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heretic
Raised a witness ,dissed 4 days after my 23rd birthday. tried my darndest to get back in for a year and a half til it became apparent they werent gonna budge, decided these guys shouldnt have this power over my life so i walked. Chilled for a year or two busy working, before looking on the internet for people in my situation and the final walls broke down when 'apostates poisoned my mind!!' Met alot of posters + Kent, Simon, just2laws, germanexjw and their wives at emans bbq 2005, great to beer with them. hope to live to see the WTs demise, before my family waste their lives completely. I now enjoy meeting with the Sydney Ex jw meetup group.
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TheListener
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BlackSwan of Memphis
My name is Meagan, I was in the Dearborn Heights Cong (not sure if it was east or west). I left because it's a big lie. It's not complicated.
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geevee
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chirac
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steve2
I was raised a JW, being baptised at age 17, and disfellowshipped for apostasy in 1982 age 29 after trying to disassociate. This was initially the very worst - yet ultimately the absolute best experience of my life: I was forced to sink or swim and so I learned to take responsibility for my life rather than looking to authoritarian belief sysyems for answers. I subsequently went to university, eventually earning a PhD in Psychology and Diploma in clinical psychology. I am now a registered clinical psychologist working in an adult mental-health seting in a local hospital. I live with my partner. In early September 2005, we legalised our same-sex relationship by means of New Zealand's then new Civil Union bill which had been past into government legislation in April 2005. Thus, from a legal perspective, my partner is my next of kin. I have steered away from organised religion, although I am partial to the principles of Zen Buddhism. I find the absolutism of religious fundamentalists AND evolutionists equally off-putting. My view is, we humans just don't know what the truth is - especially in the realm of religious truths - and if we claim to know the Truth, our minds subsequently close and we invariably end up further away from the evidence in front of our eyes.