Posts by cult classic

while i am still kind of new on my journey here, and may have a mixed bag of similarties and differences with all of you, i am in fact fading away from the religion of my youth.

in doing so, i have mostly been left alone.

meaning, my friends and family generally know i am "having a hard time" with a few things.

cult classic

"I'd smile at them, put my hand on their arm and say in a positive, warm tone 'You don't have to worry about me. Jehovah can read hearts.'"

Heaven, I love this^

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What one thing would you say...

by problemaddict in

while i am still kind of new on my journey here, and may have a mixed bag of similarties and differences with all of you, i am in fact fading away from the religion of my youth.

in doing so, i have mostly been left alone.

meaning, my friends and family generally know i am "having a hard time" with a few things.

Have you read Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan? It's a good read and will help you understand how and why the Witnesses think as they do. It will also give you some insight into how they will likely respond if you say the wrong thing (from a JW standpoint).

I've had success helping some of my family out using the techniques in the book.

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I grew up not fearing old age

by Sour Grapes in

as a teenage jw, i grew up believing that i was not going to finish high school nor would i get old and have to die like my grandparents did.

well, i did finish high school, as did my children and my grandchildren and old age has not been kind to me.

i don't like to look at pictures from 40 years ago, from a time when i was healthy and i had the goal of "stay alive till 75.

cult classic

My grandmother was in her 80s when she died a few years ago. I never ever once considered the possibility that I would have to live a huge chunk of my life without her. Much less join her on the other side one day.

Isn't that absolutely insane? The cult totally throws you off of nature's path psychologically.

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Yet another intro letter

by problemaddict in

to the mod, if this is posted in the wrong place please feel free to move it to wherever is appropriate.. so here is another lurker turned community member.

i might write up a life story at some point, but for the sake of time here are the abc's of me.. raised a jw.

friends for the most part are all jw's.

cult classic

Hi there, problemaddict. Like the name.

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Returning to school at age 45

by irondork in

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not the university, mind you... just taking some classes so i can spend the last 20 years of my secular life doing something other than golf course irrigation.

a fellow at the golf course has talked me in to getting my real estate license.. .

so, off to school i go.

cult classic

The Flintstones is my all-time favorite cartoon!

Congrats on going back to school. You'll do fine.

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I wonder what the WTS thinks of the Whitney Heichel Memorial on Facebook

by undercover in

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while not so uncommon in the 'real' world, this is quite the phenomenon for jws... an 'official' whitney heichel memorial page on facebook has been set up and people from all over the world are posting condolences.. personally, i think it's a good thing.

but knowing how the wts has tried so hard to limit jws from using social networking, i can't help but think that they are not happy about such a turnout of responses from jws from around the world to a facebook page.

i wonder if they'll bite their tongues and ride it out, knowing this a tragedy of epic proportions in their community, or will they amp up the rhetoric of the evils of social networking?