Posts by prophecor

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HELP ME! I am stuck in JWD and cannot get off-line!

by BrendaCloutier in

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geez talk about trading one addiction for another..... i get on jwd reading, posting, chatting, and i just can't seem to get myself to log off the internet!

sometimes it's cuz i don't want to go do what i have to, or sometimes even want to, go do.

sometimes i'm just feeling anxious and needy.

prophecor

So do I need to get 2 jobs now!

Then maybe I'll be too tired to be here like I doooooo!!!!

Uh Ohhhhhhh, I have potatoes over flowing on the stove!!!!!!

brb

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HELP ME! I am stuck in JWD and cannot get off-line!

by BrendaCloutier in

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geez talk about trading one addiction for another..... i get on jwd reading, posting, chatting, and i just can't seem to get myself to log off the internet!

sometimes it's cuz i don't want to go do what i have to, or sometimes even want to, go do.

sometimes i'm just feeling anxious and needy.

prophecor

Haven't you left yet...Geeeeeezee Bren

lol

jk

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How many of you were nervous?

by Confusedgirl in

if you are taught the jw organization is your link to god, it is so hard to think of leaving everything.

like a hole that will not be filled again, there is so horrible things that have happened in the world, could it be that there is no everlasting life for us, so many questions and to think of giving up everyone makes me sick to my stomach.

but i want to be happy and i'm not, does anyone feel empty?

prophecor

Don't underestimate how long it can take, though, nor harden your mind to what twists and turns it may career through.
Life is a rollercoaster, and meant for living...

You may feel overwhelmed from time to time, the information requried to de-activate yourself from programming is often a difficult pill to swallow, much like that awful tasting medicine taken when we had an infection, it will cause you to feel better in the end, however.
LT, I like what you said regarding concentrating ones focus on God as well, re-establishing a relationship with him as ones primary focus, though I cannot help but stress the importance of being informed as to the available literature, if nothing else at least reading Crises of Conscience, that's what was needed for me, though I try not to speak for anyone else.
I needed it to take down the wall of disillusionment, brick by brick as I was so pre-conditioned to believing that the WTBTS was the embodiment of God in the form of man run religion, imperfect men running the organisation, but still ultimately run by God. It took incredible amounts of energy to break down this belief system.

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1914 Generation...

by Tuesday in

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forgive me i haven't been on the board in a bit, but what is the current train of thought on the 1914 generation never dying.

is the belief finally dead and they're now picking something else?

last i checked it was a broader sense of the word, like napolean's generation was like anyone from the 1800's or something.

prophecor

So how do they answer charges as to their previous statements " Millions Now Living Will Never Die. " ?

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Re-Introducing Myself / Hello All !!!

by prophecor in

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this is presented as a means of re-introducing myself to the community.

as time takes its toll and as new ones come in at almost a daily rate, it can be a little difficult for some to know, or get to know you.

as a hope of allowing one of our new members to be better acquainted with me, i presented this as a pm, however, after giving it an overveiw while looking to see if it was read, and it was not, i decided to put it before the entire community, that maybe this pm should be regarded as not so private.

prophecor

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Re-Introducing Myself / Hello All !!!

by prophecor in

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friends

this is presented as a means of re-introducing myself to the community.

as time takes its toll and as new ones come in at almost a daily rate, it can be a little difficult for some to know, or get to know you.

as a hope of allowing one of our new members to be better acquainted with me, i presented this as a pm, however, after giving it an overveiw while looking to see if it was read, and it was not, i decided to put it before the entire community, that maybe this pm should be regarded as not so private.

prophecor

Dot, Onacruse, Dave, Blues Brothers all of you who read and all who've shared Thank You, Brenda thanx 2. It is truly a blessing to have this forum to sift thru the madness, and good people like you to share with. For those who took the time to read thanx go out to you as well. Almost Atheist and any I forgot, I thank you as well.

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Re-Introducing Myself / Hello All !!!

by prophecor in

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friends

this is presented as a means of re-introducing myself to the community.

as time takes its toll and as new ones come in at almost a daily rate, it can be a little difficult for some to know, or get to know you.

as a hope of allowing one of our new members to be better acquainted with me, i presented this as a pm, however, after giving it an overveiw while looking to see if it was read, and it was not, i decided to put it before the entire community, that maybe this pm should be regarded as not so private.

prophecor

I also enjoyed Scott Peck's The Road Less Travelled - especially the way his book normalised the experience of emotional pain and the human capacity to endure in the face of it.

Thanks Steve for lookin' out, I appreciate your response. M. Scott Peck's book was the first book my psychiatrist suggested that I read. I had started with the book discussing the inner child, John Bradshaw, a popular psychologist on PBS. He tried to encourage me to read Peck's book and put that one on the shelf for the moment, of course I didn't think the good doctor knew what he was talking about.
About 6 more months of being under his care, I finally purchased the book and from the very first few paragraphs, I was astonished at the ease and clarity of his teachings. Life is difficult and we need to realise that, transend it, and move on.
I found as well his position on dicipline or making your life easier for yourself by choosing to get the most un-popular aspects of your world accomplished, as you will enjoy the things you don't mind so much with a lot more flavor, if you save them for last. Delaying gratification, pure science in simplifying life!
It surprises me a bit that that experience was not enough to free you from wt bondage, that it was completed only through this site. It seems that a specific deprogrammation of wt is needed.

Satanus, thank you's go out to you as well. It was not enough to get beyond the WTBTS's belief systems. I was one who considered myself to be a walking corpse, waiting to lie down. The AA & NA principles but me on a better road, but not until I came to this site, learned of all the ones who suffered, as we all have with the guilt and fear of being underneath the thumb of OZ, was I able to come to grips with the fact that all that I had come to know, was not even half of the truth regarding Jehovah's Witnesses.

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How many of you were nervous?

by Confusedgirl in

if you are taught the jw organization is your link to god, it is so hard to think of leaving everything.

like a hole that will not be filled again, there is so horrible things that have happened in the world, could it be that there is no everlasting life for us, so many questions and to think of giving up everyone makes me sick to my stomach.

but i want to be happy and i'm not, does anyone feel empty?

prophecor

Confused Girl.

Hi. For me the emptiness was there for years, but only until I found this site. As I got better acquainted with all the information available, even purchasing the book Crises of Conscience, which served as a buffer for many of the feelings of disillusionment I experienced after learning that all was not well in OZ. In time, the emptiness you experince may subside, and you may find that you have the potential to be the happiest you've ever been, above and beyond any feeling that may've been experienced while JW. You may find your authentic self and grow wings to assist you in your journey, and find a place in this life of comfortability. I felt just as confused as you when I first walked in the door a year or so ago. I truly have never been happier than I am right now.

Art

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Yet Another Newbie Here

by adelmaal in

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i am so glad to have found this site .

i was not raised a jehovah's witness.

i studied as a teenager with my boyfriend's sister.

prophecor

Adelmaal, hello. It's a pleasure to have you with all of us. It's wonderful that you can return to portions of your former life, family & friends as most XJW's don't have that as a luxury. Also that you could re-activate yourself into the community, socially and politically is such a plus as well. I wish you all the sucsess that can come your way in your new life. God Bless

Art

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I am new and scared

by franki in

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i am terrified to be writing this because i am officially being bad.

i am talking with other "sinners".

i do not want to be a witness.

prophecor

Hi Franki, I hope you'll take the time and give yourself a break as the energy that we bring to the forum from being in the Kingdom Hall is like no other energy on the planet, good, bad and or indifferent.

You are among a loving and caring population of people, many with issues, such as we had while still in the Hall, but we are better as we have gotten thru some of the grit and the grime of several core issues that have haunted many of us.

I think in 6 months you'll feel more at ease with us and yourself, as you come to realise that we are just human, first, and you can go from there. I've said too much as it is but please look around and make yourself comfortable. You may be able to find a greater love here, than you would have ever had while in the Kingdom Hall.

Love here comes at expense of no one but ourselves, it's given freely however to those who truly need it.