Posts by misguided

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Your worst field service experience.

by littlebird in

my worst field service experience was this.. i didn't have a car at the time and so a pioneer sister was picking me up of service every couple of days.

she was my partner and i got a door where the woman was clearly not interested.

as i am stepping away the pioneer sister starts in with all the objection stoppers.

misguided

These are my worst:

A big fat man answered the door naked. UGH!!

A man answered the door with a pistol in his hand. We left VERY quickly!

I lived in east-end Vancouver.

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alot of members don't have a flag or country name beside their user name, and well frequently one doesn't know where that particular person is from, tell us your country, state, county or what ever you feel like giving out.

if you are going to post please at least devulge your country.. me, i'm originally from taranaki, new zealand via auckland.

for the most of this decade i have been living & working in brisbane, queensland, australia.. .

misguided

British Columbia, Canada (West Kelowna)

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Did You Personally Know Any JWs That Were Sexually Molested By Other JWs?

by minimus in

i knew of a handful (which is too many) that were molested by a jehovah's witness.

it was not typical in my experience.

what about you???.

misguided

Yes...me...by 2 jw's including 1 who was an elder.

Also, my jw ex-father-in-law had a baby with my ex-sister-in-law...so my kids have a cousin who's also their aunt.

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Who left the Borg in 2007

by WT=watchtrouble in

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just curious to see who else left in the same year as me.

and how are things for you now.. it has been 2 1/2 years since i left and damn time has gone fast.

i now have heaps of fun.

misguided

I left around 1999, df'd in 2002. Halloween was the first holiday my kids and I celebrated after leaving. This year was the first year it felt "normal." No guilt, just good, fantastic fun. My 18 year old daughter said to me last night, " isn't this way better, participating in halloween rather than hiding in the dark house watching TV?" Yup...way better. (I was Ahkmed the dead terrorist)

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Contribution of Franz books on your decision to leave?

by Damocles in

the recent resurrected topic on franz' books got me curious.. how much did his writing contribute to your decision to leave?.

for myself, it was another brick in the wall but not more important than any other.

i was a little different than most in that i regularly read anti-witness stuff from the very beginning and never stopped.

misguided

It was the key book to freeing me. I cried when I realized what I was reading was the truth and the "truth" was a lie.

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So, Was Your Life RUINED Because You Were A JW?

by minimus in

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friends

the fact that you were a witness, did it actually "ruin" your life?

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misguided

Yes...definately! Sexually abused by 3 JWs, including 1 elder as a teen and then (due to the 2-witness rule and thinking that Jehovah fixes everything in due time...) feeling like an idiot when I turned each and every one of them in to the elders...Yet nothing seemed to ever be done...I started to believe I was crazy...so glad to be free!

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shepherding visits.....were they?

by angel eyes in

we have friends who say that they have had some awful shepherdings,the things theyve been told in them were far from encouraging.. we havent ever had one so to be honest i cant comment...but would love to know if you had one?

were they regular and were they ever encouraging?

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misguided

I've had many. So glad I don't have them any more. My husband was abusing my kids and me. Help? No! Just be more of a submissive wife...thankfully there is a government agency - social services...the school called them after my daughter had a wound on her face that she said her step father had caused. They interviewed all 5 of my kids (I have 6 - one is his) and they all told the same story... I was to have him out of the home by 3pm or they would apprenhend my kids... in the end he gets a 30 day jail sentence and 1 year of probation for what he's done to us...what does he get?...BAPTIZED!!! Now there's Jehovah's spit at work!!!

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What Gives you Peace of Mind Now?

by cameo-d in

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for those who have had years of panic induced by wt teachings and scare stories, how have you resolved having those feelings of impending doom?.

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misguided

I have found that it just resolves over time. When the panic moments arise, you know some natural disaster/world event can set it off...just think...would you really want to be spending eternity like the JWs are living their lives now???

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Will they have to drive to Kamloops BC forever?

by 1914BS in

well that might happen if the gb has it's way.

in british columbia, the vanvouver/lower-mainland dubbies have to travel hundreds of miles (through shark infested swamps) to get to the convention center in kamloops.

i think the center can hold 20 thousand and there was five conventions (i think) this year so that means about 100,000 dubs had to make that trip.

misguided

It killed my grandma...she insisted on having her own hotel room and not stay with my parents hotel room while going to the Kamloops assembly last year. She fell and broke her hip - and ended up gettin c-diff at the hospital in Surrey after she got home. She was 98. She went to the assembly with her broken hip and waited until she got home before she got treatment. What a f\'n cult.

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What Assembly were you baptized at...

by vilot in

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i was baptized at the 1976 "sacret secret" dc at inglewood ca there must have been 50,000 people there..

misguided

1982, Vancouver, BC. I had a fever of 103.