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  No Memorial invitation for us :)

  by truthseekeriam in

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  2. friends

  this morning as my husband and i were backing out of our garage to head out to the farmers market a jw was walking up our walkway with his invitation.

  he didn't see us and we didn't rocongnize him but a brother and sister we knew well actually looked our way.

  we decided not to bother and went our way to enjoy a lovely morning picking out fresh fruit and vegetables knowing when we got home the invitation would be stuffed in our door.

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  truthseekeriam

  That we are, LV101 :)
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  No Memorial invitation for us :)

  by truthseekeriam in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this morning as my husband and i were backing out of our garage to head out to the farmers market a jw was walking up our walkway with his invitation.

  he didn't see us and we didn't rocongnize him but a brother and sister we knew well actually looked our way.

  we decided not to bother and went our way to enjoy a lovely morning picking out fresh fruit and vegetables knowing when we got home the invitation would be stuffed in our door.

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  truthseekeriam

  This morning as my husband and I were backing out of our garage to head out to the farmers market a JW was walking up our walkway with his invitation. He didn't see us and we didn't rocongnize him but a brother and sister we knew well actually looked our way. We decided not to bother and went our way to enjoy a lovely morning picking out fresh fruit and vegetables knowing when we got home the invitation would be stuffed in our door. Well to our surprise all our neighbors had them sticking out their doors but not ours..lol. I just had o snicker thinking the couple who knew us actually must have sent that poor guy back to retrieve that cheap piece of paper because we're such bad people That didn't deserve it.

  It's so hard to Imagine just a few years ago I sat and cried with this sister sharing what happened to my child! These people are heartless pure and simple, I'm so glad we moved on from the conditional fake love they have for one another.
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  Which of the SEVEN stages of post JW behavior are you in right now?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1. they done me wrong.

  2. i'm depressed.

  3. i'm gonna act like an apostate (smoke, drink, drugs, sex, outrageous behavior).

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  Between 6 and 7.
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  What Watchtower Belief/View Never Sat Right With You?

  by minimus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  but their views on blood are just plain weird!

  meat has blood in it even if it's bled.

  still eating meat means consuming blood.

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  The whole " we are the only ones" crap.
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  A Time to Heal.....even when we caused the wound

  by donny in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1991 was the last full year i was an active jw.

  when i formally resigned in september 1992 my now ex-wife had already pretty much took all of the bound volumes and other society literature.. .

  the only thing i was left with was a few copies of the nwt and the 1991 bound volumes the watchtower and awake!

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  I was handed a print out of that article right after my 10 year old was interrogated about her molestation!! Of course it gave me no peace, We wanted spiritual justice, We wanted support, we needed help...not another article to read!!

  Years later, I now know they could care less about the abused, if they had their way they would rather look at a child as a liar and temptress then to admit the fact they have a serious problem. The only thing that mattered to them was how bad it made the org look! Our mental health, our physical health and our spiritual health meant absolutely nothing to them. We were forever changed and our challenges are never ending, not that they would even notice.
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  Sad news ...

  by Oubliette in

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  truthseekeriam

  Love it!! Thanks for the laugh.
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  This is my first post

  by Make Lemonade in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i wanted to express appreciation to the members of this forum.

  there are resources here that are deep.

  like we heard from the stage, "what is your depth and breadth of bible knowledge?

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  What a way to go out!! Standing up for the most innocent, good for you!!
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  Anybody watching the show Resurrection?

  by mynameislame in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  resurrection.

  the lives of the people of arcadia, missouri, are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return.. .

  so far it seems to be an interesting take on the subject.

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  Aliens??
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  Avoid Going back to the JW's - Educate Yourself about Mind Control

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've talked with some good friends on the board about this before and we seem to be in agreement : one reason ( among many ) that some disfellowshipped jw's go back and return to the wt organization is because they are full of uneeded guilt or uneeded fear because they haven't educated themselves about how the wt society uses mind control tactics to deceive them into thinking they have " nowhere else to go " .

  i understand that some dfed ones may go back to the organization for family and friends- however- it's an exrecise in futility because once you learn the truth about the truth you cannot undo what you heard.

  so some may just go back and live a fake jw life to appease family- but just think of how that can damage a person's emotional and mental health playing the fake jw game the rest of their lives !

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  Like others have said, I just can't be a hypocrite. Would my life be easier if I went back? Sometimes I say yes, only because I've been going through some tough situations where I could have used some support from people I had spent 20 years of my life building relationships with.

  Then, I bop myself on the head and remember why we left in the first place!! Lack of love and support from our lovely JW family after our child was abused by one of " them." The mind control runs deep in us and even after being removed from it for 5 years When something bad happened I still go temporarily insane ( I call it my JW mind ) Like I've told my husband I could never be part of any religion that harms their followers. Disfellowshipping, 2 witness rule, blood issue and all the lies that keep changing....harm people. I cringe to think I signed the no blood form twice while being prepped for surgery, all while not really wanting to but feeling I had to. It's insanity!! Yet, it was our life.
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  Anybody watching the show Resurrection?

  by mynameislame in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  resurrection.

  the lives of the people of arcadia, missouri, are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return.. .

  so far it seems to be an interesting take on the subject.

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  truthseekeriam

  I like it so far.