i had a flash back yesterday.
my non jw husband and i went to disneyland and bought my young daughter a set of 7 dwarf toys.
after a few months i felt guilty and threw them away, thinking they were demonized.
what nonsense.
never heard so much tripe for such a long time.
the Beatles were not satanists. they put a lot of people on that cover, and then became concerned that they living ones may have an issue. dead people tend not to be successfull litigants. he wa someone who marketed himself very carefully. nothing more. nothing less.
jws look down on others for saying, "bless you" if someone sneezes.
it has something to do with the demons.
another example is that it is considered satanic if a man took his hat off for a lady!
on holiday recently with a very good friend I told them that no way would I have been allowed to do something as outragous as to holiday with a worldly person, they just looked rather stunned....
so i am at the funeral for the son of an old mentor of mine and my closet truth friends.. .
(i talked about r in a previous post, he was the most formative person in my life in the truth, and those of my family and friends.).
i was pulled aside by r's wife; she tells me that r wants to talk to me.. .
I would do as iown mylife suggests. send him a loving supporting letter, just our of human kindness. he's in a bad place, be kind
elder 1. .
elder 2.. .
elder 3.. .
I'm assuming that when you cruelly state someone went mad you mean either they have mental health issues or a breakdown.
VERY unlikely that all these people went 'mad'
reading others typically crazy jw experiences has made me remember one particularly distressing experience.... i did a careful fade long before i had even heard of the term and i didn't know of anyone else who did it.. i was an unwanted stepchild, and in all honesty a very difficult one i suspect, i had two much younger siblings, and was always excluded and the black sheep, as ina serious uber jw there is no room for any sort of noncomity, and i was never destined to stay a jw, or have anytime for religion i suspect.. i went to my grandmothers funeral, and the elder giving her talk, a very nice man, after all the preaching mentioned her two grandchildren of one gender...she had three and i am of the other gender.. it was a lightning bolt moment, i got up and walked out.... .
now with the benefit of hindsight it was no more than what i should have expected.... funny how things bring long forgotten memories up....
thanks guys, but you know I am so NOt sorry for myself, it's made me who I am today..
so much so I went and got a tattoo that says
im the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved
and you know, it's true.
i wouldn't have been able to be any of the good and not so good things I am now if I had stayed in that nuttery.
i hope that goes for all of you...
reading others typically crazy jw experiences has made me remember one particularly distressing experience.... i did a careful fade long before i had even heard of the term and i didn't know of anyone else who did it.. i was an unwanted stepchild, and in all honesty a very difficult one i suspect, i had two much younger siblings, and was always excluded and the black sheep, as ina serious uber jw there is no room for any sort of noncomity, and i was never destined to stay a jw, or have anytime for religion i suspect.. i went to my grandmothers funeral, and the elder giving her talk, a very nice man, after all the preaching mentioned her two grandchildren of one gender...she had three and i am of the other gender.. it was a lightning bolt moment, i got up and walked out.... .
now with the benefit of hindsight it was no more than what i should have expected.... funny how things bring long forgotten memories up....
reading others typically crazy jw experiences has made me remember one particularly distressing experience...
i did a careful fade long before I had even heard of the term and I didn't know of anyone else who did it.
I was an unwanted stepchild, and in all honesty a very difficult one I suspect, I had two much younger siblings, and was always excluded and the black sheep, as ina serious uber JW there is no room for any sort of noncomity, and I was never destined to stay a JW, or have anytime for religion i suspect.
I went to my grandmothers funeral, and the elder giving her talk, a very nice man, after all the preaching mentioned her TWO grandchildren of one gender...she had three and I am of the other gender.
it was a lightning bolt moment, I got up and walked out...
now with the benefit of hindsight it was no more than what I should have expected...
funny how things bring long forgotten memories up...
please spare a moment to consider the difiiculties faced by gay jehovahs witnesses.
i was raised and baptised as a very serious jw.
every waking moment of my day was lived for jehovahs and his organization and for nothing else.
hugs from Australia also.
I am so sorry for what has been done to you. it's unimaginably bad. and you deserved none of it..
i recently posted a post telling this board my athesit coworker stumped me with questions about the validity of the ark story and i just cannot stop talking to her.
i love hearing her side and point of view which in the past i would have dismissed as "satanic" thinking.
she has some very good questions and i am having a hard time answering them.
it's been so long since I read someone attempting to defend the flood fairy story....
its rather sad, to have so much intelligence and to accept things that are patently untrue. once again an example of how faith and intelligence are often unrelated...
i'm into politics but i still don't consider myself patriotic..
I think what bob Flanagan said was cruel but totally accurate.
i'm into politics but i still don't consider myself patriotic..
the older I get the more I find I have no tolerance for patriosm and patriotic people. I think it's almost a national trait, but just accentuated by my life experience.
it almost feels like people having a sense of, my country is so much more superior, but I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, those who come from countries were they feel very patriotic are generally the places where people havent travelled and realised now wonderful the world is, and just how varied...
just a side note, many other countries have freedom, and that of speech and safety, without all the nonsense that goes without it, and fortunatly without carrying lethal weapons
