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  Issues That Made You ANGRY While You Were A Jehovah's Witness

  by minimus in

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  when i look back, i think of some things that really angered me about the organization.

  i was raised as a witness and i was taught from a very early age that "reaching out" was the most important things i could do in life.

  i was to reach out for "privileges" and get baptized.

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  The double standards, when they give you instructions or make pronouncements they are spirit directed... but when they are obviously wrong then they are just imperfect humans.

  I was VERY angry and bitter for a long time but I managed to get rid of those feelings. I refuse to let them influence me, good or bad ever again. The WT has done so much damage to so many peope for so long it's a crime, and I mean a real crime. They should be punished for screwing up so many lives and even causing needless deaths.
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  Help! need to explain to jw friend why Memorial is "flawed"

  by Smoky in

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  2. beliefs

  i told my friend "flawed" by i really mean a "fraud".

  i had lunch with one of my old jw friends a few days ago, and then he asked me, where i went for "memorial".. uhmmmm.

  i did not want to lie, so i told me i did not go.

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  It aways cracks me up when they refer to it as a *celebration* Wow this is the BIG JW event of the year. Let's celebrate.

  Drone, drone, pass a plate Drone, pass a glass OOH AHH Go Home.

  And why do they have to pass the plate and glass? Seems like everyone has to touch it for some reason, is it magic? Why not ask if there are partakers, come on down and tuck in. The whole thing has become a ritual, just an empty tradition. If you dont claim to be one of the 144000 whats the point? Give me a plate of fish and chips and a glass of beer (burp) anyday.
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  What's Wrong With Children's Sports?

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, friends:.

  this weekend i helped a friend - a professional photographer - with his photo shoot of nearly 200 little leaguers.

  i was apprehensive beforehand as the paperwork (my job) can easily go wrong and i hate crowds.. well, everything went well and i discovered two things: .

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  The thing that's wrong with childrens sports is the kids will actually enjoy themselves and feel normal. Well, we can't have that. Children must be made to sit still and be quiet through endless, mind withering, spirit sapping meetings and then if that's not enough, be made to stand out as different at school.

  The iron rod in the iron fist, that's what kids need, never mind fun, humbug, besides jesus never played soccer and the bible doesn't mention baseball...it's not in the bible for a reason, you know.

  Face it...The Governing body doesn't like fun...Birthdays,Out - Christmas, No - Valentines, Are you kidding. Sports? I'm surprised you even asked, spirit of competition = Devil worship.
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  Can any who grew up JW relate to this?

  by Mickey mouse in

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  confession time!

  i was raised in the troof and therefor never "chose" it.

  i find it really hard to get my head around why anyone would ever join this organization as an adult.

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  The witnesses use the old "bait and switch" tactic Get "em with the pretty pictures and promises of never having to grow old or die and if you've lost someone, well soon you'll se them again right here after they are resurrected ...And they all lived happily ever after... That is until you discover you've been decieved, lied to and robbrd of your free will to do as you please.

  My mother grew up in England during the second world war. She passed nights in air raid shelters as bombs exploded near by. Of course she wanted something better, a brighter future for her kids...the clergy didn't fill her needs, but the witnesses sure did. Here comes paradise, all aboard...that was 1960. She's still waiting. I'm not.

  I remember at school thinking "of all the rotten luck, I get the mother who's a JW" Still, it took me a long time to escape but I made it.
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses care for victims of child abuse RELEASE

  by NotaNess in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i'm sure this article has come up on the forum.

  can any one give me information on the numbers quoted below, in respect to them being inaccurate, correct, or what the number is more like, when you add in jw's that aren't elders, where it seems like they fail to mention here.

  it almost seems they try and minimalize the the amount of abuse by only speaking of the elders here.

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  Let's see now...If Satan is the father of the lie then the watchtower society must be sons of satan because this is an out and out lie. Victims have been silenced for years.
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  I've told hubby I don't believe it's the true religion...

  by cognac in

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  well, i've told him "i don't believe this is the truth" like, 5 times now, just "i don't believe this is the true religion" tonight... don't know if there is any difference.... i get the feeling he thinks this "will just go away" although the other day he said he understood why i was depressed because "i'm deserving of death" and he would be too.

  he didn't mean it, he's not happy on my new take on the jws.... anyways, i figure i'm gonna say everything i feel in front of the therapist, i need to tell him everything in front of a mediator... not just in a situation where he just thinks this thing will go away and can hurt me to guilt me into believing in the jws....

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  Wishing you all the best Cognac, It can be really tough taking a stand can't it? But as they say, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
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  Shropshire Star news editor examines issues behind death of JW Emma Gough

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. medical

  shropshire starapril 9, 2008. why would loving faith allow death?.

  features news editor neil thomas examines the issues behind the tragic death of new mum emma gough.. words written by heaven knows who and attributed to moses have brought about the apparently needless death of a young shropshire mother, and blighted many other lives, more than 3,000 years later.. far-fetched, possibly.

  yet, how else are we to interpret the death of emma gough?.

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  I feel sick to my stomach reading this. The WT are criminal. If christ Jesus stood by this young womans hospital bed would he have let her die? Would he have said her sacrifice made god happy? He had compassion, he would rescue an animal on the sabath. I can't believe he would not want Emma to live. The Governing body are cold hearted bastards.
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  My Introduction

  by bgurl81 in

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  i've been lurking on this website for quite some time, but haven't quite gotten the strength to post until now.

  for obvious reasons, i cannot reveal my identity.

  although my "family" nows that i am no longer a witness and celebrates holidays, they still have "hope" for me.

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  Hi bgurl81, Glad your here with us, sorry about the garbage youv'e had to endure from your "loving" bros and sisters. Oh well, you've found a good place here. Great to have you on board.
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  It crept up on me, and took me by surprise!

  by AK - Jeff in

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  life!

  i have begun to live it - instead of waiting on the 'real life' we had been promised as jw's.

  it started 4 years ago - but it moved slowly past the weeks and months of 'research', trying to find where i fit, then into an understanding that i didn't - at least not conventionally, fit anywhere, religiously speaking.

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  Good for you Jeff,

  Some years ago I had a conversation with a JW relative and she couldn't understand why I would never ever go back to being a witness. I told her that for me, being a Witness was like being in a big, beautiful, warm blue ocean, but the society was like an old wooden row boat out there. The Society is the boat and you are constantly told to hold on tight and cling to the rotten vessel because the water is deep and we will surely drown if we let go. Infact, you are warned not to even look at the ocean, instead, just focus intently on the boat.

  All my life I was in the beautiful ocean but focused on, and clinging to an old row boat.

  But somehow with the help of this site and other resources I finally let go. I finally took the plunge into life apart from the Organization. Sure I dipped under the water and it felt strange, but guess what? I bobbed back up. I didn't drown, not even a cough or splutter instead I discovered I could swim and the ocean felt great and it felt so wonderful to move around freely in it. How refreshing to be in the warm water no longer clinging to that old WT boat.

  Life is so much better for me now and the further I "swim" away from that row boat and all its clingers on, the more sad and pathetic they look. If only they knew what we know.

  That's why I would never trade the freedom that I now have for the dependency I had to an old tub of an organization.

  PS My aunt didn't buy it, she's still in. Desparate to see "the end"
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  Was it better to be an elder's wife, or a CO's wife?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  2. friends

  a friend of mine was asking about the cult we all hold so dear, and i was explaining some of it to her.

  i told her about elder's wives, and how they have both the prestige of that position, plus the social standing.

  logically, it would be even better for a co's wife.

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  I've come across a few CO wives, especially older ones who were on their own, know it all, elitist, I'm better than you, little power trips. They were the perfect compliment to their big shot, red hot, full of snot, husbands.