Posts by wannaexit

On your deathbed you will not be able to bargain for one more minute you wasted in field service at the meeting and assemblies. You are correct. On my deathbed I will have some regrets of times in my life that I wasted. You will too and so will everyone else on this earth.

Your parents have had their life and made their choices.Unfortunately my parents got sucked into this cult. They were simple immigrants who ended up investing their whole life in the organization. Its sad! However, I can't change that now. What I will NEVER DO is fault them for doing that they thought was best for themselves and their children.

What about you? When I started to figure things out, the first thing was educate myself. I got in contact with Ray Franz, visited with Andersons, dialouged with Tom Cabeen and read everything I could get my hands on. Once I became intrinsically sound, then I made the choice to ease out of my "amost 20 years of pioneering". I made the choice to go back to school ( in my forties). I got a degree and landed an amazing job. I also made the choice to instill in my kids the value of an education and sent them off to university. So please don't feel sorry for me.

It's laughable for you to tell me I have so much to learn. This was a reactive response to your generalized blanket statement that : this board is full of more people trying to stay in the org rather than leave it. I have no interest in keeping that kind of company. If you are trying to set your own" personal boundary" why do you have to announce it to the rest of the forum? Take your leave and be done with it. You appear to be an intelligent person- why make a comment that will generate incendiary responses?

Do you know how much I treasure [relationship with parents] the real relationship I have with them now? No you don't because you have never tried? I take umbrage to this statement. In reality we don't know each other. You can't begin to judge my relationship with my parents. Love and respect are important ingredients in any relationship, especially in the parent-child situation. I know that my parents would accept me even if I left with a "bang". But I also know it would cause them a great deal of pain grief . I CHOOSE not be the instrument for their pain and grief. At 83 and 76 my parents days are numbered.

So I go along with the status quo. I go to meeting (not all ) I go out saturday in service (spent in coffee shop)It's not a perfect situation--but it's doable for me.

I don't think I am doing anything than validating ( and now arguing with) their indecision and watching them waste their own lives. Really Cage, I don't feel my life is wasted. Unfortunately the Jw experience is something that is not easily shed. You and I and everyone else who has had the pleasure or better displeasure of being acquainted with this cult, will carry it till the day we die.

I am trying to make lemonade with the lemons I've been given. Everyone deals with it differently. Please don't feel sorry for me. I am a big girl. Maybe even a princess once in a while

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I have a girlfriend now and "me so happy"

by RayPublisher in

here is my sweet survival plan, post jw life!

...yet another part of my healing process...yes healing is g o o d.... .

btw, it feels so great to not have to hide and to able to put my picture up anywhere i feel like!.

wannaexit

she is a cutie

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I am signing off....

by Cagefighter in

jw
friends

might be back, might not.

i really appreciate the historical information on the jw's this board allowed me to find out about.

it really put things into perspective.

wannaexit

I am not sure if it's me or you all, but this board seems to be full of more people trying to stay in the org rather than leave it. I have no interest keeping that kind of company.

WOW- that's a pretty harsh and judgmental comment. Sounds like watchtower has taught you well- shunning people only because they are doing things a little different.

Just for the record- I am one of those people staying in.

Believe me its tough to listen to the drivel. I wish I could get out too. But I stay because I have loving elderly parents that would be devasted if I left. So I stay! Its a willing sacrifice I do for them. One day my folks will not be around-then I can take my leave .

You have a lot to learn--

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Please critique this statement from the GB

by punkofnice in

on another thread (in a galaxy far far away), i saw that one of the paedophile protecting gb members from the brooklyn hate factory made a statement like:.

''it's still the truth(tm), we just have a different understanding of it!''.

please feel free to ridicule, analyse, critique the above propagandist spin..

wannaexit

Its still crap--we just have a different way of looking at it

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Lots of Good News everybody!

by OneDayillBeFree in

you know one of the reasons why some witnesses decide to stay inside is to help others wake up and leave as well, and although this hasnt been exactly a goal of mine, it was something i'd ponder every now and again.

and we all know that it is not easy to get to jw's when they are fully mind controlled.

but i'd like to tell you guys what's been happening with brothers and sisters without the help of others who know ttatt.... so last night i got a phone call from a brother who's a good friend of mine whom i've talked about in the past here.

wannaexit

That's great!

Funny yesterday a JW friend confided that she gest more out of watching Joel Olsteen (spel?) than she does at the kingdom hall. A couple of weeks ago another JW friend confided that she is tired of feeling guilty everytime she comes home from a meeting or assembly. So I agree as well that the watchtower is rotting from the the inside out.

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This newbie here just ordered Crisis of Conscience!

by haboob48 in

jw
friends

just ordered cofc today!

can't wait to read it, and hope i can figure out how to get my family member to read it.

btw my family member was a babtized jw years ago..............they are just going through this crap a 2nd time voluntarily!

wannaexit

Great read and I promise you will learn things about this organization that you never new. I think I'll go back and reread it.

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Patterson on the line: Watchtower claims that paying cash bond would cause immediate irreparable harm and hardship

by cedars in

a new article for those who are interested.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/patterson-on-the-line-watchtower-claims-that-paying-cash-bond-would-cause-immediate-irreparable-harm-and-hardship.

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cedars.

wannaexit

WHAt is happening?????????????