Posts by sparrowdown

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How was it for you when you had to shun someone?

by Anator in

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i remember a good friend when i was in and active who was d'fd.

when he started coming back, for me at that time is was gut-wrenching not to say 'hello' or at the very least encourage him to continue.

i thought even at this time, does this act of shunning really effective?

sparrowdown

Horribly uncomfortable and aaawkwaaard....and I liked myself a little bit less each time.

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Just found out their about to baptise my 14 year old boy.

by Crazyguy in

there doing this right under my nose but i just found out.

not sure what to do but would like your help on getting me wt information on my headship role and how they shouldn't be doing this with out my permission.

also would like some help on showing my son the ramifications on what happens to someone when they get baptized and how they'll expect him to treat me.

sparrowdown

"From what you gather the event has been cancelled....."

You do have a right to ask exactly when this will be happening you know.

You need to inform yourself of your own parental rights, you do have them. Ask a lawyer for advice if you need to.

Your son may hate you for stopping him at the moment and could send him running into the loving bosom of the borg. So it seems like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

So you need to decide what you would prefer to be damned for - trying to get him to postpone or letting it go ahead and hoping and waiting for him to wake up himself.

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Did Jesus really die on a cross?

by macys in

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being raised a catholic we had lots of crosses around the house.

when my family converted to this cult they were all removed and destroyed in case they had demons in them lol but at this juncture in my life i do not even know if jesus as the way he is portrayed in the bible was real.

yes a man named jesus did live and die 2000 years ago and probably on a cross but he was definitely not the son of god.

sparrowdown

I can't believe I ever went around knocking on doors talking about this cross/stake shit with people, actually believing I knew more about it than them.

Mentally face palming myself right now, if I could go back in time I would be bitch-slapping myself.

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Did you like hymns as a jw?

by jean-luc picard in

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friends

i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".

of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.

i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".

sparrowdown

The salvation Army band played

And the children drank lemonade

And the morning lasted all day....all day

Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town was more "spiritual" than a kingdom melody.

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Did you like hymns as a jw?

by jean-luc picard in

jw
friends

i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".

of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.

i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".

sparrowdown

Always loved Amazing Grace, and although not hymns (lol) loved some of the songs from Jesus Christ Superstar and strangely the theme song and music from Vicar of Dibley I found myself humming along to. The kingdom melodies were like dry, stale bread in comparison.

How ironic, I thought, this so-called worldly/babs the great music was more stirring emotionally than their crappy songs of praise to the "only true God."

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How Cultish are the JW's?

by xjwsrock in

first off, i certainly agree the jw's are a cult.

but i'm sensitive to black-and-white thinking now.. so, where do they rank on the scale?

think of a cultish religion scale from 0-10.. consider the likes of unitarian universalism vs baptist vs amish vs charles manson.. where do you think jw's fall on the scale?.

sparrowdown

By their culty fruits you will recognize them.

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How bad do the JWs need to be doing financially

by cognac in

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friends

before they just go ahead and file chapter 7 or 11?

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sparrowdown

I reckon if they went bust, the first we would be hearing about it is when all the faders turn up for the Sunday meeting to find it closed with a for sale sign in the front.

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The fade did not work

by BeautifulMind in

not long after learning ttatt, my hubby and i decided it would be best for us to fade.

his entire family is in, but not in the same cong.

we made it to the region convention and one sunday meeting after that.

sparrowdown

I salute you. I started my fade with missing every other meeting and got down to sunday public talk then stopped.

Took them ages to realize I probably wasn't coming back.

Now I could not imagine sitting through that fuckery...oops ... huhmm... I mean fakery.

I think there is a danger with a really slow fade to become accustomed to it...even addicted to the double life thing. Then you become a perpetual fader and I didn't want that.

Good for you for drawing your line.

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