It was devastating to me at first. I still beleived I was leaving the truth, I just felt incapable of following the rules and lifestyle. It wasn't till later when I began researching everything did I get happy about it.
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Joy Or Sorrow When You First Found Out It Was False?
by serotonin_wraith infor me, it was joy.
i was raised in the religion, and i always figured i'd be dying along with 6 billion others because i hated the meetings, the preaching work and the rules, morality and threats of 'jehovah'.
i did not want it to be true.. for others here, finding out it was false was a hard time to go through.. as well as asking which feelings you had at first (joy/sorrow/or add your own) i have a follow up question for those who found it hard- what was it that made the impending deaths of 6 billion people okay for you?
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Weirdest music you like
by JK666 ini always liked captain beefheart and his magic band.
here are a few youtube examples:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqrhr5peifu&feature=related.
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I love goth industrial / german music, trance and yes, I really like zydeco (wayne toups is awesome)
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yumbby
I think you are really brave for the way you handled that. I hope she can understand how much you care about her, wanting to save her from the org, maybe someday she will appreciate it.
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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?
by Crumpet ini don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.
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what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.
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yumbby
I like lots of nerdy stuff. Fantasy/Sci Fi books and conventions ( My husband is a cover artist for these sort of books), Buffy, Angel, Firefly, all the news I can get including NPR, Lord of the Rings, and Gaming! Especially Elder Scrolls/Oblivion, online Role Playing. wow. I really AM a nerd.
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Proof that molesters are at the Kingdumb Hell
by cultswatter innotice that the dubs are in their "hall" clothes (which is not unusual) .they must be expecting molesters at the khall.
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yumbby
I knew they'd find a way to make it the victims fault. Bastards.
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Does Knowing the Truth Make you a Happier person?
by gumby inmany of us who were once jehovah's witnesses had a measure of happiness in our lives.
for me, i had a hope in the future, i had answers as to why we are all here, i believed in a loving god who looked after me and cared about me, i had answers to all of lifes big questions.. when i found out the truth about the witnesses, i was lost in a great big world and now had no answers other than the fact that what i once believed was "the truth" in actuality wasn't the truth.i now had to start all over in my search for truth.
for me, it wasn't long before i found what i thought was the truth since i always believed in the bible.
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I went through a period of being lost and terrified that I no longer had "the answers". But I kept searching and slowly built my own belief system that feels so much truer, and real than reading doctrine ever did. Just talk to alot of people, read, research and never stop asking questions and you will find your path.
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Whats the strangest thing you've seen someone get in trouble for?
by LaniB ini remember one windy summer day, after a meeting on sunday morning, i walked out of the hall behind a sister who was part of the church congregation with her two teenage children.
her husband did not attend.
the wind caught her dress unexpectedly and blew it up a'la marilyn monroe and revealed that she was wearing (shock, horror) french knickers...... there were a few murmers behind me which i at the time put down to things like "oh poor girl, so embarrassing".
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yumbby
I have to ask... What are french knickers?
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How did you dispose of your JW books? (Or did you?)
by exwitless inlittle drummer boy and i have a small house and we do not have room for the wasted space all of these books are creating.
here's a brief rundown of what we have:.
several nwt hardcover bibles, chinese bibles (lots of chinese students in our town), insight on the scriptures, concordances, a few bound volumes, song books, km books, reasoning books, the entire bible on audio tape, and more.
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Great fireplace material. And they did make the prettiest colors sparking as they burned.
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Why are angels always white?
by slimboyfat inin pictures of conventions or the new system they tend to show a mixture of races, but the angels always seem to be white.
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I find it disturbing/fascinating that I never noticed it before. Next witness that comes to my door, I'm going to ask them!
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September KM - 70 alterations in Revelation Climax Book
by dozy ini can't find a thread on this subject yet - if there is one , please delete this one.. the september kingdom ministry has a 4 page insert detailing the 70 alterations in the revelation climax book which is due to be studied at the book study shortly.
i'll provide scans if anyone is interested.. i will leave it up to more experienced analysts to examine the reasons for specific changes , but just a few brief observations for now:.
p32 box - "they were completely exonerated" changed to "charges against them were dropped" - interesting change of terminology for the 1918 watchtower eight.
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yumbby
ewww. do you think they'll have to study the book AGAIN on tuesdays? I'm SO glad I don't have to spend my nights like that anymore.