hi everyone.. i just realized that it has been over a year since i discovered this site and started to recognize i was shackled by invisible chains.
i am still in the process of chipping away on those chains.. i posted on another thread how these threads here are like little time capsules.
the moment, the emotions, the attitudes are all there frozen.. .
I wish I'd kept a diary as well LOL.
The accepting part is an ongoing thing too. I went thru many emotions, but i think acceptance took about 3 years for me, I was slow and took my time to exit as once i realised I'd probably been duped I was extra careful not to repeat that mistake and just take anyones word for it. So if I read stuff here about things I needed to research I would go and do it.
Facing my own mortality is a big issue for me, I really believed I might live forever!
hi everyone.. i just realized that it has been over a year since i discovered this site and started to recognize i was shackled by invisible chains.
i am still in the process of chipping away on those chains.. i posted on another thread how these threads here are like little time capsules.
the moment, the emotions, the attitudes are all there frozen.. .
Same here, I have grown as a person in the past 5 years and this site has played a large part in that. I think that is why i keep coming here several times a day to catch up.
Better to have questions you cant answer than answers you cant question, this was phrase that stuck with me.
Accepting that I had been duped and under mind control for most of my life is a major part of the healing process.
go ahead.
tell me.. "i've read the bible cover to cover.
i don't believe you.. it is damned near impossible!.
I read it completely twice and huge chunks of it several more times, so I reckon I have read it 5 times over. I did this within the last 5 years while i was waking up to TTATT and to double check and make sure of things and to give the bible every chance to prove itself.
The bible did prove itself, ... to be a complete fraud.
after reading dozens and dozens of posts and hundreds of comments, it seems to me that a great many people on this forum think that since they figured out ttatt, they must therefore be a highly intelligent and incredibly rational individual.
let me take a moment to congratulate everyone.
its a big step to figure this out - i know.. that said, it doesn't make you a genius!
Thanks for that.
No I dont really know what logic is by the definitions given, but i try to be and am far more so since i now have a highly tuned and working bullshit meter.
rex at the convention?
are they using a mascot now?.
.. rex has really enjoyed the regional convention at sheffield,.... .
No "they" arent.
It's a toy and done by someone to releave the tedium of being at a mind control event.
syrian soliders surrendered to isis and soon were beaten, stripped naked and shot to death in the desert.
these following photos show the innocent victims isis has decided to kill.
how do you cut the heads off of four to eight year old kids?.
Why does the Watchtower cult need to speak out exactly? No one listens to this small insignificant cult anyway...
please help with this: when i was in college, there was a lot of talk about university and how all who pursue that are wasting their time and all that.
even before going to uni, there was a lot of pressurr on me concerning my decision.
during that time, two elders sat with me for appointment as ms and asked me if i have freedom of speech in the org since i'm going to uni and i said no.
2 words will suffice: not thanks. You can say it with a twinkle in your eye and a smile if you like.
If they press for a reason and repeating the above doesnt seem to wash, then just say "I dont want to"
If they press for a reason and repeating the above doesnt seem to wash, then just say "Last time I checked I wasnt living in North Korea" and walk away...
i first posted here on 3rd june 2008. at the time i was an elder, appointed the previous october, i was 36 and i was a born-in.
at the time i'd become disillusioned with the society due to the governing body's letter explaining why the book study in private homes was being abolished.
april 2008 saw me start questioning this decision, privately of course, and this eventually led me to this site, to jwfacts and to many youtube videos, all of which began to errode my faith in the leaders of the organisation.. in july 2008, having discussed my doubts with my wife, i attended the district convention, deciding to give the society one last chance to convince me it was the truth.
Awesome, yep, welcome to reality.
meeting with my congregation elders today.. going to tell them about the things i discovered about c.t russell.
(astrology, racism, ect.
) i don't know how to present this information or what to say.
It's a cult. Dont get suckered into joining it. No one chooses to join a cult, they join something they think is NOT a cult. Do your research to make sure.
One of their greatest tricks is equating pleasing God with doing things that makes you a JW. It's a mindfuck.
meeting with my congregation elders today.. going to tell them about the things i discovered about c.t russell.
(astrology, racism, ect.
) i don't know how to present this information or what to say.
waste of time meeting with them, just stop going to meetings and FS, request to be left alone and then get on with living.
