since the memorial is coming up soon and its about time for me to go shopping for a new memorial ( aka easter) dress, i've realized what the memorial really is for us teenage girls, a beauty pageant!
the memorial is the day i spend painting my nails, curling my hair, and carefully applying makeup because my mother says i have to "represent jehovah" and look my best.
in reality its just to impress the newcomers and to compete with the other girls.
We had a sister, years ago, that told us her husband "did not allow her to buy a new dress. That would be too much like following the Easter traditions and copying the world."
He may have been right. It is kinda like the JW Easter. The disturbing thing is her husband "told her". My husband would be wearing a frying pan over his head. lol
growing up, the jws at the kingdom hall taught me that perfection is the only standard via which things can ever be measured.
"well yeah modern medicine is great - but it's pointless because they can't save everyone.
and they can't stop people from dying.
growing up, the jws at the kingdom hall taught me that perfection is the only standard via which things can ever be measured.
"well yeah modern medicine is great - but it's pointless because they can't save everyone.
and they can't stop people from dying.
Hang in there Punk. We love you!!!
after leaving the jehovah’s witness religion, we had the opportunity to read emotional blackmail by susan forward, ph.d. we could relate to the stories she discusses in the book and could make a direct correlation to our lives as jehovah’s witnesses.
while the experiences are somewhat different from what we encountered in our personal lives, we could readily comprehend how individuals use emotional blackmail to make others develop fear, obligation and guilt in order to manipulate them into furthering their own agenda.this podcast explains in great detail how jehovah’s witnesses live in the fog.
no one can dispute these comments as every current and former witness is most familiar with the culture of the organization!this podcast references the experience of a sister that lived in an iron lung and her experience was used as a tool to measure the faith of jehovah’s witnesses with otherwise good health that did not live up to the daily demands of the watchtower.
"CO pointed to our kids, who were small at the time, and said think of your children, they'll die at armageddon."
Oh I would love to hear what she said to him. Probably the same thing I would say:
"bleep, bleep, *&^$ you, bleep, (*%# you, bleep, bleep, bleep."
a hilarious stupid wa message is being circulated amongst jws in my area / country.. i had a hearty laugh at the ignorance and stupidity and brainwashed mentality, different people may express different emotions so you have been warned.
day one after armageddon it seems ages since we last heard the gunshots and screams, today has been really quiet.
the last few weeks have been sheer terror.
Very Sick!
I am saddened and ashamed that I was ever a part of this. What were we thinking?
this a question more out of curiosity, because we have not stepped foot in a kh in 3 years.. how is the attendance at the meetings/assemblies?
i know the answer will vary due to location.. are you (especially elders) receiving any notification or communication from bethel or co's that there is an upsurge of people that are simply disappearing or out right dis associating?.
thanks, in advance, for your feedback!
"To move away from that would be a Very Scary Thing."
The heads of this cult have done a bang up job on scaring the hell out of every JW. They have painted the world a very evil place. There is good in the world, bad in the world. There is good in the cult, bad in the cult. I agree. I have met some really nice and genuine non JW's. They treat me better than my immediate family. Sad that I can say that.
JW's are missing out on some nice folks. What a sad/limited life.
ok wow.
i am really really pissed.
i had to really hold back and bite my tongue.
I think it is there form of getting their #'s up. They ran everybody off and now they are trying to get them back in. They can't recruit new ones so they are getting desperate.
Crazy bunch!
Hope ya feel better. wink wink
Keep up the "theocratic warfare." I use it too. lol
this a question more out of curiosity, because we have not stepped foot in a kh in 3 years.. how is the attendance at the meetings/assemblies?
i know the answer will vary due to location.. are you (especially elders) receiving any notification or communication from bethel or co's that there is an upsurge of people that are simply disappearing or out right dis associating?.
thanks, in advance, for your feedback!
"Most are in it for the community/association."
I think this is true of a good majority of JW's. The ones that I am still close with do not have any other relationships outside of the cult. I actually sit there and listen to them bash and trash talk the "one and only true religion" and then 1 millisecond later say "but it's still the truth." I REALLY have to bite my tongue and stop myself from saying....WTF!
