Anakin Skywalker wrote:
I have thought long and hard today, and considering on logging out. This is for me personally, but its my own fault really, as I bought into the jw stuff. My heart breaks the way they treat people, the way they treat women, children, and how everyone is just doomed that dont accept their teachings, and when people stand up and ask questions, they turn the whole community against you. So, its too much for me, and my situation isnt the best of ones. So, its best to check out. I bought something today. Its just waiting for the right moment, the time best for me. At last I have freedom to do something for me. Any newbies..........stay away. Examine all they tell you, ask questions, and dont join, dont commit yourseleves. But, as the english proverb goes, "measure twice, cut once". Be sure of what you are doing and why.
I have no idea of what to say, of what could help or be of benefit, but I beleive this group will account for all they have done, even for the innocent lives they have destroyed as well as that of families. J R Brown is a dead man walking.


Please stop and take a moment to think about a few things before you proceed.

First: know your enemy. The JWs have destroyed the lives of a couple of million people, quite possibly, and they are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands. Yes, I said tens of thousands. We're talking about a group that got their start pushing medical quackery (google the 'radio-electric biola'), railed for decades against vaccines, told people 'it's been conclusively proved there is no such thing as rabies', and that's before we even get to blood transfusions. Their stance on blood transfusions alone is killing hundreds of people every year. Mostly women, children, and the elderly. The people who run the show quite obviously don't give a rat's ass if people die because of them. They have no conscience. They live, eat, breathe, one thing only: money. If you think that one more death after the thousands that went before is going to make anyone pay attention, well, there are better ways.

There are two ways of making a JW's head explode. You can't argue doctrine (that's what they do, argue doctrine, and the fact that they're wrong has never bothered them before), you can't shame them as a group with the consequences of child molestation, physical, mental, sexual abuse (denied, or blamed on 'imperfect humans'), the deaths of peope who refused blood (glorified as martyrs) or made dismally stupid decisions and have to live with them for the rest of their lives (they play the 'blame the victim' game with those, say that if they'd only served Jehovah 'whole-heartedly', they would have been 'blessed'). The two ways to get their attention are as follows:

For the average JW, the one thing they can't wrap their heads around, because it contradicts everything they've been taught, everything they've accepted, and makes a mockery of every 'sacrifice' they've ever made for 'da troof': you need to live well, live a happy, fulfilling life, without them. Without following their stupid rules, without their incredibly boring 'meetings' and endless trash 'literature'. Without their fear-mongering, apocalyptic nonsense, 'follow us and you'll be safe', mentality. Of course, to do this, you need to... live well, and when you get the chance, rub their noses in it. It works. They'll be left pointing fingers and damning you to eternal destruction because you celebrate Christmas or whatever, but it bothers them. It shatters their worldview.

The other possibility exists because the JW leadership worships the god of money. They're terrified of lawsuits. They've completely re-arranged their corporate structure, their 'departments', their shareholder's meetings and 'writing department', even down to the ownership of individual 'Kingdom Halls', all on the advice of the lawyers who actually run the WTB&TS, and all from fear of losing a lawsuit. They worked hard to rob millions of people of billions of dollars, to build their real estate empire, and they live in constant fear of losing it all. The only way to get the attention of the higher-ups is to make a credible threat of a lawsuit. They're terrified of these. They have nightmares over competent lawyers gaining access to their internal documentation of such things as blood transfusions and the way they've protected pedophiles. It's actually quite a releif for them when discontent former members commit suicide, because that's one less chance of a lawsuit. The organised groups they fear are: AJWRB and Silent Lambs.

Before you go doing anything final, please take a while and think about your options here. And what you hope to accomplish. Read the stories of other people who have lived through this and come out the other side. I promise you, if you read the stories of ex-JWs, you will read the story of someone who has lived what you are living. And you will find a way to not only survive, but to come through and help others with your experience.

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  When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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