Right, I'm in the process of building a cd collection.

Vinted came up with a bundle of Groban discs in my feed and I was struck by the AWAKE title being the same style and fontplasyered across one of his albums.

Then out of piqued curiosity, I looked at the second image in the listing of the reverse sides of the albums and see the Watchtower building on the back of ANOTHER disc.

What the actual heck?!!!!

What's his beef?

Just venting because I realized I’ve never actually said any of this out loud. I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to share in this sub, but I feel like I need to get it off my chest.
I grew up around the “congregation,” as I guess you would call it. My dad married a woman who was part of it, and from that point on, my life changed. So did my dad. I was just a kid, but I swear, being around that environment always made me deeply uncomfortable. If any of you have seen Severance, that’s genuinely what it felt like to me lol.
My dad and stepmom always seemed to have a problem with me because I didn’t fit into the person they wanted me to be. It was such a strange experience growing up with. I also noticed the hypocrisy from a young age. Now that I’m older, my dad and stepmom have divorced, and my dad has become the complete opposite of what he continues to preach. He quite literally lives the kind of double life they condemn.
My sister was born into it, so it’s the only life she’s ever known. One of the hardest things for me has been watching my dad abandon me emotionally while seemingly caring so much more about her. I have so much resentment surrounding all of this that I honestly don’t even know how to put it into words. Sometimes I feel guilty about the way I feel toward her, too. For example, I struggle to take her aspirations of working in the medical field seriously when she can hold these…. beliefs. I know she’s been shaped by the environment she grew up in, and I know it isn’t entirely her fault, but that doesn’t make my feelings any less complicated.
To be honest, the people in that environment always creeped me out. There was something deeply unsettling to me about how invested they seemed to be in everyone else’s personal lives. And it makes me sad watching my sister grow up in a world where women seem to be taught to question themselves so deeply and feel so much insecurity about simply being who they are.
I don’t think I’ve ever really given myself the space to acknowledge how much this affected me, and I guess I’m finally trying to. I even remember meeting up with someone later in life that I grew up around during that time and I was told that even though they aren’t a “part of it” they still deeply “admire” the religion. You can imagine my face when I heard that.. Come to find out they never left and were doing a bunch of horrible things in secret so they wouldn’t be kicked out, typical! That place and anyone I knew connected to it literally gives me the most unexplainable full body ick. There’s obviously so much more I experienced buttt that’s about the gist and me trying to word it as nicely as possible lol. Thank you for reading if you got this far!

When the gb spews their religious drivel, and instills fear, obligation and guilt onto their "sheep", does it come back on the leaders at some point? It is a type of mind control, after all. And they certainly do try to control followers minds, so wouldn't that affect them, too. A "cult leader" seems to take the power, usurp the power, disempower the followers, so that the followers become unable to think for themselves. That stolen power is taken up by the cult leader and their egos go wild. I figure that's what happened to many religious leaders, JW leaders are not immune to the power of an ego run amok. For example, what makes adult children shun their parent who leaves the cult? Haven't the leaders over-written or hijacked the minds, conscience, intuition, common sense, etc. of said children? Maybe in my case I enabled it and even put my indoctrination on the kids, as reinforcement! Ugh!

I was married to an unbeliever when I had my two children. My husband at the time was passive and didn't interfere when I went back to the cult in 1977 at age 23. My son was two and daughter was one at that time. I certainly did contribute to the indoctrination of my children, and proud of it! But I also was careful to teach them that their dad was not "bad" for not being a JW. I tried to be balanced in my teachings, to love and respect their dad. But I suspect that the training my children received was still slanted, in a way, since they both took to the JWisms. My son got baptized when he was 16, my daughter was 15. It was their idea, I wasn't bringing up the subject. But, I suppose the talks and meetings held out the carrot on a stick for the children. Maybe those baptism talks registered more for them than for me. The years flew by so fast.

Bottom line: I'm paying a high price now for my freedom by not having them in my life, because when I left the cult for good in 2000, they shunned me. sigh💔💔

Never-the-less, I'm likely better off living my own life, without interference, judgment, and criticism from adult PIMI children. At least I am free to be myself.

I don’t really know whether this is a vent or humor. I’m PIMO. My dad is a witness and forces me to the meeting and has been trying to make me join the field ministry but I’ve been holding off until I go to college. Anyways, a lot of people in my congregation seem to be fond of trump. My dad was complaining about how he went into the field ministry with a group of brothers and sisters and a sister had said, “We are so lucky to have Trump as our president for the 250 year anniversary of the United States” and the other brother and sisters had agreed?

There was also another instance of a lady in the congregation saying, “All these illegal immigrant’s come to the United States unvaccinated and that’s why covid is coming back” this is really funny to me because Trump is like the exact opposite of everything that they supposedly are “against” but I guess when it’s time to be racist they can put everything down. 😭

Hi there, I wake up in 2022 and I leave the organization completely, no contact with family, fake friends and everyone that I know in the last 40 years.

But this organization will never take away from me my personal relationship with God. I pray to Jehovah and I read the Bible and I try to apply it in my life.

Even when I lost everyone in my life, I have the peace that I never experience ever, even after leaving all my life, wondering what is going on, for first time everything is really clear and very happy confident looking forward for what is coming.

If you are in the same situation, feel free to DM I would like to be in contact.

PIMI elder husband knows I am PIMO yet he is still in denial. I've never pictured life without him before. I politely turned down a volunteer assignment at the convention and he gave me the silent treatment. My innocent touches on his shoulder result in him shrugging me off. No small kisses, no hand holding. Me saying "no thanks" to ANYthing WT related results in stonewalling and withdrawing affection.

It's like he doesn't know how to be a human outside of JW... I'm sure you all know what I mean. The ORG is your life... major decisions, vacations, career choices, etc... all connect to the org. He is a "accept all assignments", "never miss a meeting" type of JW. I never noticed the strictness until I occasionally wanted to miss a meeting(this is even while PIMI). I had to be as sick as Job. Mental health concerns are "nonsense" to him. Growing up JW, the household was not that strict at all. I did "make the truth my own" because I was not forced by my parents. I was allowed to go inactive for as long as I wanted, was not forced into baptism, etc. I was naive.

But living with my spouse? A different story.

I have maintained my personality true this traumatic experience of deconstructing. However, yes, it is true... I have changed. I do not see the ORG as the all knowing entity I did before. I see the God of the Bible as uncaring though I do believe there is some higher power. I have never attempted to convince him to leave. I would never do that. That is personal. I do, explain to a degree, why I no longer want to attend meetings and why being PIMO was necessary for me and the fear I have in leaving though I know I will have to make that decision soon. Then comes the emotional blackmail and guilt tripping about how I'm ruining his life, etc. Yet, he refuses to allow me to go inactive. It becomes a shouting match or an emotional tug of war to even miss 2 meetings.

If I don't want to attend a meeting... or he thinks I'll be late he interrogates me like a micromanaging boss. A dictator in our home. He thinks he is helping me but such cold, emotionally dismissive behavior pushes me away from the ORG, God and even the idea of marriage with him.

I am "rewarded" with conversation, a few jokes, or a one minute hand holding session when I fall in line.

He equates a "no" to WT as direct disrespect to him as a husband.

I was born into the truth and raised in an extremely pious and controlling family. Every decision in my life was made by others. I had no will of my own. No ambition, goal, or purpose. an empty shell.

It’s been a long and exhausting struggle, and much sacrifices were made, including my relationship with most of my family. I lost so much of my life, but I am slowly picking myself up and, for the first time in my depressing and repressed life, look forward with purpose and determination.

My contact list was cleansed, and I’m slowly building my career.

No more worrying about my reputation
No more performing and putting on a fake smile
No more pretending to be deep, spiritual, and pretentious.
No more pressure to sacrifice endless time, money, and energy to do more more more for the org and climb the spiritual ladder.
No more fear of being judged for education, hobbies, entertainment, association, and every single aspect of my life.
No more anxiety about whether I pass gods lofty requirements.
No more dealing with the most abhorrent, obnoxious, manipulative, delusional, arrogant and narcissistic “spiritual” assholes who, as agents of god, view themselves above all others.

There are still some hurdles to overcome, such as my nonexistent social life outside of JW and my lack of personality from years of repression.

But I’m free, and it’s exhilarating.

POMOs, happy to join you guys.
PIMOs, you may be hesitating or waiting for a clean exit. But it’s not worth losing precious years of your life over!
There is no “clean exit”. It’s gonna be messy especially if family is involved. You just have say fuck it, accept the consequences, and do it.

When my family and I first moved to our current cong., there was a Sister near my age that reached out to me. She's a super nice person. I try to keep myself as invisible as I possibly can because I know how conditional relationships are in this cult, so we stopped talking regularly.

I noticed a while back that she stopped coming to meetings. Her husband and son have been showing up by themselves.

Well today I finally found out that she might be PIMO. Her husband told my Dad "It started out as health issues, then depression, now she's not doing good. She's critical of the organization due to things her work colleagues are saying."

She works as a nurse, so I'd bet it's the new update about blood that might've woke her up. Or it's also possible that she already woke up and is using the blood update to discuss things with her husband. The problem is I have no idea where she is in her journey. I would love to have a PIMO (or even POMO) friend, but I'm hesitant to reach out. I have her number so I could text her, but I don't even know what I would say. If I text too vaguely and she is PIMO, she might just think I'm a nosey PIMI trying to drag her back in. If she's PIMQ, I risk her snitching.

I'm finally about to move out of my parent's place soon, so I really don't want to risk a successful fade after all the hard work I put into being PIMO for years.

It would be so nice though to have someone I know that actually understands what this is like. My entire family are PIMI, my childhood friends are PIMI, and everyone who I've told that wasn't a witness didn't have any care or understanding about my situation at all. I'm an introvert, but I can't lie that it's been a bit lonely. What do you guys think? Reach out or no? If I should reach out, how should I approach?

They played the video today. I’ve never felt such an awkward silence before. Nobody said a word, everyone just looked at each other. I feel like this was the moment some realized that this is so embarrassing.

Looking at their reactions just made me feel sorry for many. Realizing how many lost loved ones to a non existent rule just because of this org.

Tw/ SEXUAL immorality

So I recently got told that I have to break up with my boyfriend if I want to remain in ‘the truth’. A sister told me and had a “deep talk” with me, read me lesson 41 and 42 from ELF. Looked me straight in my eyes and said I have to come back and share the good news. She told me I will be imitating Jesus if I stay single.

Ironically enough. These people all preach the beauty of marriage and say that it’s hard to live with someone who doesn’t share the same faith as you, yet 70% of these people are single. So what’s better? Marriage or being single huh??

Also so ironic how you can’t marry outside your faith cause it’s disrespectful to Jehovah but last time I checked most marriages are MESSY. SO MESSY. And look so… boring?

Also… they categorize b*stiality as bad as seggs before marriage. lol! Nothing is said about !ncest tho…

I can’t believe this. The manipulation level I realized when I got that talk just made me realize what did I even get into

(Idk if that’s the right flair for this it’s just the one that seemed to fit the best)

I’ve been POMO since I was 18 and my folks stopped making me go to meetings and whatnot, but all this time it seems like they’ve stayed PIMIs.….Until somewhat recently.

For years my folks were super strict about stuff like profanity and what games me and my older brother and I could play and what shows/movies were allowed. But recently I’ve caught my folks watching stuff that they previously frowned upon and not even making a big deal about it. Now, that in of itself isn’t necessarily the biggest kicker ofc, people can simply change what does and doesn’t bother them as they age.

But recently they’ve been missing meetings more and more, and being more vocal about things they don’t like at the KH they go to. Sometimes they join the meetings via Zoom, but more often than not they don’t even do that. My mom even said to me today that she might not live forever, even though my entire childhood it seemed so certain that my parents fully believed in everything the borg put out.

idk, maybe it’s wishful thinking but I’d like to hope there’s a lil bit of a chance, even if it’s just PIMO for them I’d take it over nothing.

The feature article on brog.org is so deceptive, and inside the article are so many lies about their own religion. The article has a great deal of hypocrisy. They promote violence against women and tolerate it. They allow CSA, so that's hatred. I always experienced a lot of racism in the Borg. And there was never any peace the whole time I was in.

Statements from the website:

Religions that tolerate or promote hatred and violence are part of the problem, not the solution

The Bible has helped Jehovah’s Witnesses achieve a measure of genuine peace that transcends racial and national barriers.

Nothing more than a bunch of hypocrites and bullies.

TL;DR: I’m 20, born and raised a JW, and have been questioning my beliefs for a while. A recent breakup also made me question how much of my future is shaped by my own desires versus the expectations I grew up with. I still value the community, but I want to figure out what I genuinely believe without fear or obligation. For those who’ve been through this, how did you navigate the doubts, fear of losing relationships, and learning to trust yourself?

Full Version
I’ve been wanting to write something like this for a while, because I feel like I’m at a point in my life where I’m questioning a lot of things, and I don’t really know where I’m going to end up.

I’m 20, born and raised a Jehovah’s Witness, and I was baptized when I was 9. For most of my life, this organization has been my entire world. My family is in it, my friends are in it, and a huge part of my identity has been built around it. I’ve grown up believing that this is the truth, and that the life I’m supposed to pursue is one centered around Jehovah, the congregation, and eventually finding a spiritual partner and building a family.

For a long time, I didn’t really question that future. It was just what I expected my life to look like.
But over the last few years, I’ve started questioning things that I never thought I’d question.

The doubts
I’ve had questions about the organization for quite some time. The chronology surrounding 607 BCE and the destruction of Jerusalem is one example. I’ve also struggled with the Governing Body’s claim that it is appointed by God, and what that actually means when its members are interpreting scripture and making decisions that affect millions of people’s lives.
I’ve thought about the blood policy, changes in understanding, and the fact that teachings can change while the organization still claims to be Jehovah’s channel.

I keep coming back to one question: How am I supposed to distinguish between what is genuinely true and what I’ve been taught to believe is true?
If I believe something because I was raised to believe it, does that make it true? If I have questions, why do I sometimes feel guilty for even asking them?

I’m not saying I have all the answers. I don’t. That’s part of what’s difficult about this. I’m starting to recognize that some of my beliefs may be based more on what I’ve been taught than on evidence I’ve independently examined.

The pressure surrounding relationships and the future
Something else I’ve struggled with is the expectation that I should build my life around the organization.
I’ve always wanted to get married, have a house, build a happy family, and have someone to share my life with. Those are things I genuinely want, regardless of religion.

But I’ve often felt that the person I’m supposed to marry must be a Jehovah’s Witness, and that my future needs to fit within a particular spiritual framework.
I recently went through a painful breakup with someone I loved deeply for 3 years. We had talked about marriage and hoped to be married next year. I had genuinely imagined that future with her. When the relationship ended, I was devastated. But the experience also forced me to look at myself and the life I was building. I realized how much of my happiness, identity, and vision for the future had become tied to another person.

Since then, I’ve been rebuilding my life. I’ve returned to hobbies, developed friendships, and started becoming more comfortable with who I am on my own.
And I’ve started asking myself some difficult questions.
How much of the future I want is genuinely mine, and how much of it comes from the expectations I’ve grown up with?

If I meet someone who is kind, loving, responsible, and shares my values, but isn’t a Witness, would I be willing to build a life with them? Or would I reject that possibility because I’ve been taught that I should?
Would I make the same decisions about my future if I hadn’t been raised in this religion?

I don’t know the answers yet, but I feel like I need to ask these questions honestly.

The part that makes this difficult
The thing is, I don’t hate everything about being a Witness. I value the friendships I’ve made. I value the sense of community. There are people in the congregation whom I genuinely admire, and I’ve had experiences that mean a great deal to me.

I still participate in the ministry, attend meetings, and have people in this community whom I care about.
That’s what makes questioning everything so complicated. It’s not as simple as deciding that I dislike the organization and walking away. This is the environment I’ve grown up in. If I eventually decide that I no longer believe, I’m not just changing my religious beliefs. I’m potentially changing my relationship with my family, my friends, and the entire community I’ve known my whole life.

I also have to ask myself how much of my faith comes from my own convictions and how much comes from the fear of losing everything that comes with it.
I don’t want to stay just because I’m afraid of what might happen if I leave. But I also don’t want to abandon something meaningful without giving myself the opportunity to examine it properly.
I want to know what I actually believe.

Where I am now
Right now, I don’t have a neat conclusion.
I’m trying to learn how to think independently, examine evidence, and be honest with myself even when the answers are uncomfortable.

I’m also trying to figure out what kind of person I want to be. I want to be a good man, a good friend, a good future husband, and someone who treats people well. I want a meaningful life, a career I’m proud of, a home of my own, and eventually a loving marriage.

I don’t want to build those things out of fear or simply because someone told me that’s how my life should look.

I want them to be choices I make because I genuinely believe in them.

I guess I’m realizing that I need to figure out who I am outside of the expectations I’ve always lived with.
And that’s exciting, but honestly, it’s frightening too. When you’ve been given a framework for how your entire life is supposed to unfold, questioning that framework can make the future feel incredibly uncertain.

I’m not here to tell anyone what to believe, and I’m not looking for someone to make the decision for me. I just wanted to share where I am and hear from people who may have experienced something similar.

For those of you who grew up as Jehovah’s Witnesses and started questioning things around my age:
How did you distinguish your own beliefs from the beliefs you inherited from your parents and the organization?

- How did you deal with the fear of potentially losing your community and relationships?
- If you stayed, how did you come to terms with your doubts?
- If you left, how did you begin building a life outside the organization?
- And perhaps most importantly, how did you learn to trust your own judgment after spending so much of your life being told what to believe?

I’m 20, and I know I have a lot of life ahead of me. I don’t expect to figure everything out overnight.
I just want to make sure that whatever future I build is genuinely mine.

This wasn’t so obvious to me before, but I’ve come to realize that the Governing Body seems to have doubts about the “truths” they teach. Think about it: if the truth is supposed to get “brighter and brighter,” doesn’t that suggest they weren’t entirely confident that things were clear in the first place and had to revise their teachings?

But hold on a second… The followers are expected to believe it’s the truth without question, while the Governing Body gets to have doubts?

Hold on… Armageddon is “just around the corner,” yet they still seem more concerned with talking about stillbirths, warning people about apostates, or simply living a normal earthly life and getting married.

Seriously, Lett? Are you getting married? Even you don’t believe this lie, do you? You just want to live your own worldly life here on earth, don’t you?

But I think the other possibility is more reasonable: they have an agenda for making changes, and they’re implementing them gradually, or whenever legal pressure forces them to.

Are there any dedicated JW recovery organizations out there?

If not, I feel like that is something we really should come together as a community and create.

I'm talking like setting up real resources for mental health, housing, jobs, education, etc.

A real transition support network so it's easier for people to leave and feel safe and confident they can transition to a normal life.

And not just like setting up referrals but actually getting to the point of having facilities (that would be cool to get an old Kingdom Hall for the first one and painting it colorful and filling it with plants and art, basically a community center for ex-JWs).

Is anybody working on something like this or interested in the idea?

I feel like it's something that is desperately needed.

Yes, jehovah. Because the people worshipping zeus weren't expecting their god to end up in a museum either.

They prayed, raised their children to believe and died convinced he was real.

And you can read about him without the slightest concern that he'll strike your house tonight, but miss a few meetings and suddenly jehovah feels distant.

Interesting, right. The so-called creator of the universe needs you in that chair twice a week to maintain the spiritual connection.

Then there's the daily text, the broadcasts, family worship. Keep repeating it. Teach it to your children. And whatever you do, please please please, don't read what the people who left have to say. Or else....

That's a lot of human effort to keep an almighty god present.

“But jehovah will always exist”

Sure. That's what you were taught, but did you know that the people whose gods you dismiss had adults telling them the same thing?

They weren't knowingly practicing mythology. They had the Truth(TM).

Sound familiar?

I'm not predicting when jehovah will lose his last believer. We already have enough people making religious predictions.

But imagine we stopped teaching children to fear him. Let them grow up, examine the evidence, read whatever they wanted.

Would they discover, all by themselves, that the creator of the universe speaks through the gb?

Or would somebody have to sit them down and start playing the videos again?

We are well established adults with a family that decided to leave. All our siblings are out as well. My family and I recently hard faded away. Found out today that my dad said he is a failure, because none of his children stuck with “the truth” and he couldn’t even get his kids “salvation and everlasting life.”

We have a good marriage, great kids, good jobs, a home, and are decent human beings - both us and our siblings. He raised us to be kind, honest, true to ourselves, and compassionate to name a few. However, parents are “failures” due to us not staying JW’s - we are also in our 40’s. We could beat our wives, abuse our kids, and treat people terribly, and that would be fine IF we went to meetings…

Just no words for the reality of the situation.

Maybe I'm looking too deeply into things, but between purposefully making the doctrine more vague and confusing, putting a lot of focus on "obey even if you dont agree" and "the anointed(us) will be there in the great tribulation and its your job to take care of them(us)" sounds like an unfortunate mix of them considering claiming the great tribulation has hit in the near future.

I'm disabled and while im trying to get on disability and hopefully into disabled housing, im currently heavily reliant on my parents and i cannot deal with them going nuts. On top of that i am in college. I will legitimately end up homeless

I would be hopeful the fact they essentially said "1918 wasnt a real date actually and whats totally not the exact definition of the rapture is actually whats going to happen" would be enough to snap at least one family member out, but honestly i think they're all too far gone

I recently returned from visiting family in Ohio, and in just two days, I've fallen into a deep depression.

I live with my mother, who is still a Jehovah's Witness, and she constantly pressures me to continue identifying as one, even though I'm questioning everything I was raised to believe.

I feel trapped between being who my family expects me to be and being honest with myself. I'm terrified of losing the people I love, but staying in a religion I no longer feel connected to is hurting me, too.

I'm exhausted, lonely, and honestly feel like I have no will to live anymore. I don't know how to cope with feeling trapped in my own home.

For those who left or questioned the organization while living with believing family, how did you get through it?

Since I woke up in the beginning of the year, I have been through ups and downs. I then accepted my goal of leaving the cult after college graduation in 2 years.

I feel confident in class. I ask more questions, I talk to others more, and I don’t feel alone. I finally have a group of IT majors we all vibe.

However, these few days I have been feeling like I don’t believe in God. I just can’t imagine how others would want to believe in God after my whole life. Since a kid, I was taught I was going to die if I did anything the GB said was wrong, and that Big J was watching me like a cop.

Now I feel free in my head. The meetings don’t make me mad anymore; they bore me, and it’s a waste of time hearing propaganda.

I still have my love for my parents and have loyalty towards my outside friends. But can I live without believing in God? How do you guys do it? I have been questioning this all week.

Hello guys,

My parents are JW and I left the religion and the house at my terms. There is no hope and there is no answer. Or is there? Well, they want you to lose, they need you to lose - you don't even have to win! This is my poor attempt to cheer you up, I feel selfish for thinking I could do a good enough job.

I just had a really important breakthrough with my mom, whom I basically connected with about "waking up" in a "cult" - bear with me, I'm not defending them. I know they're way over their head, in my personal space. I just want to, not come here anymore? Like is that rude or what? Oh I forgot my parents are going to kick me out the house... And my mother would never have let that happen, curse the cult bastards even harder - not my baby boy.

We fought cause I was scared about my delusional father. He, in the first place, desperately clung to the idea of having bigger balls than his wife. Even if he was stupid enough to choose this path. Bless his heart, he fathered me, my earliest memmories are with. Then he turned fucking slimy all of a sudden talking about "go live your life but I am not going to be a part of it, if you think Im such a bad father you cannot obbey me..." Oh grow up, poor man, you had kids in College and married a girl that has twice the balls than you. Needed a fucking cult to make himself the head of the family just to win respect. I guess even teen boys have more balls than you do.

Couldn't kick me out the house under a threat from my mother. She would settle for deals... And off I went to University, but living at home and fending for myself... And a 3 hour round trip for classes by foot and train. But I was applying myself and she could read it, it's a free decision, is it not? She was stressed, and she took it out on me when she collapsed here and there. Or I just heard it even if I shouldn't. I'm not mad at her, I love her, she did what she could and gave me all she had - her potential, through a little pussy of a guy. And those fuckers REALLY got into his head.

And there we have it, endless cycle of hate. It was useful to leave. But it made my blind to reality. It made not talk to my mom properly for 10 years, years at a time with no contact at all... I felt betrayed, beacuse I didn't see. I was simply missing a gear. But they kinda took it anyway, you know, that last hope? Well guess what, a dummy like me has found a way to save himself. I'm "only" 27 but I'm just beggining my life you know... Good job, good soon to be bride, first car and all... It takes soooo much effort. But it's worth it if you do it right.

I can't promise you this type of Nirvana, but it's better to suffer free. Try it if you want, but don't loose your mind over it. You will never be in this exact situation as I was. And it's fine. Please, never feel like you deserve it. I want to help everybody now... And this is my humble of way of sharing my trauma healing experience, if you will... Let'so go boys! What are they going to do?

(Note: Please excsume me if you were ever, in any way, affected in a negative manner by this message. Reader discresion is advised. I'm really high on weed that I grew and smoked completely legally, fully knowing the extent of possible future negative effects. Please accept my attempt to cheer you on to finding a healthier, happier self.)

I follow a lot of exjw content but somehow actual jw posts pop up quite frequently and I hate it. This post (in comments)was especially aggravating. She lists a bunch of court cases and states how jws have helped others. But like do some real research. Look up the Australian royal commission or the many csa cases that the organization just sweeps under the rug 🙄

When you go to a Kingdom Hall and speak to these people, they appear very smiley and kind.

How much like this are these individuals when they are at home or speaking privately amongst each other.

How much of it is to try to make outsiders like them

is it an act to some degree?

Back when you guys were witnesses in the past, did you feel you were pretending to a degree or was it genuine enthusiasm?

Just wondering, when you have moved congs and they "pass on your cards", what exactly is that? Is it all the records they've kept about you? Things we don't know about? When you've been taken to the back room? I've got no idea and genuinely curious.

Also POMO this year.

A very thoughtful friend surprised me with this beautiful cake today, made by an incredibly talented local artist :,) 10 years of freedom feels good. Of course it coincides with 10 years being shunned however I can honestly say that I have more to celebrate at this point than feel sorry for. I love my worldly life. Cheers to free will!

How many cult-free years have you celebrated so far?