im new to this forum, i dont know where else to post my story, sorry if im wrong for posting this on this subject.
as i begin to wake up from being in the org i thought id introduce myself to this forum with how i was raised in the org..., ive been beginning to look at everyones stories from being raised as one and how they left, and i find comfort in knowing im not alone, so maybe another young person like me will find the same comfort reading my story.
as you can tell by my username, i am posting this on an anonymous account because of fear of what the elders would do to me and my parents if they found out who i was.
ANON1028:
It’s so heartbreaking to read stories like yours that reveal just how abusive and controlling the JW religion is for somebody raised in it!..Good that you let the world know.
I know of two cases where JWs compelled minor teenage children to leave the home because they didn’t want the religion.. Fortunately, they turned out okay and are happy adults.
Best of Luck to you.
PANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS:
Of course there are JW related things, but I agree the forum has changed somewhat.
Even though I generally loathe politics and the things that are going on in the country and the world...I sometimes have to jump in and say what I feel about things when I see a topic that sets me off because of BS being spouted!!!
so as things are now opening up and food never ran out, i've been dipping into our emergency supplies.
they say that spam doesn't have a shelf-life, it has a half-life, but i kind of wanted to see if it was like i remembered as a kid.. as it turns out spam fritters are as delicious as i remember, probably better ('cause i did fancy ones).
i used this recipe and they were glorious.
SIMON:
I never had Spam but I am tempted to try it after seeing this and a commercial on TV which made me hungry.
Never tried baked beans on toast.
i would think that exjws would exercise more critical thinking than not.
now we are thrust in this “ world” and take sides on social issues and politics.. just because our government leaders say something it doesn’t mean it’s right.
just because the majority of the news media tells us how we should think, it doesn’t mean we have to follow.
MINIMUS:
What I see and experience in the world shapes my opinions - and certainly Not what anybody else says or thinks.
FINKELSTEIN:
You would THINK that ex-JWs would have inherently sharpened skills identifying bullshit and disingenuous propaganda, etc.
I think perhaps maybe if the ex-JW is a little older and/or not raised in the religion, although there are exceptions to this.
I was not raised in the religion and left as an older working person in my 40s. Whereas some young JW who is born-in and wants Out doesn’t even know who they are or how the world works!..If anything, I think they would be most vulnerable to whatever - so I think it depends on who the ex-JW is.
the point of the letter was how many are feeling disappointed these days.. no circuit assembly, convention, how we can't fellowship at the k.h.
disappointed we might have had a love one die, etc etc.
he then goes on to write about how disappointed jehovah must have felt when his first human creation rebelled.
HOSER:
I wouldn’t be surprised if some Witnesses are happy they don’t have to go to meetings. Of course, they aren’t going to verbalize this to anybody outside their home.
For born-ins, this is a taste of freedom they never had. For those who came into the religion as an adult, these few months away from the tedium of meetings may have been a wake up call and reminder of what life was like back in the ‘normal’ days before they got suckered into the religion.
The religion probably knows they are losing their grip of control so they need these letters and guilt-trip reminders to try and hold on to people.
i don't remember disfellowshippings happening very often and announcements about being re instated but i think i remember that we used to clap hands if someone came back after being disfellowshipped.
but then i think clapping wasn't allowed.
am i correct in my recollections?.
RUB A DUB:
I also saw a few instances of brothers who divorced their wives and came back with a younger and prettier wife.
This was the Witness recipe of ‘how to do it’. A man wants what he wants and let everybody’s opinion be damned.
after further review and thought, i really don't see how removing a monument or statue that may be truly offensive to a large group of people is in some way rewriting history.. i think of germany or other parts of europe.
you don't see swastikas on buildings or statues of hitler or mussolini or other upper level generals in public.
would it be good for a person (think jewish) to drive around a city and see hitler in a public park, even though it is "historical?
WASANELDER:
The confederate statues belong in a museum. They are part of a bygone era and are hurtful to some people.
But, I’m sure many people will get the same ‘satisfaction’ as you say when the birds shit on whatever politically-correct monstrosity that will be erected in the place of the old statues!
it's wrong that thing in seattle where protesters established an ' autonomous zone ' .
police shouldn't have police - free zones.. the left is taking some risks here....russian revolution implemented more than a hundred years ago the so called soviets or "councils of workmen's and soldier's deputies".
what are they gonna do when 'autonomous zones ' pop elsewhere?.
MIKEFLOOD:
If this shit pops up elsewhere - then force is going to have to be used at some point.
This is being avoided up until now. A lot of restraint is being shown!..But, it may reach a point where there is nothing left to do to protect the rest of the population from this chaos.. If local politicians will NOT act then the president should step in and do what he has to do (and I sure wish he would) regardless of what anybody thinks. He probably would not care if he got re-elected or not!
waterhead sharpton is a racist, conman and idiot who can hardly speak.
but pmsnbc and other groups push him off as some kind or intellectual good guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eorpmrhai3e.
PHOENIXRISING:
It would be sad if the left gets in...There are people that would cut off their nose to spite their face rather than vote otherwise.
They think things will get better but I don’t think so. The poor slobs will still be poor. Everybody’s going to need bars on their windows. God help us all.
as the altleftist idiots burn books, ban speech and now ban movies that does not conform to their twisted thinking never forget, those that start by burning books end up burning bodies.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/business/media/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max.html.
PHOENIXRISING:
I see your point.
I certainly do not believe in anything being defaced, but people in black areas are offended by anything that may seem to them to show sympathy for the old south. (I know it may seem unfair but the actions we are seeing are not rational.)..If anything, the poor statue should be preserved somewhere in a museum where it cannot be defaced.
I also agree that this attitude is totally out of hand and the left are showing themselves to be lawless animals who want chaos. They want to take all other statues down..I’m curious as to what ugliness they’d like to put in its/their places.. A hammer and sickle?
..I just read that a statue of Christopher Columbus was beheaded. I have heard all the noise by people saying Columbus Day for Italian Americans should be abolished. Meanwhile, do all these ignorant protesters know that Columbus was in service to Queen Isabella of Spain?
