i joined the forum yesterday and made 2 angry posts which received encouraging replies.
i spent a good chunk of time today browsing various posts, and i can't get enough!
i'm doing things backwards now and taking a moment to introduce myself.
Since then, I have begun to fade out for personal reasons, but felt guilty for doing so. A few weeks ago, my sister (also a user of this forum) came to visit me and gave me a powerful "unwitnessing."
Nice for you to have an awake sibling.
You may find this interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/2bh9eq/almost_exjw_in_a_very_diffucult_situation_need/cj5hvb8
hello, i am sam(samuel).
i am 18 and i live in romania.
my english is not that good and i find it hard to express myself even in my language xd.. i'm not an open person and i would've probaly never talked so open of my life but this "event" had so much impact on my life and it damaged me so deeply that i do now write this.. i came to this site to help myself fight the problem that destroyed my life for the past 2 years.
Welcome Sam.
You may not feel it at the moment, but you are lucky to have woken up at 18.
Your life lays in front of you.
As was mentioned - the end is coming soon - but only in WT's dictionary.
Even this past week's study:
If we watch our associations in these last days, we may personally live right through the end of this evil system and into Jehovah’s righteous new world now so near at hand!
Yawn.
wondering what to think...i'm recently divorced from my jw spouse ( i was never a jw).
we have a 11 year old son who is being forced to attend meetings and have all the beliefs that ex has.
i'm constantly being told what i should do and i'm supposed to go along with ex on whatever he says because apparently the "head of the family" continues after divorce in his world.
It depends.
You also need to supply "proof."
You are only one witness, two are required, or physical proof (photos - copies of messages).
See this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3qkwwf/i_got_disfellowshipped/
i was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.
we both served as elders for years.
he is in his late 70s.
Yeah...but the sad thing is what emerged from that schism. Or maybe I should say the horrifying thing. Don't forget that from that early schism arose the Jehovah's Witnesses
The schism was those who saw the ruthlessness of Rutherford at work. Rutherford "frankensteined" JW's out of the Bible Students / Russellites. The schism were those who did not want this Frankenstein religion and its abusive coup leader.
we are madly in love with each other and she is in the process of being divorced.
let me make one thing clear i'm not the reason for the divorce.
she attempted to reconcile with him but to no avail.
Simon: You should have a sticky -
"Help. I'm in Love with a Dub"
and a follow-up sticky -
"Help. I Married a Dub and Never Realized ... What Should I Do?"
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?.
Scientology 9.5
WTS - 9.0
Mormons - 7.0
a friend of mine visited australia and to his surprise there were no jw carts on streets.. wonder if it was just a coincidence or is it due to media attention that arc has created?.
With all the recent horrible publicity, you would be a lunatic to stand next to a JW cart in Australia.
Are you a parent who would like your children to benefit from one-on-one teaching from the Bible?
Well, ...
so here's an interesting thing that happened lately.
if you guys have followed my previous posts, you probably know my mother almost died from severe anemia, decided to take blood transfusions to avoid death and the elders announced the congregation she disassociated.
last week a "brother" came to visit from a congo about 100 kilometers away.
Although it is emotional abuse, it, more recently, has been rightly categorized as "spiritual abuse."
WTS is the poster child (poster parent?) of spiritual abuse.
after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.
thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.
i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.
a number of years ago when i was still active, our service group was having a coffee break with the visiting circuit overseer.
during the conversation he mentioned that the "society" was now being run like a business.
being raised in the "truth" i thought that rather odd (and my eyes began to be opened!
Vidiot
Wasted in Warwick... over, and over, and over.
Wasted away again in Warwickville,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cbX4DUACYU
Wasted away again in Warwickville
Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt.
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame,
But I know, it's my own damn fault
