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19 years out and happy as can be
by Thechickennest in
1. jw
2. experiences
it's been 19 years since i resigned from the wt organization.

no regrets.

every couple of years i investigate sites that help good folks get out.
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Amazing Read,Check this out!
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in
1. jw
2. friends
currently reading : 30 years a watchtower slave.

cannot put it down.. this book pre-dates ray franz book "crisis of conscience", written from early 20th century, shortly after the jehovah's witnesses were formed.

the author describes the original true background of the watchtower society as a multi-million dollar publishing company.
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Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
good move or bad?

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In 2015 Governing Body announces expansion all around the world...On second thought....Never Mind A Letter From the Governing Body
by RULES & REGULATIONS in
1. watchtower
2. bible
2015 yearbook of jehovah’s witnesses.

a letter from the governing body.

''we also deeply appreciated your “loving labor” in connection with the construction of various theocratic facilities around the world.
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Four decades later....
by Thechickennest in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i want to extend my greetings to all of you.

i have been a member here for many years.

it's been 15 years since my ex-wife and i resigned from the watchtower organization.
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Creepy display
by neat blue dog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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i dunno about you, but if i walked up to this display at an expo i'd be a little creeped out..
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Bethel snobs tell me off for wearing Rebooks and polo shirt to Bethel! Next time I'm going Nude!
by Witness 007 in
1. jw
2. experiences
2007 so we go on holidays and my wife decided to visit bethel.....i wasn't even planning to go to the meetings, so i put on running shoes, blue slacks, and a light blue polo shirt....clean shaven....to a "worldly" person i would look neat and tidy....a bit of a nerd even!

to bethelites i looked like a slob giving the finger to jehovah!

one bethelite girl asked my wife if we were "newly interested.
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How long before you stopped believing armageddon was on your doorstep?
by bubba flavel in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was born into "the truth" back in 1964. i made the big mistake of getting baptised when i was about 14 or so, purely to please my father as i saw how proud he was when my brothers were baptised....didn't work.. we moved to a new congregation when i was about 8, he introduced all my brothers to the congregation by name, a short bio of thier endearing qualities and how proud he was of them, when he introduced me it was "and this is our black sheep of the family, steve".. i remember living in fear at the fast approaching 1975....actually, living in terror is probably a more apt desciption.

all of you will full well know how it was instilled into us at every meeting and assembly how we are living in the last days.. as a 15 year old, a brother dobbed me in for kissing a worldly girl at school.

went through the marked process, judicial committy, disfellowshipped and the shunning which continues to this day by what's left of my family.
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Michael Jackson cries after celebrating first christmas
by shopaholic in
1. jw
2. friends
i know you all are tired of hearing about michael jackson but after seeing this video, i was reminded of the guilt that lingers after the leaving the jw religion.

as i understand it, his primary reason for leaving was because latoya was df'd and he didn't like having to chose between religion and family.

sounds familiar?.
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Is Being Disfellowshipped or Disassociated All That Bad?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
most jws dread the thought of never being talked to again by a fellow "brother" or "sister".

the thought of being shunned by your flesh and blood keeps many witnesses in the religion.. is df'ing or dissasociation all that terrible?

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