Hi Stacy......Just wanted to add my Welcome8,

I thoroughly enjoyed your post...especially;
 their practices are Immoral! Who indoctrinates little children? Tells them to "do their own research"... and when they do their own research and come to a different conclusion they CUT THEM OFF and throw them out into the cold (with the option to "repent" and come crawling back)...??? CAN YOU SAY "NAZI"!!?? ...or "CULT"...? JW's have the scary ability to DEHUMANIZE people who don't agree with them... (even their own children). This is TRUE evil... if Satan exists and he has worshipers look no further than a Kingdom Hall...

Being raised a JW you are taught to distrust (and even fear) your own Mind (for thinking and questioning beyond what is allowed) and a Heart (that feels a VARIETY of feelings and knows when things aren't right. "Do not trust your heart" they say). This takes away, again, the very thing that makes you human...
dead on!   Having just been freshly cut off myself, this resonates with me so much. 

I hope your trip home is a good one....and please feel free to come back here and vent if any jdubs give you any shit....we got your back.Hug

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