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well written exit story in huge magazine
by waton inhttps://www.stern.de/neon/wilde-welt/gesellschaft/zeugen-jehovas--wieso-meine-eltern-mich-haetten-sterben-lassen---und-ich-ausstieg-8353584.html.
clear story of exit from wt, would suffer in google translation imo.
https://www.stern.de/panorama/zeugen-jehovas--ein-aussteiger-erklaert-den--psychologischen-terror--7587542.html.
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fastJehu
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well written exit story in huge magazine
by waton inhttps://www.stern.de/neon/wilde-welt/gesellschaft/zeugen-jehovas--wieso-meine-eltern-mich-haetten-sterben-lassen---und-ich-ausstieg-8353584.html.
clear story of exit from wt, would suffer in google translation imo.
https://www.stern.de/panorama/zeugen-jehovas--ein-aussteiger-erklaert-den--psychologischen-terror--7587542.html.
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fastJehu
12. September 2018 06:19 Uhr
Notorious religious community
"My parents would have let me die" - why I left Jehovah's Witnesses
For many years our guest author was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. For NEON she talks about everyday life in the faith community and the moment when she decided to leave.
A guest article by Sophie Jones
A pretty good girl, with a long skirt and a high blouse, who knocks on your door and wants to talk to you about paradise - I was the little one. Because I grew up with the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Actually, I was a normal child. But who took a closer look noticed that something was not quite right. Hardly any free time with classmates, no cinema visits, no rappers or rock bands. Instead I was dressed differently, withdrawn and insecure.
I knew Bible verses by heart and when others celebrated birthdays or Christmas, I prayed to God and the day went like any other.
"The good Lord is proud of you"
When you're small, it's still possible. I didn't know anything else, I grew up like that and so I thought for a long time that the others were funny and abnormal. Until I noticed then sometime: I am the outsider. And the older you get, the clearer the difference was.
Mobbing from schoolmates? It's not that bad, after all you can bear it for God! "The dear God is proud of you and sees all that", I was told. Well, thank you.
For a while I talked myself into this successfully, cried into my pillow at night and asked God to end the suffering. Nothing happened. I had "friends" in the congregation, but they were the only ones. My free time was filled with preaching and Bible reading. When I wanted to spend time with other teenagers who unfortunately were not in the "truth" (i.e. unbelievers), it was said that they were bad company for me. And immediately afterwards a Bible text: "Bad dealings spoil useful habits".
Does God really see everything?
There they were again: feelings of guilt. God does not want you to meet people who do not believe in Him, it was always said. But I wanted to have friends! Also to be normal. To be invited once, to the cinema or to a party and be able to say "Yes"! But that was soon over: With time I was hardly invited any more and didn't have to think about any excuses anymore.
Nevertheless, the guilt continued to spread. I should stand by what I believed and not deny it. "Jehovah will be so disappointed. And he sees EVERYTHING" was a typical sentence of my mother.
The thought that God sees everything drove me crazy. As if he was just waiting for me to sin and come crawling to beg his forgiveness. To see if I'm watching a baller film, drinking beer, wearing a skirt too short, snogging, smoking, swearing, lying, whatever: He's watching me!
But there was also pressure from the other side, which was just as bad: "Why don't you celebrate a birthday? Where do you always go on Thursday evenings? Why aren't you allowed to go to the party with us? What are you wearing for funny things again? Whaaat, you don't know this new crass band?"
My classmates, of course, wanted to know exactly. And when they found out about the witnesses, the questions became more difficult: "You can't have a blood transfusion if you had an accident? You are not allowed to have sex before marriage? Why are you no longer in contact with your father?
Jehovah's Witnesses must not have contact with excluded persons.
Unfortunately, I had no answer to these questions myself. I was unhappy. It was clear to me that I could not believe all these teachings and did not want to live by them. I knew that in case of a medical emergency my parents would have decided for me: No blood, even if it means death. They would have let me die in the name of God. And worst of all, for years I was manipulated in such a way that I would have gladly agreed to the whole thing.
For a long time I was bubbling over. At the age of 17 I still let myself be baptized. From then on, contact with my father was strictly forbidden, for he was an excluded man. And Jehovah's Witnesses must not have any contact with the excluded, even if it is their own family. I could not cope with that. I was torn back and forth, angry and deeply sad. I just couldn't believe that a "God of love" had created families - and then tore them apart.
I have my life back
About a year later, I broke free and built a completely new life for myself. I have left everything behind me, moved and created a new person: MYSELF AS I WANT TO BE. The way I want to be, the way I am happy.
Now I am 23 and live as free and content as never before. I don't have to please anybody anymore, go my own way and have met so many valuable people who love me without conditions and are always there.
It was not always easy to hold out and find my way in a world that seemed so often strange to me. But if you take the risk of leaving something behind that doesn't do you any good, you can win the most important thing: your life.
https://www.youtube.com/SophieJones
translated by https://www.deepl.com/translator
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"Blood Guilty"
by new boy inguilt is such a wonderful tool used by the jehovah’s witnesses.
one of the terms they love to use is the term “blood guilty.” they have actually used this term to guilt their members into doing more and more “house to house activity” yes, they have said on numerous occasions at their kingdom halls and other major gathering that a person “could be blood guilty” for not going out in the field service activity enough.
the reason is simple.
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fastJehu
(Luke 17:1, 2) 17 Then he said to his disciples: “It is unavoidable that causes for stumbling should come. Nevertheless, woe to the one through whom they come! It would be of more advantage to him if a millstone were suspended from his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to stumble one of these little ones.
The GB made a lot of JWs stumble when they made the wrong predictions about 1975 and all the other wrong predictions.So the bible is very clear, who is blood-guilty.
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wizard of Oz JW style
by Kevin McFree ina one year special episode for watchtower to enjoy watching this week ;).
https://youtu.be/1fx3vrkvaci.
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fastJehu
@ Kevin
Great job - well done. I'm proud to be a member of the "Kevin-class"
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jehovahs witnesses base ALL teachings on the bible - false part 1
by Kevin McFree inhttps://youtu.be/cqpdb7c_wdk.
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fastJehu
@ Kevin
Thanks for this Dubtown Video.
You described the "all night rule" so well - that everyone understands the bullshit behind it.
I especially like your transformation of the Bible text from "Adam and Eve" into "Adam and Steve" :-)
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Yearly Donations down? 2.4 billion for the 2015/16 financial year
by Diogenesister inso people keep saying watchtowsr is in a financial mess.
i think we can all accept that numbers are stagnating at best and going down year on year in the north / western countries and japan.. however the recent finance dept leeks confirmed that following the may 2015 broadcast requesting more donations, an extra 30 million was sent in for the months of july/august.
stephen lett stated that this figure equated to a 30% increase.. lloyd evans has used this figure to work out how much is donated on a yearly basis worldwide.
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fastJehu
Thanks for this video link. This 4 people made a very good job (video).
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The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD
by Still Totally ADD inthis is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.
thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.
we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.
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fastJehu
So good to read this news. 👍
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Are you Enjoying the World Cup?
by snugglebunny ingreat to see such an eager young team.
harry kane is incredible.
oops..you'll have to click on the play on youtube link below.
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fastJehu
... He may make it home alive but who knows.
A few beers with the Germans and everything is good
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Are you Enjoying the World Cup?
by snugglebunny ingreat to see such an eager young team.
harry kane is incredible.
oops..you'll have to click on the play on youtube link below.
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fastJehu
Der Nationalelf ist auf dem Weg zurueck nach Deutschland (ich hoffe, dass das richtig ist).
Die Nationalelf ist auf dem Weg zurück nach Deutschland (that's right)
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Has the Governing Body ever been right?
by Jules Saturn ini asked this question to a relative after mentioning several situations where teachings were changed or readjusted (new light) and they have two reasons.
yes, they are correct because look at how the preaching work has grown through the decades and the advancements in witnessing and the second reason was the doctrine of the trinity and how the society opposes that.
i didn’t really have a response, especially for the trinity doctrine.. does the governing body have the rejection of the trinity belief correct?.
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