Topics Started by Flindersgirl

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Sunday Program - My input
by Flindersgirl in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
hey all!

i have about 9 million emails and phone messages today..so that's interesting.

aside from having the intial reaction of how horrible i look on telly (which i always have) and my partner swatting me for saying it i was amused to see they only used one quote from what was a long interview.
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It is finished, or is it just beginning?
by IP_SEC in
1. jw
2. friends
well i am no longer one of jehovah's witnesses.

i had fully intentioned to disassociate myself from the platform today, but i decided that if i wanted a chance to save my marriage that i'd better tell my wife.

she immediately went to to one of the elders.
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Sunday Show Channel Nine in Australia/JW Abuse Program
by Flindersgirl in
1. jw
2. friends
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just to let everyone know that channel nine here in australia is once again featuring jehovah's witnesses and abuse on this coming sunday's program, this being sunday the 29th of may.

should be interesting.. cheers!
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The most condescending thing said to you by the (sm)elders.
by diamondblue1974 in
1. jw
2. experiences
i wasnt the most academic of children although i had some capability but i could read quite well by the time i was 4 years old at least for my age; i have always read as a child and still read now as an adult both professionally (research) and for pleasure.

i have always been able to write too...and pretty much advanced as well as my peers did in school...perhaps i am lucky, i certainly feel like i am when illiteracy amongst adults and children is rife at present...however.. i remember when i was 16 the wts in the uk were pushing through a scheme teaching those who were not as able to read and write...and an elder in the hall made a point of coming to me and suggesting that i should actually attend the training!!

!....i explained that i could read and write well enough and didnt need to be taught basic literacy... he said that i might learn something new and should respect jehovahs order of things and show appreciation...i did decline his kind offer rather abruptly....but wtf??
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Weird Logic
by loosie in
1. jw
2. experiences
let's hear the weirdest comment or suppossed logical thought you've ever heard a witness say.. i'll start: out in service once a sis and her son were in the same car group as i was.

he was having a nose bleed and told his mom that the blood was running down the back of his throat.

his mother said " well don't swallow it yo uknow how jehovah feels about blood don't you!".
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TMS
by loosie in
1. jw
2. experiences
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does anyone have some good excuses for getting out of giving talks in the theocratic ministry school?
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The JWs worst aspects for you are?
by greendawn in
1. watchtower
2. bible
which jw doctrines, collective personality traits and general history do you find to be the most destructive or disagreeable?

i personally found the doctrine of the other sheep which makes the christ inaccesible to most jws, the devilishly complicated moral code, and the hideously totalitarian behaviour of their leadership to be the worst things on a long list that i've prepared regarding what's unacceptable to me in that society.

i remember when i was arguing with the elders about the fds and their claim to total spiritual supremacy and they were telling me that the idea of democracy departs completely from their way of thinking, here they have a theocracy and that even "talking about the right things at the wrong time" is basically a crime in other words sit and wait for the fds to reveal it at the so called right time, and i should accept things as they are and not as i want them to be otherwise i get thrown out.
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what did u do?
by kittyeatzjdubs in
1. jw
2. experiences
hey guys!

i don't know if this has been discussed before.

if it has, just give me 20 lashes with a wet noodle.
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Can it be true?
by WA Boy in
1. jw
2. experiences
i had to stop crying so i could write this and if you saw me you wouldn't think i would be the type to cry!

i am a 35 year old man from western australia....i should be tough....or so they say.

i have never posted anything before so excuse my fractured writing.
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how can you stay?
by zaphod in
1. jw
2. experiences
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speaking as someone who believed it all right up until about a year after i was df'd i just cannot understand the reasoning of people who don't go out on field service, don't go to meetings, don't participate or believe and still stay in the organisation.. i know that it is hard to leave, it's made to be hard, but some of the postings on this site make me think that it must be harder still living a lie and keeping up the pretense.. if you don't believe, why would you want to conform to all the petty rules and subject yourself to men that you don't believe have any authority.. i really do hope that as soon as possible you can all take a deep breath and finally be true to yourself.. zaphod