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  Greetings everyone! Newly signed up but not new to the site.

  by GTSfromSY in

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  my (very fake) name is gabriel syme or gabe for short.

  i have been lurking in the shadows for many years and i want to give all here a heartfelt thank you for all your indirect support.

  this website, as well as youtube, and eventually reddit, were all key in me finally accepting the “truth” being not that at all.

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  Welcome it's a journey
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  Positive Topic - ‘Good Elders’ or Extra Special Kindness shown by elders

  by Farmer Jim1 in

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  after the last topic getting me mad, does anyone have a positive experience of dealing with an elder or a particular favourite elder that was a top bloke?.

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  I've known several sincere loving elders, I've known some loving elders who became very judgemental and I've known some who were nasty from day one
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  If the GB members over the years all had children, would the DF / Shunning policy be softer?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just a question i was pondering:.

  most of the gb over the years, from the time of rutherford right through to today, have not had children i think?

  (correct me please if i am wrong).

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  Rutherford had a wife and son. Sounds to me he his them in LA.. Son grew up and turned his back on JWs.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
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  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  Terry I just relived life from my teens to senior years. If I could live my life over I would get rid of the good girl conscience. MIT messed with my mind and life.
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  JW Kids Bullying My Daughter

  by pale.emperor in

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  trying not to type swearwords as i write this so bare with me.. my little 3yo attends meetings with her jw mum (who doesn't believe watchtower anymore but is stuck in because she relies on her family for help).

  my mum (the one who tells people im dead) had a party for her grandchildren.

  that's my 4 nieces and 1 nephew aged from 3yo-11yo.

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  Pale Emperor I have a little different view of your child experience. Many will say at three she will forget this experience that is not necessary true. I am 69 years old and had many of these experiences growing up. I still have flashes backs is the way I was treated. It haunts me and it haunted my brother till his death. I remember these experiences that goes back to when I was three. Let your ex know these pàinful experiences still haunt me. My father had never been a JW. Just wanted you to know memories can go back farther than we give credit.. Love to you and your beautiful daughter.
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  What a beautiful day for service!

  by StephaneLaliberte in

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  i heard this expression very often and even said it often myself.

  now that i am out, i realize this isn't always the case.

  there were many times i was going out in service saturday morning and couldn't wait for 12:00 to come along so that we could go swimming, bicycling, play basket ball, go to the beach... .

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  I always anxious to finish service to enjoy rest of day
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  Have you ever come across someone on this site or other exjw site that you knew?

  by karter in

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  2. experiences

  2 for me 1 from my old congro in the 80's and another that was in the same circle of friends.. karter..

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  Yes two. One a friend from my husband and sister in law congregation 50 years ago. Another who caused a lot of heart ache in my sisters home. A third flipper and I came from the same area I didn't know flipper but I knew his three siblings and his former brother in-law
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  7 day conventions?

  by HereIgo in

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  2. experiences

  did any of you attend the old school week long conventions?

  i have heard stories and it seems like these were mostly in the 70's and 80's before my time.

  i couldn't imagine.

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  I attended the 8 day at the Rosebowl. Hot and miserable long days and nights. I was at the Dodger Stadium in 1969. Most miserable assembly of my life I carried around a 18 month old baby boy. I look back and think what a miserable thing to do to a baby. I didn't know any better.
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  Reunited With My Brother

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. experiences

  my little brother on the left exited the cult after 29 years.. me in the middle.. my older brother on the right stopped his bible study after discovering ttatton youtube videos.. never lose hope guys!.

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  Congratulations. When I told my little brother I was no longer a JW he started sobbing from happiness.
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  Headed to vegas! Anything i should do?

  by _Morpheus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the tittle is self explanitory.... first trip to vegas, anything i should do besides gamble?.

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  Have fun no guilt feelings.