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  Hello

  by poopsiecakes in

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  Hi again!

  Thanks so much for all of the welcomes
  Love the snowman, yknot - tee hee hee.
  Independant: It's not that they df'd me for non-attendance, I was guilty of an offence but the worst part was that even though I hadn't been attending meetings for a year and a half, had never been in service since I moved here (so technically not a witness anyway), no one in the congregation knew me, the elders paid zero attention when I stopped attending and none of my 'worldly' friends knew my witness background, someone from back home sent them sniffing after me. My mistake was going to the damn committee meeting - I did not want to be df'd and I begged them not to do it, telling them that they didn't know me at all and had made no effort to do so, that I needed help and that when they make their announcement the reaction in the audience will be 'huh, who's that?' and they didn't give a crap. Since then, no effort to contact me whatsoever - even the once a year 'reach out at memorial time' thing the WT prides itself on. I just decided that if I could be tossed away so brutally, then I want no part of it. ahhhh good times.....
  At any rate, the thing with my mom and sister back home rankles at me - I can't help it. On the rare occasion that I do talk to my mom, I'm upbeat and positive and that seems to make her really sad, as though she wants me to be miserable...it's painful and strained and I'm actually glad that she doesn't make more of an effort to contact me if that's truly how she feels. Still hurts but whaddaya gonna do?
  The wealth of knowledge on this board is astounding and I enjoy availing myself of it. I look forward to getting to know all of you better in the days to come!
  p.s. - can't wait for xmas and new year's YAY
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  Hello

  by poopsiecakes in

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  Thanks so much for the welcome . You guys rock.
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  Introduction

  by Lekore in

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  i thought i'd introduce myself, i haven't been to the faux-truth in about 6 years now so i'm merely a small child to the 'real world.

  ' i grew up in said religion and attended two english speaking congregations and lastly a sign language congregation in britain.

  i think this gives away my identity to some friends i have on here ;).

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  I'm new here as well, but welcome and enjoy!
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  Hello

  by poopsiecakes in

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  whoops - try again!

  Hi Everyone,

  I wanted to formally introduce myself and let you all know how great I think this board is. I’ve been lurking for a little while now and find your insights and camaraderie a lot of fun to read. I left ‘the truth’ about 6 years ago when I moved away from my home town and because of a vindictive JW back home and a particularly weasley elder body here, I am now disfellowshipped. This after not attending meetings for over 18 months in a new city where the elders didn’t even know what I look like (I did make the mistake of attending a couple of meetings when I first moved here but after that nada).

  Oh well, all’s well that ends well and I can honestly say that I’m far better off after being released from the tyranny of the JW’s. My mother and one sister back home are still devout so I have no contact with them whatsoever and one sister who accomplished the perfect fade about 20 years ago and who lives in the same city as I do. Needless to say, we have become very close through all of this and she is horrified that our own mother won’t reach out to me.

  It took me a very long time to have the guts to go onto a website like this one and about 6 months ago I discovered jwfacts.com and holy mother trucker what a shock and revelation. Despite having been df’d I did think that if any religion has the truth, the JW’s are the ones and that bad apples exist anywhere. I was horrified to read about the UN scandal. That alone was enough to convince me that something was rotten and horribly wrong. Compounded with the ‘new light’ about the generation teaching, the weird and inexplicable ‘logic’ of the blood fraction allowance (and everything that goes with that silliness), seeing a compiled bullet form of flip flops and reading the true history of the JW’s, it’s a wonder my jaw didn’t need stitches from the smack it took on the floor.

  I truly wish that I could find a way to reach out to those I still love who are still suffering from WT delusion but I’m not sure if it’s worth the time and heartache to try, knowing what I know about how I would be perceived and blocked out. I do believe that somehow, someway an opportunity will present itself; at least with a few of these people and I sincerely hope that I can have some restraint and not spew like a runaway hose all of the things I have learned.

  Thanks so much for this board – I really feel like there’s an understanding here that I can’t quite find with my never-witness friends and it’s great to have a non-judgmental forum to read and post on.
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  Hello

  by poopsiecakes in

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  Fringe fans, what do you think of the latest developments? Wow!

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  tonight i watched the latest episode of fringe.

  i think the walter bishop character has become one of the most fascinating in recent tv scifi history.

  did you see tonight's episode and what did you make of it?

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  poopsiecakes

  Hi, so I'll reply!

  I thought it was a great episode - I'm a BIG Walter fan, I think he's one of the most interesting characters on network tv to come along in a while. I love his unabashed love of drugs and non-sequitur comments like last night's craving for chicken wings after coming to...

  Loved seeing Bell again also, this is leading up to something awesome!
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  Jehovahs Witnesses are banned in Russia

  by Quadraphoenix in

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  http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1385.

  this is very exciting news for all of us, especially for the ones that want to leave that are in russia.. .

  quadraphoenix.

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  Ok, what I don't understand is that the teaching I remember was that the UN would turn on babylon the great and THEN turn on the JW's - the touching of J's eye thing and not the other way around

  When the bans were lifted in the former Soviet Union, everyone was happy because it opened up the preaching work creating a great influx of new witnesses signifying J's protection and blessing - this new ban would seem to put all of that in reverse and would plunk the JW's into the babylon the great category being targeted by human governments....if I still believed any of that stuff...

  Going by what I remember, JW's should be confused and weirded out by this development in Russia - I know I would be!!!
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  Is the GB brainwashed?

  by highdose in

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  somthing thats beenpuzzling me... is the gb as brain washed as the r&f or are they actualy aware of how wrong they are?

  if they are aware then that would make them very evil as the deception of their flock is then caluated.

  but do they actualy belive the crap they put out?.

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  I think this is a very interesting topic. I’ve read the comments a few times now and it’s truly amazing how the brain works once freed from the shackles of this religion. When I was still a JW, I was friends with a family who has one member in Brooklyn bethel, one member in the Canadian branch and yet another who helps out the writing committee at Brooklyn. The one helping the writing committee and I used to have some really interesting conversations about our belief system and he had some very enlightening things to say that actually allowed me to begin the lengthy deconstruction process of the JW faith. He said that in his interactions with the GB, he definitely had the impression that they believe that the ‘end’ will not come in this lifetime and that he felt sad that Witnesses who have been waiting for decades are suffering from depression caused by delayed expectations. His daughter went to university to study writing because he felt strongly that young JW’s need a career to prepare themselves financially for old age in this system and that the GB knows this. So I really believe that while the GB are sincere in their beliefs – at least for the most part – they are not really honest with the R&F because the mass exodus would be catastrophic.

  I think that they are guilty of the same issues that they are happy to accuse the Catholic hierarchy of but they're so sure that they have God's backing that they have lost the ability to look outside themselves and see their actions with any kind of objectivity.
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  What is your favorite poem? Here is mine

  by HappyGuy in

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  thou hast made me endless,.

  such is thy pleasure.. this frail vessel thou emptiest again and again,.

  and fillest it ever with fresh life.. this little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales,.

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  poopsiecakes

  Oh, I have another one!

  Drink wine....this is life eternal;
  this is all that youth will give you.
  It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends.
  Be happy for this moment; this moment is your life...

  Omar Khayyam
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  What is your favorite poem? Here is mine

  by HappyGuy in

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  thou hast made me endless,.

  such is thy pleasure.. this frail vessel thou emptiest again and again,.

  and fillest it ever with fresh life.. this little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales,.

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  poopsiecakes

  Hello All,

  I figured this is as good a thread as any for my first post...

  I love this poem - reading it helps get rid of the 'poor me's and not take things too seriously.

  How Did You Die?
  by Edmund Vance Cooke

  Did you tackle that trouble that came your way
  With a resolute heart and cheerful?
  Or hide your face from the light of day
  With a craven soul and fearful?
  Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce,
  Or a trouble is what you make it,
  And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
  But only how did you take it?
  
  You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that!
  Come up with a smiling face.
  It's nothing against you to fall down flat,
  But to lie there--that's disgrace.
  The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce
  Be proud of your blackened eye!
  It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts;
  It's how did you fight--and why?
  
  And though you be done to the death, what then?
  If you battled the best you could,
  If you played your part in the world of men,
  Why, the Critic will call it good.
  Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,
  And whether he's slow or spry,
  It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,
  But only how did you die?