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  My mom

  by cognac in

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  i was just talking to my mom a few weeks ago.

  she said, out of all her kids, i was the only one she didn't have to worry about as far as spirituality.

  i always took a stand for jehovah.. she told when all of her kids were little, she gave us the option of not eating birthday cakes in school.

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  Bonsai

  Dear Cognac,
  

  I am in a similar situation with my mom as well. I was the last of my siblings to remain in the religion. I was the one she confided in spiritually to encourage her. Now I'm the worst out of all of them. It didn't matter that I never committed the same level of immorality as my siblings. It didn't matter that i was and still am the most responsible out of all of us.They left because they were weak in my mom's eyes. I left because i was full-blown apostate, not satisfied with the "truths" that i had been taught growing up. Now she doesn't shun me, but she is terrified of me and we always get into huge arguments that leave us not talking with each other for months on end. I never want to get into TTATT with her, but her guilt-tripping tactics drive me towards that topic.
  

  It was a huge mistake to reveal my cards, and share what I learned with my mother. My other siblings learned TTATT as well, but they were smart enough to pretend ignorance to it. I'm not saying your mother would react the same way. No two mothers are exactly alike. But there is a very high probability that sharing TTATT will blow up in your face.

  Please tread carefully.
  
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  How many of you left the Org since 2015?

  by Paul Bonanno in

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  i have noticed that many lately have left the org or are in the process of leaving.

  how many of you have left since 2015?.

  this month will be my 21 years out of the org into the road of freedom.

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  My wife and I awoke to the realities of TTATT at the end of 2014 - beginning of 2015. We have both faded and reached the lovely status of obscurity.
  
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  We missed you at the meetings

  by punkofnice in

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  a vomit inducing comment.. i asked why do they have to specify 'meetings'?

  they never miss us in tesco or the showcase cinema bar.. in their defence, a friend of mine said: 'that's because the meeting is where they normally would see you.'.

  well, if they want to see you they can arrange a meal out or something.

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  Hey Punky, I missed you at the meeting last night. Is everything ok?
  
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  What if.

  by LAWHFol in

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  what if we only find god, once we have found our self?

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  i always daydream about having a higher consciousness. Being more acutely aware of ... everything. Being able to access all functions of my brain to its full potential - like in the movie Lucy. I dream of sudden, rapid evolving where I am only limited by the confines of my imagination. This process has nothing to do with a god, but has everything to do with accessing the higher being within me. I wonder what humans will be like in 100,000 years.
  

  Does a grasshopper daydream about becoming a lion? Lowly man am I.
  
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  What do you day dream about?

  by punkofnice in

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  i don't refer to anything sexually explicit of course.. i mean, in general.

  do you dream of owning a big house, a football team, the perfect body.......er paradise earth?.

  i'll start:.

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  I dream of exploring the world. I dream of hacking through jungles, crossing deserts, climbing mountains and sailing across the ocean. I dream of getting a master's degree and becoming a horticulturist.
  
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  No longer wanting to attend meetings

  by breezy in

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  hello everyone.. first post here.

  long time follower of this website, probably 4 years now.

  i've known about ttatt since ive been 18, im now 22 going on 23 but still go to meetings because of parents.

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  Bonsai

  Just want to give a shout out to jwfacts.com (Paul Grundy).
  

  The site makes it so easy to click and paste so much useful material for instant access.
  
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  No longer wanting to attend meetings

  by breezy in

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  hello everyone.. first post here.

  long time follower of this website, probably 4 years now.

  i've known about ttatt since ive been 18, im now 22 going on 23 but still go to meetings because of parents.

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  Bonsai

  “No one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family.” Awake! 2009 Jul p.29

  Welcome to the site and to the rest of your life lived on YOUR terms.
  
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  things you dont hear: Protest against Jehovah's Witnesses event in central Israel turns violent

  by goingthruthemotions in

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  it funny how the cult will imbelish on somethings and others they just sweep under the rug and you never hear anything about it again.

  i was just doing some searches on the internet and stumbled on this.

  i had heard that the dub's were trying to get people to go to israel and then you never hear anything after that.

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  Bonsai

  Leave it to JW commenters to airbrush and cherry-pick their past. Someone needs to post the anti-semetism found in the 1934 yearbook:

  The Declaration of Facts was reprinted in the Yearbook 1934. It went on in part to state:

  "It is falsely charged by our enemies that we have received financial support for our work from the Jews. Nothing is farther from the truth. Up to this hour there never has been the slightest bit of money contributed to our work by Jews. We are the faithful followers of Christ Jesus and believe upon Him as the Savior of the world, whereas the Jews entirely reject Jesus Christ and emphatically deny that he is the Savior of the world sent of God for man's good. This of itself should be sufficient proof to show that we receive no support from Jews and that therefore the charges against us are maliciously false and could proceed only from Satan, our great enemy. The greatest and the most oppressive empire on earth is the Anglo-American empire. By that is meant the British Empire, of which the United States of America forms a part. It has been the commercial Jews of the British-American empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations. This fact particularly applies to the cities of London and New York, the stronghold of Big Business. This fact is so manifest in America that there is a proverb concerning the city of New York which says: The Jews own it, the Irish Catholics rule it, and the Americans pay the bills.

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  "Be it known once and for all that those profiteering, conscienceless, selfish men who call themselves Jews, and who control the greater portion of the finances of the world and the business of the world, will never be the rulers in this new earth. God would not risk such selfish men with such an important position" The Golden Age 1927 Feb 23 p.343

  
  

  JW criticism of the Jews fomented a lot of hatred in Germany leading up to The Holocaust. No wonder the Jews today can't stand them.
  
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  No 'Tight Pants' policy is now official - classed as 'disturbing'

  by wizzstick in

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  in short:- tight pants is no longer just a am3 hang up (or is that a hang up on the well hung?

  )- brothers who have effeminate body language are flagged up- as are sisters with 'masculine' hair styles or dress- such dress is 'disturbing to the congregation'- the above must heed the (repeated) counsel from the elders...or they get stripped of the right to share on the ministry- however...this will not be revealed (announced) to the congregation.

  wow.

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  This is gonna shake things up in Japan. Most brothers here wear tight and I mean tight(!) suits. I find many of them to be quite effeminate. My wife and I used to joke about which brother would make the cutest sister if they changed a few things up. Maybe AM3 came here last year for the branch visit and didn't like what he saw.
  
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  No 'Tight Pants' policy is now official - classed as 'disturbing'

  by wizzstick in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in short:- tight pants is no longer just a am3 hang up (or is that a hang up on the well hung?

  )- brothers who have effeminate body language are flagged up- as are sisters with 'masculine' hair styles or dress- such dress is 'disturbing to the congregation'- the above must heed the (repeated) counsel from the elders...or they get stripped of the right to share on the ministry- however...this will not be revealed (announced) to the congregation.

  wow.

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  Bonsai

  Elder to not quite so keen MS., " Oh you can please me. Meet me in the back room right now!"