Topics Started by Angus Beef

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What Drew You To The Witnesses?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i did believe for the first 30 years of my life that they had been picked by jehovah god to dispense the truth as best as imperfect humans could.

then, everything became questionable.

i had read anti jw books in the past but franz's books really got to me but not immediately.
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I find I am Shunning my family !
by Phizzy in
1. jw
2. friends
although i really hate the wt/jw shunning policy, which especially huts those who have been df'd, i find i am in a kind of way doing it to my jw family.. i do not include them in anything i do, in my own family gatherings, and i cannot be arsed to inform them of things going on in my family, or to even go and see them, unless really necessary.. this all adds up to a kind of "reverse shunning", and i do feel a twinge of guilt about it, but it is simply how things have become.. do you, fellow faders, find a similar thing happening ?.
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Saving Mr. Banks is not a typical Disney film. Seen it? Tell us what you think.!
by Wasanelder Once in
1. social
2. entertainment
saving mr. banks is not about mary poppins exactly, not the one we know.

in this movie we come to see who she was to the author through flashbacks that become so entwined with the adult author, a bitter and negative woman, that mary p.'s purpose becomes clear at last and not the disney factory model.

if you haven't seen it, a speech disney gives to her is phenominal in my opinion.
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Any suggestions to help?
by casio in
1. jw
2. friends
ok. its been a year since my first post.

(i wasn't joking when i said it would take a while for any replies!!).

thanks for all of the kind words of support.. .
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Finally decided to introduce myself here
by cookiemaster in
1. jw
2. experiences
hey guys !

i've stopped believing the watchtower crap a few years ago.

i achieved this on my own, despite being raised as one.
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making connections
by losingit in
1. jw
2. experiences
one of the thing i appreciate most about this site is reading other people's experiences while in and out of the cult.

when i read other people's stories, it helps to validate my own experiences.

i rarely talked to anyone else besides my husband concerning my doubts, and so for the entire time that i was in i thought i was the only one having these negative experiences with the brothers in the kingdom hall.
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Do you look like the apostate they warned you about?
by Angus Beef in
1. jw
2. experiences
after waking up and wanting to get out of this nightmare, the word apostate is really bothering me.

if i quitely become inactive, fade away will i just be looked at as "always weak".

i want to scream out how big a fool i was.. and now telling my poor young daughter how wrong i was to bring her up as a jw.
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I want to let off steam.
by quellycatface in
1. jw
2. experiences
the wt conductor in my ex-kh was such a jerk-off.

when i used to answer up, he just called me by my first name instead of "sister chickenhead", or whatever.

the only person he did that to was me, in a kh of about 80, or so.
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Ever read back your own posts and thinking WTF?
by DeWandelaar in
1. jw
2. experiences
as time goes forward people tend to change... expecially if you get out of a cult.

your brain for some reason gets de- and reprogrammed and you get other insights and new opinions.

you become a other human.. when reading back some of my previous posts (of about a year ago) i could not help but have a wtf-moment... i even felt a sudden way of "shame" of all the bullshit i was writing.. if you want to read some of mine just check my posts of about a year back.
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New here and having ah ha moments!
by Angus Beef in
1. jw
2. friends
what made you realize it was time to go?

i've been having health problems for the last few years and instead of any help, i'm listed as spiritually weak and of course associations is only my kids and husband.

all the good jw's have moved to other congregations and are doing well.