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Trying to talk to my mom - really discouraged, need help.
by rather be in hades inso, i'm new here and i've decided to finally tell my mom the truth about jws.. and sorry for the long post.
i'm at my wits end.. here's some background:.
i grew p in a congregation in california, i'm not a born in, though i was raised in it from 5 - about 20. arond 20 i pretty mch faded out, bt the emotional ups and downs were jst all too much.
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what is the dumbest thing you've been reproved/chided/df'd for?
by rather be in hades ini'm a big science nerd and i remember when we were going over the creator book, that the big bang doesn't necessarily prove there is no god.. i said this comment during book study and the conductor's jaw dropped.
everyone was pretty uncomfortable and it didn't help that he ct me off as i was explaining the red shift and mom wasn't too happy about all that.
i had to do a lot of bible research and write some nonsense about how the big bang was not reality or some sort...ugh.. .
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think i'm becoming an atheist
by rather be in hades ini was just thinking about how often i prayed when i was going downhill.. now i subscribed wholeheartedly to the 'don't pray for bullshit requests' concept, so at first i rarely prayed.. starting around middle school, 9/10 i prayed for friends.
didn't really pray to stop the teasing, my fists did some of that and besides...racism isn't/wasn't jehovah's fault anyway and i can't pray for that to end when he allowed the witnesses to suffer in ww2.. through high school, same issue and then when i started pioneering and hanging out with some of the other witnesses, those prayers prayers for friends intensified cuz they were asses.. but they were dominated by the prayers to love god starting around 15. i didn't want to read the magazines, despite how much i love reading.
didn't want to stdy the lessons, didn't want to plan my presentations, though i did enjoy giving the talks and crafting them.
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mrsjones
by rather be in hades insent ya a message that will almost certainly have you thinking, "what the hades?".
that or have you crying laughing.
or both.
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starting fresh
by rather be in hades inwhen you left, did you feel the need to start your life over?
how did you go about reconciling who you were with how you feel now?.
better yet, for those born/raised in, how did that transition affect you and are you ok with who you used to be?.
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for those of you with family members still in...
by rather be in hades inhow badly do you want to see the org die?.
would you work actively towards the end of the watchtower society even with family members still in it?.
have any of you initiated the shunning for your own piece of mind?.
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end times article in watchtower library 2011 cd
by rather be in hades in*** g95 6/22 p. 3 predictions of the worlds end ***.
anyone read this article?.
i love how it mentions that end times prophecies have been around forever and they've all failed.. goes on to mention william miller and 1844. mentions harold camping lol.
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changes since leaving the cult
by rather be in hades inlast time i was there, they had meetings for book study in individual homes.
now they have them in the halls.. i dunno how it was for many of you, but the book study i went to from...maybe 10 - 15, had "goodie night" on the first weds of the month (my bs was on weds, pun totally intended).
did they take away one of the last bastions of fun with the move to the halls?.
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the new heavens and the new earth...
by rather be in hades in...is here today.. rev 21:1-4 = then i saw a new heaven and a new earth,[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.2 i saw the holy city, the new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.3 and i heard a loud voice from the throne saying, look!
gods dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them.
they will be his people, and god himself will be with them and be their god.
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how many of you guys were told it was a cult before joining up?
by rather be in hades inthis is more for those who were born out and converted personally.
i'm just curious if anyone was told while they were still studying if this was a cult before they got baptized.