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  New here

  by Chameleon in

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  hello everyone.. i'm an "active" jw and have been for...13 years but my faith in the jw org died about 5 years ago.. so, i've been doing the jw thing for 5 years now without believing in it.

  i might be an ms soon, unfortunately.. i tried telling my parents about it but they said apostates are good with twisting words and whatnot.. they wouldn't even let me show them evidence of wt hypocrisy; however, my mother did say she found it odd that every once in a while, there's that publisher resolution of donating a certain amount a year.

  there might be hope for her yet.

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  Tuesday

  Obviously fading is the best way to go. Moving out would probably be the best bet there. I left at the same time as you, I was almost 20 at the time. I was going to Community College and I was really just sick of everything that was happening in my congreagation and honestly I was just sick of being a witness, I never really believed that they were "God's Channel" or anything. So I got in a debate with my mother about it. I told her that I was racked with guilt and so forth, that I was having severe emotional problems because I had doubts about the orginization and it was just too much between school, work, meetings, service and so forth. I basically made it seem that I couldn't take being a witness anymore and if I was a witness anymore I'd probably end up killing myself. (Which wasn't true at all, I was just really annoyed). I was somewhat depressed but I amplified it, until my mother said that she'd rather see me not go to meetings for a while (she was confident I'd return) with the hope of returning, than killing myself and not only not returning but not be resurrected either.

  So if you want you can try that attempt, but you have to be at least a little depressed in order to pull it off because you just amplify the feelings. Though the more I read about depression the more I believe I really was depressed. But hey it's worth a shot, if you're willing.
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  What Do You Think About The "Faithful&Discreet Slave Class"?

  by minimus in

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  there are so many new posters here now, i think this topic should be revisited.

  i believe the most ridiculous belief that witnesses have is a "slave class" made up of 144,000 give spiritual "food at the proper time".

  why can't jws see thru this??

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  If you're joining an orginization you might as well shoot for the top of it right? Go FDS!!!
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  What is your purpose here?

  by The Scotsman in

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  it is interesting to read the posts here.

  people desperately trying to convince themselves that they were right to give up!.

  is this your purpose in coming here????.

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  THis is in answer to the original post. You'll notice my posts do none of those three things, pretty much everything I said here can be easily researched if you go to my original congregation. The reason I'm here

  I didn't like being a witness, I wasn't happy there, I felt really constricted and it just wasn't for me. I always thought the scripture was that the truth was "refreshing" you know "Come to me those who are toiling and loaded down", well I felt that way AS A WITNESS. So how could I go to Jesus (as represented by the Faithful and Discreet Slave) when they were the ones that were making me feel loaded down.

  I'm still here more or less to lend support to people who are on their way out and need validation, make some jokes about the more ridiculous dogma in the religion, and in genuine just take a lighter look at something that was my entire life up until I was 19.
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  Exciting New Use For Tract

  by Asheron in

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  i came home from work yesterday and lo and behold, a faithfull servant of jah had dropped off the new tract!!

  i devoured the exciting words of death and destruction.

  i especially liked the second picture of the nasty harlot getting eaten.

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  What about collecting all the tracts received and by using the great recycling paper idea we make flyers for silent lambs. "See Silent Lambs are echo friendly, only printed on recycled paper"
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  No Tag At My Son's School....

  by Why Georgia in

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  perhaps some of you have seen this on the news.

  my son's school has gotten national attention because the ban on tag.

  i went to the pto meeting and spoke with the principal.

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  I thought it was the body spray or possibly spray painting stuff (which I thought all schools banned) but yeah no playing tag is pretty ridiculous.
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  Spend how much for wives/girlfriends?

  by greendawn in

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  how much should a man tolerate a girlfriend or wife that is very demanding on clothes/shoes and other articles such as perfumes, handbags etc?

  is there a limit to what one should spend to keep them happy beyond which it becomes a case of them taking advantage?

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  I would say that if you can afford to spend money and they want something I wouldn't have an issue with spending it. If there wasn't any money to spend and still they were buying something that wasn't necessary then I would draw the line there.
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  Curiosity dictates a question like this...

  by Juniper in

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  have any of you out there ever taken the "opposite route" and studied paganism or wicca?.

  i know of some that practice that.

  but i've been thinking about what a strange irony that would be, right?

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  Yeah I actually did think of getting into Wicca for a little while. For the exact reason you stated, I was involved in Witnessism for so long that I wanted to go the exact opposite route, or what I percieved as the exact opposite route (in a positive way, I didn't view Satanism as a positive life route). In the end I felt like Bobby in King Of The Hill when his older friends that are Wiccan are basically revealed to him. I felt really stupid thinking of lighting a candle then chanting things over and over again, or taking a bath with herbs and so forth. In the end it to me was the same as worshipping Jehovah because there was no guarantee or anything, if I pray for Jehovah's help there's a 9/10ths chance that nothing is going to happen, and it turned out the same with Wiccanism for me. Just my expirience, anyone who wants to practice wicca by all means do so, it wasn't for me though.
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  Hurts so good?

  by return visitor in

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  i know many have been hurt by association with the wts, but i was just wondering, are there any truths that you accually can take away from your association with it.

  for instance, before becoming a jw i would recite the lord's prayer, and had never read in matt.

  that is was not to be recited, but that it was mearly there as an example of how to pray.

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  I guess that being "no part of the world" taught me to not care what others thought of me, I think it backfired when I left though LOL
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  Some incredible new publisher statistics and Graphs

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been doing some analysis on the declining growth rates of the watchtower society and they are very encouraging for all ex jws.

  i will try to link to some of them below, but for the firefox users or anyone wanting to see the source table they can all be seen at http://jwfacts.com/index_files/statistics.htm.

  number baptised compared to increases in publishers and number that have stopped publishing.

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  1997 was when I was around 17, I remember when someone is like 16/17 they're usually pressured to get baptized. I think this big "Jump" or whatever has alot to do with the little baby boom of the early 80's and the children becoming of the age where they have to either be baptized or at least be a publisher.

  Then in 1999 was around the time I turned 19 and that was the biggest decline, which would mean that everyone got baptized due to pressure in their mid-teens, and by their late-teens were ready to leave.

  If this sounds right I give a big "Yay!" to my generation
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  Annual Meeting Notes

  by NikL in

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  this is an e mail making the rounds of the faithfull.

  supposedly notes from the annual society meetiing.

  in case anyone is interested.. ****************.

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  Tuesday

  Contentment with your lot in life. I guess alot of people are sick of fighting to make ends meet while still having to keep open 2 nights a week, and at least 1 day for service. Is there something against ambition?

  Wow, Brother Herd is a governing body member, my Mom once cooked a lunch for him and we had to eat in the hall when he was visiting our congregation. He seemed like a nice guy, had a good sense of humor (and I say that because he laughed at my usual slew of dick and fart jokes).