14 a husband who physically or verbally abuses his wife needs to take additional steps to repair his relationship with jehovah and with his wife.
what are these steps?
first, he recognizes that he has a serious problem.
my first wife--a born in jw. --was a nightmare. I was THE physically abused husband: Punched on the nose when fast asleep--nearly stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife. Totally controlled in what i could do--see--watch--read.
Married 13 long years till i provided her with the perfect "scriptural divorce reason"
Turned our kids against me using that cult as a reason.
But i'm still here--40 years later.
jesus is the creator god, but why did he create us?
what say you?.
i think we are all just figments of our imagination.
michael moore writes:.
a cult is an organization that enslaves minds and destroys families using cult mind control.
cult mind control involves orchestrated deception, social pressure, psychological abuse, and repetitive indoctrination (brainwashing) centering around an unchallengeable ideology enforced in a totalitarian way in a closed socially-separatist community setting.
isnt the phrase " conservative christian sect" more appropriate ?
5 dislikes !
But i cant claim credit for that phrase
i was only quoting the phrase Simon wrote in another thread sometime back.
i left the organization in 2017.. was in several congregations in the north west of england.
i just wanted to say thank you to all of you that have posted on here over the years, it really helped me to see the truth about the organization.
i lurked here for many years under an anonymous login and then finally plucked up the courage to write my disassociation letter.. adam.
Welcome from the south of England…isle of Wight
jehovah’s witnesses boast that theirs is a “spirit-directed organization”.. see w88 3/1 pp.
10-17 (my life in jehovah’s spirit-directed organization).
they believe that their deceased founder, charles taze russell (who faced legal action by his wife for inappropriate behavior in his maids bedroom), is directing the modern-day work of jehovah’s witnesses.. after the founder, c t russell died, it was stated that he was still directing the work from heaven.. "though pastor russell has passed beyond the veil, he is still managing every feature of the harvest work.
@Notformer:
** Referring to speculation by some on the "Where's Tony?" thread that Tony is sleeping with the fishes.
i think i made that comment. But it wasnt from inside knowledge
i was reading an anti cult reddit post where a woman (ex mormon) was trying her hardest to discourage the mormons from visiting her and trying to convert her back.
a few others chimed in about their various methods (coming to the door naked, pretending to be practicing black magic, etc.
) which they claimed would have the mormons and jws running away as fast as possible.. somehow, i doubt it.
😳 How did you and your offsider react to that? Did you say something like: "I can see you're busy with other things. We'll call back another time"
i held out the magazines--he looked at them, swore and slammed the door in my face. Strange that.
https://youtu.be/on-y9pv-cja?si=lr1dar4yshvymk7a.
just a song i really like.
it don't mean nothin' .
heres my choice of the worst recording ever--sheer lunacy
i was reading an anti cult reddit post where a woman (ex mormon) was trying her hardest to discourage the mormons from visiting her and trying to convert her back.
a few others chimed in about their various methods (coming to the door naked, pretending to be practicing black magic, etc.
) which they claimed would have the mormons and jws running away as fast as possible.. somehow, i doubt it.
if they are youngsters i just say i'm not interested and say bye. Older ones i sometimes chat to--and let slip i used to be a JW--and see if they bite.
jw's are not known for laughter.
there are the rare exceptions.
they are more known for their fear mongering and doomsday scenarios where "the dead shall come to be as manure on the surface of the ground from one end of the earth clear to the other".
i remember in the final congregation i was in--during the early 70, there was one brother--married with 2 young kids. He refrained from working, having a selection of illnesses peculiar to jehovahs witnesses.
He sat in the audience--with an idiot grin in his face--and would burst in to laughter at anything the speaker said. He was a fine JW.
