Proverbs 26 v 11 - As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness
Satans little helper
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Do You Think That You Might Turn Back To Jehovah?
by Englishman ini`ve never yet been snubbed by a jw.
the reason is that i refuse point blank to speak to them unless they speak to me first.
so, if i`m visiting my jw mum and jw visitors arrive which they often do i just smile, raise one eyebrow slightly, and look `em straight in the eye!.
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Guns
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit incurious: does anyone carry a gun for protection?
from an ex jw standpoint, how easily did your feelings change toward guns and/or the possibility of killing someone in self-defense?.
my husband and i both carry.
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Satans little helper
I am waiting for my licence to come through so I can get my first pistol - a Browning Buckmark, for target shooting. In Western Australia it is illegal to carry a pistol unless going to or from a club shoot and you can only get a pistol licence to use at a club unless you are a security guard.
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Saw My Mother!!!
by RichieRich ini was on my way home today, and i passed my mother on the road.
tears came to my eyes immediately, just at the sight of her face.. i hate this religion.. but i love my mom.. i can't even remember, when the last time we spoke was.. i just want to sit down and talk to her, but i can't- i won't- because its her fault.
i left a religion, she left her son.
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Satans little helper
Dude, you have had the balls to get out of there without wasting as much of your life as some of us did; I commend you for your strength of will and for the sense and maturity you have shown, but you are going to find this hard for a time yet.
What makes it worse is that they see this as our fault, not that they have a mental illness, rather that we have walked away from their imaginary friend that they see as more important than their family. It adds to their persecution complex when we get angry and try desperately to make them see the error of their ways, unfortunatley it is all too often counter productive because it makes them feel more justified and it makes us feel more rotten.
All of us have been there, I was 18 when I was DF'd and since then I have not had parents; you get past the pain with time, and with the support of good friends.
It sucks like a bastard, but it will make you stronger, I promise
SLH
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You've tried to quit smoking, but you can't. Why not?
by AlmostAtheist intoday at 5pm it will be two weeks since i last smoked.
i'm using the nicotine gum again, and it seems to be doing a good job.
i got close to bumming one last night, but i grabbed a gum instead.
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Satans little helper
I quit 2 years ago using the book "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr
I started again about 6 months ago when things were pretty stressful here and reread the book after smoking for a month and found it even easier to stop smoking again. It's a great book, costs the equivelent of a couple of pakcs of fags and it works.
Copy and paste the above link into a browser to find the book
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Hate mail from jws
by dedpoet inhi, i rarely post on this forum nowadays, as linda (fullofdoubtnow) tends to do the posting from this house, but i decided to post this myself.
i am currently building an information website for local ex jws, along with a couple of ex jw friends, and recently received a couple of emails from a current jw who, according to him, stumbled on the site by accident, although it clearly states that it is an ex jw site.
he found an article i had written on jw child abuse policy objectionable, although everything i have written, both in that article and the rest of the site, is verifiable, which i told him in my reply.
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Satans little helper
I've just read the feedback emails on Gary Buss's site. Why is it that the JW's that post flame replies are always complete retards with no sense of comprehension?
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Best Chuck Norris Moment...
by SixofNine in....and other highlights of a marine's 2006 spent in fallujah.. this was so good i have to share: .
crossposted from http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002800.html.
subject: a marine's eye-view of fallujah (unclassified).
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Satans little helper
that's hilarious, and pretty scary
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I don't know how I feel...
by wonderwoman inso, i got a call from my jw sis yesterday telling me that my grandpa had a stroke and is in the hospital.
gramps is big-brother-by-the-book-jw.
i have talked to him a handful of times since i was 18. when i was depressed and went to the hospital/therapy etc..he told me to stop being foolish and all i needed to do was pray and go in service more.
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Satans little helper
(((((((Wonderwoman)))))))
It took me a long time to get past feeling exactly the same pain about how I have been treated by my father. Unfortunately being a JW develops some sort of hard heartedness where they would sooner cut off their own noses just to spite you and make you feel bad. They think it will make us "see the error of our ways" but it just underlines the lack of love within their religion.
SLH
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A funny thing happened yesterday
by Satans little helper ini called my sister yesterday - she d/a'd herself a couple of years ago but is still in the uk and lives close to my father; he's a self important elder type who is as insufferable as they generally are.
anyway, the conversation got to talking about family as you do and she mentioned bumping into my father recently, saying that he was sorry that we were having a tough time in oz and ha had sarcastically said that if he had our contact details then he would have sent a card when mrs slh was in hospital.
now i found this somewhat ironic because the reason that he didn't have our contact details was because he chose to not come to our wedding 3 years ago, and after that i do not want to have anything to do with him.
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Satans little helper
absolutely, and it's like twisting the knife - if you go through the grieving process for the death of your relationship with a parent, and then they come back and act as if it ie either
1) Your fault that the relationship is dead or 2) As if nothing has happened
it just harms the healing process all over again. Fortunately I have kept my distance long enough to heal to a point where I am much stronger now, two years ago this would have set me back a long way and really torn me up.
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A funny thing happened yesterday
by Satans little helper ini called my sister yesterday - she d/a'd herself a couple of years ago but is still in the uk and lives close to my father; he's a self important elder type who is as insufferable as they generally are.
anyway, the conversation got to talking about family as you do and she mentioned bumping into my father recently, saying that he was sorry that we were having a tough time in oz and ha had sarcastically said that if he had our contact details then he would have sent a card when mrs slh was in hospital.
now i found this somewhat ironic because the reason that he didn't have our contact details was because he chose to not come to our wedding 3 years ago, and after that i do not want to have anything to do with him.
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Satans little helper
I called my sister yesterday - she D/A'd herself a couple of years ago but is still in the Uk and lives close to my father; he's a self important elder type who is as insufferable as they generally are.
Anyway, the conversation got to talking about family as you do and she mentioned bumping into my father recently, saying that he was sorry that we were having a tough time in Oz and ha had sarcastically said that if he had our contact details then he would have sent a card when Mrs SLH was in hospital. Now I found this somewhat ironic because the reason that he didn't have our contact details was because he chose to not come to our wedding 3 years ago, and after that I do not want to have anything to do with him.
Anyway, I sent him a text with our contact details and he bloody well called me to try and tell me that despite our differences he still cared - obviously just not enough to come to my wedding.
I don't get it, do these people have selective amnesia, or some sort of selective reasoning thing going on? Either they are shunning or they aren't, there isn't really some happy medium where they shun us but they still get to be kept up to date on what is happening in our lives.
To add an amusing twist, in his conversation with my sister he actually said that by the time we have kids, Armagheddon will come. Sorry, I am still waiting for Armagheddon to come before I leave school, before I get married, before I start a career........
Fortunately I have moved on from the anger I used to feel (largely through talking to people on here who made it clear that I wasn't the only one to feel like this) and now am quite indifferent. Don't get me wrong, it still hurts me that he is so hard hearted that he can shun his kids, but I can accept it and move on now, even feeling as if I could forgive him for all the pain he caused while we were growing up.
Sorry to ramble, just thought I would share.
SLH
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Name the Books That Impacted You The Most.
by XJW4EVR inanything by raymond franz is a given.. 1984. siddartha.
lord of the flies.
grapes of wrath.
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