Odrade

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  Hi everyone, I'm Cognac's friend!

  by Hypnotic in

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  i just wanted to say hi.

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  Odrade

  :::And so, please don't blame me, I took a wait-and-see attitude.

  would have been nice if everyone had done so, instead of the little witchhunt that just happened.
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  Hi everyone, I'm Cognac's friend!

  by Hypnotic in

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  i just wanted to say hi.

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  Odrade

  Can't say I blame her. Hope you come back Hypnotic, when people are less trigger happy.
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  Hi everyone, I'm Cognac's friend!

  by Hypnotic in

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  i just wanted to say hi.

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  Odrade

  No need for that kind of bending over, Cognac. There are a number of self-appointed hall monitors here who "investigate" every story that sounds "too" interesting. Ignore them.
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  Hi everyone, I'm Cognac's friend!

  by Hypnotic in

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  i just wanted to say hi.

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  Odrade

  I just want to interject that when I figured all of this out, I immediately contacted my best friend, who immediately joined this board (although she didn't stick around long. LOL!) It can and does happen, so let's not go assuming that everyone who has a compelling story is automatically a troll...
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  That's It, I'm Talking Right Now, seriously, I'm on my cell phone right now

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  Odrade

  Last month this was his service time: 0
  What did he put in? 25 hours... 25!!!

  Okay, this seriously cracked me up! LMAO!
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  With every breath that I took, I wanted the JWs to be right...

  by cognac in

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  i wish i could not think its so wrong when everyone i know and love thinks its so right.. i'm so mad... i wish i could run to my husband and tell him how angry i am.

  tell him and my family that i don't ever want to go near a kh again.

  ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  "Fading" gets easier after awhile for most people. It can make all the difference in the world if your spouse comes out of the Organization with you. I'm hoping for you that this will be the case. In the meantime, keep telling yourself that those are THEIR rules, not yours, and if they want to think of you as a JW still, that's okay, but YOU don't have to think of yourself as a JW if you don't want to.
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  What was the 1st thing you did that wasn't allowed after leaving the JW's?

  by cognac in

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  i haven't left.... 1 thing while i'm actually in is being here though.... i'm happy here.

  i actually feel for the first time really "right" about something... .

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  Odrade

  Voted, I guess.
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  Has Anybody Seen This Site?

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  http://jehovahs-witnesses.net/library.html

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  Odrade

  Haha
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  Moments at the District Assembly You'll Never Forget...

  by integ in

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  i'll never forget the assembly in madison, wi.

  where some poor sap had to tell everyone that he had become addicted to porno on the net, but through much prayerful contemplation and after confessing to the elders he was able to come to "grips" with it.. good luck to that guy with ever getting a fine sister to marry him.. poor guy.

  i really felt sorry for him.

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  Odrade

  ::::when i was about 4 years old i got lost at the district convention. my parents found me in the lost and found department.

  Bwahahaha! Creative! Thanks for the laugh.
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  I'm a Pioneer Married To a Wonderful Brother Reaching Out to be an MS...

  by cognac in

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  and petrified... i just recently became a pioneer and always had nagging questions in the back of my mind.

  so, i decided that when i have get a study i would research all the questions as i go along so as to prove everything in the truth... i got 4 studies in about 2 months.

  all was fine, until i reached i think chapter 6 in the bible teach book about the resurrection.

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  Odrade

  Cognac, we were on our way to the Tacoma, WA District Convention Friday morning in 2003. My husband gave me Ray Franz' book "Crisis of Conscience," before we left on Thursday night. I started reading when we pulled out of the driveway for our two-1/2 hour drive. As we were going through Olympia WA, only 30 miles south, and two hours after leaving home, I knew I could never go back to the WT organization. Sometimes it happens really fast like that. You'll recover. Ha!
  
  My husband had already found out much of the things you have discovered today. His exit had started secretly many months before when he found out about the Society's former ban on both organ transplants, and vaccinations. We were very fortunate that we left the JWs together, because one spouse leaving and the other staying is likely one of the hardest things one would ever have to face. It wasn't easy, but it was worth it. Now our lives are our own. We don't worry about being destroyed at Armageddon because we aren't doing "enough." We decide what to think based on an actual decision, instead of just accepting what we are told.