Thanks for the positive feedback ... although I am not sure (BU2B) how much longer our marriage will last ... however, most of my children have been influenced positively by my leaving and trying to educate them. It has been tough, especially the first year or so, but once I was assured by my wife that she had absolutely no intention of considering looking critically into the organization, I decided I had to be calm (with the encouragement of JWN folks like you), do the best I could by example, encourage my children to think and reason ... it has paid off, but it has only made the division in my marriage much wider. It's at the point where I guess we are the source of each other's misery with only one of us willing to make compromises ... but that's the way of a true JW, which I was at one time too, so I get it, there are no compromises.
wannabefree
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Some people called me Santa this weekend ... my wife calls me Satan
by wannabefree inmy mother's church was having a christmas breakfast this past weekend and needed a santa ... i volunteered.. these little ones thought i was the real deal and one is my child.
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when we returned home she went right up to my wife and said ... "mom, santa is real!".
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Truth Be Told documentary now available to download
by defender of truth inhttp://buy.hereliesthetruth.com/#buy.
if you decide to buy a copy, please post and share your thoughts.. (i can't afford it really).
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Bought it and just watchted it.
I am not a "born in" but can relate to the experiences and how I raised my children in the cult.
Very well done. I thought it was balanced.
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1973 Release from Liability form
by Marvin Shilmer intoday i added a new article to my blog.
it will appeal to readers interested in historical documentation of watchtower blood doctrine.
it contains an image of a very rare document from the early 1970s stipulating what jehovah's witnesses do not allow.
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wannabefree
Interesting at the end on the signature line ... Watch Tower had preprinted the year as 197_ ... since this was made in 1973 and the end was to be in 1975, I suppose they didn't see the need to just leave it as 19__ which would have allowed them to use the form longer.
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Elder Tells Study to stop using google for research ???
by raymond frantz inelder tells study internet is bad for research.
(watch the video here...).
it might be that the watchtower has embraced the internet in recent years as never before but in private things are the same .watch this video as an elder strongly discourages a study from using the internet to get answers.shameless mind control from the same people who promote in any kind shape and form their version of online truth ,jw.org.. not many years ago they used to demonise the internet as the following quote from july 2007 kingdom ministry shows:.
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Interesting how this young Islamist is exposing other cults. His religion doesn't treat ones who expose his cultic faith very kindly. I wonder if his activism against the Mormon and JW cults and information control would cause him any discomfort with the ways of his own religion.
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Some people called me Santa this weekend ... my wife calls me Satan
by wannabefree inmy mother's church was having a christmas breakfast this past weekend and needed a santa ... i volunteered.. these little ones thought i was the real deal and one is my child.
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when we returned home she went right up to my wife and said ... "mom, santa is real!".
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Thanks talesin, it was a lot of fun. As far as I know, my wife doesn't know that I was Santa, but she wasn't pleased that I took the little one to see him.
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Some people called me Santa this weekend ... my wife calls me Satan
by wannabefree inmy mother's church was having a christmas breakfast this past weekend and needed a santa ... i volunteered.. these little ones thought i was the real deal and one is my child.
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when we returned home she went right up to my wife and said ... "mom, santa is real!".
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wannabefree
My mother's church was having a Christmas breakfast this past weekend and needed a Santa ... I volunteered.
These little ones thought I was the real deal and one is my child.
When we returned home she went right up to my wife and said ... "Mom, Santa is real!"
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Could a JW be DF for celebrating Festivus?
by Stealth inafter all, it's a secular holiday not a religious holiday.. if i was still an active member, i think i would start a new tradition of celebrating festivus.
most likely no jws would come, but that's okay, it's a famiily holiday anyway.. what grounds would the elders have to disfellowship you?.
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A former close JW friend of mine celebrated "Family Day" every year on December 26th with his immediate JW family, decorations, wrapped presents (no festivus pole or christmas tree) ... his father who observed this family tradition with him was the P.O.
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High court ruling in favor of JW children
by karter innew zealand hearld this morning.. a judge has stopped the children of a jw from going to church and attending witness meetings and allowed them to attend birthday parties and christams celebrations.. the high court ruling comes after the childrens seperated parents appealed against the family court orders regarding custody details.. i think the wts will push this to the supreme court.. .
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Using New JW.ORG Merchandise to Share the Good News, t-shirts and painted JW.org toe nails!
by SanLuisObispoTruthSeeker inthere are approved methods of preaching the good news about jw.org in style!.
caleb and his single mammy, tired of your child losing notes to his teacher, pin that note with a friendly, lively jw.org caleb and mommy button for a small fee!
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/356206651751072594/ with our rich hertigage of mixing organization with the skills of a saleman you knew this was bound to happen.. .
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Court Bars Kids From Jehovah's Witness Activities
by Bangalore incourt bars kids from jehovah's witness activities.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/64209712/court-bars-kids-from-jehovahs-witness-activitieshttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11375208bangalore.
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wannabefree
Clearly the kids have been heavily influenced by Watchtower propoganda, hopefully dad can find a balanced way to "deprogram" them and help them out and enjoy their youth. No doubt Caleb and Sophia have had a part in it.
I wonder if the mother was brought up a JW and returned to her faith.
