When The Ties Get Cut ...this is what I'll do..

by clarity 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  leaving_quietly
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  tornapart

  Excellent!
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  Xanthippe

  I like it Clarity

  What I like is that you tackle the baptism issue. When I left my brother kept saying over and over again, I had broken my dedication vows to Jehovah. They are null and void! We were lied to! Well done.
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  clarity

  Free-wheeling on here is like letting go of the strings

  of a thousand helium balloons ....... letting it all go into

  the universe.

  Notes in a bottle ...carried by the lapping waves.

  Sincerely thank you to all those who care to look

  in the bottles & read the notes.

  Without you...well, you know...it's like "if you clap your hands

  and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?"

  Over the years thank you & just now thanks to

  Quelly

  Julia

  Zeb

  bruja

  Doc

  pbrow

  leaving_quietly

  tornapart

  xan

  You are all so important to this process of beginning life

  again!

  clarity
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  problemaddict

  Clarity,

  I will NEVER DA of DF myself or them. want to know why? Because I can do more good in helping others to see things they would not otherwise, if I don't play their game. I have a friend who woke up, and is going basically now purely out of routine and for his family. I have someone else I know, that I think I am getting somewhere with.

  These things would not be possible if I was persona non grata officially. (I am sure I am unofficially).

  So it depends on what you need to do for your own piece of mind and sanity.
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  clarity

  So true Problemaddict, we all have different circumstances.

  Very glad that you are able to feel sucessful & happy where you are.

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  Can't remember if you are male, but I tend to think men are more

  successful working from the inside, simply by 'carrying more weight'

  so to speak. Mostly, older females are just brushed aside and not

  taken seriously!

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  I will not withdraw either...to DA or recognize a DFing.

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  I realize that the great gb won't read my words, not many

  elders either, but what about the many dubs who are half in

  and half out, who will get copies, what will be the effect of seeing

  someone stand up......reading it in the local papers?

  What if more suddenly stood up?

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  Note: Baptism Date should read 1964.... not 1985.

  clarity
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  clarity

  Problemaddict .....I felt embarassed not knowing for sure that

  you were male or not, so checked your posts and..................

  I see that you do understand my intentions! :-)

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  "costs me my relationship with my mother, I simply don't know if I could continue to leave quietly."

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  When I leave .....I don't think it will be quietly either!

  clarity