I WAS in the Borg when all those nauseating articles came out and yes all kinds of real life situations were written up in fruity-tooty Borgspeak about the women who endured abuse for the sake of someday getting their abusers into the religion. It was made to seem like a "rite of passage" albatross some women had to bear. It made me ill then, it makes me ill now. I left an abusive JW husband and I can tell you the Borgites view these dub husbands in the same light...their wives have to put up with the abuse as if their husband was a non-jw., but the elders are not going to help you, end of story. Come to find out years later that the elder I went to for help was himself a wife beater. I told my sorry-assed husband, the worse excuse of a man I ever met, when he was slapping me around that he would have to kill me because I was going to keep getting up off that floor and fighting back. I left shortly thereafter and the rest is history. But I can also tell you that the hidden abuse in witness marriages is endemic to the closed and secret-society nature of the cult. This is why pedophilia flourishes also. The male superiority thing had it's roots as we all know in very ancient times and has always caused suffering and ignorance. The Borg cult knows very well that this is a useful tool of subjugation and they wield it with impunity as the women are doing the bulk of the preaching work and have to be kept in line. When women are uneducated their economic survival depends on a man, it makes women into chattels. That phrase "husbandly owner" says all you need to know about the experience of marriage as a JW. Many women have become distraught and emotionally devastated in witness marriages and this too robs them of the will to seek freedom. All according to plan.
Governing body GUILTY of wife beatings
by gumby 19 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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FairMind
Not only do they not apologize, they dont even admit the erroneous teachings at all
This is why they should not impose rules on people in the first place. Imposing rules is "going beynod what is written" and I believe that is a sin.
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gumby
In all fairness to the WTS..( like they deserve it )...at least as early as 1963 they had the 3 rule policy as for grounds to seperate......but never expounded on it much further. The gist of their then teaching were......unless the guy nearly kills ya...or you think your going to die......never seperate as it is not Jehovahs way and is dodging expected persecution. Nearly all articles dealing with this at that time encoraged sticking it out if beaten.Today, dub women are more inclined to tell an abusive husband to kiss their ass and leave.....specially those in a very unhappy marriage,.......without feeling guilty over it as other dub women carry the banner for the departing dub wife.
Gumby
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oldflame
What blows me away is the fact that the witnesses brag about how perfect their religion is and how they are the "ONLY ONES" with the truth but yet they change their darn truths all the time by changing rules etc....
What REALLY blows me away is how many witnesses know this and continue to serve.
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Low-Key Lysmith
Here's a real dinger: My Uncle who IS STILL AN ELDER, beat my cousin's head in with a hammer and he had to be hospitalized for months due to the trauma. When my Aunt went to the Elders to tell them what happened, they DISFELLOWSHIPPED HER on trumped up charges of adultery!!!! Unbelievable. Her argument against the false allegations was that she was so terrified of being killed by her monster of a husband that the idea of adultry never entered her head. My cousin still has brain damage to this day. My Uncle caims that he fell out of a tree.
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jeanniebeanz
I could tell you stories that would make your hair curl... Personally, I have the facial scars to prove it too...
J
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patio34
That is amazing and shameful, Gumby. Thanks for posting that. I had forgotten their twisted Taliban rules against women's rights (the right not to be struck applies to children too, according to the UN or a UN official, I read recently).
Pat
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jimakazi
2) Spiritual endangerment ( such as non-stop apostate talk or refusal to allow them to attend meetings)
What scripture do they use to back this up?
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No Apologies
They have NEVER apologised for ALL the heartache, lost lives, and ruined lives, that were due to their erronious teachings.
For anyone wondering about my screen handle... this is exactly where it comes from.
Also, so far the discussion on this thread has been mostly about JW wives being abused by non-JW spouses, presumably over the religious issue. What doesn't get talked about nearly enough, either inside or outside the Org, is all the abuse committed by JW husbands in good standing in the congregation. Even if the elders are made aware of it, their typical reponse is to basically look the other way, maybe have a shepherding call on the family...
Elder1: "gee Bob, you shouldn't smack your wife around."
Bob: <looking remorseful> " I guess not..."
Elder2: "Sister Sally, you need to work on being a better wife, maybe then Bob wouldn't have to hit you."
Sally: "Ok Brother Elder, can I get either of you more coffee?"
The elders might even make poor Bob get out his Bible and read a couple of scriptures, Husband should be loving his wife as his own body, yada yada... Then they will leave, patting themselves on the back on what a fine shepherding job they have done. Of course, as soon as the elders' car is out the driveway, you know what will be happening back in the house...
No Apologies
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RichieRich
This is one thing that pisses me off.
I have a friend at school (nondub) and her dad liked to hit her. SHe told me that and I left school early that day to meet that mofo at his place of employment. Needless to say, he hasn't touched her since...