25ashitaka25

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  Song U Identify With Freedom?!?!

  by ashitaka in

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  i like the jimi hendrix 'freedom', i blast that frequently.. any songs that speak to your sense of freedom, now?.

  ashi

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  Comf, you like rush too????......i'm kind of a rush-o-file. Have every album, even that YYZ bootleg on LP....

  ashi
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  My Inactive JW Workmate; One of us?

  by ashitaka in

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  gracias, pris. good suggestion. Sometimes I'm so timid I can't think strait.

  ashi
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  What was the JW breaking point 4 U?

  by ashitaka in

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  we have a thread that asks why we became jw's, so i became curious as to why some of us have left.

  what was the last straw for you?.

  mine was the treatment of my wife.

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  MC, that's great. The fact that it was in little pieces means you really set them off. Must have been a hell of an article...

  ashi
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  What was the JW breaking point 4 U?

  by ashitaka in

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  we have a thread that asks why we became jw's, so i became curious as to why some of us have left.

  what was the last straw for you?.

  mine was the treatment of my wife.

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  you're absolved, wham.

  :)):):):):):):)

  ashi
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  Update On Elder Suicide

  by Nat in

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  some of you may not have heard about my sister-in-laws brother.

  he was a elder/37/married/no children and my sister-in-law's twin brother.. he took his life a couple of weeks ago.

  no one was sure what was going on or what had happened.

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  Nat, I just wanted to express my sympathy. I've known so many 'almost suicides'; I can't imagine any of them accomplishing the act. I'm so sorry that the WTBTS did this to him....

  They couldn't even give him a decent funeral.

  ashi
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  What was the JW breaking point 4 U?

  by ashitaka in

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  we have a thread that asks why we became jw's, so i became curious as to why some of us have left.

  what was the last straw for you?.

  mine was the treatment of my wife.

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  25ashitaka25

  The shallowness of the golf-claps after a talk, the obvious gossip about everyone who wasn't in the know,

  that 'ah' counsel I remember.

  I'm a hell of a public speaker, and people used to say that I didn't smile enough.

  I told the person who counseled me that it's inappropriate to smile during a dissertaion on Armageddon.

  He said, why not? It's joyous for us, but not the world.

  Callousness, that's another reason. Labels-every JW had one.

  We could list these all day. I found out that friends were molested, people lied about, elders almost getting into fistfights during back-hall meetings, people getting abortions and hiding it (and getting away with it), just hypocrisy, pure and simple. But for some reason, you end up saying that it's 'just human imperfection.'

  Perhaps that's why doctrine was the real last straw for a lot of us.

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  Part 14: The Last Shepherding Visit

  by Amazing in

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  while i have you on the phone, elder c and i want to come by on a shepherding visit with you and your family.

  brother amazing, we just want to visit with you and your family anyway.

  the jc with brother k was over.

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  Awesome.

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  Victory...the reward for patience!

  by dmouse in

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  many years ago when i first came upon boards like this i wanted to know how to cope with my new status as an exjw.. in particular i was concerned with how to handle my still devout jw wife and three children.. i was given a lot of advice some potentially harmful, like leave your wife but many recommended patience.. that was ten years ago.

  over the next decade i allowed my wife to take our children to all the meetings and inculcate them however she wished.

  i knew it was a risk but i did not want to appear to be the stereotypical opposing mate and reinforce jw propaganda.. my plan was this:.

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  Dean, I know how you feel The same goes for my little brother. He's already made himself known as an ex-jw...LOL.

  ashi
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  What was the JW breaking point 4 U?

  by ashitaka in

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  we have a thread that asks why we became jw's, so i became curious as to why some of us have left.

  what was the last straw for you?.

  mine was the treatment of my wife.

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  I made the same pharisee paralells. Understand that one completly.

  I just stopped attending bookstudies five years ago.

  Regular meeting, two years ago.

  Just mounds of bullshit, so much you can barely see over it. I got tired of the smooth hypocrisies myself; putting your viewsin a public talk was pretty cool, though. Ill bet it got a bunch of people thinking.

  You have to free their minds first before laying the heavier stuff on them.

  ashi
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  Just curious

  by outonalimb in

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  i see that there is a plethera of jws here that have left the fold, maybe after reading some of these posts.

  is there anyone here that was not a jw, but is now after visiting here?

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  25ashitaka25

  {rolling eyes}

  Comon people, really......

  ashi