I'd be on the phone calling my sister, her husband, my youngest brother and his wife. I love them. I miss them. It would be like receiving them from the dead. They have no contact with any of us family that are not JWs. They carry it to an extreme. We are dead to them. I know my sister, though, if the governing body said she could speak to me, she'd be busting her butt to find my phone number.
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What would you do if JW's lifted the shunning policy?
by bsand20 inhave you guys asked yourself that question?
what if the gb decided that "new light" revealed to them that disfellowshipping was wrong and they would do away with it for current dfd members as well...... .......16 years of my life.
would i welcome my family back?
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Your "Things That Make You Go Hmmm?" List
by FlyingHighNow ini'll wager that the number is close to 100 percent.
what number?
the number of jws who have lists--lists of things that make them go hmmm or even wha'???
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Here are things that made me go hmmm.
The lack of activities for the children and teenagers. I didn't see why there couldn't be a nursery for babies and toddlers and something like Sunday school for older children. So many things were way over the heads of kids, even teenagers. It seemed to me the JW experience was at times oppressive to youths. I discouraged my daughter from Baptism because I felt only mature adults should make such decisions and face the possibility of being shunned.
Superstition: the governing body often mentioned other people and their fear of evil spirits or their superstitions. I wondered how their fear of demons was different. I also wondered about their fears that an object could be attached to demons, for example something you picked up at a garage sale or thrift shop.
Babies not being resurrected unless they breathe the breath of lifel
Higher education being frowned on.
Being pressured to quit good jobs with good benefits because they interfered with meeting times or weekend field service.
Lessons about Pharisees, then some articles encouraging JWs to behave like them. JWs behaving like Pharisees.
Uniformity--it seemed as though the governing body aimed to quash any individualism or thing that made a person or family unique.
This was a huge one for me: disfellowshipping mentally ill people.
My nephew was repentant, but was disfellowshipped hastily. An appeal committe was brought in and they backed the first committee. The PO from our congo gave a public "Phewww" after the appeal decision. Both committees were wrong. He had done everything to show his repentance, including putting in 60 hours per month in FS. There was a long delay in his first judicial hearing because there weren't enough elders to make a committee. Meanwhile, he busted his arse showing how repentant
That same PO was hitting on the sisters. Finally one of them, a bipolar, but very sweet pioneer named Yvonne exposed his passes at her, which included him telling her not to take her meds, but to meet with him privately for counseling. He was deleted as an elder and removed as a pioneer. But she was removed, too. His wife said to her, "Why'd you have to open your big mouth?" Yvonne had given him the chance to go to the elders himself. He never did, so the CO forced the issue.
The crushing burden of meeting/study/field service schedule. Jesus said his yoke was kindly and light.
Apostate shake up/witch hunt at bethel and the super hysteria over apostate literature.
Opinion of individual bros becoming local policy, such as pressure for brothers not to wear necklaces or bracelets.
It became more and more clear, that the WTBTS cared more about how they looked to world, but did not care how they appeared to baptized jws and their families. Once you were baptized it was, "Keep your mouth shut or we will kick you out and shun you. We don't care what you're upset about."
Ideas about marriage: husbands making bad decisions about finances or child rearing, etc. The JW model for marriage set up both husbands and wives for disappointment in each other and marriage.The micro management of the flock and the constant pressure to do more and its affect on both mental and physical health. Also its affect on morale in the congregations.
This isn't an exhaustive list. It isn't in chronological order. The biggest issue was seeing less and less of this love the true organization was supposed to have. Also, their definition of love was very warped.
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Low Disk Space Persists
by compound complex inmy c drive is running out of space.
and to my surprise the low disk space problem persists after i free up disk space on my computer.
i uninstalled a lot of programs.i thought that i have free space on my c drive.
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FlyingHighNow
Coco, you're a sweetheart.
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Low Disk Space Persists
by compound complex inmy c drive is running out of space.
and to my surprise the low disk space problem persists after i free up disk space on my computer.
i uninstalled a lot of programs.i thought that i have free space on my c drive.
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Low Disk Space Persists
by compound complex inmy c drive is running out of space.
and to my surprise the low disk space problem persists after i free up disk space on my computer.
i uninstalled a lot of programs.i thought that i have free space on my c drive.
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FlyingHighNow
You're welcome. I use Firefox Mozilla and have chrome for back up. I rarely need IE.
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Low Disk Space Persists
by compound complex inmy c drive is running out of space.
and to my surprise the low disk space problem persists after i free up disk space on my computer.
i uninstalled a lot of programs.i thought that i have free space on my c drive.
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FlyingHighNow
The windows updates are important for security reasons.
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Low Disk Space Persists
by compound complex inmy c drive is running out of space.
and to my surprise the low disk space problem persists after i free up disk space on my computer.
i uninstalled a lot of programs.i thought that i have free space on my c drive.
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FlyingHighNow
Can you back up everything you want to discs, restore you system to "bring home" status, then see where you stand on disc space?
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What was YOUR First Worldly Experience?
by Yondaime inwhile i was in florida during the spring visiting my oldest sister.
i had the time of my life with my brother in law.. you see my sister married a non-believer and my parents viewed him as the scum of the earth, so i was terrified to ever talk to him.
turns out he's one of the coolest people i have ever met.
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I wasn't raised in JWs, so I had a lot of worldly experiences before I was persuaded into the WTBT cult. It's been a long time since I went inactive: 23 years. My memory is fuzzy, but I remember helping my daughter to shop for her proms, which was exquisitely fun.
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Your "Things That Make You Go Hmmm?" List
by FlyingHighNow ini'll wager that the number is close to 100 percent.
what number?
the number of jws who have lists--lists of things that make them go hmmm or even wha'???
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Have a person I am close to in the hospital for the past few days. I still want to comment on your lists. Can't tonight though. I did read the additional comments that came since my last post. Thank you.
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Poll--How Many Believe In God, Do Not Believe or Are Not Sure Of His Existence?
by minimus ini believe in god but i'm not sure of anything....what about you?.
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FHN - You know that I don't insult people, your accusation is a lie.
This statement is delusional. Look, if believers insult you, say something to them about it. I said something to you about your proclivity to insult believers. You want to dance around it and say that the arrogant way you speak to believers isn't insulting, because you supposedly only address beliefs. You aren't kidding anyone but yourself and well, maybe people who do the same thing.