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  Royal Commission taking our emails to heart

  by wannaexit in

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  during the proceedings of australian royal commission, as many of you, i also took time to share with the office of mr stewart, my thoughts and perspective on what what being said and not said by the witness elders on the stand.

  within a day a received a reply from office of angus stewart thanking and appreciating the insight from those on the "inside".

  yesterday i received a further email that my correspondence was passed on to case study 29 (jehovah's witnesses) team for their consideration.. it sounds like they are taking all our collective experience and knowledge into account as the commission continues its work..

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  I also wrote the Royal Commission, and just recently received a reply only 12 days later.

  I am not from Australia, not a victim, yet they thanked me for my input, and that it would be considered by the Royal Commission.

  How can this "worldly" organization, who never knew me, be so much more considerate and caring than the organization that demanded so much of my life in every aspect?

  I truly am grateful for not only all of their efforts and time invested into revealing who the WT really is, but for their care and concern for all of those who have been hurt by them.
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  badly handled from Elders

  by Olivia Wilde in

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  i am still attending the kh, i actually recently became aware of the ttatt, what i believed came as a huge surprised for me, i wasn't raised as a jw and have been for about 15 years.

  i have always been a very open minded individual all my life always seeing both sides of any situation with logic and common sense and so i believe discovering all of the doctrines i have been taught sense 16 years of age, wasn't extremely hard for me to realize in my heart it was a lie.

  well it was me discovering the watchtower society being a ngo member of the un nations for 10 years, after that the snowball just got bigger for me.

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  Hi Olivia... Glad you are awakening, and hopefully, your child will awaken too.... Our family has left WT land in the last few years, but our children were older, in their 30's. I am so glad they are out, but didn't realize the damage JW teachings did to their lives.

  Please make sure that your daughter is able to live a free life. Watching those Sophia and Caleb vids is so disconcerting. They will give her guilty feelings (should I buy an ice cream? maybe people will die if I don't give my money? I have learned that little kid psyche's go deeper and so many different ways than we can imagine!)

  Grandma and grandpa provide a social structure, but remember they ARE JW's, and will ingrain the teachings into her head. My sister told her daughter "I think about running my car off the freeway overpass so that even if I die, you will live, because YOU didn't commit suicide, and will be resurrected into the new order"

  Also, when visiting her granddaughter, she showed her a Caleb/Sophia film about Sparlock.... When my niece's daughter returned from a short visit, she started to sort thru her clothes, she was going to throw away all her 'My Little Pony' shirts, toys.... they "could be demonized."

  My niece never would have known the indoctrination going on unless she had seen the effects on her daughter.

  Read this link from a psychologist, Marlene Winell, to see the effects that living in a high control religious/or any group, can have on us and our children:

  http://www.babcp.com/Review/RTS-Trauma-from-Religion.aspx
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  CO layoff buzz. Anyone heard anything?

  by freemindfade in

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  2. scandals

  heard of some co's being "let go".

  anyone else heard anything like this in the last few days?

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  In our area, western U.S., as we were leaving, they had started to use the substitute 'temporary' CO's more and more...
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  What woke you up?

  by Israel Ricky Gonzales in

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  in march of 2014, i was a very active jw, a ministerial servant, gave a public talk, was an attendant for the memorial, and one of 4 cleaning captains for an international convention of 40,000+ attendees.

  so what woke me up?

  an innocent comment from a co-worker about the candice conti court case rang a bell that could not be unrung.

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  607................
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  What went through your mind when you saw this Picture?

  by John Aquila in

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  I thought, "Oh dang! Why are we still wearing shirts/ties and dresses! That is NOT paradise!"
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  The elders of the 1980s are now in their 60s and 70s

  by truthseeker in

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  having just come back from the uk and spoke with some witnesses to find out how my old congregation is doing, i realized i am now the age that my elders were when i was a kid.

  and i wonder what the elders who are now in their 60s and 70s are thinking when they look in the mirror and an old face looks back at them.

  many of the elders in my old hall are now retired.

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  My husband and I are in our 60's....

  We were out a few years ago....

  I hate lies, and liars, I hate hypocrisy.

  No way would I give any more of my life to people like that.
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  Londo and his videos!

  by John Aquila in

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  i think this month is two years since i saw londos videos on when ancient jerusalem was destroyed.

  those videos started the whole awaking process.

  by oct 2013 i was fully awake..

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  2011 was the year we had been waiting for...

  Finally, an answer as to why "this magazine" (the Awake, thru October 22, 1995, page 4) that "builds confidence in the Creator's promise of a peaceful and secure new world before the generation that saw the events of 1914 passes away"

  changed in the November 8, 1995 issue to

  "the "magazine builds confidence in the Creator's promise of a peaceful and secure new world that is about to replace the present wicked, lawless system of things."

  2011 Watchtowers (Oct 1 & Nov 1) had the articles on 607.... That did it for us. This time, there were references, books, pages, author's names. We looked them up, did the math, and were out. No 607 meant no 1914, no 1919, no GB!

  Londo's vids were great! Sometimes it's hard to simplify WT garbage. Londo, you did awesome!

  Yep, we remember AnnOMaly, and all the other diligent scholars... We could NOT believe that others had figured this out oh so long before us!

  Thank you all!
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  Lurker - just joined

  by Je.suis.oisif in

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  hi all, nothing to report just now.

  wanted to add name to list of those awakening.

  been lurking for nearly a year.

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  Welcome, we all know how you feel, we all have 'been there, done that,' haha!

  Enjoy the support you will find here.... And, as usual, we'd like to know what happened that woke you up... Perhaps it will help someone else?

  ChaChing!
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  Setback

  by EdenOne in

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  2. experiences

  i saw this coming since my mother-in-law's funeral .... the congregation's "love-bombing" over my wife had its impact.

  i watched her drawing closer and closer to her friends in the congregation.

  then she decided she would attend the memorial.

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  YAY, I can hardly wait to hear what has gone on in her head since 4 months ago!

  Congrats to you EdenOne!
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  Cognitive Dissonance

  by LexIsFree in

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  the cognitive dissonance amongst jws has never been more obvious to me then what i just experience in the last 5 min.

  long story short i had a phone conversation w/my mom about some things and i mentioned to her to look up what has been going on with their beloved organization in australia.

  brother geoffrey jackson of the holy governing body was caught lying numerous times about several subjects including disassociations & shunning.

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  Wikipedia

  In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.[1][2]

  Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. An individual who experiences inconsistency (dissonance) tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and is motivated to try to reduce this dissonance—as well as actively avoid situations and information likely to increase it.[1]