i read and lurk mostly around here but i sure could use some help.
a couple of really terrible things happened to me and my family recently.. i would like to talk about it but i am afraid to reveal details because i have been attending meetings again to help someone dear to me.
but, i am having such a hard time handling my emotions, i just don't know what to do with them anymore.
Hi Karly I understand your fear of being found out.
I am from Australia and had those same fears initially. I have faded from the organisation and I was so scared of the repercussions of being found out.
We are here to help. Feel free to share with us. Or PM those you feel comfortable with. We understand your background and that alone can help a lot.
I hope you are okay you sound distressed and I am concerned for you.
Please let us know how you are going.
Miss Peaches
like the song says... i took to heart the statements that several of you made in one of my threads a week or so ago about being free.
its a long journey but i think i've made an important step.
i am tasting bits of freedom and its making me feel very good.
3. Going to a game boad convention weekend after next.
I love board games.. unfortunately the only one I'm any good at is the Game of Life... I challenge you to a game JoelBear! You won't beat me!!!
Great to hear your on the up... Remember we love to hear these good things coming from you. Here for you in sunshine and in darkness
(((Joelbear)))
actually married.
why hide it.
yall were beginning to figure it out anyway.
In the short amount of time I've been a JWD member, I have noticed that Def'd can be extremely rude and unkind.; I've also notice that Hibiscus, while often times is caring and has great things to say, can at times be equally rude and unkind and cutting and I've noticed you both like to pick on anyone that questions or differs with your opinion......Mrs. J, I don't know what problems you might have, as alluded to by Hibiscus, but I have found you nothing but kind, humorous and considerate of other's feelings, even when the discussions have been heated and at times offensive. I for one have enjoyed bantering back and forth with you and always look at any thread you've started or post on as I enjoy your opinions and your take on different subjects.
Carol I agree. I have found Mrs Jones contributes apt replies. Unfortunately some posters take personal offence when someone has a different opinion to them. Personally I enjoy diversity and look forward to reading others perspecitves. Keep posting Mrs Jones. I for one enjoy what you have to say.
did you leave your sense of humors behind as well?
When I left the Jehovah's Witness religon my sense of humour was allowed to shine. After years of being supressed and people expecting me to be quiet it was a delight for me to have people wanting to hear what i have to say and laughing at my little quirks and jokes...
hey y'all,.
i posted a few months back that my first novel, "what a sista should do" had been published and is now available in stores.
my very first booksigning was in june at a well known bookstore in our area.
Hey Tiffany
Thanx for posting that experience. I love it how the elders choose to involve your family just because they hold a grudge about someone. Good on your Grandmother for choosing to stand up to them. I hope they don't treat her badly.
Glad to read your little story and see how you have come out shining once fading from the JW's. I'm a fader too and hope to shine as well!
Miss Peaches.
there are so many to choose from over the net.
i usually use the basic wallpapers that windows xp provide.. i love using "azul" wallpaper to remind me of the summer, since our summers don't last long.. .
this time of year i turn to the "autumn" wallpaper with the nice colored leaves.. .
I have my cute little flat eric on my desktop!
I can see your avatar Joel! Nice sunnies...!
for those born into the wts, do you ever feel resentment towards your folks for forcing this upon you?
i went through a stage of strong resentment and anger, but no longer feel this way.
i think they sincerely believed they were acting in my best interests.
I don't resent my mother for dragging me up in that religon. The only negative feeling I have is that she is still trapped in it and I wish I could free her.
However the other day I was thinking about things and experienced feelings of anger towards my father who was never a JW. Surely he could see what an awful lacking childhood we were going through, why didn't he ever put his foot down? Why did he let her bring us up in that religion?
for those born into the wts, do you ever feel resentment towards your folks for forcing this upon you?
i went through a stage of strong resentment and anger, but no longer feel this way.
i think they sincerely believed they were acting in my best interests.
I don't resent my mother for dragging me up in that religon. The only negative feeling I have is that she is still trapped in it and I wish I could free her.
However the other day I was thinking about things and experienced feelings of anger towards my father who was never a JW. Surely he could see what an awful lacking childhood we were going through, why didn't he ever put his foot down? Why did he let her bring us up in that religion?
iam confused about the requirement for field service time.
what are the scriptures that reference a preaching work that will carried out by ordinary people.
is there scriptural backing?
Not really. Jgnat i have come to see that you really do not have a grasp on the scriptures. You say alot of what you think it means rather than what the bible says it means.You think you know it all already so no one can get anywhere with you. You refuse to except it when you are wrong. That is called haughty. Haughty people are not teachable.
This is a favourite M.O.'s. Taking delight in belittling others and holding grudges against people for actually speaking what is on their minds. I guess anyone refusing to accept what other people are trying to tell you and teach you means you are not teachable and by the above defintion haughty.
