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Charges put focus on Jehovah's Witnesses' handling of abuse

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Commentary: The Modteam of r/exjw Speaks on Diversity

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Posted by8 hours ago

Venting

I finally spoke up

I finally put my foot down and told someone I was raised in the church with that I will not be returning to the religion again. I left 2 years ago after being born into it and even after 2 years it's such an emotional topic for me since I essentially left everyone in my life behind by leaving. But today I finally did it. I haven't had the courage to tell anyone that I'm not coming back to the church. Everyone is treating this as a rough patch I'll come back from but I decided at 11 years old I'd leave as soon as I was 18 and I did and I'm not going back. This is more of a personal victory I guess all though it's emotional. But I finally did it and told them I'm not coming back and told them why. I didn't realize how hard that would be either but I'm glad I did it. I finally was able to look someone in the face and tell them that I know they knew I was being abused and that alone is enough for me to never return. It's just a bittersweet moment I guess.

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Posted by12 hours ago

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Finland did not violate Jehovah's Witnesses freedom of religion, European court rules

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Posted by7 hours ago

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saw a sticker out in public!

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Posted by5 hours ago

JW / Ex-JW Tales

My dad is officially POMO!

I've (20sF) been out as queer and trans since the early 2010s and my dad (50sM) was immediately nonsupportive. He had grown up in a JW home, his father is an elder, and he was not going to have a queer son in his home. My childhood was rife with abuse and as he came to accept me as his daughter he grew more and more disenfranchised with the Borg. He's been POMI in the most minimal sense for a few years but I got a call from him today and he told me he's just done with all of them forever. He's come to recognize it as a cult (he used that term unprompted!!) and he said he's just fed up with JW family. I just wanted to share as a point of pride. Little babytrans me would have never believed my father would be where he's at now.

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Posted by5 hours ago

PIMO Life

Most recent assembly

Total attendance was 1200, down from 1800 prepandemic. 8 got baptized, all young people and most likely born ins. The whole assembly was mostly about how we should forgive anything and everything that our brothers and sisters may say or do to us. How we should be hospitable, even if we are poor we should still at least invite people to have a coffee with us. They made sure to mention that if a brother wants to be an MS or elder he has to be known as someone that’s hospitable. Oddly enough when they talked about the donations we had a surplus of $700 but they said we should still donate even with the surplus. Finally one of the last talks was how we shouldn’t be listening to negative talk about the organization. What was different about it was that he didn’t talk about apostates. Instead he focused heavily on us not believing what we hear on the news. I found this to be different for him to talk so openly about how we shouldn’t believe the news.

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