Hillbilly, learn to accept the compliments. Even if someone doesn'r acknowledge your worth and good works, be happy and content, because down deep, you did the right thing. Guest77
Posts by Golf
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21What do you Find Encouraging?
by Golf init's refreshing and encouraging to meet polite people.
people holding doors for others, people saying thank you and please.
people who return their shopping carts in the stalls.
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thank you all for the welcome.some asked me to tell my story. heres the 411
by ko38 inmy parents became jws in 1973. i was 6.my father was a very abusive person wanting to fight anyone and everyone.of course my mother and moreso myself usualy caught the brunt of his abuse.he whipped me with a belt i believe as hard as he could and did not discrimenate as to where he hit youie in the face legs back you get the picture.. well my mom was thrilled when he agreed to study the bible with these nice people.they taught love and i think that was what appealed most to her.my dad was an obsessive compulsive person so he first argued points in the bible with them,but soon found he was no match for them.so he started taking his studies seriously and read the bible like crazy,i mean 5or6 hours at a time every day.. after a while they were baptised and things got better...................for a while.he then became very demanding with regard to studying for the watchtower all the meetings and personal reading.i could barely read,but most of all he became even less tolerant than before.the beatings continued sometimes worse.my mom had called the elders over no less than 6 times in a 5 year period to report his treatment of her and his beating me.as you may guess the elders did nothing.they sited some scriptures and admonished me to give my father respect.i thoght the elders would help me and make him stop.but they didnt.so i lived life on pins and needles with him going to every meeting studying (well you guys know we studied a lot).until age 16, my father started his fits and i ran away.boy did i go crazy then.worldly people wild parties you name it.to make a long story shorter i was living fot the day because tomorrow i may die.. i was recomended bad association during my absence,i got marrie at age 18 and went back to meetings and wow i was no longer bad association.that marriage lasted 2 years we had a daughter wich we shared custody and a lot of times my mother and father would watch her.
well during that period my father abused her sexually.my ex told me about it.said my daughter told her .well stupid me i didnt believe it and i guess the elders didnt either because they did nothing.. i was never baptised and drifted away again.flash to 1 year ago now married 10 years 3 more children and who knocks on the door you guessed it watchtower toting smily faced jws.well i always believed and carried guilt around all the time.so of course a agree to a study soon i have the whole family studying.the elder i studied with kept telling me i would be an elder soon,i didnt understand then how that could be.i soon realised that was his way of motivating me.well my world crashed down when my 2nd oldest daughter was molested by my father.i never should have trusted him to watch her and i feel enormous guilt.. my father did this while innactive but almost immediately he went back to jws like nothing happened.i wont go into some of the drama between him and myself but bottom line the elders were told and he was reproved he admitted to sexual misconduct and all that happened was restrictions.they said he could never go in field service by himself but he does.he will never be an elder but other than that he is a member in good standing.this stumbled my wife and i greatly.in the interim the elder from our seperate congregation (not my fathers) was in a big rush to have my same 12 year old daughter baptised.well she was at the summer convention.. i later found out that he was up for promotion to circuit ovsr.while a very good teacher you could tell he was all about position.
my wife bought crisis of conscience and slowly had me reading it too.
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Golf
Welcome ko38. Your sad story only confirms what does take place within the borders of the org. I wish you all the best and hopefully the encouraging words from the board will uplift you for many days and months to come. Guest77
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What do you Find Encouraging?
by Golf init's refreshing and encouraging to meet polite people.
people holding doors for others, people saying thank you and please.
people who return their shopping carts in the stalls.
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Thanks for the encouraging comments. Yes, thoughfulness, honesty, manners and sending cards can really boost your batteries. Two scriptures really caught my eye as a JW, that were encouraging,one is in Hebrews 10:25, "...encouraging one another..." The other is 1Cor.13:4-6 "Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently,does not look for its own interest, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things,...endures all things." Feel free to express what encourages you. Guest77
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What do you Find Encouraging?
by Golf init's refreshing and encouraging to meet polite people.
people holding doors for others, people saying thank you and please.
people who return their shopping carts in the stalls.
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It's refreshing and encouraging to meet polite people. People holding doors for others, people saying thank you and please. People who return their shopping carts in the stalls. People who throw their rubbish in gargabe bins instead of on the streets. It's encoraging to know that there's still humans out here that have human feelings. What do you find encouraging? Guest77
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Golf
How about EXCHANGE of ideas and experiences? Meeting others? Spend some time in talking about mundane things. How about sharing some things about yourself, your likes and dislikes. Guest77
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Aaargh !!! Some judges should be shot !!
by Simon ina judge has just overturned the paltry compensation that a yob had been ordered to pay to the seven year old child that he paralysed while speeding in a car without insurance or a license.
he was only paying 3 a week and claimed "he couldn't afford it" !!!
(yeah, right .
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Plenty of these Judges never made it as lawyers! Guest77
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Need To Divorce My Husband....
by Doubtfully Yours inlately he's very become impatient and rather explosive in temper.
i can't cover it up anymore, and i'm so tired of pretending in the organization.. need to leave this man and this religious organization in a hurry!.
any of you divorced because of the wtbts?
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Golf
DY, you answered your dilemma by saying, "I make enough money to be on my own!" All you need to do now, is, just do it!
My sister-in-law a JW just left your husband also a JW. She' been at peace since! No regrets. -
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If you love something set it free.
by The Thinker inif you love something set it free.. if it returns it was yours.
if it doesn't retunr it never was yours.. i wonder many times how many jw's would stay jw's if the wts didn't shun those who leave.
i'm sure they must wonder too, thats why they keep the shunning continue.
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Golf
Soooooo, that's why my wife keeps returning! Guest77
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The Voice of Wisdom
by Golf inwhat wisdom would you like to share with others?
one of the many that i have is patience and making time your friend.
what's yours?
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Thanks for the laugh 'Coldredrain.'
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My Fascination With Nicely Shaped Jugs
by Englishman inthis is a part of my collection.. the all-blue jug and the "pinch pot" below were made in a local pottery in the 1920's and are known as wesuma ware.
(weston super mare).
the others are all doulton lambeth ware from the late 1800's, well before the company came to be called royal doulton.
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Golf
It's not the type Solomon had in mind when he said, "...rejoice with the wife of your youth...Let her own breasts/jugs intoxicate you at all times." Prov.5:19 Guest77