Unprodigal Daughter

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  Has anyone been shunned by a REAL sinner?

  by ToesUp in

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  just curious..... has anyone been shunned (just decided to leave the cult)?

  let me explain my situation:.

  a family member seems to be shunning me.

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  Haha yes, JWs are some of the most hypocritical people you will ever meet!
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  Any regrets whilst you were in the Org

  by Tallon in

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  the biggest regret i have is of 'shunning' persons who were disfellowshipped and for 'marking' ones deemed as bad association.. there's no way i can approach these people to ask them for forgiveness as i've emigrated to another country however, by this post i'd like it to be known..

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  I try not to have regrets. If I had a time machine and changed something it could affect the whole future. And right now I'm happy. I'm free of the cult, my husband and children are free too. My brother and sister are free. I have a wonderful little family who wouldn't exist if I hadn't been a JW. I'm looking to the future instead because that's something I have some control over.

  The only thing I keep kicking myself for is how seriously I took it all when I was a JW, how I let the guilt and shame and pressure to do more affect me. It made me physically and mentally ill for a long time. I wish I'd made up time to put on my report like I now know so many do. Instead of counting every minute and beating myself up over it.
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  Let's call him brother.

  by The Rebel in

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  door knocking has its occasional rewards, and if such a " newly interested one" advances to attend the " k.h" he will come in for a lot of complimentary praise.

  in fact if he puts his hand up he is referred to us " our friend" .

  " i am respected here" newly interested one " says to himself.

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  I often saw the opposite. My own mother was very zealous, took the ministry seriously, actually had the aim of converting people rather than just being seen out and counting hours. But the interested people she brought along were all a bit, well, odd! People with problems mostly. She never discriminated but the congregation did and any love bombing they received was short lived and shallow. My mum was seen as a bit of an 'extremist'.

  But I have seen interested ones paraded about like some kind of trophy by others. It always left a bad taste in my mouth.

  The only conversions I've heard about recently are people who have had a romantic attachment to a JW and have got married shortly after baptism. They seem normal people but I suspect something was very off in their life to want the whole religion, jw community, new spouse and step children all in one package.
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  Our Letter to Our Family

  by What Now? in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  our families have cut off contact with us for the last several months.

  they found out that we were celebrating holidays with our non-witness family.

  our families were our last tie to the organization, as our former friends stopped associating with us about 3 years ago.

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  Thank you for sharing this, I will use it as a template if it ever comes to this with my own family.

  I'm sorry you haven't had a response. It is beyond me how they can cut out their own young grandchildren who are oblivious to all this.
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  Do you play the lottery?

  by Iamallcool in

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  for me, i have only purchased just one powerball ticket in my life, that was few years ago and i am thinking about buying some more in the near future.

  maybe i should push my luck even more this time.

  i am going to buy 10 tickets.

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  There is a trend in our area for groups of JWs to have poker and drinking evenings. I'm sure they're not playing for real money but I always thought it was hypocritical as they'd soon judge you if you were seen buying a lottery ticket.
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  if you had the slightest of doubt about leaving leaving the watchtower org. go to to jwsurvey.org NOW!

  by nowwhat? in

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  2. scandals

  and we are suposed to trust these guys with our lives?

  !

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  Telly Awards sounds like a huge scam. It can only be useful if you have something to gain by impressing a bunch of gullible people who won't think to google it. Which WT, of course, does.
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  Memorial Non-Attendance: The Single Most Impactful TTATT Witness to JW Friends & Family

  by AMNESIANO in

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  2. beliefs

  note: the following is submitted in full recognition of and with compassion and due respect for those who, due to personal circumstance, feel they are unable to employ this powerful strategy.. ---.

  anyone who has awakened to ttatt and has conscientiously left the organization--especially a once-prominent, highly-regarded, studious true-believer from a celebrated multi-generational tribe of jws-- after decades of devout, high-profile "serve-us," who continues to put in an annual appearance at the memorial thoroughly subverts and undermines, by this one act, any hope s/he may entertain that his/her departure will stir family or former friends to question the whole watchtower bamboozle.

  by this one concession s/he assigns him-/herself by every single jw to their handy and dismissive purgatory: the "spiritually-weak.".

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  I would never go now but I'll admit that, as a JW, there was something a little disconcerting about having the hall taken over once a year by ex-jw's, faders, non-jw relatives, unbelieving husbands. All people happy living their own free lives, coming along to humour us, chatting amoungst themselves. It definitely had a bit of an effect.
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  Seriously....We have to start attacking this cult!!! Enough is enough!!

  by DATA-DOG in

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  2. beliefs

  i propose that we make pintrest accounts and start openly challenging this crap.. .

  seriously.... any suggestions?

  this crap cannot be left unchallenged.

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  I'll tell you what this game is.

  It's something to pass the time on "family worship/study" night that doesn't involve reading the bible, the watchtowers or actual studying.

  I've seen JWs post photos of baking cupcakes with J w Org decorated on them, dress up and have a good sword fight, watch videos, do crafts...

  Anything but actually study wt doctrine or read the bible.

  It's a symptom of the modern JWs position of not actually caring about what they're supposed to believe, or the bible, or even God. They're only attached the org and the lifestyle they've become accustomed to. And the lame attempt to make the religion fun for kids screams desperation to keep them in with nothing else to offer them.

  I see photos like this and it just makes me laugh.
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  Where are you from?

  by BeautifulMind in

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  i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

  but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

  i currently live in georgia, usa.

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  UK, East of England to be a little more precise.
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  About 'Regular' Pioneers

  by Gayle in

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  2. friends

  now that district overseers have been deleted, now that bethelites are being devalued and increasingly dismissed, now that special pioneers are being deleted in u.s., and maybe elsewhere gradually.

  who would have ever thought?.

  yet, now what is the value to be a regular pioneer to the org?

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  Unprodigal Daughter

  There was always a certain percentage of pioneers who were only putting in the hours to enable them to reach their next goal. But with no more Gilead, no more special pioneers and no more prospects of going to Bethel, there's not much incentive for school-leavers to take up long-term pioneering. Wt can kiss good bye to those.