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NinjaspiT

NinjaspiT

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I remember a few cats were that I look up to.One being Darth Frosty.Any more?

BG:I actually BELIEVED in the religion for many years. It was to a point where If lightning struck,or an earthquake, as a kid I would be so scared that I would have a panic attack and asthma attacks in fear that Armageddon was here. I used to give talks all the time and I even had a part on stage at an assembly with thousands of people. I used to go door to door. I never wanted to do any of that shit, but my parents forced me and said I couldnt go outside etc if I didnt participate. I baptized myself at 14 to make my parents happy. I didnt want to do any of that shit. During the 'questioning' for my baptismal, I started crying and I didnt know why. At 18 I was disfellowshipped and called the son of Satan because I started smoking weed ( my parents ratted me out).

Point is,my whole life I was under a spell of doing something I DID NOT want to do. After i was disfellowshipped, I didnt feel any different than when i wasnt. I was completely desensitized to my feelings. 23 now and the process of finding myself has progressed a little. But it feels like im 5 years old(18-23)Im starting a juice fast today for 32 days to completely rid myself of all of that emotional baggage. Any others?
 
you should go to one of those ex cult member support groups. the tactics they use are just flat out wrong.
 
Bruh, worship borne out of anything other than love ain't worship. God ain't a rapist. Unlike Satan, He wants us to voluntarily choose him. Not get tricked into it. Not worship out of guilt or fear or obligation. But real voluntary worship out of love.

Look at it this way, being "disfellowshipped" is probably the best thing that happened to you.
 
mike123 said:
props on gettin outta that cult
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My story is almost exactly the same right down to the age and getting ratted out by my parents for smoking (Cigs, Not weed). To anyone who hasn't experienced it first-hand, It's NOT a cult. It's a regular religion with strict rules and beliefs and it's main weakness is it's people (Like any other religion)
I'm sure the O.P. will agree some of the nicest people he's ever met we're witnesses. I hated how it tore families apart (my relationship with my parents will never be the same) and encouraged separation but the only difference between that and any other religion is that they actually hold true to their beliefs and rules.

That being said, I feel like all organized religions are bullshit including J.W. and especially Christianity (Which is basically what witnesses are).

To the O.P. being dis fellowshipped is the best thing that could have happened. Let go, breath, experience life for all it's trials and tribulations and highs and lows. We we're too young too make such life long decisions. I'm friends with a girl who was re-instated and could not be happier, In the right mindset she found what she wanted in the Kingdom hall.
The same might happen to you...But give yourself a chance to see religion for what it is and what it's not. As a personal note, DON'T spend your time trying to convince them or anyone that their reality isn't real. Simply state you respect their faith and keep it moving. It's not worth the time and energy and only breeds contempt.
 
I can feel what you talking about

I too was raised in The Truth

I am not currently DF'ed or on Reproof though, I am considered "Inactive" (non JWs here may not get the meaning) though because I still want some contact with my family.

I'm becoming more Worldly every day, taking it one step at a time ... and loving it :D

Keep in mind that being in the World doesn't mean you still can't be a good person or have your own set of morals/beliefs that you don't compromise. I know we've been raised to think that outside the Truth lies a cesspool but it doesn't really have to be that way if you don't want it to.
 
My ex girlfriend is a Witness.I accompanied her to Circuit Assemblies and the Memorial a few times.I also work with quite a few Witnesses.I personally have alot of respect for them.Witnesses are the few people who don't compromise their beliefs because of the pressures of our society.Society has pressured religions to accept fornication and even homosexuality.With Witnesses being the only ones really sticking to their faith,they appear "cultish".All of the active witnesses's I know are good people.I lso know quite a few Witnesses that left,got disfellowshipped,or "fake" it,and pretty much all of them are going through rougher times than they were when they were active.I think this is because alot of the things that Witness's are against,hurt you in the long run.
 
^SpiderMan^ said:
My ex girlfriend is a Witness.I accompanied her to Circuit Assemblies and the Memorial a few times.I also work with quite a few Witnesses.I personally have alot of respect for them.Witnesses are the few people who don't compromise their beliefs because of the pressures of our society.Society has pressured religions to accept fornication and even homosexuality.With Witnesses being the only ones really sticking to their faith,they appear "cultish".All of the active witnesses's I know are good people.I lso know quite a few Witnesses that left,got disfellowshipped,or "fake" it,and pretty much all of them are going through rougher times than they were when they were active.I think this is because alot of the things that Witness's are against,hurt you in the long run.
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How were you allowed to associate with her?
 
jagu said:
Can you tell me why y'alls kingdom halls dont have windows and shit?
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I don't know if this is the reason MOST of them are like that but when we we're remodeling a building, It was too avoid vandalism I.E. Breaking glass etc.

I never really paid attention to other churches though, don't most of them have no windows?
 
jasonblacc said:
How were you allowed to associate with her?
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Na,I never met her parents.I have a really clean cut look and often told that I "look" like a Witness so she wasn't too worried about being seen in public.I'll tell you one thing,there are some fine ass Witness chicks and the ratio of black women to black men is ridiculously in our favor.
 
Black_Hand said:
I can feel what you talking about

I too was raised in The Truth

I am not currently DF'ed or on Reproof though, I am considered "Inactive" (non JWs here may not get the meaning) though because I still want some contact with my family.

I'm becoming more Worldly every day, taking it one step at a time ... and loving it :D

Keep in mind that being in the World doesn't mean you still can't be a good person or have your own set of morals/beliefs that you don't compromise. I know we've been raised to think that outside the Truth lies a cesspool but it doesn't really have to be that way if you don't want it to.
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This is what I was doing. Then when my 20's came, I didn't even know women sucked dick in real life. Then after that I just kept fuckin till I got stuck by some female that got pregnant when I was 31. They heard about it even though I was inactive for 12 years and I was disfellowshipped. I believe its the truth. If the bible is God's word, nothing else is more accurate than JW's.

As far as the OP is concerned, he's purely fucked up because his problems are all in his own head. JW's didn't give you asthma, a panic disorder, a weed addiction, nor fucked up parents thats just you being a panicky bitch.
 
I was a JW from age 2-14. . Just like most religions they expected me to just have faith and not question anything. I was in deep, doing talks and the whole nine. Never got baptized. When they made me cut off my "Worldly" high top fade back in "89", I checked out. Plus, my mother didn't force me to go once I started grill'n the elders about faith and certain facts about the bible. Needless to say, I have not been back since.

Free at last. :dance:
 
streetdreamer said:
This is what I was doing. Then when my 20's came, I didn't even know women sucked dick in real life. Then after that I just kept fuckin till I got stuck by some female that got pregnant when I was 31. They heard about it even though I was inactive for 12 years and I was disfellowshipped. I believe its the truth. If the bible is God's word, nothing else is more accurate than JW's.

As far as the OP is concerned, he's purely fucked up because his problems are all in his own head. JW's didn't give you asthma, a panic disorder, a weed addiction, nor fucked up parents thats just you being a panicky bitch.
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a panicky bitch huh?
 
Yeah they are waay too extreme.

Life is pretty fucked up as a kid ...no Christmas or birthdays.

No easter no Holloween..no nothing nigga.

NO NO NO NOO NOOOOO

Anything that's fun, feels good, or makes you smile is a sin.

They feel you were put here to suffer and embrace that.​
 
NinjaspiT said:
a panicky bitch huh?
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Born and raised JW and currently inactive.

Most negative feelings from being raised this way come from how you were individually raised and what your reaction was to your experience. Parents choose to raise their kids how they want to and parents are not perfect.

Unless your parents were emotionally or physically abusive they just may have been overly strict. This happens in families regardless of religion. JW's happen to have a strict rerligion. This doesn't mean they are wrong, abusive or are to be properly labeled as a cult.

Adjusting from childhood in the insular world of this religion to life without those religious restrictions can be liberating to some and frightening and overwhelming to others.

There have been countless court cases and objective studies done on Jehovah's witnesses down through the years especially since WWII and the average witness has been found to be a model citizen and employee in whatever country they reside.

So spiritually what do you now believe? Are you a baptist, methodist, catholic, Jew, Muslim or atheist now? I still solidly believe in the truth that they espouse and have had tons of conversations at barber shops or wherever because the world problems are just as bad now or worse than they always were. No other philosophies or sciences have been able to hold a candle yet.

The strict day to day Biblical moral code is the real challenge and not religious doctrine. That is the true test for all of us regardless of our professed faith.
 
Question?????

When you are disfellowshiped, do your parents and the rest of your family stop communicating with you?

Are they like, you're going to hell and there's nothing you can do about it?
 
This is an excellent radio blog on JW's dude and his wife were at bethel the HQ of JW's. He has actual talks on tape of the former president fred franz saying the world was gon end in 1975.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nofog

I really encourage you to listen to the one on Alternative service. JW leaders really fucked some cats during the vietnam draft. They told young men who were witneses that they not only couldn't serve in the military, they could not accept alternative non-combat service.

That means that they had to GO TO JAIL!

So these young men at the age of 19 due to some DAMN PUBLISHING COMPANY had to say to a judge 'my religious conviction will not allow me to accept alternative service' and they were sentenced to jail...AND 20 YEARS LATER THE PUBLISHING COMPANY CHANGED THE RULES AND MADE ALTERNATIVE SERVICE A CONSCIOUS DECISION?!?
 
Boo_Slim said:
Question?????

When you are disfellowshiped, do your parents and the rest of your family stop communicating with you?

Are they like, you're going to hell and there's nothing you can do about it?
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Basically yeah. Now some family may break that rule to an extent (just like girls where giving blowjobs but no one clued me in on that.)
 
Here is another thing this is their new elders book which gives the publishing companies directives on how the elders are to handle various problems that may arise. Notice the strict legalise behind this book and note the lack of solid scriptural backing.

shepherd the flock-ks w/ 3 BOEs
http://www.sendspace.com/file/b2wk6x
 
darth frosty said:
Basically yeah. Now some family may break that rule to an extent (just like girls where giving blowjobs but no one clued me in on that.)
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That stupid shit breaks weak families

I have an Aunt who is still a witness and she is cool as ever.

Their shit will make you judgmental if you dont watch it.

Thats one thing i hate about them...they break families for that bullshit.
 
Thats some bullshit, what if your wife was disfellowshiped while you are married. :eek:

Shit man, I could never stop talking to my core family members.

Funny thing is I'd known two JWs in my life.

One was a liar, cheat, and he tried to fuck everything that walked.

The other was a chick that was fucking another member's husband.

I think the religion and its people are no better then anyone else.


darth frosty said:
Basically yeah. Now some family may break that rule to an extent (just like girls where giving blowjobs but no one clued me in on that.)
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darth frosty said:
This is an excellent radio blog on JW's dude and his wife were at bethel the HQ of JW's. He has actual talks on tape of the former president fred franz saying the world was gon end in 1975.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nofog

I really encourage you to listen to the one on Alternative service. JW leaders really fucked some cats during the vietnam draft. They told young men who were witneses that they not only couldn't serve in the military, they could not accept alternative non-combat service.

That means that they had to GO TO JAIL!

So these young men at the age of 19 due to some DAMN PUBLISHING COMPANY had to say to a judge 'my religious conviction will not allow me to accept alternative service' and they were sentenced to jail...AND 20 YEARS LATER THE PUBLISHING COMPANY CHANGED THE RULES AND MADE ALTERNATIVE SERVICE A CONSCIOUS DECISION?!?
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They are organized as a publishing company?

That is very interesting.
 
Disfellowshipped? Man, that is crazy. Doesn't that mean you can't have contact with your family...like they cut you off?

I remember hearing a story, don't know where from, but a boy and his mom were kicked out of the religion because she bought him a Christmas present. His shoes were falling apart and they were poor, so she bought him some nice shoes for Christmas. Somebody ratted them out and they got kicked out.

Fuck a religion that would do that to it's people, or have peoples' parents thinking they cannot contact their own kids for fear of getting kicked out or that by doing it they are obeying God. I know Mormons have something like this going, too.

I don't understand why people let man tell then what God said and they believe even the most extreme.

"God said you must give to the church even when you don't have it to give, because if you give it will come back to you ten-fold."

That's some ole bullshit. Preachers are living like kings off of their parishioners' money while their parish lives like peasants.

I was brought up Muslim for 8 years of my life. I didn't have my first Christmas until 8 years old when my mom bought my sister, brother and I presents. I don't know where she got the money from (my pops probably beat her good for it, too). After that we stopped going to the Masjid and everything, but it wasn't like we went all the time, anyway.
 
streetdreamer said:
As far as the OP is concerned, he's purely fucked up because his problems are all in his own head. JW's didn't give you asthma, a panic disorder, a weed addiction, nor fucked up parents thats just you being a panicky bitch.
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See, this is what gets me. Now, the OP was OBVIOUSLY shook by the fear of God/Hell so much so that it drove him to the panic attacks. He said it, "Fear of Armageddon". From what he was told by people he trusted he interpreted "acts if God, i.e. weather/earthquakes/etc. as the world coming to an end and had panic attacks because of it. That doesn't make him a panicky bitch any more than if someone pointed a loaded gun at him and the same thing happens, plus, he was a kid.

Kids often over-exaggerate because they don't understand certain truths. They hear some things and consider them facts and don't realize that these things are irrational until much later on. Have you ever seen a kid visibly scared of the dark because someone told them that there are monsters or whatever that come out at night? It's the same thing. It doesn't make them panicky bitches, but young and ignorant to some facts of life. Most grow out of it...some don't.
 

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