i wanted to share an experience i had and see if anyone else had encountered this same matter.
we always tried to make an extra effort to ensure we stood on the approved hotel lists when going to our special day conventions or district conventions or what they now call regional.
we use to stay many nights a year and i would save up my hotel points to use at a later time.. i remember checking in at popular chain hotel and asked the hotel clerk how many points would i earn for the 3 night stay?
Our first child was due to be born around convention time.
For whatever reason, the closest hotel was not on the list.
With severe guilt, at the time, I booked it anyways, and as a family with a 3-week-old baby, walked 2 blocks to the convention, no parking, no driving hassles.
Total a-hole group.
i don't know where to start.
i got married a year and half ago.
some months into the marriage things where discovered.
As a born-in who believed that only 2 virgins should marry in a perpetually blissful state, I now say that that is shat.
Met a very old longtime JW acquaintance last week - who ended his first marriage in a most horrible way.
He just remarried, but made a point that they had done a trial run of several YEARS first.
The two-virgin rule DOES NOT work!
hi all.. i have noticed that many of our forum members have sought professional help from counsellors who deal with ones like us who have broken free from high control groups or "cults".. my self esteem has been rocked by recent events in the cong, and while i know ttatt it still has taken my joy in life away quite a bit.. as you all know, mentally i broke free from the org several years ago, but now that i am trying to start making the physical break, i feel really unsettled and nervous.. i wonder if a good counsellor could assist in helping me clarify and sort my feelings and emotions , and provide help to take practical steps to cut all ties with the org?.
if anyone can provide ideas of good counsellors, it would be appreciated.. thanks everyone!.
goingthruthemotions
also i am prepping for maybe the enivitible divorce....once i stop going and fully reject the cult. i have already rejected it. right now i am just going thru the motions. my wife has told me she will choose the BORG over me.
i have always given her unconditional love and support...but i guess nothing like the washtowel will give.
well atleast she will get the support and unconditional love she thinks they will give her.
joining this cult was the worse mistake of my life....if i could turn back time!
Prepare for hell if your wife is Borg, ESPECIALLY if there are children involved.
Plan ahead!
despite 2005 being a very popular year for vacuums vacuuming is now very unpopular with 0 mentions- an all time low.. awake magazine:.
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summary:.
jehovahs witnesses claim to use portion of the contributions given to the world wide work funds for relief work.
unfortunately, as shown by the alberta flooding video, they seem to have a greater interest in reporting (or advertising) it than they are in actually releasing funds for such work.. introduction.
I don't believe WT sent any special relief crews or equipment.
There were crews that were sent to High River, an affected town south of Calgary.
I would be very curious as to the arrangement of reimbursement via insurance or the government.
on jw tv.
anthony morris is ranting against higher education.
he is blaming parents for enrolling their kids in college.
Have you watched this drivel?
TOMO always comes up with the biggest BS stories possible.
About the 23:00 mark, he says that the student begged his parents to let him leave university.
Well, then, just leave.
No, he stayed.
The parents ended up divorced, the siblings left "the truth" blah, blah, blah, all because the parents FORCED their son to stay in university. What horse droppings.
having a believing spouse, but no longer having any desire to go to the meetings, or service, this is what i've come to call this space i'm in, and i'm sure a few others are in this same space.. nightowl .
No, you cannot just walk away.
There is not a more pathetic situation that exists.
I cannot post all of my details yet, but I can soon, hopefully.
Hopefully, you can interchange with many online who have/are gone/going
through the otherwise, unbelievable emotions that this high-control
group effects on family life.
having a believing spouse, but no longer having any desire to go to the meetings, or service, this is what i've come to call this space i'm in, and i'm sure a few others are in this same space.. nightowl .
You are in a tough spot.
I was there, for 20 years.
As I reached my limit, it did not end well.
Hopefully, your spouse is/has not become truly Borg.
If not. maybe hope. If so, sorry buddy, welcome to Hell.
does anyone have the 2014 stats from the 2015 yearbook yet?.
(isn't it usually out by now - or are they waiting to celebrate new year's day?
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the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).
before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.
first, the reason i think it should be shown:.
It should be the option of the poster.
Personally, I do not mind, but with my initial posts, I would have minded.
People in smaller countries could rightly feel a threat.
As for introducing this now, I would challenge the ethics of a compulsory change that was not in the terms of service AT THE TIME OF JOINING.
As for Canadian privacy rules, I would think you would be in violation. Canada is the only country with mandatory privacy for .ca domain name registrations. (Contrast that to the US who forbids private .us domain registrations - complete opposite views.)
I would suggest asking Michael Geist for his opinion.
