this might be a piece of history some of you don't know about me.
i know a couple of you do.
so i'm hoping maybe y'all might have some suggestions in how i move forward.. my mother and father divorced when i was about 4. we lived in japan and my father was granted custody.
((((((Andi)))))
I wish you the best in finding your Mother.
An idea: you can try using the People Search on Yahoo. Or on the Internet, try to see if you can get to find a search agency in Okinawa or Japan. It might be either costly or frustrating, but hopefully, it might be worth it.
Best wishes and Good Luck in your search.
Kisses and Hugs.
Ajax
in the past i have sometimes felt like i have to be the 'bad guy', so to speak, because i need to lock or delete topics, deactivate people, try and stop fights and such like - basically, telling people off and not being 'nice'.. well, apart from the odd heated debate and harsh word (and disruptive 'visit') i have not really had a great deal to do for the past month or two and it has been very nice - a pleasure to serve.. so ... i thought i should say a 'thank you' instead of a "stop it!
" for once
Simon and Angharad,
In reality, I am the one who should give you the big "thank you" for setting up a forum for all of us and also for being a fair moderator.
I like to give you a big thank you for this forum where I learned a lot about others and also what is life as a JW and life getting out of it from others even though I've never been a JW, but hey, I can learn from everyone.
A big thanks to you and Angharad.
regards,
Ajax
have you folks or your agents read and carefully digested the posts in the very recent thread entitled "how many got the real truth from the internet"?.
and it spells trouble for you.. you would be doing the world a favor if you just admitted your faults and disbanded the entire organization.
and given the destruction you've wrought in people's lives over the last hundred years and more, that's exactly what you should do.. but, since there's so much money involved you won't do that until you're forced.
Well written, Francois.
spot on but we know they are too arrogant to listenWhile I agree with Simon, I have to say that it's not just that they are too arrogant to listen just that each one of them got their heads inside their own body cavity that is too graphic to describe if you know what I mean.
ok, here's how it is.. i just finished reading the "dead" thread.
now, listen.
i do not believe in life after death.
I don't know what would make me happy right now. I'm caught between wanting freedom and wanting truth. I am realizing that the two are mutually exclusive of each other.
Cygnus,
Only you can find that out for yourself. I mean, not me, not anyone can tell you what is the road to happiness, freedom and truth. It boils down to what works for anyone else might not work for you.
I don't mean to be patronizing or be mean. I am just giving you my two cents. If you think that freedom and truth cannot coexist together, then find out why? If what you determine is that both cannot coexist together, then ask yourself: Do you want to live with freedom alone? or Do you want to live with truth alone?
the choice is yours.
regards,
Ajax
ok, here's how it is.. i just finished reading the "dead" thread.
now, listen.
i do not believe in life after death.
While the Watchtower seems to get more and more strict, JWs are getting more and more lenient.
True about the Watchtower, Not True about the JWs getting more lenient.
we were driving in her car a couple of weeks ago, (the night i have visited her kh) and she told me, that she was going to postpone her november trip to italy; instead, she was thinking about going when the new system was here.
i asked her amusedly: "are there going to be airplanes on the new system?"...
she responded: "well.... we are going to be using our 100% of our brains".
Blue,
Did you become a JW while in college or after college?
Why can you not go for your Masters Degree?
thanks.
Ajax
did you guys see that one of the more popular jw sites closed down?
greatcrowd.net ceased to exist.
who's left?.
So much for the WatchTower Society claiming to promote freedom.
hi everyone, i too have been lurking for a few weeks and thought it was time i made myself known.
i am not a jw but i am married to a man who is from a multi-generational family of jw's (although he has not been to meetings since he was old enough to object).
although i have never had any direct involvement with the organisation itself, i find my life is constantly infulenced by these people who judge, shun and avoid my husband and i (i guess they don't want to mix with "worldy people" such as us).
hmm, 10 readers and not one person has said hi.
Prisca, Not all of us are party animals and allnighters like you.
Hi Judith,
Welcome to this board!
I am a non-and-neverbeen-JW like you. The answer to your question if there is God upon exiting the Borg is YES!!!
You see, the JWs don't follow what the word of God says, they know what the word of God says, but they follow what the WatchTower Society and the elders say. That is a major sin: Knowing what is right and not doing it.
Despite all their talk that they believe that the Bible is the Word of God and the Word of God is the Will of God, they rather read and study the WatchTower and Awake magazines rather than read and study the bible by itself.
God exists, it is just that cults like the JWs are not exactly putting God in charge, they put their man-made organization at the helm of their lives believing that they speak for God.
So, Judith. Yes, God exists, but you don't need an man-made organization to speak for him. He clearly speaks for himself.
Now it is up to you if you want to seek God or not. You have the freedom to choose as he is not a dictator like the WatchTower Society or Reverend Moon and other cults.
Hugs,
Ajax
hey guys it's katie.. for those people who do not know me, i am an inactive lesbian 18 year old jw, who was df'd & reinstated.
well, i don't consider myself a lesbian- i am just a female dating another female.
call me what you will.. ok- so anyways the other night i was sad and lonely.
Hi Katie, this is AjaxMan here.
While I was never a JW, one thing I can tell you from my perspective as a worldly is that "Life is never easy". You always have to work hard for happiness and it always occur when you keep on trying and persisting.
I know that you grew up as a jw. All your life, you were dictated. You were trained to have a certain mindset different from us, worldlies. It is not something that you can change overnight. However, it seems to me that the JW mentality is setting you in. You are finding out that the real world is not easy, but you know, in the real world, you have more freedoms than being part of a high control group. Let me tell you, it's not gonna be easy, but in the end, it will be worth it.
You said that you are 18 years old. Girl, you still have a long life and a great future ahead of you. How about seeking a career or go to college? Believe me, as you age, you will change your viewpoints and perspective about life: The way you think when you're 22 yrs old will be different from the way thought at 18. There is still plenty of time before you get married and have kids.
I don't like and I don't mean to patronize you.
I am aware that you miss your friends and family. However, for there to be love from their part, they have to accept you for WHO you are, not for WHAT they want you to be.
If you are reading this, you can reply me with your feedback.
hugs and lots of love,
Ajax
how left or right are you?
are you a libertarian or an authoritarian?
which political party comes closest to your views?
I'm leaning to the right though still centered.
I scored 15% on the Libertarian scale (leaning more toward Not Libertarian).
Labour(30)
Liberal Democrat(14)
Conservative (56)
I guess that makes me a Conservative. I'm what you call a Moderate Republican as I don't agree with the Religious Right and the Christian Coalition. Yet, I don't agree with Democrats as they want more Government control and like to get involved in other people's business.
