Posts by sweet tee

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What would you do ?

by Es in

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what would you do if you knew someone had no respect for you and only associates with you coz they have to????

for months i couldnt understand why this particular person said things to me and acted a certain way to me and it only just hit me this weekend that this person actually just doesnt respect me, doesnt respect my feelings, my thoughts nothing.

and only associates with me coz she has to.

sweet tee

I've been in the same situation es and I handled it poorly. If I could go back, I would simply 1) Be myself at all times and not give into the 'bend over backwards to please other's response. 2) Speak up for myself, respectfully question them when they make off the wall remarks rather than ignore them, try to understand then be understood (Steve Covey) This will earn respect from these types of people when they realize they can't put you down to your face and get away with it.

The reason I would do this is because it would make things easier on both me and my partner. He wouldn't have to get in the middle or choose sides and I could walk into any situation knowing I could handle myself.

((((((((((((((((((( es )))))))))))))))))))))

tam

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Worms--Humour

by blondie in

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a minister decided that a visual demonstration would add emphasis to his sunday sermon.. .

the second worm was put into a container of cigarette smoke.. .

the fourth worm was put into a container of good clean soil.. .

sweet tee

Here, here !

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The Watchtower Says 1 In 4 Persons Likely To Have A Mental Illness!

by minimus in

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that's on their website....do you believe this?

sweet tee

Chances are, most getting df'd are "mentally ill", I suppose. "Apostates" MUST be in this category.

That's right min ... I am INSANELY happy to have left that organization I'm GOING OUT OF MY MIND with joy in living a life of freedom I must have been NUTS to join a cult in the first place (tamtam of the 'I'm not crazy, you're crazy' class )

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A VERY PECULIAR FEELING (and a pleasant one at that)

by Terry in

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i work at a bookstore that buys books for cash directly from the public.. we get maybe eighty or ninety people a day lugging in horrendously filthy boxes filled with roach droppings, mold, ancient dust and, oh yes, books.. among these books there is the occasional "find".. but, mostly (and disappointingly) it is 97% garbage.. today a fellow brought in three boxes full of typical dusty and unkempt books to sell his aunt was "getting rid of" that he thought he'd convert into easy cash.. i took his i.d.

and phone number and then looked at the boxes.. they were all jehovah's witness books!

bound volumes going back to the 50's, all the booklets, books, concordance, interlinear, bibles, etc.

sweet tee

Congratulations T. I believe you did the best thing one could possibly do with that garbage ... put it in the trash!

Yes, I know some of it may have been useful in researching and refuting current dubs, but there's are many other places one can get that info. without re-selling the WTS- BS.

Tam

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Dubs are sick people

by gringojj in

i notice that when my wife misses meetings( about 60 percent of the time she does) she always tells her study person she wasnt feeling well.

her sister uses that excuse all the time too.

even her mom who has been in it 30 yrs often is too ill to go to the meetings.

sweet tee

Along with illness there are anxiety attacks. I remember telling an elder I felt very anxious at the meetings at times, even hyperventilating. He said one time when he was on the platform he had a vision of himself running out of the kingdumb hall. Made me go hmmmmmm. He quickly dropped the subject though ... very intelligent man, his wife too. She was anxious too ... told me her hubby says she thinks too much (she had been a pio but dropped out). I wonder if they are still in.

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I Had A Vision And Am Going To Return To The KH

by Honesty in

i am going to go back to the wtbts/jw religion and confess my sins of apostasy to the elders.

just a soon as the wtbts...

quits df'ing the sheep and provides loving professional help and compassion to see them through their troubles.

sweet tee

I'm going back too. As soon as hell freezes over (tick tick tick tick tick) LOL

I like the changes you suggest though Honesty. Why don't we start a aposta-petittion to the guttless body suggesting reform and wait for their respons (tick tick tick tick tick).

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Dub at work said that the Knowledge book was too difficult for new ones

by acsot in

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to understand so that's why the wts published the new book being released at this year's district conventions.. the new book gets "straight to the point".

according to her "and many others", the knowledge book was too difficult for those just beginning a bible study.

i said, "you're kidding!

sweet tee

The new "Bible study" kit will include a cool "What the Bible Really, REALLY Says", pocket-sized picture book, maybe a theocratic coloring book and complimentary box of crayons, a set of Biblical action figures, and a "Jehovah's Happy People" video game. Sounds kind of fun actually...you can play with the action figures or color discreetly during meetings

Luna - By the time I got to the crayons and biblical action figures I almost spit mocha all over my keyboard LMAO!

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no stones please!

by almosthome in

i am hoping a little balance is allowed here, or at least the coin's flip side.

this is my story so far, but i am fairly sure it is going to end up a bit differently than most i have read on your site.

the brothers couldn't help my husband, he didn't want help.

sweet tee

Whether you go to the kh or not, you are going to have ups and downs in your life. Learn to deal with your problems head on instead of running to the security of your childhood. That is the hard road.

Well said LII. But me thinks she's left the board. So sad . She's not going to find what she's looking for at the KH. It's all fake. Fake doctrines pushed on people to fake love for a fake organization led by fake men who fake being led by God.

I'm glad I left and I'm NEVER GOING BACK!

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no stones please!

by almosthome in

i am hoping a little balance is allowed here, or at least the coin's flip side.

this is my story so far, but i am fairly sure it is going to end up a bit differently than most i have read on your site.

the brothers couldn't help my husband, he didn't want help.

sweet tee

I've read your story and it is sad and tragic and I feel for you. Equally tragic is the fact that you think you cannot live without this organization, but to each his/her own. It is certainly not for me.

This statement I found tells all. It says to me that you are copletely indoctrinated into the idea of a FDS who can do no wrong in your eyes.

I think the UN stuff is just completely blown out of proportion! But each of us will view this the way we are ready to view it.

The Revelation book and other lit. clearly identified the UN as the Wild Beast, an enemy of the kingdom of God. If I as a Witness cannot go into a church even for a wedding or funeral, how can any Witnesses rationalize the WTS joinging this organization AND PROMOTING IT - WITHOUT TELLING THE PUBLISHERS WHAT WAS GOING ON . If what they were doing was so innocent, why wasn't it revealed to the R&F untial AFTER it hit the newspapers? THEN, only to those who inquired? (I smell fish here).

Like I said, that organization is not for me. But if you feel it's for you that's your choice.

Lastly, and I mean this in all sincerity from one woman and human being to another; Get some counseling. Talk to a neutral party and get to know and understand YOU as an individual. In the org. you only understand you as a part of the whole (hence the reason trekkies refer to it as the borg - they are all one, assimilation is the only way to be a part of the whole).

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Exploitation of brothers & sisters

by LouBelle in

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in the past i visited bethel and got to 'tour' around.

here men & women worked their asses off every single day - a full 8 & 1/2 hours a day.

they had to make sure they were up at the crack of dawn to attend the reading of the day text.

sweet tee

The GB are control freaks and anything they can do to belittle people and make them suffer for the sake of the so-called kingdumb makes them feel powerful. I know children who receive a $40 allowance every week. And here they have grown people living in poverty while providing free labor to produce books and mags that will be sold worldwide and caring for the grounds and staff including the high-and-mighty GB . How can they say this is not a cult? R&F JW'S will do ANYTHING THEY SAY - NO MATTER HOW F'ING RIDICULOUS IT IS!!!