Posts by Garrett

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Elders Starting To Poke Around... Advice?

by Garrett in

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friends

as many of you know, i've been out of the organization for about a month now.

the elders haven't shown an interest in my absence until now.

today, i have received phone calls from two elders as well as a friend.

Garrett

Hi everyone,

As many of you know, I've been out of the organization for about a month now. The elders haven't shown an interest in my absence until now. Today, I have received phone calls from two elders as well as a friend. I've chosen to ignore their calls, but I will admit that it's making me anxious :/ I actually was hoping that they would completely forget about me.

I was wondering if you guys had any advice for me or tips? I plan on continually ignoring their attempts to contact me and just vanish as that's what my entire plan was from the start.

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JW Cart's Family Photos. My Pusher stole my JWCart1975 I.D. but here I am!

by JWCart in

some of us ride, some of us roll.. .

family reunion of jw carts gathering together for missionary work, some people waste their time in liberia trying to help ebola victims, jehovah's organization spends all their time focused on meaningful endeavors by bringing them salvation.

pusher said "why bother helping when people are going to die anyway, focus on the big picture (joining jehovah's organization is the only way to eliminate homelessness, hunger and global issues", doctors waste their time in west africa when they could be pushing carts with literature and books, that's real healing", i still don't understand why we can't help the poor and sick but than again, i am just a jw cart!.

Garrett

lol :P I can't even believe I was part of this. Thanks for the humorous post :)

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I was shy on my first JW.ORG Video, I am so happy sharing God's Organization with you!

by JWCart1975 in

jw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!

repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!

you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!

Garrett

Why are you here? The elders wouldn't be too pleased if they found you on the site. Heck, you might be DF'ed for speaking to us.

EDIT: Apparently a joke thread, my bad :P

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Holidays?

by Garrett in

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friends

not sure where to post this, so i posted here.

i was wondering, since your coming out of the organization, have any of you decided to start celebrating certain holidays?.

thanks, peace and love.

Garrett

Hi all,

Not sure where to post this, so I posted here. I was wondering, since your coming out of the organization, have any of you decided to start celebrating certain holidays?

If so, why?

Thanks, peace and love

Garret

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Thank you...

by Garrett in

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friends

some of you may have seen my previous post regarding my concerns with leaving the organization.. so many of you responded and were so kind and helpful, that is was rather overwhelming.

i didn't expect so many responses.

a lot of you also provided links to research as well as some books to read.

Garrett

Hello everyone,

Some of you may have seen my previous post regarding my concerns with leaving the organization.

So many of you responded and were so kind and helpful, that is was rather overwhelming. I didn't expect so many responses. A lot of you also provided links to research as well as some books to read. I started crisis of a conscience yesterday and boy must I say, it's been eye opening.

I have not disassociated myself but I have completely cut off all ties to the organization. I've changed my phone number, email address and social media. I feel free and my depression has actually gotten much better. I think it was caused by my living a life that I did not agree with.

So, I wanted to say thank you to all those that responded and were kind enough to help me make this huge decision in my life.

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Hello

by Garrett in

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friends

hello forum,.

i'm new here and not sure where to post.

so, i'm 21 years old and currently a baptized witness, however, i'm slowly making my mind up to leave and here's why.. first, there are certain things that make no sense to me in the organization.

Garrett

Hello everyone!

I don't know if you guys can see this (not sure how the forum works). But I wanted to thank you all for your kind and thoughtful responses. I have never received such help in such a short amount of time and it has been a bit overwhelming.

If any of you can help me figure out how to respond to individual questions/posts, that would be wonderful.

I just wanted to let you all know that after writing my post and putting my plan into action to leave, I feel so FREE and I feel happier. Like a huge weight is lifted from my shoulders.

Thank you all <3

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Happy at Bethel. Can't believe what I'm seeing.

by Pubsinger in

apologies if this has already been posted but i am speechless.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbmyudrwgs&x-yt-ts=1422327029&x-yt-cl=84838260#t=72.

Garrett

one of the sisters in this video studied with me. It was odd seeing her

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Hello

by Garrett in

jw
friends

hello forum,.

i'm new here and not sure where to post.

so, i'm 21 years old and currently a baptized witness, however, i'm slowly making my mind up to leave and here's why.. first, there are certain things that make no sense to me in the organization.

Garrett

Hi everyone. Thank you so much or your answers. I(m not exactly sure how to respond to any of you so that you can actually see that I responded, so I'm going to try to post here.

As I said, I haven't been to a meeting in over 2 weeks. Tomorrow is the meeting and I'm not going. None of my family are witnesses so to be honest, I could care less about being shunned. I sincerely do not wish to return to the hall. I'm the type of person that, once he's made up his mind, doesn't change it. Going to the hall and pretending to be a witness would make me just like most of them. Hypocrites.

I was thinking of cutting all associations from them and any "friends" making it so that they had no way of contacting me. That way, I can do what I have to and don't have to worry about them coming to my home calling me etc.

Also, I live in France, moved from the US a few years ago.

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Hello

by Garrett in

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friends

hello forum,.

i'm new here and not sure where to post.

so, i'm 21 years old and currently a baptized witness, however, i'm slowly making my mind up to leave and here's why.. first, there are certain things that make no sense to me in the organization.

Garrett

How do I go about fading, londo111?

I don't want to go back :/

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Hello

by Garrett in

jw
friends

hello forum,.

i'm new here and not sure where to post.

so, i'm 21 years old and currently a baptized witness, however, i'm slowly making my mind up to leave and here's why.. first, there are certain things that make no sense to me in the organization.

Garrett

Hello forum,

I'm new here and not sure where to post. So, I'm 21 years old and currently a baptized witness, however, I'm slowly making my mind up to leave and here's why.

First, there are certain things that make no sense to me in the organization.

1: Pioneering. While I appreciate people wanting to do a lot in God's service, I feel like they do it only for the title. The new 30 hour rule for auxillary pioneers just amplifies this. Why can't you do your hours without a title?

2: Hours. While witnesses will argue that we count hours to get a global number of how much time we spend as a whole in the ministry, I feel this is wrong. First off, if we love the ministry, do we really have to count up our hours? It seems that the main topic of discussion, especially when you can auxillary pioneer is "did you get your hours in?".

3: HYPOCRITES. This is what's killing me. Every time I walk into that hall, all I see are hypocrites. People counselling others about things that they do themselves. People gossiping about each other. People hating other people for their individuality. People hating gays. I understand what the Bible says about gays, but you shouldn't hate them.

4: Elders: I suffer from severe depression. I made this known the the elders a while ago. They said they would help me if I needed it. For the past 2 weeks I've been suffering from severe depression and have not been to meetings. I emailed to brothers explaining my situation and absence. Neither of them responded to me via email. They've known about my condition for a few years now, and I have yet to receive an shepherding call or encouraging visit.

5: 3 years ago I moved country. All my so called friends from my old hall completely forgot about me. Now, I considered them my best friends, and they have contacted me all but once in the past 3 years.

6: I have no joy when going to the meetings. Absolutely none. I go there, do my responsibilities then leave.

Have any of you had this happen to you? I haven't gone to meetings in over 2 weeks and I think I'm ready to mail a letter of resignation from the organization I don't even want to see a response, I just want to be done with it. I already know that my friends will all leave me and never speak to me again, but frankly, I don't care.

Can you guys help me?.