Posts by KateWild

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Hello Everyone

by MarieK in

i hope everyone is having a good saturday.

i've visited this many times in the past month or so, joined yesterday and finally got the nerve to post!

needless to say, i'm super nervous, being new to this whole experience.

Thanks for the first instalment of your story....very interesting so far. Yes it does blow your mind learning TTATT but the outrage and frustration subsides once you focus on your exit plan if you decide to exit.

Take care

Kate xx

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Index of acronyms : help for new forumers

by Mary J Blige in

am finding a whole lot of acronyms that are really foreign to me and i now have an appreciation for what cult language sounds like to non-culters.

wondering please if you can post your definitions so i can get up to speed.

otherwise, as an indoctrinated ex-culter, i am inclined to create my own new light and swiftly it will be gospel.

KateWild

Welcome MJB, looks like you have the most commonly used ones now.

I must admit I always thought SIL was sister in law too......I can't see it being a position in the congregation. But it's possible I am wrong.

Anyway welcome once again

Take care

Kate xx

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First Post and Using the memorial to wake up family members

by dgeero in

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this is my first post here though i've been a long time lurker.

my story in a nutshell:.

started having doubts after the new silver sword and watchtower study regarding overlapping generations.

KateWild

Thanks for your story.

I helped my daughter get out when we were facing injustices. I told he she could think for herself and I didn't want her to have any regrets and I didn't want her to end up like the miserable middle aged single sisters in the cong.

She got the message and left, saw through all the injustices, and knows it's a cult. But she has never read COC or jwfacts.com.

She has told her story on this site though

Kate xx

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Funny JW cartoon

by Funchback in

sorry if others have posted this video already.

i have been away a while...maybe i'm late to the party!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_pqu0bln74.

KateWild

Good cartoon, very funny xxx

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This is my story

by Funchback in

a couple of people here asked, so, i would like to share my story.. i got baptized at the age of 14 (armageddon was coming any day).

to call keith to ask him to stop talking about me.

keith and mrs. keith denied they were talking about me.

KateWild

Interesting story Brian, thanks for sharing. I am glad you have a good new life now.

Kate xx

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Disfellowshipped at 18

by asensier in

you can probably guess how this story goes.. i began dating a non-witness boy.

he knew i was a baptised witness and understood the consequences i faced for dating him.

we agreed to keep our relationship secret, which was easy considering our 200 mile distance.

KateWild

I'm just about settled now but everything has happened so quickly over the past 4 months, just need time to get used to my new circumstances.-asensier

Yes it takes time to settle, but you have a boyfriend that has known you for years and you seem to have a close bond. I hope he continues to treat you well

Kate xx

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Dating portrayed as a sin

by asensier in

some of you may have read my post under the subcategory 'dating and relationships' entitled 'disfellowshipped at 18.

'i have recently started to produce a blog to share my story and would really appreciate your support.

if you are a user of wordpress, please follow and reblog.

KateWild

I have read your first part the you wrote this morning. Looking forward to the rest. It's cathartic to get it out. I made a DVD and recorded my JC, if you want to see the youtube send me a pm and I will send you the link

Kate xx

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Disfellowshipped at 18

by asensier in

you can probably guess how this story goes.. i began dating a non-witness boy.

he knew i was a baptised witness and understood the consequences i faced for dating him.

we agreed to keep our relationship secret, which was easy considering our 200 mile distance.

KateWild

A phonecall with my parents resulted in me being told that I was in effect, dead to them. As well as this, my mam told me not to have children in case they ever hurt me as much as I hurt her. I hung up the phone.-ansensier

First of all welcome, I am from the UK too Liverpool.

What your mum said must have really hurt you. I would never say that to my daughter. When I was a JW I was really strict and said we should always rely on Jehovah, but when injustices came our way and my then 19 year old daughter left I supported her and left too.

I feel for you losing your mum like that especially if you had a close bond. I wish there was something else I could do to fix it. Writing a letter is a good idea and keep on writing, you may break the hold WT has on her.

Take care

Kate xx

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A difficult yet necessary decision

by Brother Jeramy in

the past five weeks have been perhaps the most painful in my life as a witness.. some months ago a young man (i'd say in his late thirties or early forties) began attending meetings at my kingdom hall.

he had just moved to my area from another state.

he had disassociated himself from his home congregation many years back, when he was 20 years old and going through many of the typical trials and temptations most young men experience.. two of the elders met with him initially, and they later shared the details with the body of elders.

KateWild

Brother Jeramy,

It's so nice to see you really understand what a problem the policy of reinstatement is. I couldn't get reinstated either after five letters and 18 months of attending all meetings and doing all prep for meetings.

My daughter knew I was praying more than her so she left WT and talked to me.

Well done for being humble enough to admit the only way to effect change is to leave.

Kate xx

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Ran into some JW's.......but this time I did the teaching ;) x

by snare&racket in

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so i went out today with my broken leg and got accosted by an old lady, with some magazines.. it was my first ever encounter with a jw in ten years, and i had said 'i know you are jw's, i'm not interested thank you.

" twice.....then she started talking about my broken leg and how wonderful we are made and how amazing the healing process is.... and that's when it all started...."i used to be a bethelite pioneer, now i'm an atheist doctor...".

she was with me a good 30 mins, her elder husband left very annoyed but she stayed, and she was dying to hear everything i spurted out, despite aggressively defending every point, from military engines to paedophilia.

KateWild

But this was the point that led him to raise his white flag and go sit in his car. It was a hot day and I didn't envy him. He certainly didn't appear happy to me! - Snare

Lol hahaha.

He would have been mulling it over and then they both would have been talking about the conversation just like we are, you struck a chord and now it's upto them to either be honest with themselves or follow blindly. You snapped me out of it, I am sure you will snap others out of it too.

But I still believe in a creator lol wink wink

Kate xx