Posts by codeblue

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Big, Big news on JWD forum !

by moshe in

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i made jedi today!

i've had a great trip with all of you, thanks!.

peace, moshe.

DOES ANYONE STILL NOT CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS???

by chuckyy in

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just wondering if anyone still does not celebrate xmas since leaving jws.....or like me do you think"to hell with it", and join in the festivities.

if you do celebrate it, do you still have pangs of guilt for celebrating this "pagan" festival???.

chukky.

Before my mom was baptized we had xmas at one of my relative's house (we as a family had a tree a couple of times at our house). The relative we went to was unloving, so xmas was NEVER a good experience.

Now that we are faded out successfully, we have never officially done the decoratings...last year we exchanged gifts with a dear friend going thru a divorce and we were her family. It was ok, but I think the giving of gifts is much more exciting when it is done on the whim, and no expectation of a gift back.

We don't celebrate cause I have adult jw children and I would be df'd if they say it. It is NOT a risk I am willing to take and especially for a holiday that I see no importance in.

I have worked retail and found many gifts returned: it saddened me to see the wasted effort of the giver!!!

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Don't Quite Know What To Make of This

by XJW4EVR in

i had my kids last weekend, and they seemed hapy, and content.

i called a couple of times earlier this week as usual, to see how they are doing, and got the answering machine.

no mystery there.

codeblue

Sounds very fishy.... I hope you can track your family down soon!

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How old will you be....

by Scully in

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when you will have been an exjw for as long as you were a jw?.

i was raised in the jws from before the age of 10, and stopped going to the kh at the age of 31. i was involved with the jws for a total of 23 years.

i will be 54 years old by the time i have spent more of my life as an exjw than i did as a jw..

codeblue

80...........THIS really is DEPRESSING!!!

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What Would Make A Jehovah's Witness Decide To Finally "Get Out Of Her"?

by minimus in

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what "thing" could happen to make someone decide to leave the organization for good??

?

codeblue

I think the final blow can be totally different for each person.

My case: the emotional/spiritual abuse from elders.

Being raised in the truth(tm) you are told you must put up with the abuse to show YOU love Jehovah.

After a years of abuse, you finally say: enough is enough. (The Jehovah I know, wouldn't want me to feel this way) I am valuable and worth more then that kind of treatment and I don't want to bring anybody to the KH to receive the abuse I have received (all in the name of brotherly love though...ugh)

Codeblue

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Pedophile Proof

by Sunspot in

i know that years ago (i don't actually recall just how many right now) that barb anderson discovered the more than 23,000 cases in the files at bethel and subsequently bravely brought this to the public's attention.. does anyone have any knowledge of how many approximate cases have been reported to the wts headquarters since that original number, or what year that was?.

we see this "23,000" number mentioned down til this day and common sense tells me that there are far more of these instances of child molestation and acts of pedophilia than as first thought back then.

the wts is so gung-ho on having "accurate lnowledge" on things....so in keeping with this idea, what would be a more "accurate" tally of these numbers for conversation today?.

codeblue

bttt

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It Never Ends

by Undecided in

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i had to put my dog to sleep today.

she was 12 years old and got beyound help last night.

it was sad.. my daughter and the dog, coco.. ken p..

codeblue

(((Ken)))

So sorry about your dog

I love my little 6 pound pom...(have had him 3 years) I know I would be lost without him.

Codeblue

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New baby pics

by Es in

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hey all.

hope everyone is well.

we are doing great, kaia is growing up so fast already.

codeblue

How Sweet!!!

Congrats Es

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If you think YOU'RE having a bad day... !!

by bebu in

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ok, i'm going to see if these pictures come out.

they are not saved to my disk, but are copied from my hotmail folder.

if they don't work... would someone let me know what i can do?

codeblue

can't see a thing!

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Another visit Another doctor

by purplesofa in

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so i went to the doctor yesterday for my exit counselling and some other things.. we talked about the religion, this is my first visit with her.

she said there is another good and loving god .....not that cruel one.

and she knew about the shunning that the witnesses do.. so this is the second doc within a weeks time, that seems to have a bit of background knowledge on the witness religion.. i wondered how many witnesses have needed counselling????

codeblue

When living in my previous area, I consulted my gyn after surgery.

I was having some anxiety problems and mentioned leaving a cult. She said: "which one"?

I told her JW's. She was very supportive and shared how they were all raised Catholic, that her sister became involved and became one and she feared for her niece's well being. She knew quite a bit about the JW religion, doctrine and beliefs.

She showed a lot of empathy for my new stand in my life.

Codeblue