Welcome! Having support when fading makes such a difference. I'm fortunate my best friend is out with me! I've been getting several RBC invites lately;still feels weird. Otherwise if you lay low and stay mellow:), an easy fade may work.
Gypsy Sam
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Celebrate my first post of many :)
by Mellow inhi everyone, my name is mellow (some names have been changed) lol.
as no doubt many of you were, i was born in.
i am now in my mid 20s living in a jehovah's witness household.
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Hi
by LucidChimp ini've been lurking here for a year or two now (since i stumbled across ttatt and was stumbled by it), i even started an account some while back and asked a couple of questions.. but i never actually stood up and said hi... so hi, my name's jon and i'm a dubaholic.. .
i was "born in" in the 80s - and grew up on a liquid diet of cheap suits and revelation book pictures (i mean really, group after group just staring at the pictures while not listening, i must have spent more time staring at those pictures than i have any work of art in my life, literally hours at each lurid picture).
i "left" in my teens, but apparently lacking any kind of actual sense, returned to studying with a childhood friend from the congregation in my twenties (although i was never baptised, my entire small family were dubs, so i saw more witnesses than "worldly people" on a regular basis.. they love bombed my arse for years!)..
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Gypsy Sam
I love that your opening post made me laugh several times. Welcome! I've been on a fade mission since the Memorial.
Carpe Diem!
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Disfellowshipping
by Legacy ini wanted to know if anyone on here was df'd or know of any who were...why i ask is because many of the friends i have spoken to, say it's not done, just like that.
it's a process.
i have spoken to a re-instated sister and she said by the time they see you, you are pretty much out.
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Gypsy Sam
I've been in a similar situation And it depends on how repentant you act and how many people know. I will message you more details. Suffice it to say, my hall had two unmarried sisters wind up pregnant and neither was disfellowshipped.
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Jehovah's Witness usher gets 30 years for sexually assaulting boys
by EndofMysteries inhttp://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-usher-sentenced-to-30-years-20131009,0,2206355.story.
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a man who pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting boys he met while working as an usher at a kingdom hall of jehovah's witness in sun valley was sentenced this week to 30 years in state prison.. marcelo lozano, 34, was arrested july 29 after he was identified in a series of alleged child sexual assaults, according to the los angeles police department.. the victims, who ranged in age from 8 to 15, were assaulted over a roughly seven-year span from jan. 1, 2006, to june 30, 2013, according to the los angeles county district attorney's office.. lozano pleaded no contest on sept. 12 to three felony counts two for continuous sexual abuse and one for oral copulation of a person under 14 involving three victims, the district attorney's office said.
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Gypsy Sam
That was relatively speedy. I hope those affected are getting good therapy and moving on. One more case I'll be pointing out to my family as to how the policies do not protect children.
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My granny died.
by LouBelle inlast week friday i was delayed in going to work, for which i am glad.
it was an opportunity for me to help my gran one last time.
she thanked me, told me she loved me and that i would be very blessed.
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Gypsy Sam
Loubelle, my thoughts are with you at this difficult time.
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Proof of a Kingdom Hall being sold to a church!
by Sittingstraight1212 init cracks me up if you bring this subject up to a witness , they always try to convince themselves that i'm reading into this!!!.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpqwknq31ie&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
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Gypsy Sam
My last hall was sold to a Haitian Church.
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Gypsy Sam
Happy birthday! Congrats on all the recent new posters on your site! Nice to see JW's commenting, too.
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"God's Word Is Beneficial..." 2013/14 Circuit Assembly "Highlights"
by 88JM injust had the circuit assembly this weekend here:.
surprisingly not much fuss over the new bible considering that this was the first meeting for most here to use it (the annual meeting was "invite only" for a select few here, and there was no thursday meeting because of this assembly) and having a new bible was only referred to fairly briefly in a comment about how "wonderful" it is (and in the closing prayer).
i think i was the only one there with an old maroon nwt - i got a confused look from one of the elders - haha!
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Gypsy Sam
Just added paintball to my bucket list.
I know quite a few younger JW's who do this.
It's becoming a "Don't ask; don't tell" organization.
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Has the organization changed their policy toward inactive ones?
by TweetieBird infor the past few years, family members and long time friends have pretty much ignored us because we don't go to meetings.
recently, my sister (a regular pioneer) asked me to friend her on facebook, my mother-in-law (a regular pioneer) actually visited us and stayed in our home and another friend that i haven't heard from in years just asked me to friend her on facebook.
just curious..
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Gypsy Sam
I faded this year. I thought WT articles came across as more strict (Jan 15, 2013, not to even email family that's out).
HOWEVER, except for a handful of families I personally know, the vast majority are openly socializing with d'fd family and keeping d'fd friends on Facebook.
Just my two cents.
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ANOTHER FREEMASON buys Watchtower properties... (Jared Kushner)
by Calebs Airplane inseoname i/rea
seoname i/red
seoname n/bzz
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Gypsy Sam
Ivanka Trump is married to him.