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  FMF: A Wake Up Story

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
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  sorry for the length of this, i hope anyone stopping by to read will take the time and read it.

  i haven't included any things i would consider "apostate" specifics about doctrines, or major scandals.

  it's just a general layout of the path i took to becoming an exjw.

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  kairos

  Thanks for the experience.
  Many components rang true with mine.
  
  When you realize you've been duped, it's very hard to deny it any more.
  
  

  Overlapping Generations instead of "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" started the ball rolling for me.

  I also was inactive and resigned as a MS before I got the "courage" to look at "apostate web sites" on the internet. This is interesting and ties into the idea of information control or prohibition or certain things. When in field service, we were expected to converse with anyone and everyone. ( apostates live in the territories ) The only time we would turn away was if the householder said they were DF'd or apostate. So scary!!

  Now I'm DF'd for "admitted apostasy".
  ( local legend )

  My advice to all that are unsure what to do: stay home and research.
  If you can no longer convince yourself that it's "the truth", then quit.

  Hardest decision. Best outcome.
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  The bridge burning has begun.

  by sparrowdown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was feeling particularly hopeless about the whole jws being assholes thing and sick to death of pretending so ....

  i rang my sister and told her that i no longer believe jws have the truth and the phone went silent, when i asked her to say something she just said if that was the case then she would have to hang up on me and then proceeded to indeed hang up..

  so i texted her back immediately with fu..

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  kairos

  One of the nut case elderz that tried to "encourage me" really went the extra mile.
  He sent me one text- "miss you, bro"

  Shepherding...
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  What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

  by Funchback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there were many addressed to me.

  for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

  i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

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  kairos

  I was doing the stage mic adjustments at the circuit assemblies.
  I was thrown off the stage by the CO for my shoes. Not shiny enough.
  They were black suede shoes that I wore to all my local public talks and service assignments.
  
  

  Being the lunatic dub that I was, I went out into the audience and found a friend of mine.
  We swapped shoes and I was back on the roster!
  Never mind that shoes can not be seen from the audience at the Fairfield Assembly hall in Northern Cal.

  I would later use this pharisaic knowledge to my benefit.
  I was already waking up, still a MS, getting confused and learning TTATT.
  Don't want to do the stage anymore and just sit in my seat and space out?
  No problem... Instead of wearing my CO approved matching pants and jacket suit, I wore a sport coat and slacks. <thrown off the stage>

  All down hill from there...
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  The bridge burning has begun.

  by sparrowdown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was feeling particularly hopeless about the whole jws being assholes thing and sick to death of pretending so ....

  i rang my sister and told her that i no longer believe jws have the truth and the phone went silent, when i asked her to say something she just said if that was the case then she would have to hang up on me and then proceeded to indeed hang up..

  so i texted her back immediately with fu..

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  kairos

  I'm glad you made the move toward personal freedom.

  You will forever wish you did it sooner. I know I do.

  People are leaving and it is for all the right reasons.
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  Your Baptism Pics

  by kairos in

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  from the most important day of your life.... .

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  Your Baptism Pics

  by kairos in

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  from the most important day of your life.... .

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  kairos

  March 25 1989. Fremont Assembly Hall.

  They used to let you get baptized with your spouse. ( that's my first wife ) we were 19 and 20 years old.
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  Your Baptism Pics

  by kairos in

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  from the most important day of your life.... .

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  kairos

  From the most important day of your life...

  
  
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  Blindingly Obvious - But Not to J.W.'s

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
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  if a fellow j.w.

  asked a publisher/pioneer/missionary j.w., "how are your hours this month", they will gladly reveal how many hours they've racked up "for jehovah.".

  now ask them, "how much money have you contributed to kingdom interests this month", they'd look at you as if you were beelzebub himself, and tell you that that was "personal.

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  kairos

  How are your hours this month?

  Matt 6:3,4

  
  

  That would make a nice roadside sign on the way to the KH or Assembly.

  Hmmmmm.....
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  Today's Text

  by snugglebunny in

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  kairos

  That phrase angers me.
  
  They have the softer version, too:
  Listen , obey and be blessed.
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  I'm not so sure a bigger awakening is going to happen anymore

  by bradford in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i left in march officially i started reading the forums here.

  i had this excitement that more people would be leaving soon because of the crazy broadcasts, the crazy "new light" that the gb was dishing out, and more recently the australian royal commission lighting up geoffrey.

  this past saturday i had an elder stop by to chat for the first time since i left.

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  kairos

  I think there will be snowball effect. TTATT will not stay a "secret",

  The bottom will fall out.
  Think about this: The 25-55 crowd are watching the very ones that "taught them the truth" die before there eyes. Parents, grandparents and older friends.

  They all know that none of these people "were supposed to die".
  I think this one component will get people sniffing around the internet and the forums.
  When millions that were living, have now died, some will accept reality for what it is.

  The internet genie is out of the bottle, so to to speak, so asking the JWs to stop using the internet is impossible with all of the JW,ORG hype.

  There must be a rather large percentage of JWS that must be just be too scared or confused to act. On the other hand, if you are used to "waiting on Jehovah" all your life, why would any of this shake you now?

  I'm hoping mass exodus

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/109520001/we-going-see-mass-awakening