Welcome--so sorry about you and your family's suffering.
The JWs make me literally sick to my stomach when I read stories like yours, where they make abused people stay in those situations and do nothing about the abuser.
love2Bworldly
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i was born into a violent abusive JW family
by ania inthe abuser was my father, we were all (7 children) abused severely (including our mother) as a child i did not understand what exactly was going on but after many years of councelling and so-forth (my counceller tells me, my case is the most severe she has had in her 12 years as a counceller) i discovered that my father was (is) a sado-masichist.
he got sexual enjoyment from beating us all.
i already knew this to an extent i just never realised there was actually a name for what he got out of it.. after 20 odd years of this abuse, my mother had tried to go through the right channels (the elders, in several congregations we moved to etc) in order to get permission to take her children and live separate to her husband who was a constant threat to our very lives (he was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic & incrediably unpredictable) she was however told time and again that if she left her husband she and her unbaptised children (under 18) would most certainly lose out on everlasting life.
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A chilling 9/11 blog:
by SixofNine inthought i'd share this.
warning, it's not an easy read.
also, if you buy this guy's book (about his time as a marine in afghanistan and iraq), you won't be sorry.
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love2Bworldly
Very very sad, thanks for sharing.
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What musicians did JWs ban?
by love2Bworldly inok i don't mean to copycat the other thread on movies, but it got me thinking.
i remember throwing out all my beloved beatle albums because they did drugs.
elton john was bad because he was gay.
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love2Bworldly
Ok I don't mean to copycat the other thread on movies, but it got me thinking. I remember throwing out all my beloved Beatle albums because they did drugs. Elton John was bad because he was gay. The singer from Fleetwood Mac was a witch. Any others you can think of?
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Circuit Assembly
by frozen one ini chatted with relatives today and mentioned i might be in their area next weekend so i'd stop by for a visit.
turns out they will be at the circuit assembly, a 2 dayer.
seems like they just got back from the district todo.
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love2Bworldly
Thanks for sending me back in time about 25 years. Sounds like the same old boring BS. Man I sure don't miss sitting through those!!!
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Ever know of a great family movie, the Witnesses found demons or evil in?
by free2beme ini remember growing up, the witness children were often ones that were left to see all those g rated movies from disney.
yet even those at time, while accepted by just about every religion out there, were considered demonic.
for example, the following movies were said to show witchcraft and in or congregation we were encouraged to discard them and not own copies of them; sleeping beauty, snow white, the little mermaid, bed knobs and broomsticks, and fantasia.
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love2Bworldly
Bammer--I think Friends was considered too immoral. I loved that show, but my JW sister is very offended by it.
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Ever know of a great family movie, the Witnesses found demons or evil in?
by free2beme ini remember growing up, the witness children were often ones that were left to see all those g rated movies from disney.
yet even those at time, while accepted by just about every religion out there, were considered demonic.
for example, the following movies were said to show witchcraft and in or congregation we were encouraged to discard them and not own copies of them; sleeping beauty, snow white, the little mermaid, bed knobs and broomsticks, and fantasia.
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love2Bworldly
Devilsnok--I too used to secretly laugh at that stupid article in the Awake about ET. I could have sworn they also mentioned something about ET's finger being a phallic symbol--maybe it was another Question from Readers or something? Anyway, I really crack up now when I think about their absolute stupidity.
My best friend spent the night at my house so we could sneak out to the show and see Rocky, her elder dad said it was too violent. We were 16 years old for goodness sakes!
Oh and I remember my friend's mom was offended at Snow White cartoon or one of those cartoons because they said the word "Hell", not because of the magic.
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My 5th anniversary today... No More Meetings
by xjwms inthis is my official day... five years ago ... when i decided to no longer attend regular meetings.. so, .. my wife comes home from the meeting yesterday and says..."elder.______ says to say hi to you" ... as we were talking after the meeting.. (this is the guy who was at my house telling me i should go to another hall, as i was no longer welcome there.).
i wish i would have thought to say...you should have told him that : ... i was celebrating five years of not attending.!.
but i did'nt think of it till later last night.
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love2Bworldly
Wow--you have your 5th anniversay, same as 9/11!
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How do you feel about the name Jehovah?
by JWdaughter indo you use it anymore?
do you care?
do you cringe when you hear it?
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love2Bworldly
I don't use the name Jehovah for God anymore for the simple reason that I do not want to be associated in any way, shape or form with the JDumb religion.
I just call Him God or Lord.
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What Were You Doing When You Found Out about 9-11 5 Years Ago??
by mama1119 ineveryone has a story about what they were doing and the emotions that followed after the twin towers were hit...what is your story?
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love2Bworldly
I was actually driving to the airport that morning, supposed to go on a business trip. I watched the first tower get hit on the news and then had to leave for the airport; I listened to the news on the radio and heard about the other tower, but it didn't really hit me until the airport was shut down. I worked for an emergency agency at the time so we were the only state agency that stayed open and I had to go to the office. I did a lot of crying that week, thinking about all the lost lives and how I was trying to board a plane that morning. It really hit home with me, because I kept thinking it could have been my plane. I remember I called my kids' schools to let them know I was not on a plane and to tell my kids I was ok. I felt so emotional. Sometimes I still get a lump in my throat when I think about that day and how close I was to flying that day.
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If you have young ones being indoctrined - there is hope!
by Dawn inwhen i was df'd and made a decision not to return my son was only 4. my parents still did their part to indoctrinate him and he insisted on going to meetings with them quite often (i know - if i knew then what i know now i would have stopped that - but that's water under the bridge).
i spent many hours explaining to him why i did not believe it any longer, and having to suffer through him being upset with me for not going to meetings.
i just kept giving him information, explaining things to him - as much as i could in a non defensive way.. by the time he was 13-14 years old he barely went to meetings - mainly only when his grandparents guilted him into it.
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love2Bworldly
Just wanted to say Here Here. I am glad I left when my kids were little so they could have a normal childhood. My sister who is still a JW sends publications to my kids sometimes, and I have warned my kids all about the JWs and their lies. Basically I tell them not to hurt her feelings or say anything about me and my true feelings; but I show them how stupid the magazines are and tell them straight up that the JW information is NOT Biblical or Christian. Also I let them know that if they ever went to the JW church, they would be advised to shun their own mother and worldly friends and relatives. I think I have given them a lot of ammunition, and wish someone had warned me not to get involved with them when I was a teenager.