Posts by Soldier77

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2010 DC - not going (yay)

by Soldier77 in

jw
friends

so without giving too much info away so that someone might id me, i have to travel a long distance to get to any dc.

so i'm making plans to take a trip to the states to spend time with family, and my mother asks me about attending the dc.

i said, look, i have limited time when i take a trip there and you want me to spend three days sitting on my ass listening to the same ole bullshit?

Soldier77

Sahara I am trying to figure that out myself. I've only recently (last 6 months) refused to let the WBTS dictate my life and I'm still in the process of fading/walking away from it.

As for my mom, it is high mind control with her. I get her to admit she doubts the organization and in the same breath says that I need to stay in because it is the truth. No shit, no lie, no exaggeration. It blows my mind. I'm formulating a plan of attack on this mind control to put a wedge in the cracks she has. But I don't know if it will work. She has said multiple times in the past the famous (or is it infamous?) line that all jdubs use, "where else are we going to go?" Of course as we all know this is not what Peter said to Jesus. It was to WHOM are we to follow? Not where or what. It is simply astonishing the level of mind control that the WBTS has used.

This is definitely a work in progress. I keep thinking of the airline attendant that instructs you in the even of an emergency to grab the oxygen mask and put it on yourself first before helping someone else. I guess that is what I should be focusing on now, getting myself that oxygen mask and save myself.

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2010 DC - not going (yay)

by Soldier77 in

jw
friends

so without giving too much info away so that someone might id me, i have to travel a long distance to get to any dc.

so i'm making plans to take a trip to the states to spend time with family, and my mother asks me about attending the dc.

i said, look, i have limited time when i take a trip there and you want me to spend three days sitting on my ass listening to the same ole bullshit?

Soldier77

Oh the hypocrisy runs deep that's for sure. That will be the next barrier for me to break down with my mother. I have to make her see just how ridiculous she sounds when she backs up the organization.

Thanks for letting me vent guys, it helps tremendously!

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How I left Jehovah's Witnesses/Maeve Courteau

by not a captive in

in february of 2009 i slipped a letter of conscience under the doormat of my former book study conductor who was out of town.

that letter was written because i could not support a portion of the materials that constantly was featured in wts literature.

at the time i was a sister in good standing.

Soldier77

Amazing! Thank you for sharing this with us! I just skimmed through the letters you wrote and wow, just wow, great courage on your part and you did the right thing. You stood up for your beliefs and shunned the organization. I love it!

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2010 DC - not going (yay)

by Soldier77 in

jw
friends

so without giving too much info away so that someone might id me, i have to travel a long distance to get to any dc.

so i'm making plans to take a trip to the states to spend time with family, and my mother asks me about attending the dc.

i said, look, i have limited time when i take a trip there and you want me to spend three days sitting on my ass listening to the same ole bullshit?

Soldier77

The thing that gets me is that my mom lived in an area of the world that was pretty shady back in the Vietnam generation (lol). She was a victim of satanic ritual abuse.... the abuser? An elder in the KH over on that side of the world. Not to mention the shit she's been through being in the org througout the years. I told her last night, after all that you've been through, how can you believe this is the truth? Can't you see that you are being victimized by the organization and the power hungry elders/co's? It just doesn't phase her, she says that it's the time of the end and that things like these were prophsied to happen to believers...

Yes, seriously f'd up. Sad thing is, I love my mom dearly and it's killing me inside to see her still being hooked by the bullshit coming out of the few old sinile codgers up in NY.

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2010 DC - not going (yay)

by Soldier77 in

jw
friends

so without giving too much info away so that someone might id me, i have to travel a long distance to get to any dc.

so i'm making plans to take a trip to the states to spend time with family, and my mother asks me about attending the dc.

i said, look, i have limited time when i take a trip there and you want me to spend three days sitting on my ass listening to the same ole bullshit?

Soldier77

So without giving too much info away so that someone might id me, I have to travel a long distance to get to any DC. So I'm making plans to take a trip to the states to spend time with family, and my mother asks me about attending the DC. I said, look, I have limited time when I take a trip there and you want me to spend three days sitting on my ass listening to the same ole bullshit? She's like, well, "you know Jehovah wants you to attend". I almost puked my guts out when I heard her say that.

The dates of my trip, if shifted a week later would allow me to attend a DC that's 5 hours away from their house. (That in itself is bullshit). I called her back and said, sorry I already bought the tickets and I'm not going to the convention this year. Besides, I told her, I already know what the releases are and what the main talks are about. She asks me where did I get my info, I just said I have a little birdie that gave me some info is all.

That opened a can of worms with her. That led into an hour discussion of the "truth". The good thing that came out of this, by the time I got done with her she admitted that she doesn't follow the society's rules and doesn't believe half the stuff they tell us. I was a bit shocked. I asked her how long she felt this way. She said, for decades! I don't know if I'm more pissed off that she is being affected by this mind control cult or of the fact that I could have got out a long time ago if she would have been honest with me!!!

I was pretty impressed with myself with telling her directly that the organization is lead by men and not by Jehovah and they are the ones making the laws and rules like the Pharisees. She agreed!

What the hell!? How f'd up is that?!

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"Generation" talk from 2010 DC from Tucson, Arizona

by cabasilas in

this file was shared by a friend and permission was given to post to internet archive:.

http://www.archive.org/details/remaininsecretplaceofthemosthigh.

from file description:.

Soldier77

Excellent illustration WTWizard.

This generation thing is over the top. Like they say, fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice (or in this case over and over again), shame on me. Time to take my life back!

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Are you an active Jw or an ex-jw?

by XPeterX in

active unbaptised publisher here.you?

(though i already know the answer for some people).

Soldier77

I guess I just became inactive. Haven't been out in FS in 3 months, and missed more meetings in the last 3 months than actually been. Not DF'd or DA'd. I'm going to just disappear.

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Change in distribution of Kool-aid issue of WT, get them like your KMs from your Service Groups Overseer

by cattails in

not only is there a change in the way the magazines for field service are distributed to publishers.. there's news of a change in distribution of the study issue of the wt.

from now on a publisher will.

get them like they get their kms, that is by having their service groups overseer hand deliver them.. another way to exercise control for control's sake and make the sgos busier and feeling more and.

Soldier77

So I've missed a few recent Thursday night meetings so was this an announcement made in the last couple of weeks? Makes no sense that anyone (with internet access) can download them from jw-media.org. Unless they disable that feature and move to a handout by the SGO then I'll jump on the conspiracy bandwagon as well.

To me the change just sounds like a cost saving measure made by any corporation. Make the minions print out their own damn WT's!!

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Yet one more thread on the new "generation".... Oh, Joy!

by undercover in

i know, i know... some of ya'll are gettin' sick of this "generation" thing... .

but for whatever reason, i had not seen this actual quote from the dc talk (that or had not paid much attention to it until now).

seeing it in print really brought home how desparate they are to try to hang on to 1914 in whatever way they can.

Soldier77

I'm going to print those notes out Leolaia and bring them to the WT study that week. Thanks for posting it.

I've already started the groundwork for talking to someone in the hall about this generation understanding and calling BULLSHIT!

WingCommander - truly enlighting words from your father, that speaks volumes. Thanks for sharing!

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How did you dispose of all those excess magazines?

by chicken little in

we were always told not to throw away literature, so just what did we do with it all?

i know that i would sneak it into the bin for recycling quite regularly.

my parents kept all the magazines for over 20 years in ritz boxes in a cupboard, they all went yellow and smelt wierd.

Soldier77

To the trash! In fact I would go as far and say I'm evil, because I still get 11 magazines a month (5 WT, 5 Awake and 1 study WT) I throw all but the study one away and I've never..... donated anything for them..... ever.

I'm proud of it too.