me even after all the prgramming and study and warnings and fear and guilt was, well, sex. I wanted to get laid. Bottom line. The storybook route of finding that near-perfect sister to marry and wait out the end of this system was not going to work for me. I needed it and I needed it right then.

  I remeber riding in a car with some older teen witnesses who each began telling about the time that they had sinned and here they all were back in the fold. I was embarrassed that I was still a virgin and I was angry that they could do this and still be accepted when I had lived up to everything that the WT had demanded of me and I was being somewhat ridiculed by my fellow witnesses.

  I think about all of the opportunities I had passed upon, all of the young ladies who didn't quite understand and I am amazed that I lasted that long. It probably was for the best however. The only regret I guess I have is that I had to feel so guilty after finally giving in to my natural desires. I do not feel guilty now and I am thankful that primal desires were far stronger in me than years of indoctrination because the course that I chose led me to freedom from the prison of the WTS.
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  Have I Learned to Think Outside of My Box?

  by IslandWoman in

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  i was thinking today ( as i have many times) of those days in the jw world.

  over and over i now find it incredible that i could have thought that shunning was "good", that the door to door work was "productive", that to plan on allowing my child to die rather than to take blood was "god's will", that "worldly" people cannot know god, etc.

  etc.. it all seemed right, it all seemed good, it all seemed god approved.

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  There is always a box. Just now its a lot bigger of a box.

  The only thing that we know for certain is that we can know nothing for certain.

  Now I'm sounding like that one guy on the movie "Mystery Men".

  Heres one,

  You know you can doubt but do you doubt that you can know?

  Or, How can you find the meaning of life when you can't know the meaning of meaning?

  and on and on and on and on
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  The Shadow

  by tdogg in

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  2. friends

  otay, so i'm catching up on the little "problem" here on the board and i'm thinking "you know, ex-jw's will always be weird".

  there is a spector we cannot shake, like a shadow at forest edge.

  it is far far away at times but ever present, ever vigilant waiting for a moment to remind us of our scars.

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  Otay, so I'm catching up on the little "problem" here on the board and I'm thinking "you know, ex-JW's will always be weird". There is a spector we cannot shake, like a shadow at forest edge. It is far far away at times but ever present, ever vigilant waiting for a moment to remind us of our scars. I am no different. But I love you freaks.
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  WT Attacks Being 'Easygoing' October,1,02 WT

  by ISP in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  should you be easygoing?

  most people would probably feel that it is a compliment to be thought of as an easygoing person, one with a relaxed, placid, tolerant nature.

  however, there is another side to easygoingness.

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  Is "easygoingness" really a word? I had to smile at that one. It must be a synonym for "lackidasicalness".
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  watchtower.org and freeminds demonized at study

  by heathen in

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  as we were digesting the spiritual food at the bookstudy tonight [yes i actually had to see this for myself] the topic of watchtower.org and freeminds came up from the elder in charge of the study.he flagrantly discredited freeminds with verbal sarcasm and distain and condemned watchtower.org as apostate and totally demonized the website .during this he mentioned he was not abliged to answer any of the questions that may have been raised about the society and beliefs because he felt that jesus didn't always answer the pharisees with what they would have expected like something that would incriminate himself.then the term legal department was brought to the fore.i really couldn't believe this is their reaction to inquiring minds.

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  Funny post. The thing that caught my attention was the mention of the "assigned reader'. I had almost forgotten about the reading. Now that I can look back at it, an assigned reader is so assanine. To think that grown people have to sit there and have stories read to them like eager children at bedtime is a bit silly. I was a gifted reader at an early age and I have always had a problem listening to someone read something as I follow along. In fact it was excruciatingly boring and almost drove me to insanity at times. The thought of sitting through another study would make armaggedon seem like a vacation to Tahiti.
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  Sweeping Panoramic View of Helford River Cornwall

  by invisible in

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  best picture yet, beautiful shot, shows where i spend much of my time on my dinghy.

  pan the picture from left to right extreme to fully appreciate.. .

  celtic mark - cornwall uk

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  What a crap hole.

  Look at all of that blue water, greenery, and I dont see any pollution hanging in the sky. You need to get away from there. Ill tell you what, I will come stay at your place while you take a break from your horrid surroundings. I would do that for you.
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  IS There a Bigfoot/Sasquatch?

  by TR in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading the "man on the moon" thread made me wonder about "bigfoot"(yes, men did go to the moon).

  anyhoo, what are your thoughts?

  i've seen countless tv specials and movies about the big stinky dude, and have read several books in the past.

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  Once upon a time a man was looking for Sasquatch. He encountered an old Indian in the forest. The old Indian's spoke some english so the man asked him if he knew of Sasquatch. The Indian looked puzzed so the man elaborated: "It's big and hairy, and awfully smelly." The Indian nodded his head and said, "Oh yes, but you must mean to say 'squaw snatch'."

  My sincere apologies.
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  BRAIN DEAD KINGDUMB WITNEESES

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it truly amazes me to see how so many jw's are brain dead.

  i spent the last few days with some witnesses and they complained about this elder, that congregation,these rules that are enforced in one congregation but not another, how truly boring the meetings are, how holy spirit could not have appointed brother so-and-so.

  i heard how an elder in a nearby congregation is really a thief and a liar.

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  My last conversation with my JW father went much the same way. It is a truly amazing phenomenon that would bewilder even the most learned scholars of human behavior.
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  Is it really so? Is there an inner circle here?

  by Celtic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  before some of you jump down my throat thinking i'm stirring muddied waters, i'm not, but, a question has been on my mind here more often than not, who exactly is the membership made up of here, within this community, of an inner circle so to speak?

  you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours etc pile of poo.. personally, i've had enough of clicky groups and cliches to last me a lifetime, so, who are these guys that try to keep others excluded from their small brained 'in club'?.

  celtic mark - cornwall uk

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  Yeeesss massster Refiners Fire. What is your bidding oh great one. I am at your comaaaannd. (Standing with glazed look in eyes.)
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  Praying to Jehovah.......

  by Bhagavad in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  .......certainly never got me anywhere, did not even help my wife to survive cancer, in spite of jesus' admonition to "ask anything in my name.

  " there are opinions among some students and researchers of the bible to the effect that the god and father jesus prayed to was not jehovah.

  just try to find "jehovah" in the sermon on the mount, even in the nwt.

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  If you don't pray, Jehovah won't save you/loved one. If you do pray and he doesn't save you/loved one, then there must have been some reason that we as humans can't comprehend. Nice trick.

  When people escape some crisis after having prayed they will glow and say how wonderful it is that God listened to their prayer and saved them. I wonder how many have died with their last thought being some sort of prayer to God.