Posts by wannaexit

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Name posters who stand out for some reason....

by JH in

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i'll let somebody else start

Hate leaving my family behind.

by Big Dog in

after lurking about for a while i finally decided to join the board.

i have never done anything like this and was amazed at how stressful it was to sign up and press the return key to join up and actually post something.

just a quick bio: 41 year old lawyer who was raised a jw but had the good sense to never get baptized.

wannaexit

Hi Big dog,

Welcome to the board. And good for you for not getting tangled up in watchtowers' web.

I wish I would have had the sense to do the same when I was a teenager.

My heart bleeds when I look at my family and watch how they push themselves week after week trying to get to that elusive new order.

I also hate leaving them behind and this is the reason why my hubby and I still go to the meetings and pretend to be jws.

Hope to hear more from you.

Wannaexit

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Michael Jackson childhood special on "Prime Time Live", tonight.

by hubert in

it's on at 9 p.m. est, until 11 p.m. wlne, channel 6. .

past, but it might.

hubert

wannaexit

Hub,

I did watch to see if his Jw connections would surface, but they didin't.

My Husband and I were wondering why no one has put the connection together. Someone should get in contact with Martin Bashir (spell?) and enlighten him on some facts about jw's and pedophilia.

wanna

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Clarifying the new policy regarding DF'd and DA'd announcements

by booker-t in

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i read that in the new organized to do jehovah's will book coming out in march at the kh, elders will on say sister so and so is no longer one of jw's.

an elder that i work with said that they will announce from now on joe bloe has been disfellowshipped from the christian cong and is no longer a jw.

or jan bloe has disassociated herself and is no longer one of jw's so they are still going to say df and da but i think they are going to drop the part "conduct unbecoming of a christian" because this can get them into legal trouble when a person goes to the military or votes or takes a blood transfusion.

wannaexit

"conduct unbecoming of a christian

They removed this phrase a long time ago.

Wanna

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The Young Witness Exodus Continues

by metatron in

i just found out that , on my wife's side of the family, the last witness kid has given up!.

he was the very last one in that half of our extended witness family.

ten years ago, i never would have.

wannaexit

I am a second generation Jdub. My husband is also a second generation Jdub.

Both of us have mentally left the org and biding our time until we can make a formal exit.

We have many friends in the org that are on the so called "fringes".

Many of us in this situation have children. Our children are reaching the teen years. I can guarantee that most of our children will not pursue "the truf".

Indeed the exodus will continue at an alarming rate in the next 5 -10 years.

Perhaps it will be our children that will cause watchtowers demise.

I look forward to that day with eager anticipation.

wanna

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truebloom is here to introduce herself

by truebloom in

i just wanted to introduce myself here on this forum.

i have been lurking here awhile, i really enjoy reading your posts.

i get so caught up reading i don't have much to add, but give me time.

wannaexit

Hi there truebloom,

Looking forward to hearing more about you.

wanna

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WERE THERE BORING MOMENTS IN YOUR KH?

by badboy in

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?

wannaexit

Pre-1975, as a child, they had some pretty entertaining stuff at the meetings

This statement has brought back some memories. I remember a public talk where the speaker was dressed up as a profet. Another time a sister was dressed up as a bride in a talk about the shulamite maiden.

But then the society put a stop to all the theatrics because they felt more emphasis needed to be put on the material and not on the scenes. Party poopers!!!!!!!!

The meetings are so boring now that they nearly make me cry. I am also going because of family and let me tell you the boredom is thick.

Wanna

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what we used to call "privileges"

by in a new york bethel minute in

of all the privileges only brothers may have, doing mics seemed to be one of the most tedious.

it was definitely something you could graduate from... but why?

when i was the sound guy, it was always so hard to get brothers to do the mics.

wannaexit

Whenever a ministerial servant step up the ladder and becomes an elder he leaves behind lowly duties. I know that only ministerial servants take care of the accounts and the literature and mags counters.

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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 02-06-05 WT Study (Abbreviated)

by blondie in

comments you will not hear at the february 6, 2005 wt study (january 1, 2005 issue)

review comments

will be in black and parentheses ().

wannaexit

Par. 6 "It takes humility to accept counsel or to simplify our life in order to enlarge our share in the ministry"

Not much room for personal decision or choice here. If you don't do as they say your are judged as either weak or proud.

In the 30 years of association I can't really say that I fould one piece of cousel from any elder that was worthy of adoption.

Most elders are power hungry with not a thread of humility in them. Recently and older sister asked an elder why a certain activity at the hall what taking place a certain way. His response: BECAUSE I SAID SO.

Thanks Blondie for all your hard work.

wanna

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What was your favorite thing about service?

by Dustin in

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i used to love break time.

especially if it was afternoon service, and we stopped at taco bell.

i used to be damn good at eating tacos in the car without spilling anything.

wannaexit

going home

wanna