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  New member

  by Winston Smith :>D in

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  i just wanted to say hi to the group here.. been baptized for 15 years now.

  my wife has been baptized for a little less than that time period.. been an aux poi., reg pio, ms. wife is a reg pio currently.

  now im just a lowly publisher :d. have had many doubts over the years on small matters.

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  wannaexit

  Hello Winston,

  I am glad you found this board. You will learn more here than in all your years in the organization.

  wannaexit
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  JW's not happy people

  by wannaexit in

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  i've noticed a lot of discontent among my jw friends.

  i've had some express to me how stressed out they are because the meetings take up too much time and the assemblies are too long.

  ( a lot of complaining about this international assembly coming up).

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  wannaexit

  I've noticed a lot of discontent among my Jw friends. I've had some express to me how stressed out they are because the meetings take up too much time and the assemblies are too long. ( a lot of complaining about this international assembly coming up). They are tired of hearing the constant humdrum to "do more".

  During the meetings most look 'brain dead'. The comments are mechanical without zeal or true conviction.

  I am wondering if the end of watchtowerland could come from within.

  Wannaexit
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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

  by minimus in

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  wannaexit

  Not really screwed up but disillusioned and disappointed at having wasted half of my life in the pursuit of nothing.

  If I can say something positive about the whole experience its this: I probably wouldn't be digging in the

  scriptures today had it not been for my experience in the org. I guess I have to give them credit for that.
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  What did you miss the most while being a kid in the Borg?

  by Jessica Rabbit in

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  the other day i was watching "charlie's angel's" (the weekly series from the '70's) on tvland.

  it dawned on me how much i used to wish they had aired that show any night but thursdays.

  maybe twice a year, if i was too sick to go to the meeting i would get my hour to watch my favorite star...farrah!

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  Relaxing on a Saturday afternoon. I longed to do nothing on a Saturday afternoon like the other kids. But no, I could not do that. I had to accompany my father on his return visits. Can you imagine dragging a 10 year old every Saturday morning for door to door and then the afternoon for return visits. When I think about it I feel like puking.
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  What's Your Opinion of the Governing Body???

  by minimus in

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  do you think that they are well meaning oldsters trying their best to serve god?

  or are they corrupt pharisees?

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  I think that they are a group of very narrow-minded old men. They have destroyed the lives of many people by their rules and regulations.

  Are some sincere? Maybe. But in my eyes that does not excuse them. They have to be held accountable.
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  My Becoming a JW

  by Juliana in

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  i was raised non-religious.

  i don't call myself an atheist as such because i don't like to label anyone, but i don't actually believe in god (though i am christian in background, and several branches of family family are roman catholic).

  my fiance knows this.

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  wannaexit

  PLEASE BE CAREFUL JWs are a CULT. Once you are entangled with them, its not that easy to get out.
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  Preaching Work Complete!!! or is it?

  by iiz2cool in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in 1989, we as jw's distributed and studdied many articles in the watchtower.

  i remember one study article in particular that indicated that the preaching work would end by the end of the 20th century.

  when the year 2000 came around, i searched bound volumes and the watchtower cd, but couldn't find the statement.

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  wannaexit

  we also realized a few years ago how deceptive watchtower really is. But like you we also have folks that keep individual copies of watchtower and have been able to see all the omissions.
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  Animal Farm....

  by Xandria in

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  have you ever notice how the wts is like animal farm ???.

  then, as usual, the sheep broke into "four legs good, two legs bad!

  " and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over.

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  wannaexit

  xandria,

  I have a copy of the book Animal Farm back from my high school years. Recently I read it again and the similarity between this book and the watchtower are scary.

  I wonder if they had Animal Farm in mind when they named Watchtower Farms
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  Crisis of Conscience

  by Cheyannesways in

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  i am on the last chapter of this book!

  i can hardly put it down.

  have you all read it?

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  Nickey,

  My husband got a post box at the other end of the city. Then he made different covers for them and read them at work. When the time was ripe he brought them home and I was introduced to them. Now we keep them hidden along with other forbidden books. We call this spot our 'apostate library'. ( if our family would find out we have they books in our possession they would go balistic)
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  Crisis of Conscience

  by Cheyannesways in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am on the last chapter of this book!

  i can hardly put it down.

  have you all read it?

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  wannaexit

  I have read both Crisis of Conscience and In Search of Christian Freedom a couple of time. They are great. They really helped me to see the organization for what it really is.

  I am so grateful to Ray Franz for taking the time and effort to put these books out.

  If every JW could read these books, the Watchtower organization would crumble.