Julia Orwell

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  My mother says I should just DA already.

  by Julia Orwell in

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  cut the cord.

  sever all ties.

  start new.. and she's right.

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  Oh and my cat died last week. She was so cute.
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  My mother says I should just DA already.

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  cut the cord.

  sever all ties.

  start new.. and she's right.

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  Cut the cord. Sever all ties. Start new.

  And she's right. She's seen me in the throes of leaving this cult now for 2 years and how it's ruined my career and further addled my brain. She (non-jw) doesn't think I will ever truly heal til I'm officially off their books and free of them.

  Yet something holds me back from doing that, from having my name announced for all jws (who have already cut me off anyway). Maybe it's the idea of burning bridges or still caring what those bastards think. Maybe it's that I don't want to make them right about me, that "see, she went to higher education and now look! She's left the truth!" or, "She always was too outspoken..." or anything like that. Or, heaven forbid, that I've done the dirty on my husband, which I haven't, but you know how JW brains work.

  I'm quite sure Mum is right because I've been floundering now for two years. I can't hold down a job, I lack confidence to go and retrain/study, and I can't get off the meds. It all went pear-shaped starting 10 years ago almost to the day (that's a whole other story) and ten years of mental illness and floundering around in and out of a cult and not knowing where I'm headed has left me a ragged heap of broken humanity. If I DA I have no bridge for future contact with jws but really, am I gonna need it?

  I just wish I could get my shite together. Talking to Mum today and hearing what her workplace says about me (she got me some work at her school in 2013) about how terrible I was at the job (true; I had been out of that industry for 6 years plus I was mega screwed up from just having been 15 years in a cult) made me realise just what a shambles I really am. Mum supports me the best she knows how, having never been a Jw herself and not really understanding what I went through. She's right about the DA but I'm just such a wreck of a person because of all this I feel paralysed. She suggests a cult counselor but we don't have them in Australia.

  Fml. What does one do?
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  Happy Australia Day

  by Bungi Bill in

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  happy australia day to all here who reside in australia:.

  - and for those who have actually got the day off, halve your luck!.

  (yet again, i have drawn the short straw and am working today - oh, the joys of remote site fifo work!

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  It's our national day, and is most commonly celebrated by having a bbq, going to the beach or similar outdoor activity. 
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  Just ask simple questions and make street witnesses move along

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  you don't have to know much to talk to jw's and show them they don't want to really discuss the matters.they consider a discussion on the matter they are pushing to be "confrontational.".

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfw_txpmsj8.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lqtadagucq.

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  Poor kids. They regurgitate Watchtower answers and have no training in how to have an actual debate or go deeper into a subject. I really feel for them. I remember what that felt like. My non-jw father is an ex police interrogator and used to question me just like this to the point that I too would run away, albeit not physically: I became adept at evading questions and changing the subject.
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  Will the evolutionists save us from the coming catastrophe?

  by abiather in

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  the earth's magnetic field is in a weakening stage right now.

  data collected this summer by a european space agency (esa) satellite suggests the field is weakening 10 times faster than scientists originally thought.

  if the magnetic field weakens enough, then the earth could be hit with dangerous amounts of solar radiation and cosmic rays .....

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  Can the evolutionists save us? I didn't even know it was their job to. Way to create a straw man argument.
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  WTBT$/JW's = AMWAY/MLM Schemes

  by Darth Fader The Sequel in

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  all of the wts tactics and procedures are based off of your most basic mlm (multi-level marketing) schemes.

  take your pick of amway, or any of the other vitamin or financial mlm's.

  they all work the exact same way.

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  SO true. Been reading Pinktruth.com which is about the Mary Kay cult and it's soooooooooooo similar to JWs it's scary. Although it's a product-based pyramid scheme I find myself nodding in agreement at every article.
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  What's with this "no windows in kingdom halls" thing?

  by Trapped in JW land in

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  i hear many people on this forum say that kh's don't have windows.

  but i have never been to one that didn't have windows.

  is this only in a certain area or something?.

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  Every kh I've ever been to in Australia has windows. Must be a non-Australian thing.
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  If Your JW Parent Died Would YOU Go To The Kingdom Hall For The Talk?

  by minimus in

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  i would like your thoughts, please..

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  When my parents die I most definitely will not go to the kh because they're not jws thank goodness!!!!
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  Rutherford's Hostile Welcome in New Zealand

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://watchtowerdocuments.org/hostile-welcome-new-zealand/.

  rutherfords hostile welcome in new zealand.

  posted on december 23, 2014 by barbara on www.watchtowerdocuments.org.

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  Love the Kiwis. A very sensible people.
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  How can I ever leave this cult?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i've been out nearly two years but it's not out of me.

  i am on school holidays now til february so i thought without work to worry about i can come off my medication.

  i phased it slowly, starting in early november to avoid the physical side effects of coming down.

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  The Borg from Star Trek: good analogy. I remember one borg was ripped away from her people and she couldn't get over the fact of life outside the borg and wanted to go back. Another borg started a resistance movement! I guess borgs all do something slightly different, but the majority of the Jaybots just can't get through the conditioning. It is very powerful. Took me years to get through it myself and I'm an educated, intelligent person.