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by nicolaou 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  nicolaou

  Here's a chance to toot your own trumpet. With so many new posters here lately I thought it might be nice to give them an easy way to get aquainted with some of us 'long timers'.

  Just post a few links that give a good flavour of who you are and what you're all about. I'll start.

  My name's Nic'. Raised 'in the truth', faded away over a period of six years. I'll be 42 next week. I'm a Brit' of Greek Cypriot origin, married with three kids all happily living our cult free life.

  LINKS:

  Me and my brother and A child of nine. These threads shows where I'm coming from.

  Active Jehovah's Witnesses - - - PLEASE READ Because we were all there once.

  Will humanity EVER outgrow God? This thread marked a turn in my posting habits. Yes, I'm an atheist now.

  What do you feel when you see groups of Jehovah's Witnesses on the street? This godless man still has a heart.

  A bunch of threads that sum up my approach to faith god and religion.

  Does the Ransom Sacrifice doctrine add up?

  JEHOVAH, the greatest child abuser of them all!

  Jesus was a liar.

  2 Samuel chapter 24 - Don't mess with God!

  The fallacy of 'spirituality'.

  Diary of an Unborn Child - switch your rational mind off for ten minutes.

  Have you ever had a prayer answered?

  Are you tired of the whole atheist/believer debate?

  The Bible. Despite many reasons to dismiss it why do so many believe?

  And to prove that I am in fact a complete arse :

  I'm an ANTICHRIST

  AMAZING PHOTO'S OF NAKED ELDERS WIVES!!!!!

  And, because you have end on something positive:

  There's something happening here.

  Nic'
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  parakeet

  For all newbies, including myself, take some time to check out AlanF and Farkel's topics over the past few years. It'll give you a sense of what this site's all about, and their posts are accurate, interesting, and sometimes very funny. Well worth checking out. There are other great posters, too, including "our" Blondie.
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  Confession

  All right. Why not?

  I'm Confession. I was in the third-generation of a four-generation, sixty-plus-year JW family, and served as an elder. My first post here was just over two years ago (June 2004,) but it was while I was struggling with one issue (Christian confession)--but was scared about and did not want to get into any other so-called "apostate" discussions.

  Along about July 2004, something I read on Randy Watters' FreeMinds site (about the WTS being "Judaizers") struck a chord with me. I tried to find some way to be a part of those wishing reform for the organization.

  But on September 15, 2004, I read Tom Cabeen's "Does God Work Through an Organization," and that did it for me. I knew the Society was not what I always thought it was, and didn't know what to do about it.

  Here's the story about my awakening. It's a bit long, but those who like this sort of thing have sent me messages thanking me for posting it. "That Voice: My Story"

  In an attempt to fade, I moved 2300 miles away from Michigan (the only home I ever had) to southern California, with my then 17 year old daughter. (She'll be nineteen next month.) I went back for some business and got together with some of my family. "Visits With My Family: Planting Seeds"

  In coming to grips with the WTS' policies on pedophelia, I posted my experiences having been chariman of a judicial committee hearing the case of a fellow elder (and then my closest friend,) who'd been accused of this. It was a four-part series, in which I asked for the help of the forum in deciding what to do now.

  "Former Elder Wants Your Advice--PART 1"

  "Former Elder Wants Your Advice--PART 2"

  "Former Elder Wants Your Advice--PART 3"

  "Former Elder Wants Your Advice--PART 4"

  In March of 2006, I "Finally Spilt it to My Mother--PART 1" and "PART 2," which contains the letter I received from my mother.

  Here's a piece I wrote about "The Society's Effective Strategy of Smothering the Truth."

  My response as to what I would say to a person considering a study with JWs. "Talking to Jehovah's Witnesses?"

  Here is the first swipe I took at answering my mother's above letter (Finally Spilt It--PART 2.) Big Letter to my Mom. And here are a couple additions I made to it. "Incredible Irony" and "An addition to the evolving letter to my mother."
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  nicolaou

  Wow man! I just read 'I Finally Spilt it to my Mother' parts 1 & 2. Your Mum is about ten years older than mine but hits all the same responses. Thanks for sharing these, I've printed off your 'Big Letter' to read at work tomorrow.

  The ones who are trying so hard to disgrace it and spend so much time trying to convey to others how terrible the WT Society is, aren't governed by love, but by hate and that hate and discontent will eat them up. You agree that Christians are to spread the Good News and tell people the truth about the false teachings but how are these people doing that? If not house-to-house, how? Are they mailing or E-Mailing the Truth to all they can? Or is all their time spent in trying to reach all they can with the slander of the Society. Do they pray fervently for Jehovah's guidance in how he wants them to serve him? Do they have an organization that has over 5,000 peole a week joining them [the new Year Book] and thousands spending full-time trying to reach the sheep-like ones before the time is up? You can't think that all those people are so blinded that not one of them could see if the organization wasn't what it claims to be. So when the apostate's manage to get ones to listen and believe their information, where do they go from there? That only prevents them from getting everlasting life in paradise. Is that love?

  That's my Mum too and, I would guess, thousands more just like her.

  Nic'
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  Confession

  Hey, Nic... Yeah, it's kinda hard to read her letter. When I stop to consider my mom, I realize that she was just a young 18 year old girl when her mother-in-law began studying with her. Despite being an intelligent woman, she's been institutionalized for about 54 years, and that's what comes through in what she wrote.
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  purplesofa

  Maximus has some good threads as well.