Posts by ESTEE

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I Do Not Understand Why JWs Leave & Become Catholics!

by minimus in

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out of all religions, catholicism, to me, is wrong and clearly could never be the truth.

ESTEE

After jw, any religion is a cake walk! Some people can't leave the "structure"...?

ESTEE

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Please I need your help! evil site

by Dogpatch in

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evil for some at least!.

now that i shamelessly hijacked your attention folks, i could, pretty please use some suggestions.. a dear friend, who is a website designer recently volunteered to redesign my sites.

he succeeded in creating a great design, especially for www.freeminds.org .

I like your new site just fine, Randy. Don't be so critical with yourself --- hard to stop the behaviour after being a dub, I suppose. The website is packed with great stuff, and I'm sure you can keep adding more new stuff any time. It's important to have sites like this up and running.

Cheers!

ESTEE

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Hand written note - did anybody do this?

by frozen one in

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came home from work this afternoon and found a back issue watchtower stuffed in my door.

this one had a sticky note on it that said, "jehovah's witnesses offer free home bible studies to our neighbors.

if interested, please call xxx-xxxx and leave a message.

ESTEE

I used to write notes.

Happily no one called me.

ESTEE

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

by joelbear69 in

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friends

i have been diagnosed and misdiagnosed so many time over the past 20 years it really isn't .

funny.

i have been prescribed an alphabet of drugs.

ESTEE

Hugs to you joelbear. Be good to yourself. Keep breathing.

ESTEE

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I think I just need to tell the story to someone who will get it?

by aimless in

hi everyone, im new.

i've been feeling a burden on myself for the years that i have been out and i just don't know how to ease it.

i can't talk about the organization or the people in it to anyone... if i try i immediately feel sick and want to close up and just disappear.

ESTEE

Hi Aimless,

Welcome to the board. Your story is a sad one in some ways, but I dare say you are showing some strength and independence which sounds healthy to me. Your jw boyfriend sounds like a controling jerk, who tried to manipulate you and intimidate you into staying with him. I’m glad you have stayed true to yourself. Your current boyfriend sounds like a much nicer human being.

The jw religion appears very dysfunctional, with heavy rules (like the Pharisees that Jesus condemned). The jws compound and heap guilt, which can never be healed no matter how much you try to work it off, as long as you stay in the jws or try to be friends with the jws. “Do more!” and belief in “not good enough” are very much a part of their core belief system.

I believe the only way to deal with jws is to stay far away from them because you can never please them. The religion appears judgmental and unforgiving. I didn’t want to have qualities like that, so I had to leave the religion. I am a forgiving person and I don’t wish to judge anyone. The best I can do is find my own self and take care of my health in all its aspects (spiritual, mental, financial, and emotional). Part of taking care of my health and my self is to stay far away from the jws.

I figure you are well on your way to health and wellness. The only thing I suggest is you might want to talk to your family doctor about what you are going through.

*hugs*

ESTEE

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Thank you, Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society!

by David_R in

i wanted to say thank you to the wbts for enforcing a 'no-contact' rule on all those that have left the organization.. only by experiencing first-hand my former best-friends treating me like a complete stranger (see 'garbage') for standing up for my own beliefs was i finally able to tell the society 'good-bye' forever and not feel guilty about it.. i know this was not the wbts's intention from the alienation practice.

it's intention was to make me feel guilty and lonely enough to come back to them.

however, it has backfired on them and finally given me my freedom.. thank you, society, for lacking kindness and understanding.

ESTEE

Welcome Dave!

Hear! Hear! Ditto for meeee!

ESTEE

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Wife sent me a newspaper article....

by oneairhead in

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it was a little jdub kid that wrote a little essay in a local paper in the north east.

they wrote that they were not deprived of anything, the whole party line about no holidays and the like.

you know this kid did this just for the attention of his parents and the hall.

ESTEE

Hi oneairhead,

a little jdub kid that wrote a little essay in a local paper in the North East. They wrote that they were not deprived of anything, the whole party line about no holidays and the like.

When I was a kid, my dad made me write these kinds of letters.

ESTEE

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