i am sitting here watching this shocking interview.
the reporter spent 8 months with this um, person.
i cannot believe how bizarre mr. jackson is.... and it has given me the willies.
He said he only had two surgeries on his face, sleeps on the floor in a sleeping bag when he has children sleep in his room with him, slept with Macaly Culcan and his brother and say's it's perfectly normal and there was nothing sexual. It got too weird for me, Tink is still watching it. The boy has serious problems, probably steming from his own home life. He claims his father was abusive to him, and we all know what the WTS can do.
CC
i was going to add some thoughts to another thread, but it is now locked.
it took a long time to gather my nerve up to post a new topic, and i'll probably regret it, but i couldn't feel any crappier than i do today, (well, yes i could) so, whatever.. .
perhaps the following - taken from a book i've read a million times - will be of help to someone... yeah, it's another stupid trauma analysis ... however, if you've ever been a jehovah's witness, you have been traumatized, and no doubt must contend dearly with at least some afteraffects.
Lauralisa! Thank You for posting such an excellent thread. The experience of those men waiting to be resqued in the water has me speachless and has made me think of how it applies to most of us. Great Thread, Thanks again!
CC
hi, just wanted to get acquainted a little bit.
i already jumped in and posted a couple of times.
i've been out for 13 yrs.
Welcome Auntie! Interesting name you picked.
CC
i had a very emotionally draining conversation over the phone with my mother yesterday.
she is not a jw, she is a international bible student (russelite).
i have not got into such a deep conversation with her since i have been out of the borg.
Hi Yumbby, I thought you would like to visit their web site.
http://www.dawnbible.com/index.html
thanks for all your comments everyone!
edited to swap the web address with their home address.
Edited by - CC Ryder on 3 February 2003 23:31:24
i had a very emotionally draining conversation over the phone with my mother yesterday.
she is not a jw, she is a international bible student (russelite).
i have not got into such a deep conversation with her since i have been out of the borg.
Hi BluesBrother, Yes in was real interesting growing up. My father was studying with JW's when he met my mother were he worked. She was already associated with the Bible students from my Grand Mother who was a Polish Immagrant and became associated with them soon after arriving in this country. I think it was before the split, but I'm not sure and my mother doesn't know either. The brothers had advised that he not marry her, that was in 1951. He was baptised in 1950. My mother never changed, which was what my father was hoping. My sister and I attended both meetings, alternating, and they left it up to her and I to choose which place we would continue to go to. We both stuck with the Borg, although I don't remember making that dicision. My mother came with us to a few assemblies, the first of which was on their honeymoon at Yankee Stadium for that hugh assembly that the Borg always brags about.
They never seemed to bother my Dad about it, however it did take him years before qualifying to be an elder. I think he has been an elder since 1973 or so, I don't recall. I can't say much about him hear because I do not want to jeopordize him in any way, I'll just say he's a cool guy and was a great father. Never pushed me to do the JW thing at all. He is now 80 years old and is limited to his involvement due to poor health and old age.
My mother is in Hell living in Tn. We were from Ct, and that's were most of her people still are. Only a few left, which gives their views validity, because they feel they are of the "heavanly Class". She only has phone contact and tape recorded talks. She does mailings of literature to people from the obituaries in the paper, just sermon stuff. She has had contact one time in Chattanooga at one of her conventions a few years ago, about 15 or 20 people attended and a speaker from the north that she used to know years ago was there, so she was happy, but since then she misses being back North.
Well...that's it in a nut shell.
Heaven, Thanks for your comments and advice, I really appreciate it.
CC
that is right-- do not pray for thier families!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they had no business being up in the heavens anyway, the earth is what jehovah created for mankind,
man has continued since the days of nimrod to reach into the heavens.
Nice to see you posting again JT. I have taken short breaks too. Very good topic and very good comments all..!
CC
ahh, poll number 35 today!
sounds like middle age doesn't it?
so how's your weekend going?
I bounced between C and G, with an occasional D every now and then.
CC
i had a very emotionally draining conversation over the phone with my mother yesterday.
she is not a jw, she is a international bible student (russelite).
i have not got into such a deep conversation with her since i have been out of the borg.
Thanks and your welcome Copsec!
Guest77, Thats one topic my mother agrees with me on. It's just that this time was the first in a long time that we got into it that heavy. I'm afraid that with current events escalating in the direction they are going, she'll bring it up more often.
Copsec, No...I'll never let it get to the point of not talking to her. It's just draining. I was also curious if anyone out there knows or has the same situation.
Thanks for your comments.
CC
i woke up this morning and a strange feeling came over me... then it struck me: omg!
yesterday the space shuttle broke up on reentry.
odd how sleep makes one forget... only to remember again moments after awakening.
I felt the same way too Elsewhere. Same as I did on 9/12/01. Kind of "out-of-it".
Good comments Guest77.
CC
my hubby and i ran into a sister from the congregation we stopped attending a year ago.
we were trying to run into a store out of the cold, our son in tow.
that didn't stop her.
Tink and I LOVE our weekends!! The best weekends are when we're alone,quiet and peaceful. Relaxing. We often say to each other.."Remember when.....". Then we laugh and just soak up the comfort of staying home and doing NOTHING!!
CC
