Topics Started by dissonance_resolved

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Crazyguy is going batshit crazy a Rant
by Crazyguy in
1. social
2. family
yesterday some jw's came over to my house and were even being nice to me, most of the time if they do come by an elder or ms may say something but the others will not, its even hard for them to say just hello (how pathetic).

( they also do this behind my back as if i don't know).

i now realize by not being their i've handed my kids right over to them!.
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As a Matter of Conscience, I Am Resigning from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
by Sail Away in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
after listening to the hearings of the australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, i am no longer content to have simply walked away from the organization.

as a matter of conscience, i do not want my name linked with the organization in any way.

i know this letter has been posted previously, and i thank the author.
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Health care proxy
by dissonance_resolved in
1. jw
2. friends
i wanted to get some input on how to handle the health proxy issue going forward.

i'm a fader, inactive now for about two years.

my husband and family are all still in.
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That's what's missing from our family
by dissonance_resolved in
1. jw
2. experiences
tonight as i was putting my son to bed, we were looking out his bedroom window from his bed, down upon the neighbors' house across the street.

they have a beautiful, big sparkly christmas tree in their front window and my son gazed at it and said, "that's what's missing from our family.

" talk about daggers through the heart!.
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How did your family react when you made it known that you did not want to be a JW anymore?
by Yondaime in
1. jw
2. experiences
please share your experiences..
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Inactive ones are bloodguilty?
by dissonance_resolved in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've been thinking about brother morris' statement at the zone meeting this past weekend that inactive ones are bloodguilty.

bloodguilt is defined as "guilty of murder or manslaughter.

" murder is #1 on the list of disfellowshipping offenses- all they would have to do is change the wording from "murder" to "bloodguilt" and suddenly there you have grounds to disfellowship anyone who's inactive.
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?? Question for those that have successfully faded/are out:
by Darth Fader The Sequel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
question: can any of you that have successfully faded out of the jw world without being df'd or da'd relate to me/us how you were able to maintain at least one or a few of your "still in" friends or family?

(and even if you were df'd or da'd and still maintained some relationships, how did that go?).

obviously, the truly demented, sick and twisted (and highly effective) policies and structure of the wtbt$ to set up a system by which anyone that chooses to no longer believe or participate must be treated as "mentally diseased" and a pariah by their own friends and family is the hands down, numero uno reason why many hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of jw's do not leave.
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Society money grab tonight
by Red Piller in
1. jw
2. experiences
wow.

you read about it here.

but, it still doesn't prepare you.. our hall passed a resolution to give about 15,000 to the wt.
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Brooklyn Bethel in the 1940 census
by dissonance_resolved in
1. jw
2. friends
prompted by another post, i looked up 124 columbia heights in the 1940 census.

a few interesting things: all occupants are listed as having the profession of "sell- religious books," except rutherford who is listed as an "editor.

" odd that they aren't listed as ministers.. also, all the educational levels of the occupants were provided- many had not even graduated high school and some not even grammar school.
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Has anyone found comfort/encouragement from "worldly songs"?
by awakening in
1. jw
2. friends
i remember reading a thread when my exit was starting, about inspirational songs.

someone posted a link to the "shins" for a fool.

this was a surprising help to me.