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  Why I lost my religion

  by Sour Grapes in

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  i was a jw for over 50 years and recently just stopped cold turkey going to the meetings.

  years of sitting at the meetings with the boredom, the gloom and doom, repetition of doctrine, the gloom and doom, the fake love, the gloom and doom, the end being so close, do more - do more, just got to be too much for me to stomach.

  i stopped praying to god and no longer thank god for the food before i eat.

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  Years of sitting at the meetings with the boredom, the gloom and doom, repetition of doctrine, the gloom and doom, the fake love, the gloom and doom, the end being so close, do more - do more, just got to be too much for me to stomach.

  Same here....I was an anxious depressed wreck and it got to the point that only could attend the Sunday meeting. Even at that, I couldn't get through the Watchtower study without ducking out to my car after the public talk, to have a sip of the beer or wine I stashed there, just to stop the waves of anxiety and flip flops going on in my stomach.

  A week or two after ending my meeting attendance, the years of anxiety I had been suffering, magically disappeared. Not dwelling on all the ills of the world and listening to continual dooms day predictions, was all the cure I needed. This gave me the motivation to find out what else I could jettison from my psyche to improve my life.

  Your story and thought process pretty much mirrors my own but you've managed to articulate it much better.

  Thanks !
  
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  Leah Remini (Scientology expose' series) "May turn attention to Jehovah's Witnesses next"

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4935392/leah-remini-turn-attention-jehovah-s-witnesses.html.

  remini said that she was warned of the jehovah’s witnesses that 'these f----rs are super powerful,' but is not one to cower in fear.. 'are you ready for my response?

  'i don’t give a s--- about powerful.

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  My wife and I just started watching Leah's Scientology documentary and the whole time, I'm thinking to myself "I wish this little Spitfire would find out about JW's". I would love to see her approach a literature cart or go toe to toe with Stephen Lett.
  

  She's a tough cookie with a heart of gold. She'd be pissed if she heard about the "child molestation" cases, all the deaths of children and adults, from lack of blood and the break up of families caused by JW policy.
  

  If we could all write to her from our various parts of the world, and give her a nutshell version of our story, she might realize the magnitude of what is going on with JW's. She, having grown up in closed society run by a high control group, would immediately recognize and understand what we're going through.

  Does anyone know how to contact her?
  
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  “There’s nothing out there in the world for you...”

  by Jules Saturn in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how would you guys react if or when you were told this phrase by a jw while having a conversation?

  another phrase is “this world...” or “this system, like gum will chew you up and when it’s done with you, spit you right back out.”.

  one i’ve been personally told was from a convert that had told me “whenever i speak to young ones that want to know if the grass is greener on the other side, i tell them i was a part of it.

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  They spin it both ways.
  

  They warn you not to leave because the world is so awful and will chew you up and spit you out. (failure)

  When things don't go well, they'll say it's because Satan is extra diligent about bringing JW's to ruin.

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  They'll warn you not to leave because the material riches and physical pleasures that one can easily access and get distracted by out there in the world, (success) will all soon come to an end.

  When those who leave and have success, they say Satan loves to distract former servants of Jehovah, by making sure they are successful.
  
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  Kleenex Head Covering

  by jwundubbed in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  growing up a woman in the cult was pretty bleak.

  most of the adult women i knew were either depressed sad women or an embarrassment to me.

  i was typical kid in that regard.

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  My Dad wasn't a JW and one time he walked in the front door in the middle of our family bible study. My Mom took off one of her slippers and balanced it on her head and sent my sister into the kitchen to grab a clean dish towel.

  Mom thought she was supposed to win Dad over with her "fine" conduct. There was his wife and 4 kids all staring at him as if he were some intruder. My Dad, with a WTF look on his face, rolled his eyes and walked off. Talk about making someone feel like and outsider, in his own home. That's exactly what the JW religion did to my Dad. He was outnumbered, and basically had his family hijacked from him.
  
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  Oddest front covers on Watchtower or Awake

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in my comedy i want to show the audience a large version of some weird front covers from the watchtower or awake.. do you have any suggestions?.

  cheers.

  paul.

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  Oddest front covers on Watchtower or Awake

  by usualusername1 in

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  in my comedy i want to show the audience a large version of some weird front covers from the watchtower or awake.. do you have any suggestions?.

  cheers.

  paul.

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  Normal things you missed out on as a kid (besides holidays)

  by Are you serious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since me and my siblings had to go to service every saturday, and i mean every saturday, i missed out on something so normal as watching good ole saturday morning cartoons from the 70's and 80's.

  i remember wishing i could stay home just one saturday so i could watch cartoons.

  but noooo we had to go save lives!

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  and of course that was sacred bookstudy night, right?

  Which was oh so important and life saving that it doesn't even exist today.
  
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  Normal things you missed out on as a kid (besides holidays)

  by Are you serious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since me and my siblings had to go to service every saturday, and i mean every saturday, i missed out on something so normal as watching good ole saturday morning cartoons from the 70's and 80's.

  i remember wishing i could stay home just one saturday so i could watch cartoons.

  but noooo we had to go save lives!

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  Speaking of Saturday morning cartoons...

  Back in 1965 when I was about 8 years old, (I remember it as if it were yesterday) one rainy Saturday morning, the field service car group I was in, stopped to call on someone who was spiritually weak.

  They had kids my age and the kids were watching bugs bunny on TV. I was utterly delighted when the adults got into a long drawn out conversation about the nearness of the end and I got to watch cartoons (out of the corner of my eye) as they "encouraged" the weak parents to improve their meeting attendance.

  There were a lot of things I missed out on but mostly I missed out on the peaceful carefree time of life that childhood is supposed to be because on a daily basis, I was reminded that there was death and destruction looming on the horizon for anyone who didn't "Love Jehovah" and "Love being a Jehovah's Witness" and didn't find joy in "serving" him,
  

  Here we are in 2017 and the kid who was never supposed to graduate from high school (1975), went to Bethel, came home got married had a career, had kids and is now a new grandpa (yeah !!) and getting ready to retire. The long dreaded "great tribulation" and the cataclysmic event (Armageddon) never materialized.

  The worst thing of all is that (even here on this forum) , none of what I went through really matters to anyone else today. At a certain age, you come to realize that the things you experienced in your past life is sort of dismissed and considered no longer relevant by those who are younger and view the experiences of those who lived in the past as different and less important than their own (things were different back in the olden days). To be fair, I did the same thing myself when I was younger because I couldn't relate. Now I appreciate what the ones that went ahead of me, were taking about. And on it goes....the more things change, the more they stay the same.
  
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  If the WTBTS Was Disbanded Tomorrow...

  by Cimarrona in

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  2. humour

  how would the gb, do, co, bethelites, elders, pioneers, etc list their now-meaningless positions on their resume?

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  Since no one would be left there to verify anything, they could write anything they wanted on their resume. Even the lowliest of workers could claim to have held high level positions in the organization and no one would be any the wiser.
  
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  Sexual Depredation as a function of male society by men of a Certain Age

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i would like to remind those folks younger than i that it was very few years ago when almost the entire planet earth was run by and for the benefit of men.women have throughout history been the property of men.due to religious restrictions, teachings, and fundamentalist doctrines, women in the largest societies on earth right now (muslim, chinese, n.korean) have almost no human rights at all.next year, in june, women will, for the 1st time, be allowed in arabia to drive---but--only if they are 30 years old or older, and for only a few hours per day!the old testament laws (read through them sometime) are horrifying reflective of prejudice toward gender, bodily cleanliness, guilt-tripping, and anonymity.

  (what was noah's wife's name?

  lot's wife?

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  It is still a man's world no matter what you say. 'Nuff said.

  Dismissive JW: Everyone in the world is bad and no matter what youi say, we are Gods chosen people...'Nuf said.