even if you don't regard yourself as a practicing jw, some may view you simply as inactive, a lost sheep, etc.. if you were baptized but not disfellowshipped or disassociated, you may still be a jw---right?
your thoughts please..
Been out for two years. Walked away fast and have never returned.
I would have problem disclosing myself , but for my wife's sake I play it cool for the most part.
She tells them "he's no longer one of JWs". ( the same wording as an official judicial announcement )
They believe her and I am treated as such for the most part, although I am technically just inactive and I could get some hardcore love bombing the day I was to set foot back in the KH.
i have posted questions on christian web sites.
those questions have always been polite and i have never used questionable language.
the questions weren't exactly in support of christians though.. what did i get for my efforts?.
We're mostly ex-Jovies here.
Super pissed at the Watchtower, too.
Have a stay with us.
for those of you who left family and friends and had to start over from scratch just to get out of the organization, was it worth it?.
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I have a few family JWs that still sort of talk to me.
Only because of my wife.
Lost all friends. 100s
Of course, I have no regrets. The Watchtower SUCKS!!!
so that was the line used by an elder the other day to me!.
he implied that i react badly when spoken to by the elders.. i corrected him and said: "no, i'm always happy to have a conversation.
but what you seem to be implying is that unless i sit and accept and take everything you say, then i am being defensive?
I must second the advice to LEAVE IMMEDIATELY...
Please.
I quit two years ago this summer. It's still work to get my head on straight.
We all wish we never joined. I can only imagine what kind of a person I could have been without 25 years of mind control.
Are you at least missing 50% or more of the meetings?
i remember in our congregation, there were a few older pioneer sisters who would start counting their time early - even before the service arrangement - by standing at a street corner and holding the magazines up in front of them and hoping that any passersby might stop to take one on their way to work or whatever.
as a fresh, new dub, i had heard about this "street-witnessing" work, but there was only one time i ever actually saw one of these older sisters doing this.
and even then i was shocked and embarrassed for her.... because this poor old sister was standing there, all by herself, holding up the watchtower & awake magazines, yet looking as sad and depressed as she could possibly ever look, her whole mouth was turned down just totally sad as she stood there, observing all the "dead" people walking around, hurrying to catch buses, get kids to school, get to work, etc.
I've done so much street work, it's ridiculous.
start at 6-7am. Sometimes go late into the evening.
It was mostly social time, driving around between gas stations, launderettes hotel lobbies and 7-11's
they just posted the simplified august study watchtower on jw.org.. paragraph 11 of the "expectation!
" article says this:.
"so even if we feel that we have been waiting a long time, this does not mean that the end is far away or that it is not coming in our lifetime.".
Anybody remember all the hub-bub about the stone ( not cut by human hands ) that was getting closer and closer to the dream image in the publications? Then *finally* it is hitting the feet!!
The tribulation is upon us!!
So last decade...
so how much do you understand about brainwashing, its application and effects ?
essentially lures people into its grasps and then brainwashes them for exploitation and manipulative purposes by using mental indoctrination techniques.. here's a quick quiz to take to answer some of these questions.
http://voicesfordignity.com/brainwashing-iq/.
dear lurking jw's:.
if you were in a cult, how would you know?
cults don't call themselves cults.
so here's a real life experience you will get a kick out of.. our kh has about 90 publishers.
typical meeting attendance during a co visit is right at 100 or so.
the rest of the time, attendance is a dismal 50-60, sometimes 70 on a good week!.
so, the whole may money grab episode of jwtv really looks bad to me and many others, obviously many here.
i was looking on another website dedicated to active jw's and if you'll notice on post number 109 a little ways down (<click there to read) a person named luca dares to express some concerns over the latest episode.
the following pages do contain one more person that has some issue with how things were presented.
I don't have time right now, but wow! I just saw someone posting on there that I recognize from when I was newly in.
This should be fun...
