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Hyghlandyr
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=27551&site=3 My email is [email protected] and [email protected] I check the phirst most ophten.
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William Penwell
I was raised in the Jdub religion but started to fade after the 1975 fiasco. I have made a complete break the last 20 years. Although there never is a complete break when I still have family in the cult.
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Scully
The Watchtower Society infested my life when I was 6 years old and my parents began Studying™ with the JWs. I wanted to quit going to Meetings™ in my teens and had to deal with the ugliness of JW bullying without the support that exists now. Baptized™ at 17, mostly to gain the approval of my parents, I parroted the answers that were expected when was being prepared for Baptism™. By the time I was 30, a health crisis in my life showed me the JWs' true colours, and my doubts reached critical mass. I became interested in Social Psychology and began watching a university course presented on the subject - the lectures about group dynamics and mind control techniques opened my eyes and I decided that I wanted to leave the JWs once and for all. I had to be sure that my family would leave too - it took almost a year for me to convince my spouse that the JWs did not have The Truth™. January 1, 1995 marks when our "fade" began.
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BluesBrother
Ex elder now "Inactive" , details spared because of family connections
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Dark Knight
<div>The morning's bitterness<br>I taste on your lips<br>Defiling the embrace<br>That you impose on me.<br>And the bleakness <br>Of the bedroom walls<br>Yell obscenities <br>In reply to my confession.<p></p>What else shall I breath<br>But the fumes of fiery breath,<br>The winsome words of hatred<br>And the tortuous relief of betrayel.<br>Instinct no longer plays a part<br>In this mockery of survival.<br>Only some dark and twisted force<br>To shape the relic of my former self.</div>
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Athanasius
Served as a regular pioneer for two years, a ministerial servant for one year, and an elder for 10 years. Left in 1984 after reading Crisis of Conscience.
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Mum
First contact with JW's at age 9. My dad's boss was a JW. He and his wife had a Bible study with us. After my dad got a new job (when I was about 12-13), he discontinued the studies. When I was 15, my dad had some kind of (probably drug-induced)hallucination that he had participated in the heavenly judgment of his friend who died in a coal mine cave-in. Did I mention that my family was crazy? As a result, he felt like we should attend the Baptist Church near our house. The church brought in an evangelist, Jack Van Impe, to conduct a revival. Mr. Van Impe preached against JW's, which made me (did I mention I was stupid?) think the JW's must be "right" because they seemed a threat to this obviously wealthy and influential evangelist. Being a JW actually made my life better initially. My parents were physically and psychologically abusive, addicted, and crazy. Whenever I was at the meetings and in field service, I was away from them experiencing love bombing. Eventually, I was baptized, the love bombing stopped, I married and elder and had an insider's view of the borg. It was not pretty. I had to get out. I did.