as i am typing this post i am constantly looking over my shoulder to see if anybody is at my bedroom door lol guys i know i am stuck in a a cult.
but this s*** is f****** crazy!!!!.
w13 11/15 p.16 par.17 -- " at that time, the life-saving direction that we receive from jehovahs organization may not appear practical from a human standpoint.
I was a born in and have been out for 6 years and nothing this cult says anymore surprizes me! I'm just glad I woke up when I did and got my kids out before they got ingrained in the mind control.
You know now and so much more is going to leap out at you, I can't believe I stayed for so long thats the most annoying thing!
Keep your mind open and fade, fade ,fade and leave when you can.
i'm a 17 year old from scotland.
can i just say this site is absolutely brilliant.
finally found people with open minds and free thought that doesn't just consist of "well the wt told me this so it must be right".. my story is that i'm just like any other child of a jw...brought up into a life of indoctrination where "the world's" thinking is automatically wrong.. that is until i was 14 - a light turned on in my head.
Hello and welcome, from sunny North East England, its nice to have a teenager post!
Our whole family have been out for 6 years now, best thing we ever did and our children are thriving!
My eldest is at uni studying to be a nurse, and number 2 daughter is just starting college and wants to be a geologist!
Thats not the ambition they would have had drummed into them in that cult!
I agree with bible student and ask you parents questions, i'm 44 and thats the process i'm using with my dad at the present although gone awol is a little bit more gunghoe with it then I am, but he is questioning more so i'm hopeful, my mum is out so thats a bonus!
Never give up on them, show them you mean business, stick to your guns and the best thing to do is to let them see is how happy you are! That has more power than you realise.
Look forward to your posts.
look...i am not an atheist.
even so, i have never had one prayer answered my entire life.
the only thing that would even come close was learning ttatt.
I,ve only thought so once, when I was 18 and the cong my parents had dumped us in was in the sticks and to pioneer I needed to be able to drive. Trouble was I was really bad at reversing round corners and even my instructor thought I had a slim chance of passing! I remember praying really hard and the miracle happened and I passed first time!
Since i'm no longer in the cult, I realise I was just good on the day and must have concentrated on what I was doing more than usual which is more plausible.
i regularly watch family feud.. homeland is a great show i watch every week, when it's in season.. metv has so many great programs---from taxi to the twilight zone.. what do you like watching?
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I love Criminal Minds! and Hannibal - bit gory but hay ho!
Also Yukon men and Alaska - The Last Frontier, very interesting.
I love watching the Great British Bake off with my youngest daughter as she wants to be a chef, but then again last week she wanted to be a fairy, oh to be 8 again, also Tipping Point is my and her favorite too, we have a thing for those 2p slot machines.
many jws are misfits and many that were raised as jws find it difficult to be "normal".
are you comfortable with yourself at this point in time?.
I am very comfortable with me, I know I made the right decision to leave 6 years ago and have never looked back. My lovely gone awol left the same time, my children are free and very happy and I'm happy to report my mum stopped being a witness a year ago. My dad still goes but not very often but gone awol and I are happily planting lots of seeds of doubt so watch this space!
I've always felt a bit awkard as a witness even though I was a born in, I could have loads of regrets and say I wish I got out sooner but what does that do for you!
I'm happy I woke up when I did and I am enjoying myself now and thats the main thing and for the first time I can say I am comfortable with me!
they were a hoot weren't they?.
We used to go in a large group when we worked at Edinburgh assembly at Murrayfield and also Billingham .
thoughts?.
For me leaving that religion has given me the freedom to be who I want to be. The best bit about leaving is that my children can never be tainted by jw thinking and can discover for themselves life free from the lies and rules that religion binds you in.
how many here are (a) ex-jw, (b) non-jw with jw relatives or spouses, (c) inactive jw, or (d) active jw who stay in for your own reasons?.
Inactive 6 years now with gone AWOL so I count myself as an ex-witness
i've been trying to avoid posting this, due to extreme paranoia but its time to post my story.
i hope to not post too many details, as we've avoided being df so far, our group elder was young and lovely and cool and i just hope that in time he learns the ttatt.. i'm a regular lurker on here, occasional poster (i can't post much as my phone browser only lets me read but not post, so i only post on the odd occasion i get a time alone on the pc).
i have been fading since round about last september ( so almost my first anniversary of learning ttatt).
Hi Brainmelt and hubby and welcome!
I'm glad you have each other through this difficult time and I agree with you that children are amazingly positive about things they go through.
Although our eldest daughter didn't have cancer, we found out she had a brain disorder at 12 which caused curvature of the spine and have been through the blood thing too, it was one of the many turning points for me personally, without blood she wouldn't be here today.
Our second daughter had the same back condition as well and although blood didn,t have to be used this time , it was touch and go after the op as they had trouble stablizing her bp and red cells.
Their sense of humour and fight pulls you through and we had the best care from a UK hospital ever, I can't fault them.
My parents are like yours very understanding and supportive and I have had a few conversations regarding blood with them, I thought it might be a fact in them questioning the religion themsleves but sadly not but I live in hope.
Take care and know you have support here too.
so we know all the things the wts prevents us from doing, but that's much, much different than the stuff we've grown accustomed to.. for those who have been out for a number of years, what kind of things would end up being abandoned if you suddenly started going back to the kingdom hall?
you know, stuff that you now do on the nights you used to attend meetings, the things you own, the things you wear, etc..
I'm with everyone who said their sanity, I was a nervous wreck when meeting time came round due to the circumstances going on their that led up to me and gone awol leaving.
I'd lose me too and after being born in and not knowing myself properly, i'm not giving that up, I'm finally finding me, sad when its in your 40's though but better late than never.
I'd lose a happy husband too, he's definitely in a lovelier person now, much more happy and relaxed with himself and chilled.
I'd lose my Xmas lights too and I love them, all twinkly - I love Xmas I get all overexcited!
