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Haven't read them fully yet but up to now all I can say is great and I pray it touches
others especially JWs who may drop in. I personally am a Christian and was together with a
JW for 2 years - yes I know 2 Cor 6:14 "do not be yoked with unbelievers" - but
sometimes "love is blind". Finally our engagement was broken off due to this
verse - from her side. Was painful for both. She's still there and 10 months after our
break
up married to a JW. I'm now becoming active locally in warning young Christians off the WT
doctrines.
Thanks again
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I have recently moved to San Antonio
Texas and was praying for an opportunity to share Christ with others. Well, the
opportunity came in the form of a co-worker who is being actively recruited by his JW
girlfriend (or friend who wants to date him but can't yet). He is going through some
real mental struggles and is being persuaded by the JWs but he is still reaching
out. How can I help him? I am trying to learn of the JWs but don't have much
knowledge nor ideas for how to combat their theology. He spends 5 nights a week with
the JWs in bible study. I look forward to hearing from you.
That's the best cigarette story
I've ever heard! Congratulations and welcome to the kingdom of heaven.
I am not nor have I ever been a
jw. Until about 3 years ago, I didn't know they existed. In fact, up until last August, I
would have argued with you about the existence of God.
My Father was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer (30 + yrs smoking). As I watched him
deteriorate, I felt the overwhelming call of God, and replaced my dispair with the
knowledge that my Father, a lifelong Catholic, would soon walk side by side with the Lord.
Ever since, my faith grows daily. Sometimes it is hard to contain, and I find the need to
spread the good new!
I liked your site so much I had to write and tell you so. The part about
Watchtower love is conditional is the best story about JW's on the net and needs to be
spread to other sites. My wife is a JW and is driving me nuts for the past eight years
with all her do's and don'ts. Lots of don'ts. Any way I hope your life {who ever you are}
is much better now that you are out of watchtower rule. May be some day something will go
off in my wifes head like it did yours. It could happen. signed; just a guy looking
for magic words to get his wife back
Hello!
I have never looked up anything like this about JW's. I have a story, too. My
mom meet a lady "door to door" when she was pregnant with my brother in
1972. My mom was in an unhappy marriage, and was a perfect candidate for the
"flock". My mother is a wonderful person, but I realize as a 31 year old
adult she has OCD (over compulsive disorder) and she goes head first into the
bizarre. I grew up from 6 years old until 17 in the "organization".
I spent all my summers "in service", but I was always considered by others as a
"bad associate" I could tell by the way they
treated me. Talk about judgemental, it made me mental. I have been through
soooooooooooooooooo much in my teen years and I was disfellowshipped at 18 years
old. It was a very big ordeal. I was in a room with several MORTAL MEN judging
me. I was not worthy. My "sins" were of a fleshly nature. So
sorry to have been human! My own mother and father cut me off, this lead to me
turning to the wrong types of friends. I had no car, no education after high school
(I TOTALLY
UNDERSTAND THE NO COLLEGE DEAL, MY MOM SAID THAT WAS JUST A PLACE TO HAVE SEX AND THAT THE
END OF THE WORLD IS COMING SO DO NOT BE WORRIED ABOUT SECULAR THINGS). Previous to
the disfellowshipping I had been on public reproof several times as a teen. It was
the foundation for many years of misery. I wish I knew then what I know now.
THE ONLY REASON MY MOTHER HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME IS BECAUSE OF MY NINE YEAR OLD
DAUGHTER. My daughter has taken the edge off of our relationship and she no longer
"witnesses to me". I was SCARED throughout my pregnancy to be back
"in" the organization by my mom. So at 22 I pleaded with the witnesses
that I would be good, and I was reinstated after being on
watch. I am not disfellowshipped. I have not been to the meeting since my
daughter was a baby 8 1/2 years ago! I do not want a part of it. My mom does
not see what she is in. She is clueless, and what is soooo sad is she believes with all
her life that what she believes IS the answer.
I am now married and I am a full-time college student (thank you Lord)in
a small town. I want to be an elementary teacher.
I am interested in that info about the former "Bethel" gentlemen who
wrote that book that opened your eyes. I too was always scared to read
about apostasy, because that is like slapping the face of Jehovah. I know it is a
cult.
I would love to discuss more. I have longed to talk to someone that has been there
and done what you discussed.
I just wanted you to know that your site bought back a lot of
memories for me. I was a JW back in 82. Also babtised at Grantville PA. I have been free
since 83 and now see exactly who and what "Gods Organisation" is. I remember the
glazed look I had in my eyes back then.
I just came across your webpage and was VERY surprised at your story. It reminds
me almost exactly of mine.
I was born into the religion, though I never really believed it .....either too young to
understand or old enough to know better. However my mother was a regular pioneer,
and everything else she could do to spend no time at home. I got caught smoking
right before my 18th birthday, disfellowshipped, and kicked out of the house. She
has made no attempt to contact me in any way for now over 3 years.
I didn't think much of it really, as I am a very strong person emotionally (Learned by
taking consistent ridicule by classmates for the religion). But now I have a son of
my own and couldn't imagine anything that would separate us!!
Anyway, thats just my story of why I hate the religion.
By the way, great page!
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