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  Not sure what to do - Not "in" and not "out"

  by Alexia in

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  2. experiences

  long story short: forgive my grammar, im in a hurry!.

  i grew up as a jw by my mother who was baptized about two years before i was born.

  my dad studied but was a severe (really severe) alcoholic and my older brother studied but was never really into it.

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  Your most memorable Kingdom Hall meeting disruptions!

  by easyreader1970 in

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  2. friends

  i remember about twenty years ago some teenagers were caught fornicating in one of the additional schools.

  the schools were downstairs, essentially separated from the rest of the kh.

  they weren't just happened upon, though.

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  A jw reaction to the BIG Announcement

  by Tired of the Hypocrisy in

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  2. friends

  hey kids, what's doing?.

  i sent off an email to a relative and asked if she heard anything about the big announcement this sunday.

  i told her what i heard about it and here is her response.

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  Thinking of giving it all up!

  by eyeslice in

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  2. friends

  i am sure this isn't a mid-life crisis i have done that and got out of the jws.

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  but i am seriously thinking of just leaving the west with its rat race, emphasis on money, senseless tv and media, cars, shopping malls, pre-packaged food, supermarkets, etc, etc, and moving to india to live in a small cottage near a beach somewhere.. anyone else got the urge to get out of the rat-race?.

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  Crisis of Conscience stolen from my local library

  by neverendingjourney in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i finished reading combating cult mind control a few days ago.

  i went to the local library to try to get a copy of crisis of conscience.

  i had the librarian search for it, and it's not available in any of the municipal library's branches (i live in a fairly large city).

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  The WTS leaves me no choice but to ''fade''!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  notice what it says in the watchtower magazines from the 1980's about people who either reject or leave the faith of jehovah's witnesses.

  if you get disfellowshiped,disasociate yourself,or reject the teachings of the organizationan ....... you will be treated the same.

  they really give you no other ways of leaving the organization.

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  Wife has gone back to the Organization...what can I expect??

  by Shadow1 in

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  2. friends

  my wife and i have been married for just over one year.

  while we were just dating, she had told me that she used to belong to the jehovah's witnesses, but no longer had those beliefs.

  i thought i could handle all of this (i am a non- believer), but she has since got back to the org (all her family belong as well).

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  Were YOU Personally Disappointed That The End Didn't Come Yet?

  by minimus in

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  I don't like using Jehovahs' name anymore

  by LouBelle in

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  2. friends

  i must say the more and more i learn and find my way around my spirituallity the less i use the name jehovah.

  it just reminds me of everything i went through, reminds me of the ""bad"" and not the good of god.

  it reminds me of hypocracy and mind control.

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  did you enjoy your first cigarette?

  by inkling in

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  not only am i not a smoker, i have never even tried smoking of any kind (besides a weird .

  half hearted attempt at smoking blackberry tea from a homemade wooden pipe.

  friends of mine who smoke, besides the complicated layers of guilt, talk about a basic .

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