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  Newbie Here- but I've been here the whole time

  by TheDarksideHasCalledMe in

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  my wife and in-laws are now here and i'm on now.

  i'm going to copy and paste my first post from jwstruggle...... my story is, i grew up as a jw.

  my parents found out later on and didn't tell anyone.

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  jw07

  Welcome to the Dark Side!
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  How can anyone who is truly spiritual-minded attend Bethel and not realize it's all a scam

  by sosoconfused in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  not that i was any better(lol - but as i sat back and thought about the time i spent there, and the things i saw i feel disgusted.. i could literally write a thousand stories about the discrimination, favortism and all out dishonest that took place but i doubt anyone would actually care.

  the one thing however that really sticks out in my mind is when i was in a nice room with my roommate that he kind of inherited after his previous roommate left.

  it actually had a bathroom and we both had space for real beds(not those dang trundle beds like we had in standish).. .

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  sabastious I agree with you 110%, I think it is more an issue of the ease with which emotion trumps logic. For instance one of my friends is considered a genius by many due to her accomplishments and approach to solving problems in her field (I can’t give much detail for fear of being caught). She and I have a similar world view, and have lengthy discussions about the manipulation of the mind in advertising, politics, 'false religion' etc, and I was hoping she would wake up like I did. Yet, she gets very emotionally riled up at conventions, about ‘new light’ in the Watchtower etc, and is just a general WT pawn. She started sounding like she was going to wake up about 2 years back, but got over zealous and relapsed after her parents’ divorce (emotional trauma). She started reading WT literature on the subject like crazy and was able to find ‘comfort’, and hopes her family will be together again, if not now, then in ‘paradise’, so it’s up to her now to ensure that happens. It hurts to hear her parrot Watchtower catch phrases for solace when someone so mentally gifted should know better. It baffles me.

  Then again, both of us have experienced times of deep emotional pain in our lives. That was a part of what made me stop, think, and wake up, and it seems it made her a better Watchtower tool. No wonder they are so successful at indoctrinating after disasters, deaths, divorces, illness etc. People don't always think as clearly when feeling emotional pain and look for anything to sooth their minds.
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  A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

  by suavojr in

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  lovely view.

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  The light will get brighter as the fire burns!
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  slavenomore

  by Slavenomore in

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  leaving the org was not a doctrinal choice for me as it was for many on this board.

  i left mentally because of the boredom and then i physically left by being dfd.

  i have been reading here for about a month or so and now i know i made the right decision.

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  Welcome Slavenomore, glad to see another one awaken from the Matrix (WBTS).
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  Don't should all over yourself

  by man in black in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  looking back over 29 years as a jw it really shocks me to reflect on how passive young people are molded toward this religions goals.. dont ever plan on attending college, instead focus your life toward the goal of pioneering.

  dont look at building a future in this world,,, focus on gaining a position within the congregation and the organization, ( ms, elder, missionary, etc).

  the list can go on and on, but hopefully readers get the picture i'm trying to paint here.. i ran into this article last week, and i'm amazed at how well it fits into the jw mindset toward young ones :.

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  My parents and allot of their JW friends are screwed right now thanks to thinking they did not need to plan for the future, with respects to retirement etc. They are aging, deteriorating in health steadily, and things they should have put in place to make life more comfortable now are.........not there. In previous years their rhetoric was allot of 'the end is near so we don't need to worry about that', now it's more along the lines of: 'we're suffering, but Jehovah will provide'.

  I see allot of dubs my age group (20s) following their footsteps, and on this present course, in another 20-30 years we WILL BE OUR PARENTS. It's sad that this has gone on for many generations, as each feels a sense of entitlement: 'we're special, some magical guy in the sky is going to solve all our problems if we study these books written by men and do EXACTLY as they say. Isolating friends and family, making weird life choices with no logical basis, sticking to doctrine purely out of emotional attachment, and paying the corporation which is strangling and robbing them of their productivity and useful life.

  I get pissed more and more at the status quo each day, especially since I have to pretend to be in for the meanwhile.
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  FOUR FREEMASONS receive honorable mention in today's WT Study...

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  that's right... 4 freemasons are quoted with honorable mention in today's wt rag study... anyways, these are:.

  paragraph 1: john greenleaf whittier (1807-1892) - freemason and quaker poet who wrote "masonic voice review".

  there is even a freemason affiliated lodge in massachusetts named after him... the john greenleaf whittier order of demolay which is part of the "freemasons of the eastern star"... paragraph 4: albert barnes (1798-1870) - freemason and presbyterian who was directly involved in the gnostic liberation front which, among other false teachings, attempted to dissuade their members into believing that lucifer is not satan.

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  I got goosebumps when seeing this, being reminded of the jargon and compulsion surrounding JW baptism, association and meeting attendance.
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  Escape from Watchtower Headquarters - The Movie

  by jw07 in

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  this is what happened when one man attempted to secure and circulate the mythical 23,000 name pedophile database.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgox84ke7iy.

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  This is what happened when one man attempted to secure and circulate the mythical 23,000 name pedophile database.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY
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  Memorial is Tuesday, and Elders are calling the heck out of me LOL

  by nolongerconfused in

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  2. friends

  seriously?...how sillier can these people get...i have completely faded and stopped going for 6 months now...they never ever called me to say hi while i was there or when i recently stopped going.... then now all of a sudden the memorial is here and they want to call me?

  how about trying to get their attendance up or fill in some numbers.... i can only lmao at this cult...satan has these jw's by the neck.... so sad....

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  WBTS is like the North Korean government: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE NUMBERS.
  Look, we have a 1 MILLION troops, in reality that's just allot of cannon fodder.

  Remember that they are too happy to publish the figures of attendance in the Year Book, especially if there is an 'increase'.
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  Check this out - North Korean literature vs. WT literature

  by sir82 in

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  http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/03/12/christian_aslund_the_legacy_of_kim_documents_a_limited_view_of_north_korea.html.

  look at that first photo.. don't those books look eerily like wt literature?.

  the ones in the top 2 rows look exactly like the last of the hard-bound "thin" yearbooks.

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  Ummm...are you sure there isn't a Bethel in North Korea????? LOL

  Disgusting!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Shunning at it's very best! SHOCKING Jw.Org

  by BlindersOff1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  found this on youtube fyi.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw8yu-r8g-8.

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  Mmmmmm those lips *hides dirty thoughts*

  Quite a sad story though it's disgusting that most dubs cling to the MAN MADE shunning doctrine to the bitter end