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How to Fade - The Basics!
by The Searcher in
1. jw
2. friends
this really works.

i've already applied the basics of this with one elder who "offered" us a shepherding visit.

we've been totally ignored since!!!
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New Here ... Just woke up
by Sevan in
1. jw
2. friends
hey all, .

this is my first post.

i haven't been out in service or to a meeting in over a month.. i realize now that i've been having serious questions for years and many articles and talks have greatly disturbed me over the years.
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Alone
by Deleteandrestart in
1. jw
2. experiences
since i woke up one year ago , i've been doing a somewhat controlled fade , the experience i've had has been a very solitary one , i don't mean by not seeing anyone i know because i know hundreds in several congregations and i was an elder .

but just coming to terms with the fact that this was no longer the solution to life's problems, that i'd wasted so much time, that as i sat in the kh and heard everyone comment, my heart was no longer in it , i no longer fitted in ..... i felt that they were in the congregation all under the spell or some form of hypnosis from the wtbts,.

it was like for the first time in my experience at the kh , that i was the only one to see what was actually going on , the indoctrination, the guilt tripping, i could see it all as clear as day , and yet i had as it where a metal gag over my mouth, i couldn't speak to anyone about it for fear of them turning me into the spiritual police.
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Didn't go to memorial this year
by silent in
1. jw
2. friends
my wife and i had business to attend to out of town today and i had thought if we made it back home in time, we'd go to the memorial.

as it turned out, we didn't get home in time and we missed it, but we had a real good talk with each other on the way home.

we are largely successful faders and at the very least, i like to try and make the memorial.
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I hope the letter about deleting the Theocratic school is true.
by John Aquila in
1. jw
2. experiences
yesterday i was with a group of brothers that wanted my advice on re-roofing a home.

three of them were ministerial servants.

all of them are from the spanish congregation.
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Guess I said more than I should have about "the truth"
by paradisebeauty in
1. jw
2. experiences
a sister came by my house today.

not to see how i was or why i have not been to meetings for the past months - she needed to borrow some money for the upcoming convention.

we chatted a little, and i cound not keep my mouth shut about some questions i have and some discoveries i made about the doctrine.
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weird questions people ask you at the KH?
by Truthexplorer in
1. jw
2. experiences
so i meet sister ott zealot.

she says ah .... its lovely to see you; how are you doing.

i said yeah i'm fine thank you!
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CO kept mispronouncing "debt"
by Red Piller in
1. jw
2. experiences
so, this happened a while ago - but i never posted on it.

during a co visit, he gave a talk relating to jesus ransom (i think) and the "debt" that was owed by sin, etc.... he kept saying "debt" and he kept pronouncing the "b".

so it sounded like "deb-t".
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US Zone visit
by obarac in
1. watchtower
2. bible
anyone will atend?.

how we can follow this meeting?.

anyone will inform us live?.
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Divorcing my husband of 13 years...
by 2pink in
1. jw
2. friends
my husband and i were both born ins.

i left in 2009, and he followed me out a bit later.

we were one of those couples who followed the script, married young and ended up having nothing in common other than the religion.