i cant believe im posting this either!.
but ive got a huge decision to make wont go thru it all again its on my last thread, and i have decided that i am stopping going to the meetings completly (ive been dfed 7 months and because i didnt want to hurt my family even more i continued going to all the meetings and hid my boyfriend, wno was wonderful about it, put a letter of reinstatement in which they refused but relised by the way i paniked when i thought they might reinstate me that it is not what i want!).
i love my bf and want to be with him without any secrecy but i also want my family to accept him and still speak to me but i know that will not happen, so i have two choices either get reinstated and then leave (and risk losing mybf) or tell them now i dont want it and stop the meetings altogether before i go insane.. thing is to be free of the meetings and be with my bf, i will lose my family they are all so strong in the 'truth' they will not have any contact with me and my husband is divorcing me so ill lose finacially and my house and have to share time with my daughter, not to mention all my old friends who are wanting me back, and if i stop now all those months of trying to be reinstated will be wasted id be set right back,.
Cordelia,
I know exactly what you mean. Their biblical concept sounds as if they should be the religious organization to have the truth... If only they could all apply it as they preach it.
Only time will tell who's right and who's wrong. Until it's not clear, I decide my own destiny and not the WBTS.
DY
i'm just curious to know where my parents register on the scale of strictness...
growing up, i felt absolutely smothered by my parents (mostly my mother).
the things i couldn't do were above and beyond the limitations put on the other young people in our hall.
My parents were extremelly strict!
No wonder why the JW indoctrination is so deep in my psyche!!!
DY
just curious how different individuals have reacted to the though of celebrating holidays after they left the jws...?
any holidays you have more trouble with than others?
does halloween freak you out?
I don't feel 100% comfortable. However, I try to enjoy them and see the positive side of each holiday.
JW indoctrination will forever live deep in my mind's hard drive.
DY
anyone have any real information if the great exodus has begun?
tickle my ears-
I only know that a hurricane named Wilma was coming for Southwest Florida and the fanatics JW elders still didn't canceled the meeting.
Well, come to find out, I heard from somebody that attended the meeting that over 1/2 the JWs missed that meeting because they were preparing at home for the storm that was coming.
I was told that a comment was made from the platform that their absence was a demonstration of their lack of faith in Jehovah.
Things that make you go.... hmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!
DY
hi i've been checking out this board for a while.
i've finally mustered up the guts to post.
you guys have really helped me to open my eyes.
Welcome!
DY
i'm new and this is my first post......mine is a long story i will share later.
i'm at work and just wanted to say hi to you all
Welcome!
DY
would someone still mistake you for a witness?
Yes. I'm still very much the proud prude, and very conservative looking. It's who I am. Won't change, really. Quite comfortable being like this.
DY
for those of you who will be disgusted that i even attended the meeting, let alone allow my son to give his first public talk tonight, please, spare me the shouting messages.
i take full responsibility for what i experienced this evening.
yet, i feel the need to share this experience that has me enraged.
(((((findingmyway)))))
Sorry about this ordeal.
DY
i have just witnessed for myself one of the most hypocritical scenes ever before in my life!
my sister's ex husband, ( father to 3 boys, 12, 15, 20 years) commited suicide a few days ago.
he has been a jehova's witness all of his life and and also suffered from bi polar disorder for most of it also, particularly bad in the past 3 years.
(((Caz)))
DY
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which do you like better pepsi or coke?.
evanescence *wish there were voting polls on this forum
Either. Coke first, though. Bring it with .
DY
