Hello and welcome! It's going to be a bumpy ride, but hang in there! I assure you, it gets MUCH better.
As for feeling like a fool...I think that happened to all of us, so don't be too hard on yourself.
Peace
Garrett
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Hi Everyone. Answer to prayer countdown...
by Stumpy ini've been lurking for about 3 months now and thought i'd better finally sign up.
you have all been an immense help to me as i have come to realize that this isn't the truth so i want to say a great big thank you!
what a crazy, emotional ride it is to finally face the truth about the doubts that i have carried for many years.
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Are Jehovah's Witnesses Happy?
by minimus ini know of the local congregation's issues, per an elder i know quite well.
he has said that nearly everyone in the congregation is suffering emotionally and mentally.
he said he has never seen so many witnesses with so many problems.
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I love how witnesses say that those who leave become extremely unhappy. In fact, when I first left, I was a bit worried that my depression might get worst (which would of been hard).
funny how I now have no depression and feel the best I've ever felt.
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"meet mormons worldwide"
by stuckinarut2 incheck out this link!.
http://www.mormon.org/people/find.
can you imagine if jws had something like this??.
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" while a Jehovah's Witness, an elder once made a rant about yoga pants not being appropriate. I knew right then that it wasn't the right religion. Now, I know I've found the truth... I can wear my magic underwear proudly without worry of rebuke." -
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Praying in Public?
by Garrett inhellloooo fellow apostates, mentally diseased devil worshippers :) how is everyone?.
today, i listened to a song about praying and how one can pray anywhere.
well, this song brought back the horror of sitting in restaurants, mcdonalds, coffee shops etc and having a group of brothers and sister bow their head and pray for what seemed to be an eternity.
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hellloooo fellow apostates, mentally diseased devil worshippers :) how is everyone?
today, I listened to a song about praying and how one can pray anywhere. Well, this song brought back the horror of sitting in restaurants, mcdonalds, coffee shops etc and having a group of brothers and sister bow their head and pray for what seemed to be an eternity.
How did you guys feel when this happened? What did you do? Personally, I would look at my food, thinking to myself "where shall I start?". I personally HATED praying out in public. It makes you look like a wackjob.
peace and love,
garrett
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Where is it said , not to independently do deep study of scripture
by william draper ini do believe it is written somewhere in jw literature .
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Why people don't believe in God
by pressman indo you want to know why i think people don't believe in god?
well i believe people don't want to believe in god because they are scared.
they know that if they finally do gorge the confidence to believe in him, he might discipline them for their skepticism.
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I'll give you my current take on god. I say current, because I'm at a stage in my life where I'm still figuring things out.
first off, you're speaking of the Christian God,however, if you were born in India, you would most likely be Hindu and would not believe in the Christian God. So your belief is solely based on where you were born and who you were raised by.
now, since we're speaking of the God of the bible I will say that ere are things that no longer make sense in my mind. First off, the flood seems impossible, second allowing rape (even if it was in the Old Testament, God would of known it was terrible and should of stopped it) what about slavery? Famine? Why wait until now (since everyone says the end is close) to take action? Jehovah would of proved a long time ago that he was right about the whole issue of universal sovereignty. why wait until the entire earth was filed with billions of people? I guess he doesn't want anyone to beat his record of mass killing, eh?
now what I do believe is this. I believe that we are here on earth, and we need to make the most out of our life here, not just for ourselves, but for others as well. We should try to help and positively impact the lives of those that we cross paths with. As for God, no one can provide sufficient evidence that he is or isn't, so I remain agnostic. However, I don't believe in the God of the bible or any of the other made up gods of different religions. I only entertain the thought that there might be s higher power.
peace,
gsrrett
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These guys crash a Kingdom Hall on Memorial, video included
by Crazyguy inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7mars2mtaui.
to funny nice job....
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Memorial attendance up or down on last year?
by freddo inas per the title.
and was the one you attended at an early or late time of the evening.. any partakers?.
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The end
by Garrett inoh...my...god.... i can't.. well, i am officially done trying to explain things to them.
they talk in circles, and their excuse for everything is "imperfect men".
imperfect men!.
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@crazyguy thanks for the suggestions, but this whole thing was seriously detrimental to my mental health. I won't bespeaking to them ever again.
@jonathan drake yes, thanks for your experience. I had no family to lose since none of them are in the Lie, so I don't really have to worry about that :) im definitely going to remain quite now. I'm done.
@data-dog yep, I see that now. It's the most moronic thing I've ever experienced.
@robert, thanks :) I won't be spending time with them these jws are in the states, im in Europe.
@zeb, yep, I'm thinking of taking up writing or maybe even drawing as another hobby. We'll see :)
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WT addresses the "rapture" teaching.
by wifibandit inlook at paragraph 15 of the 2015 july 15th study edition pg 18-19.. http://imgur.com/3wparys.
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basically they admit to teaching the rapture (for the anointed remnant), just don't call it that!.
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I'm glad someone brought this up. When I was learning the lie, I never got this point. , I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts on the matter.