hello Wobbly--i'm in the UK too--& heres a link to a shed load more
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/197364/ex-jw-uk?page=1&size=20
hi all - perhaps a brief intro from me would be appropriate..... i hail from essex, england.
a 2nd generation witness never knowing any other life and from a large and mostly devout family.
i was disfellowshipped in 1993 aged 21 and the worldly girl i met, got pregnant and married (in that order) is mother to my 3 grown children and grandmother to our beautiful baby granddaughter.
hello Wobbly--i'm in the UK too--& heres a link to a shed load more
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/197364/ex-jw-uk?page=1&size=20
many of you don't know me or won't remember me.
i left the jw's and my husband and my home last september - forging a new life in a new town.
i haven't posted here for many months, but have been reading most days.
i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
@Landy-------you missed out about learning how to masturbate.
i know this has been discussed over the years on this forum, but i just had to post this again!.
it seems that the popular fad amongst the "spiritual" ones in the local circuits is to home school their children instead of sending them to school.. now to clarify, we are in a very nice area of semi rural australia .
one with very community minded, and strong family values.
Home schooling=no schooling.
from a psychcentral (run by mental health professionals): a familiar item on a list of 7 types of parental abuse :.
spiritual abuse.
has the child experienced:dichotomous thinking – dividing people into two parts: those who agree with the parent and those who don’t.
being dragged to meetings--especially mid-week with school next morning.
forced to sit quietly for 2 hours through a meeting--worse at an assembly.
being kept out of school assembly--subject to ridicule by other kids
taken out door knocking--???!!!
no birthdays
no xmas
no blood transfusions
being taught about evil spirits---demunz---
being taught about armageddon--an day now--all that death and suffering.
sweet dreams kids--sleep well.
from a psychcentral (run by mental health professionals): a familiar item on a list of 7 types of parental abuse :.
spiritual abuse.
has the child experienced:dichotomous thinking – dividing people into two parts: those who agree with the parent and those who don’t.
i think all children of jw's are abused--one way or another.
i can't be too sure, because i didn't answer, but my mother had called me this morning and said this week is our co visit.. it's been a while since i last had elders at my door.
last time that happened, i posted about it, so it was only a few months.. i really don't want to talk with them.
is there a chance i'll be announced as "no longer one of..." after he's left if i don't?.
with any luck.
jehovah's witnesses cannot do a lot of things.
i remember pioneers having to quit their jobs because they could not work in a convenience store and sell cigarettes.
i know of a young man who was offered a scholarship to any college or university if he wanted to go to because of his football abilities.
bonk my born in girlfriend. she was gagging for it. instead--we married far too young---and ended up hating each other a few years later.
i do not post ot topics on here but i think this could relate to the jw cult because i remember a brother gave a talk long time ago and he said that jehovah would never allow man or science to play with crossing genes and if humans start to do this then we need to find a new religion.
well.... here it is.. now i also want to say, if jehovah cared so much about all this human suffering then why does science seem to be the one who actually cares about fixing thing?
jehovah does nothing.
plenty of human / pig offsping where i live
as you can see from my profile, i'm from the uk and was brought up in the truth.. how about some introductions from people ?
i'm in the UK too--born in birmingham--but lived on the isle of Wight since i was 23. ma got religion when i was 8--i left the cult after i moved down here. lost contact with most of my non-dub relatives.