After 25 years, I quit attending. The friendship/brotherhood ended then, too.
When you are "in", you don't notice *anything*. When you are out, it's easy to see many things.
Welcome.
Posts by kairos
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16I Thought we had Friends!
by Kelley959 ini am a life long jw, but this issue i'm going through has taken the cake.. i am in a job situation that is not good.
and we were promised to us in our old hall that we would have a roof over our head for us an our animals.
so i gave notice on thursday then went to call by so-called jw friends and they backed out and claimed he now couldn't let us move in and broke the deal.
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Exposing one's identity. When?
by kairos ini've been toying with the idea of just coming out and posting my name and location as an attempt to be available to locals that secretly browse the forum that have known me for up to 25 years.
( "reaching out", so to speak ).
i'm not da'd or df'd, so this most certainly could end in a dramatic confrontation.
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kairos
Excellent points to consider.
I wonder what kind of conversation I could expect from someone who "saw me".
I would ask them where/how. Browsing apostate web site are we?
The irony.
On the other hand, we're really starting to experience "peace and security" on the home front for the first time in a long while. I believe my wife secretly knows TTATT but sees the effort to escape as being too difficult. I will support her. She skipped the Sunday meeting...
Laying low makes better sense.
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Exposing one's identity. When?
by kairos ini've been toying with the idea of just coming out and posting my name and location as an attempt to be available to locals that secretly browse the forum that have known me for up to 25 years.
( "reaching out", so to speak ).
i'm not da'd or df'd, so this most certainly could end in a dramatic confrontation.
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kairos
I deleted all JW FB friends quite some time ago and do not use FB as a platform for anything JW related.
I really do want to make some JWFacts.com banners to strategically place around town, however.
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New Apostate: Tempest in a Teacup
by Tempest in a Teacup infirst post on here.
i've been lurking for 3-4 years and i mean i've been a mega lurker, doing marathon reading sessions for months or weeks.. sometimes i proceed by researching specific topics, or posters; other times just reading current discussions.
i'm particularly fond of "old" post, i.e 10-12-15 years ago.. i have laughed, smiled, got mad, cried etc, just reading some threads here.. as you can see i suffer from some kind of "accute lurkitis".
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kairos
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RELIGION AND MENTAL ILLNESS!!!
by ADJUSTMENTS ini have have come to realize most "rank and file" jw's are mentally unstable-to-ill and here is why.... http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/mental-issues.php.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/religious_delusion.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/religion_and_schizophrenia.
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kairos
Depression while being a JW is a sign that your brain is fed up with constructing an alternate reality.
I think this is true.
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Exposing one's identity. When?
by kairos ini've been toying with the idea of just coming out and posting my name and location as an attempt to be available to locals that secretly browse the forum that have known me for up to 25 years.
( "reaching out", so to speak ).
i'm not da'd or df'd, so this most certainly could end in a dramatic confrontation.
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kairos
I'll think on this for a while. Thanks for the posts, of course.
I've reconnected with five exJWs from my area since my exit.
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I just wanna know WHY ! ! ??
by brandnew ini just wanna know why...after a thousand dang years, jehovah would even want to think about lettin go of the dude who started it all....satan.
why?..
like a thousand years is a long time, and people are supposed to be gettin perfect n stuff during this time, and the earth is supposed to be gettin all perfectionized.... so satan can f- - - it all up again?.
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kairos
It'll be nuts. New scrolls, GB ruling from heaven with helpers on earth to become the channel for true worship. What a loving provision from Jehovah that the wily old serpent and his crowd will be abyssed so true obedience can be rendered day and night, amen.
What could possibly go wrong?
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I just wanna know WHY ! ! ??
by brandnew ini just wanna know why...after a thousand dang years, jehovah would even want to think about lettin go of the dude who started it all....satan.
why?..
like a thousand years is a long time, and people are supposed to be gettin perfect n stuff during this time, and the earth is supposed to be gettin all perfectionized.... so satan can f- - - it all up again?.
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kairos
After Armageddon there needs to be a new "future fear" in place to engage mind control.
Satan making a final attack in the last days of that system of things ( the 1000 years ) will be just what is needed.
Did that help?
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QFR How should Christians view fortune cookies?
by truthseeker inthis is crazy..... .
questions from readers.
how should christians view fortune cookies?.
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kairos
You may be mistaking the smurf for one of the Keebler elves.
( don't quote me on this! )
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QFR How should Christians view fortune cookies?
by truthseeker inthis is crazy..... .
questions from readers.
how should christians view fortune cookies?.
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kairos
I was the visiting speaker years ago and for "hospitality" my wife and I were taken to Chinese food for lunch. The family was getting super uncomfortable about the fortune cookies on the table at the end of the meal.
We went right for the cookies and read the fortunes to each other. ( wife and I )
I may have stumbled them...