Do Not Call

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  I ONLY HAD ONE CHOICE - a "poem" by GG/BG (work in progress...???)

  by Good Girl or Bad Girl? in

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  so i wrote this poem, if that is what you can call it.

  not saying it's good or anything, but it's how i feel.

  it's about my experience as a jehovah's witness.. .

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  A very moving poem. I find writing poetry can be quite therapeutic, but I'm not as good at it as you.
  Keep up the good work and take care.
  Love DNC xx
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  Cracking elders comments on platform. Post them here....

  by jambon1 in

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  what is the most offensive thing that you have heard an elder say on the platform and was there any reaction?

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  The PO gleefully told the cong. how he was looking forward to the time when all gays are destroyed. "Won't that be wonderful? I can't wait!" he boomed.
  The chap sitting behind me had a gay son and he sighed and looked quite hurt.
  Lots of others voiced agreement, though. I just sat there in stunned disbelief.
  
  Another time, the same elder asked "Aren't we looking forward to the day when everyone who is not at the meetings will be cut off. We won't have to put up with them any more?" (The same evil glint in his eyes).
  My husband had recently stopped attending the hall and my daughters were reduced to tears by this insensitive beast. I waltzed them straight out of the hall and off home to see their dad before he was killed by God. :(
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  "How Could I Have Believed the Garbage for so Long?"

  by scout575 in

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  "i went through the same thing when i started my deconversion process.

  when i began to think rationally about life i was in shock.

  i would ask myself, "how could i have believed the garbage for so long?

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  I was raised a JW, so for me it was all I knew.
  
  It reminds me of The Truman Show; you just accept and believe the world you grow up in. You believe what your parents and friends say.
  Whenever someone or something makes you begin to question, they are removed.
  You have to 'sail to the end of the set and open the door to the real world' in order to see that the 'world'
  you were raised in is a set-up.
  
  That's how I felt, anyway.
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  My dear atheist posters, what would you recommend . . .

  by pennycandy in

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  for a reliable, accurate study of the authenticity of the bible and/or the existence of god?.

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  Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman was quite good.
  The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is excellent.
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  In Memorandum

  by RichieRich in

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  it was the 14th of april last year that i had to sit my mother down and tell her i was an apostate.. i was closer to her than anyone else.

  my father and mother are still married, but he let her raise me as a witness, and that meant it was me and mom.. me and mom in field service for 100 hours in july because she had to make her time as a regular pioneer.. me and mom fighting over what to bring for lunch to the district convention.. me and mom up late at night, when she would berate me, and then unload all her problems on to me.. me and mom and our 4 hour family studies, where we discuss 2 paragraphs of a random book, and then she would browbeat me until early in the morning.. somehow, through all that, i pretended to be a witness for years, just to appease her.

  looking back, i don't know if i loved her, or if i was just afraid of her.

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  I really feel for you Richie.
  
  The bit you wrote about missing the bond, but it was based on false pretences - that's exactly how I feel with my mum. Although I'm much older than you, it still hurts like hell.
  
  I have read many of your posts in the past and you've always impressed me with your courage and maturity through everything. Your mum is missing out on a wonderful son.
  
  I wish you all the very best as you try to come to terms with this unnecessary situation that this cruel religion has caused.
  
  Love and hugs,
  DNC XXXXXX
  ((((Richie))))
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  Ad hominem experts

  by KAYTEE in

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  ad hominem !!

  in footballing terms kicking the player rather than the ball.. how many times when discussing a problem (serious or otherwise) with elders were you attacked rather than the point you were trying to make, you the innocent one would come away feeling quite guilty.

  they are past masters at this technique, coupled with the fact that they attack you on your own.

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  Just noticed this thread.
  
  When we began to ask a few awkward questions, we were told that we were "too intelligent" and that's why Jehovah chooses the "foolish" ones.
  
  HONESTLY!!!!
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  mindset

  by Bobhere in

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  some months ago my exwife was facing death due to a massive blood loss.

  we have a son 23years old i kept him company during the night while his mother went through several proceedures to find the leak.

  early in the morning with her mouth full of tubes & despite objections from an elders wife who said "no she does not want to see me she is frightened that i am in the hospital" lorna insisted on seeing me.

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  (((BOBHERE)))
  
  My heart goes out to you and your son.
  You're story, sadly, is one played out among families with JW members the world over.
  As has been mentioned, read the stories of fellow posters here. It won't mend your situation, but, as I found, you realize you are not alone. You get true empathy here, not just sympathy.
  
  Take care.
  Love DNC xxxx
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  Pleasure Panties! Ho, My!

  by skyking in

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  HA HA HA Hilarious!
  
  Where'd she buy 'em?
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  My Wife Just Left Me Because of the Evil Watchtower

  by rassillon in

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  this is very difficult to write because i am crying.

  i am normally not the kind of person you will ever see cry because things don't affect me that much but this has got to be the hardest things i have ever went through.. i just got through discussing with my wife my feelings.

  i guess it has been hard to hid some of the things that i have felt since i have learned that many of the wt teachings are false.

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  Oh, I'm so sorry.!
  I'm crying reading your post; my husband leaving JWs almost caused us to split.
  I can't imagine how painful this is for you. (((((Rassillon)))))
  You are in our thoughts.
  Take care.
  Love and loads of hugs,
  DNC XXXXXXXX
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  If we could turn the clock back

  by KAYTEE in

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  if you could rewind the clock, i became a witness when my mother and farther were still alive.. like many on this board while i was reasonably down to earth, looking back i was still overboard, this was because of the doctrine of the wts that i had accepted.. i look back with regret that perhaps i could have been a better son to my parents.. one instance when my farther was in hospital, the surgeon told my mother that dad had a growth on his heart.. my mother was extremely upset, not over just the news, but was worried stiff that if my farther asked me, my mum knew i would tell the truth.

  (there are other ways of answering).

  many will say get a life, and we should not reflect on what has gone on in the past.

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  (((KAYTEE))),
  My parents were and are JWs, but I do feel that gut-wrenching guilt/sadness about the way I was with my grandparents.
  They loved me and wanted to spend time with me, but I distanced myself because they were 'bad association'. I also felt I didn't want to get too close as they were doomed for destruction any day.
  What a terrible religion!!
  They'd understand, parents, grandparents who aren't JWs have UNCONDITIONAL LOVE for their kids.
  We have to live with the hurt when they're gone.
  
  Love and sympathies,
  DNC XXX