I was so pissed off when I found out I had been lied to my whole life. I had a very huge library dating from the early 1960’s to 2001, mostly original print, had went into the garbage.
Tameria2001
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What did you do with your books?
by mamamo ini was in an used bookstore this weekend and saw a new world translation and some other society publications.
this made me think, what did others do with their books?
i gave mine to my mother, 22 years ago.
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I almost wished i took the blue pill....
by 20yearfader insince joining this site and having my eyes opened,i find i'm now dealing with a lot of emotions that were suppressed.one being the passing of loved ones,in the org we were discouraged from showing proper emotions due to the fact that if you did you were considered weak since they the dearly departed were only sleeping.now im being bombarded with dreams of my loved ones that i,due to my brainwashing never had the emotional release that i should have had.i'm just wondering how others on this site are coping,and dealing with the fact that everything we was taught was false almost as a way to keep up under control,as we lost years and decades of time.i almost wish i keep my head and the sand and had taken the blue pill.what has helped you all deal with this ...new religion......no religion...etc.
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Tameria2001
I made my exit from the Watchtower back in 2001, almost exactly one month before the attack on the Twin Towers. I believe that is the only reason why I still remember when I left. But I do also remember the complete roller coaster ride of emotions that I was going through as well. It really helped that my husband left it with me. He wanted to leave it earlier, but he was waiting on me to make the decision to leave as well. We have been each other’s strength and rock. It does get better, but I will let you know that there will be days you will think you have it all behind you, and like a snake in the grass, old feelings and emotions will spring up. In my case, it is anger at all the bull crap, lies, and abuse I had to deal with while I was in that cult, and with my parents (they were very abusive people). The good news is, there won’t be many days like that, but there will be some. I hope that down the road, I can eventually put this behind me, and maybe I can, my memory is getting worse, due to a few head traumas I have had in the past as well. The benefits of getting out of that cult and away from my parents, is so much better, than putting up with their lies, and all the emotion bull that they put me through.
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Any successful methods to discreetly reach out to someone who is studying?
by sseveninches inmy father had me go with him to do a study, and the guy looked like he's a pretty smart guy, and he was asking legitimate questions that i had my own answers to, but of course i couldn't say them.. i'm wondering if anyone has successfully been able to convince/warn anyone that they're getting sucked into a cult.
i wanted to just secretly slip him a note, but i'm always scared to do that from fear of the person throwing me under the bus.
then i got the idea of sending him a text message from a number that can't be traced back to me.
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Tameria2001
I did once with my next door neighbor, but I did not want her to know it was from me. One day my husband noticed that each week some JWs were visiting her, and they were staying for about an hour. She is a single mother raising a teen daughter who is a handful. So I already knew how they were targeting this poor woman.
I found some information that would expose the lies of the JWs, and printed them up, and put them in an envelope. I even gave her information on where she can find this stuff for herself. I knew what time she gets home from work, and just before she came home I put it in her door. The JWs showed back up a couple more weeks, but after that they stopped showing up. That was almost a year ago, and my neighbor is still free from those people.
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I Think My Marriage Is Over...
by cognac ini know exactly what happened... he thinks i'm going to die at the big a and wants to be with someone he can live forever with.... we have two girls, ages 3 and 1... i really thought we'd make it despite the religion, now i really don't think so... not sure what to do... .
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Tameria2001
Hello Cognac, I’m sorry to hear that your husband is being an idiot. But if his reason for leaving you for another woman, and abandoning his family, he will be sadly mistaken on his time of judgment. Even in the JW world he will be disfellowshipped if he does that. I would suggest you to talk to the elders from his congregation, and make sure you have proof; the other woman will also be in trouble as well.
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What's The Main Reason You Do Not Believe That The Witnesses Are The Best Religion?
by minimus insome people leave because they are fed up with the elders.
others have personality issues.
some have doctrinal and prophecy reasons.
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Tameria2001
There were other things, but when I really read the bible and came across these verses in the bible, I knew right away that the Watchtower is a phony. I was raised in that cult since the early 1970’s, just before the whole 1975 issue. It took me until 2001, and issues with my own son, that made me wake up to who that group really is.
Deuteronomy 18:20-22
20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
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Born in, Convert or 1975er?
by Think About It indoes a person's involvement in the jw religion usually fall into one of these 3 categories?.
a) born in.
b) convert.
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Tameria2001
My sister died in 1973, mother fell for their lies when they told her she would see her daughter in 1975, she converted in 1974. I was 4 years old at the time of my sister's death.
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Do You Take Flu Shots?
by minimus ini never have.
i seldom get the "flu" and if i do, it usually happens after everyone else has gotten it.. i know of many people who regularly get the flu shot and they seem to always still get sick..
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Tameria2001
I have only had the flu once, and it was after I had a flu shot. I was so sick, that I could not get out of bed for two weeks, and I lost over 40 pounds. By the time I got over that flu, I looked like a walking skeleton. I vowed to myself after that, Never Again. I refuse to allow my children to have them as well. Guess what, they never had the flu either.
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GRRRRRRRR
by Tameria2001 ini am in a very rotten mood and i am very pissed off today.
i just want to smack a certain someone right now.. now let me back up and explain why.
my husband was laid off from his job, but that is not why im angry.
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Tameria2001
I am in a very rotten mood and I am very pissed off today. I just want to smack a certain someone right now.
Now let me back up and explain why. My husband was laid off from his job, but that is not why I’m angry. They told us that there is a waiting week before his unemployment will start, but again that is not why I’m angry.
When my husband was laid off, he was given a letter, and I took it to the company I make my house payments to. I explained to them that my husband will be getting unemployment pay, and I would start making payments as soon as it started. They made a copy of the letter, and said ok. I have been making my house payment on time for the past four years, and never missed a payment. Now in today’s mail I received a letter from my mortgage company who sent me a letter which ended with this, “As you are aware, we take delinquencies very seriously.” Now you might be asking me how late or how far behind on your house payments are you? The answer to that question is, I am at the moment 6 days late.
Yes that letter bugged me, but again that is not why I am so pissed off. I went in and gave the mortgage company a partial payment, they are ok with this part, and it was something I had already explained to them.
Now this is why I am pissed off.
While I was writing the check, the woman who I made the payment to had the nerve to say this to me.
“I know why you did not come in until now to make your payment. You were thinking today is 12-21-12, and it is the end of the world.”
I very quickly corrected her, and told her that I NEVER believed that the world was going to end today. I went on to tell her, yes the Mayan calendar cycle ended, but what happens when January 1 rolls around? You just start a new calendar; it does not mean the end of the world. Besides that, today was the first day my husband got his unemployment check.
Growing up in the JW cult, all I ever heard was the end of the world and the destruction of mankind. I am so SICK OF HEARING OF THIS STUPID BULLCRAP; I just want to wring that woman’s neck. But I just did the polite thing, and made my payment, told her when I will be in to make my next payment and left.
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Tameria2001
Transhuman68
Time only goes in one direction, and time has run out for the Mayans
The Mayans are still around; my next door neighbor is a descendant.
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Tameria2001
It's not the 21th where the location the Mayans lived at. Besides that, I don't think it's the end. What happens when your calendar end, you just start a new one.