Posts by jbscott

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A recent antiwitnessing experience

by john.prestor in

i shared one of these before in which my approach left something to be desired, and i got some flack for that, and rightly so.

so if this story doesn't go over well i won't share another... but given how it ended, i just had to share.... a few days ago i took a trip to a nearby city by bus.

in the about 20-30 minute window between my connecting buses i walked over to a mcdonald's and got a cup of coffee, and when i came back to the little bus station i saw a literature cart sitting unmanned near the doors.

jbscott

Don't say anything about the wtbts. Say something like, "you look tired!" with a really friendly voice and a smile. Or, "how's the weather for you? What do you do when the weather is too bad to be out here?"

Last time I saw some JWs with the little cart, a couple of women, I smiled and commented on the view (it was at the beach.) "What a wonderful way to spend the day!" I chatted inconsequentially for a few minutes, until they relaxed a bit. I said my mother had been a JW her whole life, but I'm just a cheerful old apostate. Then left before they could get themselves worked up.

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Update on my life as a Jehovah’s Witness Teen after running away

by Letty in

hey.

without them i felt...so...alone.

so i went back.

jbscott

Make plans. Save money. Go to a doctor and get some meds for depression. Exercise outside every day if possible. Being a paralegal is a good idea. Long-term job prospects, many interesting types of law practice. Keep busy. New friends will come, because you will be an interesting active person they'll want to know.

Been there, done that. It's worth the tough journey to attain freedom at the end.

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Are you better off as a worldly person or a JW?

by Jules Saturn in

i was having a conversation with a relative who has been inactive for several decades (part of the ‘75 generation) and he argued that a person that is a born in is better off staying in the organization rather than someone like him who lived as a “worldly” person but then became a witness later in life.

he argues that when you’re born in, all you know nothing outside of the organization, so you’re better off in than out, that’s why when born ins leave the org, they always come back.

i agree that as a born in, your social circle is composed of witnesses but i do feel that even born ins would be happier outside of the org than being in.

jbscott

I agree - bullshit. Someone who is born to JW parents is quite different from someone who wasn't, who later on fell for the JW dogma. I was brought up JW, no choice of my own. I am far better off out in the real world, living an authentic life. And I'm an atheist, as well.

For those who were born in the cult and those who joined of their own free will the path is the same if they wake up. It isn't easy either way.

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Human origins pushed back further into the past

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

science is a self-correcting journey.

any error in thought will be corrected by later research or discoveries, so the common concept that we humans (homo sapiens) developed something like 200,000 years ago is undergoing a major correction.

the discovery of fossilised bones of at least five individuals have been recovered from an old mine in morocco.

jbscott

Hey fulltimestudent, nice to see your name. I haven't dropped in here in quite a long time. You and cofty had such good discussions back when I was a regular. I used to be Hortensia, couldn't sign in any more so registered anew.