You can simply leave you know.
If writing this declaration makes you feel better, do it, but know that it will get you "Disassociated" with all the subsequent shunning of former friends and family members.
Oubliette
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Leaving with Dignity - a sample document
by Ajax inwe live in democratic, not theocratic times.. churches no longer imprison, torture or execute.. cults have absolutely no authority over non members.
we don't have to obey.
we don't have to subject our selves.
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Bible Teach book
by factfinder inthe revised edition of the bible teach book is up on jw.org with a new cover..
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Oubliette
Prologos: Does it still have the illustration of the old teacher challenging the nerd to a math contest on the black-board?
Yes it does.
Why didn't you just look yourself?
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Bible Teach book
by factfinder inthe revised edition of the bible teach book is up on jw.org with a new cover..
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Bible Teach book
by factfinder inthe revised edition of the bible teach book is up on jw.org with a new cover..
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They are clearly NOT backing away from 1914:
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Bible Teach book
by factfinder inthe revised edition of the bible teach book is up on jw.org with a new cover..
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Lovebombing 101:
page 150
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Bible Teach book
by factfinder inthe revised edition of the bible teach book is up on jw.org with a new cover..
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Oubliette
There's a nice, accurate description of the GB on page 91:
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Bible Teach book
by factfinder inthe revised edition of the bible teach book is up on jw.org with a new cover..
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Oubliette
To match the drab dullness of the rNWT:
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Bible Teach book
by factfinder inthe revised edition of the bible teach book is up on jw.org with a new cover..
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Funny, I had a link in my previous post to an image of the cover on the jw.org website. I wondered how long before they'd break the link. It took less than 18 minutes!
Wankers.
It's so dumb. All I had to do was download the book, take a screenshot of the cover and upload it to photobucket.
What a bunch of paranoid, albeit impotent, fools.
and back
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Bible Teach book
by factfinder inthe revised edition of the bible teach book is up on jw.org with a new cover..
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What a boring cover!
Bland has a new shade of gray.
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Many Member Just Want to Believe
by OnTheWayOut inif you are/were an active jw, you are now here on jwn so, for whatever your reasons, you woke up to some degree- hopefully a great degree.
so what i am saying may not apply to you.. i know that if i had not already left, i would have stormed out on the day they studied "overlapping generation.
" i am quite confident i couldn't have stayed for such an obvious switcharoo just to make the end seem imminent and try to explain how wts was wrong, but not entirely wrong in the past.. but i had to wonder how that change (or others) didn't cause most jw's to walk out.
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Phizzy: It took a personal crisis to get me to that point, and I think that is what it will take for most people, at least for those who chose as adults to join. It takes a lot to break through the cognitive dissonance, that is why it's so hard to break through to a believing JW.
This is a very important statement.
It was certainly true in my case. When I think about those that have woken up and left the religion, they all had to go through some sort of personal crisis that forced them to confront their beliefs and the unreality and lack of logic or coherence which characterize those beliefs. That often propagates its own personal crisis. It's a process to be sure.
