Posts by John Aquila

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

Bonsai
Mine started one day in the Kingdomhall library room about 12 years ago. It didn't affect me until years later, but what happened on that day sowed seeds of doubt that would lay dormant for another decade

This seems to be a common denominator with most of us. Unfortunately the bad thing about this is that life is so short. So 10-15 years is a life time. In that amount of time a person could be a heart surgeon. That is what is evil about the Watchtower. They know it takes a while to figure out that they are false manipulators, so they prey especially on the young. Once the young find out something is wrong, it most likely will take some 15 years to figure out enough and act. By then a 20 year old will be 35 years old, and a 25 year old will be 40 years old. Almost to late to go back to school. That's how they ruin lives.

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

sherrie11
Since then I haven't met any real life ex Jw's.

I've met one in real life also, but your statement made me think. There are only 8 million Jehovah's witnesses world wide. I believe in the United States there is a little over one million Witnesses. Out of one million Witnesses in the U.S. I wonder how many have woken up?? Probably not many. So the likely hood of meeting live EXJW is very slim. Plus the fact that we fade and don't publicize it doesn't help. I guess you could say, we are of--"The Little Flock, The Remnant, The Chosen Ones"

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

Wow! All these stories are awesome!

I'm not alone,------I'm not crazy!!!

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

Thanks Finkelstein, I'm not sure how you made it without talking to exjw for decades, and your right, we do have it easier today. I'm not sure I've would have made it back then.

Cognac, an anointed brother woke you up!!!

That's a first. I bet your the only one of exjws that was woken up by an anointed. Should we consider you an Anointed Apostate.

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

Dagney
Not instantly and probably a few years before I finally felt able to mentally dismiss anything the org said or did.

See, reading some of these remarks helps me understand why it took me so long. I guess I just wasn't there yet mentally when I first heard the generation change in the 90s,

Sofia Lose

I coincidentally fell into this web page and the rest is history.

Ha, ha Sofia, your like Kate. Makes me believe in luck.

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

Finkelstein
This was pre-internet so I was on my own to investigate the inaccuracies and troubles.

How many years passed before you found an EXJW to exchange thoughts? Or did one of your family members wake up with you?

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

Stealth
it was things that were said from the convention platform that drove me away and the lack of love shown during one the worst crisis in my life.

I believe this is a KEY factor in starting the process of waking up. The Organization itself is doing a better job of waking people up than all of us apostates put together.

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

KateWild 32 minutes ago
Cedars woke me up. He bumped his site on Google some how and I clicked on it by mistake.....

Wow Kate, that like hitting the lottery by mistake.

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

Simon
I had walked past apostates waving banners many times at assemblies and they were totally unconvincing and reinforced the belief that 'we' were right and 'we' were special.t I don't think it helps many - aggressive in-you-face disruptive tactics are more for the benefit of the person doing them than anyone watching IMO.

Totally agree, and I'm having to change my approach and bite my tongue many times.

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

John Aquila

Londo111
But it was an uphill battle just to start investigating.

Oh yes, it was like climbing Mt. Everest in you underwear.