Posts by hamsterbait

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How can I ever leave this cult?

by Julia Orwell in

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i've been out nearly two years but it's not out of me.

i am on school holidays now til february so i thought without work to worry about i can come off my medication.

i phased it slowly, starting in early november to avoid the physical side effects of coming down.

hamsterbait

Julia -

You have left the Cult. It takes time for the Cult to leave you.

I have been there myself, the people crossing the street to avoid me, the gossip, the informal shunning as not DF. You name it. The two year mark for me was the worst, too far gone to go back, but not knowing yet where the hell I was. Admittedly, it was made easier because I had already made friends outside.

This time of year is always difficult anyway, I am constantly frazzled. Coming off meds cold turkey is bad in itself. It does get better. Find something to do that you enjoy, that gets you out meeting people. Most humans are basically nice. The "troof" attracts all sorts of misfits and wierdos; fifteen years does damage. Try 30 as in my case!

Hang in there - the beautiful country is beyond the badlands. Every step you take gets you there.

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Not on JW.ORG: Wall Street Journal : Can unhappy Jehovah's Witnesses demand return of donations to Watchtower Bible and Tract Society? Some thoughts.

by Balaamsass2 in

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hamsterbait

I have pointed out elsewhere that the Borg says baptism is entering into a contract with the organisation. Since minors cannot enter into a contract, you should be able to demand the return of all gifts donated to the Borg. (Minors also cannot donate gifts to organisations under US law)

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CONFESS or COVERUP

by Terry in

the disconnect from the family of humanity......the snap of that fellow feeling......the cold indifferent shrug as each person dries up and hardens into a mere thing in a kingdom hall.....is a withering away of all that is noble, pure and innocent.. and when that icy moment sets in the rest of the world vanishes into an invisible nothing in the heart of that strutting and proud lump of human flesh called jehovah's witness.. it is the first of many deaths they will endure.... where does it begin and where does it end?.

perhaps by defending huge lies?.

if you are complicit in a crime against humanity you have two basic ethical choices:.

hamsterbait

At first glance on the contents page, I ignored it because I thought it a debate over the BURKA.

And this subject has been done to death in the 12 years I've been here.

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I don't know why...but this is what has been happening in my ex-jw world...

by misguided in

so i took up volunterring for habitat for humanity in one of their restores about a year and a half/two years ago.

now as far as i've known growing up in the religion, this is a faith-based organization that jehovah's witnesses are not to support.

so i am wirded ou in some ways of what has happened during this time.. my first event was a previous elder from a congregation 3 hours away from where i live now, coming into the store.

hamsterbait

Sorry - I must be missing something - are the goods you sell very inexpensive and affordable? If so I wd expect a queue of dubs right around the corner. it is no coincidence.

I will resist the temptation to tell my pious sneer joke at this point.

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Whose KH has the Blue Square jw.org on it?

by blondie in

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i have been looking and finally saw the logo on the kh sign............. .

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hamsterbait

Well, let's face it - the Caleb and Sofia videos usually end with the camera panning up to the sky, where the JW.ORG Blue Square isin the heavens guarding us all.....

The brazen calf. This Christophobic religion would never put Jesus anywhere if they could.

SNAKES - don't you mean roller skate??

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Jehovah's Witnesses are NOT a Cult......so they say.

by Tenacious in

trying to develop a good strategy for relatives still partially indoctrinated by this despicable inhumane cult.

i researched their own material and i found some good info on how they don't mind control anyone.

the following unedited information was sourced from their february 15, 1994 watchtower p. 5-7. i've highlighted some sentences that we all know are lies and a distortion of the reality of their community:.

hamsterbait

Not a cult?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Couple questions....like if JW's not the right way then what is?

by world in

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new member here so don't attack :d here is a couple questions i have been contemplating lately.. .

if jw isn't the right religion, then which one is?

or is it basically believe in god, the bible and you'll be fine?.

hamsterbait

It has been said here so often:

"I'd rather have answers I can't answer, than answers I can't question." Try questioning the elders on the answers from the Watchtower - see how fast they kick you out.

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Couple questions....like if JW's not the right way then what is?

by world in

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new member here so don't attack :d here is a couple questions i have been contemplating lately.. .

if jw isn't the right religion, then which one is?

or is it basically believe in god, the bible and you'll be fine?.

hamsterbait

AS FAR AS THE "RIGHT RELIGION" QUESTION -

Go waaay back in history, before there were Jews or anybody worshipping an omnipotent vicious desert Sand Fairy.

Religions did so many different things, depending on where people lived. In ancient Greece there was a whole panopoly of gods to choose from - Zeus, Minerva, etc. In India, hundreds of thousands of gods to worship, as you saw fit. In Africa there was and still is animism - spirits in trees rocks streams and the wind. Egypt had Anubis, Osiris, Nut, Rah and many others.

If none of these religions was the right one at that time, who is to say that in our time there is any more likely to be a right one.

Have no fear - time passes, and the world unfolds, along with your life the way it should. Whatever choices you make your life will happen anyway. Use it with self-respect and compassion for all living things. For some things there is no real answer. The monotheistic religions claim to have it, but none of them can agree with each other.

The JWs are only "united" in so much as they are forced into conformity, by means of fear, the DF stick where they cut you off from loved ones, and death threats of Armageddon. Take these away and there would be a lot of open dissent and schisms. In E. Europe there are Jehovahs Witnesses who say that Brooklyn Bethel and the GB are all apostates, and they refuse to follow them.

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Global War on Religion Has Began - Archbishop Wabukala

by cofty in

the anglican archbishop of kenya, eliud wabukala has declared that the terrorist attacks in kenya by al shabaab is part of a global war on organised religion.... speaking to a men's association conference yesterday he blamed "militant promotion of atheism" and called on all religions to unite against the threat.. how long until the geniuses at brooklyn towers quotes him as an authority on world affairs, as opposed to the paranoid buffoon that he is?.

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hamsterbait

He is as much of a fool as the 7 Popes in Crooklyn...

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The Watchtower 3/15/2015 Parables! New Understanding! plus More!

by wifibandit in

http://imgur.com/a/e6dos.

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hamsterbait

johnamos -

This "understanding of Christendom as the HOLY PLAce changed in the 90s. The disgusting thing is now DISGUSTING to Christendom, because it is standing in a place CHRISTENDOM considers holy. Still an antitypical interpretation.

I dont have any of their litterature now - so somebody else will need to do the search on this. It was a Witchtower study.

"IT IS ALL SHITE": the mantra of exJWs who wish to become MORE unfaithful