by captain pugwash 38 Replies latest jw friends
Tottenham in the next round. We still haven't beaten Leicester in this round yet.
My neighbour is a huge Bolton Wanderers fan and he persuaded me to attend a charity dinner this week at the reebok stadium. He then told me at the weekend that the guest speaker was Alex Ferguson!!
Hope he brings a translator.
By the way, it would be interesting to find out if your mates at school were still JWs.
Captain Pugwash,
Welcome to the board. I just want to say that unless you have had the JW experience, you have no idea how difficult it is to leave, especially if you are baptized. There are all kinds of "checks and balances" plus one is in a different mind-set as a JW, and for some it is very hard to break away from.
Just this past year, after 40+years of being a baptized JW, have I been able to mentally break free from this mind-set...and in the near future, I will physically break free.
I enjoy this site because of the information found here. And believe me, I am one who reads the Bible, does not find it boring, although I believe there are errors and many stories are allegories to reflect the human condition in it, and I still have faith in our Creator.
Thank God, at last someone is posting who has the answer for us all! This guy is an expert, he knew two JW kids at school.
I suppose you knew these kids pretty well, knew how they got on with their parents, knew what they wanted to do with their lives, how they felt about everyone except JWs being destroyed by God any time soon (before they start school, before they leave school, before they get married, before they have kids, before their kids start school......)?
I don't think many people who knew me at school thought I was being forced into being a JW, but I had no choice in the matter at all. My experiences are pretty dull, no horror stories here, but I was lucky. Why am I here, 10 years after I was disfellowshipped? Well, its a way of keeping up with the other changing moods of the Watchtower Society, its nice to know what my parents believe this month. Its a chance to interact with other people who, all over the world know exactly where I am coming from, because, you're right, if you weren't a JW, you never will understand. We have a whole vocabulary you don't, came from a whole different culture.
JWs are not unique in wacky theology, abuse, shunning, or all their other peculiarities, although I haven't come across many religions that have it all the way they do. But we weren't in all those other religions, we were JWs. Thats why we aren't on the ex-Mormon, or ex-SDA or ex-Moonie boards.
Just to clarify, the poster whose grandaughter is dead because she wasn't given a blood transfusion, how does he get over it? The posters who are still living with their parents and DO NOT have the choice of not living as a JW, how do they get over it? The posters who are married to JWs and whose marriages are under incredible pressure, how do they get over it? The posters who yearn for their families but are shunned by their parents or children, how do they get over it? The posters who were disfellowshipped for speaking out about abuse, how do they get over it?
I think Pugwash WAS/IS a jw. why else would he be on here defending something he supposedly knows little about?
I presume they want to leave for a reason - like they want drink,drugs ,sex
Gypsywildone - this comment certainly smells familiar. Not the motives that outsiders usually assume.
ha ha! very funny !
you seem very paranoid! ARE THEY OUT TO GET YOU?
the reason I mentioned those is simply because they are the things I know jehovahs witnesses are not allowed to do- not complicated really?
come on then explain to the uninitiated whats the big deal? are they keeping people against their will or brainwashing or hunting escaped prisoners down?
city fan - sorry wouldn't know I lost contact after school -one went to college with me but different classes that was about it.
flower petal - whats with the mindset thing ? what do you mean?
captain pugwash -- have you ever met Seaman Stains and Master Bate and Roger the Cabin Boy ?
Unless you know what it's like to lose your family, you will never know. To be forced to tell old men your secret sins.... like you, little man. Ya wanna go before old men and tell them how many times per week you mastrubate?
You sound so young you're probably still in denial that you even do it.
Your question is valid, however. Why don't we just get over it? Well, keep wondering if you wish. Many here would love to get over it.
Anyhow, have fun cruising the board if you wish. I would think that you should have better things to do with your time, though.
Captain Pugwash,
You said,
from what my schoolfriends told me its got a lot more credibility than catholicism. Really? How do you define credibility? Does it have anything to do with who is being helped? How many charities do the Jehovah's Witnesses have that benefit the community at large? How convoluted and twisted is the theology of the Society vs the Church?I work in local council dealing with things from education to social services issues. and in every department there is a problem with paedophiles. this isn't something unique to jehovahs witnesses, as a sort of catholic I can say we havent got a leg to stand on in these issues Here's the great difference...the Catholic Church is NOT excommunicating the victims that go to the law or the press...however...the Witnesses have disfellowshipped more than one person that went forward. Don't you see the difference?
Remember, this beast destroys lives.
Welcome to the board.
