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  How Many Of You Knew Something Was Really Wrong Growing Up JW? What was Your First Clue?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is directed to born-ins.

  around age 10 or 12 is when it first hit me.

  i started asking questions about how the world worked and i really wanted an honest opinion from my parents.

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  Biahi

  I don’t think it was a money thing, for some reason my parents were not out in service that day, I think that elder was trying to “teach me a lesson”, and he succeeded. But, it wasn’t the lesson he meant. Lol 🖕
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  How Many Of You Knew Something Was Really Wrong Growing Up JW? What was Your First Clue?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is directed to born-ins.

  around age 10 or 12 is when it first hit me.

  i started asking questions about how the world worked and i really wanted an honest opinion from my parents.

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  Biahi

  LongHairGal, thank you for your kind words.🥰 I could tell many more stories, I could write a book. Sometimes, I think I could write a whole comedy routine about these experiences, because if I couldn’t laugh about it, I’d cry.
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  How Many Of You Knew Something Was Really Wrong Growing Up JW? What was Your First Clue?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is directed to born-ins.

  around age 10 or 12 is when it first hit me.

  i started asking questions about how the world worked and i really wanted an honest opinion from my parents.

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  Biahi

  Many, many things, as I was growing up. The extreme lack of love was notable, even as a small kid. I could never understand why we couldn’t celebrate holidays, and I knew there was a scripture which said you could celebrate anything you wanted, let each one be convinced “in his own mind.” Yet, that scripture was ignored. At age 11, I was left out in the D2D ministry, in the winter, while everyone else in the group went out to a restaurant for a break. The asshole elder in charge, apologized to me afterward, claimed they “forgot” me, and I knew he was lying. The faces on the others in the group I will never forget. Then, once I turned about 13, the elders constantly picked on me for how I looked, yet they also admitted that I was dressed modestly. Yet, apparently I looked “too attractive “, and they had a problem with it. Fuck them. Then, I read a book that contained the line, “I’d rather be dead than not really be living.” I thought, that’s me. I’m not really living. The Bible does not say to put your life on hold now, don’t do anything but exist, and wait for the new system. I also vowed to myself that I would NEVER bring a child into the world, if I had to raise that child as a JW. Left for good at age 23, hard fade, never looked back.
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  refusing to go in service with someone

  by enoughisenough in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  did you ever refuse to go in service with someone?

  i did.... i went to the kh to meet for service and 3 brothers were there.

  i told the brother taking the lead, that when he made up the car groups to take note i had a plan of my own -the 3 brothers could go together and i would do my own thing.

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  Biahi

  And these people claim to be the only true Christians. 🤮 I have stories too.
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  Did the Watchtower Society ban Vaccinations and Organ Transplants?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  an avid wts supporter writes:.

  re: vaccinations: vaccinations have never been banned.

  if they were, then no representative of the wts would have been allowed to travel overseas when vaccines were compulsory around 1920 when vaccines was regularly in the news, there was both positive and negative information printed in the golden age (forerunner of the awake) but not from the staff writers, but from out side sources of article by medical doctors at the time and others that responded to those articles.. re: organ transplants: organ transplants were never forbidden by the society.

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  Biahi

  My mom (born in 1936) was not vaccinated, and got whooping cough, measles, etc. due to not being vaccinated. Also, expelled from school at least once over this issue. I was a little kid in the 1960’s, organ transplants were a no-no then. 🤷‍♀️😏
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  Hello I’ve just discovered that my religion is false just

  by Chickenlips in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wanted to say hey.

  i’m in australia.

  i’ve just woken up… i’m disfellowshipped and finding it hard without family although i do have one sister who isn’t interested in the truth, so that’s good… at least i can talk to her.

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  Biahi

  Welcome to the forum, chicken lips. You are in the right place. We are ex JWs who have suffered under the Watchtower yoke, in some fashion or other, some had it worse than others. This is an English speaking forum, so most of us here are from the US, England, and Australia. Please tell us your story, but no specifics.
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  Does Jesus Live Inside JW's ?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.

  know ye not your own selves, how that jesus christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

  - 2 cor.

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  Biahi

  Punky, don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel about the organization. 😈
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  Do you think the JW's ever will or could go the Mormon route?

  by BettyHumpter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what i mean is the mormon's have their own set of wacky beliefs and are a pretty insular group, engage in a form of door to door ministry but don't discourage higher education.

  in fact, the handful of mormons i went to school with were pushed to excel academically and go to college.

  yeah there are ex mormons but for a great many, going to university doesn't turn them into atheists.

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  Biahi

  Mormons merging with JWs? I wonder what witnesses would think about that. Mormons don’t drink alcohol or coffee. 🤣
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  Do you think the JW's ever will or could go the Mormon route?

  by BettyHumpter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what i mean is the mormon's have their own set of wacky beliefs and are a pretty insular group, engage in a form of door to door ministry but don't discourage higher education.

  in fact, the handful of mormons i went to school with were pushed to excel academically and go to college.

  yeah there are ex mormons but for a great many, going to university doesn't turn them into atheists.

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  Biahi

  I think they will slowly shrink into obscurity…🙏
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  First Day of Returning to D2D Work

  by Foolednomore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is the first day of the return to the d2d work, no one in the strip opened their doors or gates.

  what a waste of time!.

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  Biahi

  Maybe, but you would think with the big push to go D2D, they might have more people.

  BTW, if they come to my door, I think I will ask them to come back with the WT bound volume from 1972, and the Awake bound volume from 1969. April 1972 has the article stating that they are prophets, and of course the infamous college discouraging article that it is a “fact” that you will never fulfill a career in this system. I might ask them to also bring a copy of Shepherd the Flock of God.