Julia Orwell

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  How many of you followed the WTS direction on education years ago and have been screwed by it?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.

  as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?

  surely education should come first.

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  Omg I'd hug you if I could!!! Can you learn a new skill?
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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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  Julia Orwell

  I too am a substitute teacher, and not a very good one.

  The reason I joined the cult in part was because I  was a socially awkward kid who never fit in. The jws seemed to accept me for who I am and explain their doctrines well (to a 15yo). Now at 34 I feel to scared to invest in the future and committing to anything, even my art business which does well when I want it to. I can't finish any of the stories I'm doing because I'm either afraid of success or of failure. Nothing excites me that I go, "yes! I want to enrol in that!" or if it does, I don't trust my addled brain to cope.

  I have however, just sorted my Medicare out so I can get a referral to a counsellor. That will definitely help me get my groove back. At the moment I just feel that everything's either too hard or turns to crap when I touch it. Except my art, but even that seems like too much hassle some days so I don't do what I should with it such as sell at markets and advertise to get more commissions.

  See my stuff at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-By-Sheree-Stokell/209099695783780

  It's something I've started since I left the cult and helps me chill.
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  How many of you followed the WTS direction on education years ago and have been screwed by it?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.

  as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?

  surely education should come first.

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  Thought I'd bump this considering Da Turd's latest rant.
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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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  Julia Orwell

  I've burned all my literature :) I live in a city of 500 thousand people so it's easy to avoid them. Maybe I should get around to sorting my Medicare card so I can get cheap psych visits again, unless our idiot bloody national leaders haven't cut mental health from the budget.
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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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  Julia Orwell

  Otwo, I was thinking like you, that is, my walking away is enough. But Mum thinks the symbolism of da will free me even though it's not going to change my already non-existent relationship with jw. She likens it to metaphorically blowing up the org.
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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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  Julia Orwell

  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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  Julia Orwell

  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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  Julia Orwell

  Can the evolutionists save us? I didn't even know it was their job to. Way to create a straw man argument.