parakeet
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Is there anything good about having been a JW?
by parakeet ini've been a lurker for a few weeks and finally threw my hat into the ring a few days ago.
i've been out of the org for almost 30 years.
the whys and wherefores can wait for another time.
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My karma ran over my dogma
by parakeet insaw this on a bumper sticker today.
somewhat descriptive of what happens when jws leave the org.
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Is there anything good about having been a JW?
by parakeet ini've been lurking for a few weeks and decided to throw my hat into the ring a few days ago.
i've been out of the org for almost 30 years (a long, dreary story for another post).
i wanted to ask those who have been out of the org for a while if they have discovered anything beneficial that has resulted from having been a jw.
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I've had it. I want to DA myself
by White Waves inbut i am afraid to send a letter to my old kh.
what should i write to make sure they don't just df me?
also, they refused my request to da myself before.
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How much persecution did you expect to come when you were a JW?
by JH indid you expect, that one day, you would be persecuted for being a jw?.
how bad did you expect it to get?
do jw's today still expect some kind of persecution to come because of their beliefs and actions?
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What do you consider yourself?
by poodlehead ini have wondered how each of you classifies yourself.
as regards to religion.
this is for my own person interest.
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Anger over disfellowshipping
by jambon1 ini have now spoken with a couple of worldly people regarding the practise of disfellowshipping.
having been out of the org for a few months i now feel confident enough to expose the things that i knew were wrong.
d/f was one of the biggest issues i had.
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Ive figured out our need for religion...
by theinfamousone inor at least i have a good theory as to why we like to think there is a god who cares about us and why we follow his "guidelines" and rules and then go to his churches and follow his religions.... i think our major problem as living breathing entities is that we like to believe the world revolves around us.
no matter how unselfish we think we are, we still do not want to think of a time when we are not around... we do not want to think of being forgotten, we do not even want to think of dying... right?
so we invent a god, who cares and who stretches his hands out to us so that we can one day be remembered by him, and be saved by him, either by reincarnation, heaven, new world, and the list goes on... we are all afraid of nothingness, so we use religion to console our fear and to be able to think that we will never be nothing.... what do you think???.
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The New World Translation
by pratt1 indo you still have your old bible?.
can you bring yourself to throw it out?.
it's the only book from my dub days i can't get rid of.. i guess i still have part of the "old personality" and i haven't fully put on the "new personality"