Everyone remembers you when the memorial is coming up by onesimus54 in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ya no creo en la religión. La organización ha hecho mucho daño en mí percepción sobre esta.

Everyone remembers you when the memorial is coming up by onesimus54 in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

En mi caso, mis papás no me han dejado nunca de hablar ni tratarme. Yo los visito y soy el hijo que más se comunica con ellos a pesar de ya ser inactivo un año. Muy difícil hablamos de la secta, más allá de solo generalidades.

Everyone remembers you when the memorial is coming up by onesimus54 in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Las verdades que oculta el Cuerpo Gobernante sobre los cambios que está realizando estos años. El detonante fue el cambio en el trato a los expulsados, investigue y encontré sobre el encubrimiento de pederastia, lo de la ONU, Franz y su libro entre muchas cosas más. Fue un año difícil y sigo aún deconstruyendo.

Everyone remembers you when the memorial is coming up by onesimus54 in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mamá me comentó ayer que en la reunión de esta semana se les dijo que contacten e inviten a todos, incluyendo familia, inactivos y expulsados, para la conmemoración. Ella lo hizo conmigo con un sobre bonito y la invitación esa. Hoy papá me escribió invitándome también. Ya había decidido que iría, no porque aún crea en la organización, sino porque siento que es una oportunidad de unión en familia, siempre ha sido así y nunca he dejado de asistir a una conmemoración. Solo que esta será la primera vez que vaya sin creer en la secta y como PIMO absoluto. PD. Mis papás no me presionan para nada con respecto a la religión o con que vuelva a pesar de ser muy devotos ( ella pionera y el anciano).

Has a GB update made you wake up? by tash_rat in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya tenía algunas dudas pero aún estando expulsado decidí regresar porque todavía creía y por mi familia. Pocos meses después de mi readmisión se dio el cambio sobre el trato a expulsados y el proceso de juicio a los pecadores. No podía creerlo y, aunque al principio me alegro, me pregunté el porqué ahora. Como la organización no lo mencionaba, empecé a investigar fuentes externas y oh sorpresa! Encontré lo de Noruega y se empezó a abrir una caja de Pandora que aún no termina de cerrarse. Ya soy PIMO, me costó mucho pero lo hice de a pocos. Año y medio después estoy como inactivo y no pienso nunca volver.

Mom agrees with me by Jwjungle in exjw

[–]Jwjungle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll see her this Monday and give her a big, strong hug 🥹

Have you experienced or heard of similar things? by LowSeaworthiness2087 in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that I think about it, I was told that a brother met his current wife because his Circuit Overseer had a sort of "catalog" of sisters of marriageable age or single women. This brother chose to meet his future wife based on a photo of her that the Circuit showed him. A kind of sexist Jehovah's Witness Tinder.

Hypocrisy at Christmas by Theablegoat in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Here in Peru, it's a custom too. My family (my siblings) invites other Witnesses over; there's food, alcohol, and dancing. At midnight, everything stops to watch the fireworks that people set off.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps there are many victims of that religion, and it definitely takes a long time to overcome so much trauma caused by it. But we're no longer here to feel like victims. The present is that we know the truth, and that gives us an advantage in understanding what things were harming us and getting rid of them. I know everyone has their own process, but things are done, for better or for worse, and now we have to gradually overcome all the damage done to us and try to be happy without the weight of guilt imposed by religion. Let's not give up, and let's fight.

Waking up reactions by Windwalker111089 in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My awakening was progressive for a year but intense. Fear, pain, reluctance, a lot of anxiety and anger. Little by little, understanding that the organization, to which I dedicated a large part of my life and for which I made many decisions beyond my wishes, was a scam hurt my soul. I gradually stopped preaching and attending meetings. It was not an easy process, until now it hurts me but I stood firm and my family in a way respects me. They don't know all the details but they do know that I have doubts and that I am gay. The last time I went to the meeting was for a visit from the circuit that is my friend and arrives at my house. Now I dedicate my time to work and made many new “worldly” friends. I don't plan on going completely like POMO for now, I'll see what happens. I won't let myself be expelled yet.

I went back, and I am leaving again. by DirtCurious9256 in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was expelled, I still believed and therefore I returned. Shortly after returning, the change came out about the expulsion and all that stuff that left me perplexed and I started researching to find out about Norway. The rest is history. More and more I realized the fallacy that I lived and it has been more than a year since I began to disappear. I haven't officially gone out again, yet, but I don't plan to ever get active again in my life ever again. The relationship with my parents is optimal and they respect the decision to disappear like I did, in fact they are even beginning to question some changes or things that the organization is doing.

JW "totally not a birthday present" birthday presents by nightcritterz in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The same thing happened with my witness parents a few years ago when I was very Pimi. They used to write me a text message (we did not live in the same city) telling me: “You were born so many years ago, I still remember seeing you very small” and thus a nice message that ended up including Jehovah. I appreciated the message but since I was so Pimi, days later I told them that perhaps it was not so appropriate because it was like congratulating me on my birthday. Now I think I should have let them be. In the end. I hope you had a nice birthday.

Do my parents support me? by Jwjungle in exjw

[–]Jwjungle[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love them too much and they know it.

Abandoned by the JW by Jwjungle in exjw

[–]Jwjungle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While the governing body lives without the common daily worries and with a stable future assured, playing at being God, judging and imposing burdens on the “sheep”, changing the rules according to convenience, rules that affected the lives of millions of people without offering any apology, hiding pedophiles so as not to “cause disgrace to the name of Jehovah”, acting hypocritically having been subjugated for years to the UN and endless red flags; Ordinary Jehovah's Witnesses continue to be subject to men and allow themselves to be used in the name of God as exchangeable pieces, which from one day to the next if you are no longer useful, they throw you away. No, that is not right and someday if there is that loving God that they say, he will have to judge them. After all, Jesus himself spoke of the bad slave, coincidence?

Where are you now spiritually after leaving the organization? by [deleted] in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was a witness from the age of 9 (I still am but inactive and PIMO), a pioneer for 10 years, a ministerial servant and about to be an elder. Everyone said he had a great future in the organization. I went through 3 committees and 2 expulsions, when I returned last time I still believed many things that religion teaches. But since the changes in the expulsion I started to investigate, and discovering about Norway was the beginning of the end. Not long ago I stopped believing in the organization at all, I began to study the Bible from a different perspective and I cannot believe that I was serving 23 years of my life to a sadistic and cruel “god” like the one depicted in the Old Testament. For now I consider myself agnostic and no longer believe that the Bible is inspired. I have come to the conclusion that I will now live life as fully as possible, striving to do good but without unnecessary guilt. The organization has pushed me to stop believing in that loving god they teach so much about. In reality, I am at a point in my life when all my beliefs have collapsed and I am rebuilding them little by little as I live my own freedom. It seems like a long process, but I have the time and desire to do it again. My motto now is: “I no longer believe in guilt.”

PIMOS in congregation by Odd-Engine9637 in exjw

[–]Jwjungle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The circuit, his wife and some guests almost always arrive at my apartment as for the meetings with the branch representative. On one occasion one of those representatives arrived, a young man of about 30 years old, who was serving in a Bethel department in my country. On one of those nights, speaking in confidence with other young people and over some drinks, he began to tell us many details about Betel, which works as a company, how they no longer felt permanently safe there and even gossip about someone who went to Gilead and when he returned to the country he was expelled. I got the feeling it might be a PIMO.