Posts by FlyingHighNow

Yes, Marina, good thoughts on superstitions and how they played out among the JWs. Just the slightest stray thoughts could bring on attacks by the demons.

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It's been a long time....

by Yizuman in

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long time, no posts.... .

those that remember me, well, i'm doing ok, so far.. those that remember my wife, she passed away as of june 26th this year after a long battle with various health issues for the past 6 years.. thought i'd drop a note to say hello to everyone that knew me.. .

i hope everyone is well.. .

FlyingHighNow

Yiz, so sad about your wife. Good to see you posting, though.

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Low Disk Space Persists

by compound complex in

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my 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.

FlyingHighNow

They are persistent like to is when you meant to type two, their is when you meant to type there. Your brain will give your fingers homonyms, when you are writing or typing. If you hate proofreading, you'll get hit by the flying space disks, here and there, too. Or how about hear and there or they're?

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What would you do if JW's lifted the shunning policy?

by bsand20 in

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have 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?

FlyingHighNow

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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Your "Things That Make You Go Hmmm?" List

by FlyingHighNow in

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i'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'???

FlyingHighNow

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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