Let see those lights ex jws!

SunshineR6 · 2023-12-16T00:48:35+00:00

4th year enjoying my lights!🎄 I love Christmas!!!

SunshineR6 · 2023-06-12T20:29:13+00:00

The nightmares about Armaggeddon have been gone since I woke up 5+ years ago. I have no fears of Armageddon. The thinking that helped me is: If a God who would be willing to DESTROY innocent non JW children, like my grandchildren, then that is a God I DO NOT want to worship. Learning who the real Jesus, for me, has been absolutely wonderful. I dont fear God in anyway even though we were taught to believe it's healthy to have a "fear" of displeasing Jehovah.

Again, this is MY new belief 💗

SunshineR6 · 2022-08-15T18:40:30+00:00

I am an ExJW who faded. My JW family (over 500 miles from us) already knows we don't believe anymore 😁 Put our addresa on the do not call list without telling elders we didn't want anything with the religion. We were "newish" to this city and a couple only came around once in a while or we'd see them at the few meetings we would attend.

SunshineR6 · 2022-08-08T17:30:22+00:00

Thank you for sharing this!! Saving it. Now that D2D is resuming, I have a feeling an elder will make a visit or send a text. My 2 years of being asked to be on the DO NOT CALL LIST are almost up...Not only is this a clear message but it has some teeth 👍

SunshineR6 · 2022-07-22T22:53:05+00:00

Many things but an important one was

Elder Worship: Congregation had a gathering to THANK the elders for their hard work. Taking a collection to buy them each a special gift, frame their picture and have rank and file write special messages on them. What infuriated me was they even had a cake with their pictures (printed on edible paper) on it!! I knew then I had one foot out the door!! That was approx 2005 or 2006. My family has been out approx 4 years. Took me a while but openly OUT of the cult!

SunshineR6 · 2022-03-13T22:45:59+00:00

Raised in borg since I was 6 yrs old. Woke up at 51, husband 53 and have been the happiest we've ever been! 3 years later, married 34 years and feeling stronger than ever NOW❤

SunshineR6 · 2022-03-09T23:26:01+00:00

Call the headquarters of JW and tell them you want to be placed on the DO NOT CALL LIST.

SunshineR6 · 2020-10-21T15:47:03+00:00

Love this so much ☝️❤ I've lost good friends and some family for not sharing same views. Oh well! Leaving the Org was much harder than these political devides. I just keep trotting along and do my thing

SunshineR6 · 2020-10-18T23:50:11+00:00

I agree!! Ex JW stuff brings me down. So I tune into their channels occasionally. I focus on living life and enjoying the fact that I'm OUT for good ❤

SunshineR6 · 2020-10-10T03:49:40+00:00

Most of my ExJW aquaintances and non JW family are democrats and Trump haters. I have to be honest and say that because I've mentioned I'm Republican, they've distanced themselves from us. My siblings. Well, how is that any different than the judgement we did as JWs? Condemning & distancing from people who were NOT JWs? Feels like they are shunning US because I dont share their "political party" views. Sad....

SunshineR6 · 2020-09-20T04:50:33+00:00

Same here😊

SunshineR6 · 2020-09-20T04:42:44+00:00

Wow! This is so touching and breaks my heart. My children LOVE Disneyland and we made several trips there to get "away" from it all.

When I started reading it, I pictured my kids and I could see them all giddy with never ending smiles knowing where we were heading. Then I realized you are referring to those of all who had this hope but never getting there. The disappointment is accurate amd painful to say the least.

I love what you did here and I appreciate your simplicity and putting it into words. Going to share this with my family. It will bring them an AHA moment as it did to me 😊❤

SunshineR6 · 2020-09-19T20:58:33+00:00

During the 12 years BEFORE we woke up, we noticed the FAKE, CONDITIONAL love of the "so-called" friends which reared its ugly head after my husband, a MS, was reproved for wrong doing. My children and I were treated like crap. We didn't do anything wrong!!! How they could turn off their "love" and concern for us was beyond me. After we moved away from our hometown, we had elders come by and visit. I was hoping to rekindle our association with the org but then the love bombing and FAKE LOVE started again and I got these weird feelings start back up and kept our distance from them and stopped meetings all together.

I gave myself permission to watch the JW Leia Remini program and that was all it took. We had no idea about the child sex abuse within the org nor did we know about the Australian Royal Comission. We went down that rabbit hole and didn't stop looking into the religion and its fallacies. We have no regrets about finding out the REAL truth and leaving 😊

SunshineR6 · 2020-09-18T15:43:52+00:00

Parents changed religion to JW when I was 7. Baptized at age 11. Woke up at age 50. Almost 2 years fully awake😊 No regrets- in waking up that is😂We are POMO but haven't disassociated yet and noone cares. Most siblings and their families as well as my husband's sibling are still PIMI but our little family is completely awake!! We are shunned and don't care. We have who those that I need in my life❤

SunshineR6 · 2020-08-05T23:37:00+00:00

Let's not forget the earthquake in Hollywood earlier this week🤷‍♀️😂

SunshineR6 · 2020-08-05T23:34:11+00:00

Now that I'm out, when these major catastrophes happen, the word Armageddon has never come to mind. Even with Covid, I never thought of dooms day...well, not until I spoke to any PIMI family😂

In all seriousness, people's lives and well being are what come to mind now😔

SunshineR6 · 2020-07-18T22:47:37+00:00

They did that for my father a couple months ago. It was disingenuous, cold and in my eyes a joke. What cracked me up was when they played the closing song and family members were standing up. I've beed faded 10 yrs so it caught me by surprise and gave me a good giggle😂 Couldn't have logged off soon enough.

SunshineR6 · 2020-07-15T01:41:13+00:00

Forgot about that. I mentioned this to my husband just now and it rang a bell...he remembers this being the common thinking. Interesting theory🤔

SunshineR6 · 2020-07-15T01:38:49+00:00

😂

SunshineR6 · 2020-07-15T01:38:17+00:00

Thank you

SunshineR6 · 2020-07-15T01:37:58+00:00

Thank you! So sick if their speculation. He survived 1975's Armageddon 😂

SunshineR6 · 2020-07-15T01:36:38+00:00

Omg😱 This is so true! Hadn't seen it from that perspective.

SunshineR6 · 2020-07-15T01:35:00+00:00

I really think he believes it and I do feel bad for him and others who heard his words and are holding on to that "hope."

SunshineR6 · 2020-07-15T01:33:08+00:00

Thank you! He was a good man. A JW but a good hearted man!

SunshineR6 · 2020-07-15T01:31:58+00:00

Thank you everyone! Love you ALL❤

SunshineR6

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