Posts by Cordelia

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Has the new Watchtower arrangement been announced in the UK yet?

by Gill in

has the new watchtower arrangement been announced in the united kingdom yet?.

just wondering if my family are up with the 'new light' yet!.

Cordelia

just got announced at mine tonight. everyone very excited, the brother explained it was because in our study articles we want to get to the meat, and we cant because they have to print it for the public too, so when they use terms like pioneer and remant they have to explain it so how blessed are we that now we dont have to bother explaining it to anyone,

or changing our presention in the middle of the month now we can say the same thing the whole month thru!! and just place the public copy

it still astounds me how everyone is so taken in all the time and really thinks it is God that is deciding this!!!!!

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My boyfriend is a JW and we want to get married but I want him to get OUT

by blueday in

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i'm am so heart broken to see my boyfriend with so many internal strugles.

he is a good man, a good god fearing man and this is why it has been so difficult for him to leave the jw's religion.

we love each other so much and we want to be married but he fears the consequences of marring somebody who is not a jw.

Cordelia

welcome

I just wondered everyone seems to be assuming that he wants to continue being a witness but if he is willing to marry you is he willing to stop going,

he doesnt have to maybe you can make it work, yes of course you'd be better off without a guy leaving you every tues thurs and sundays but if you love him maybe you can put up with that.

I nearly did the same thing i thought our love would conquer anything I was the witness and he wasnt and in my mind i thought i'd go sometimes keep the family slightly happy. marry him so i didnt get dfed and things would be ok.

i didnt do it i got dfed and acted like an idiot coz of the pressure and we spilt up now!!

but i think you just need to talk to him properly find out what he is planning to do. maybe he doesnt believe it anymore and wants a life with you just doing the minium that is needed so he doesnt get dfed

basically talk to him and then make your decision

you can email me on [email protected] if you want x

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Will the WTBTS come to an end?

by pierogi in

cults come and go so do you think the wtbts will eventually come to an end?

i think about this sometimes and i wonder if i will live to see it.

the reason why i want it to end is because i don't like the administration.

Cordelia

I don't reckon it will ever die out completely,

these too many people who genuinely believe they are worshiping jehovah by being loyal to it!

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When JW parents shun their df'd children...and grandchildren

by Paisley in

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this seems the epitome of "lacking natural affection".

can you imagine being a parent and not being interested in how your own children are doing?

and what about carrying it even further, having nothing to do with your grandchildren, just because the parents are disfellowshipped?

Cordelia

are you joking?? how can you not know of hardly any??

I for one have lost my entire family (or if one member speaks these imense guilt to be gone thru) and know many more the same!

I never realised their were ones who spoke to their dfed ones, wish they'd speak to my family and show them how to be humane!

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The Jah Jireh homes are a nice little earner

by Gill in

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why are the jah jireh homes such a nice little earner at a time when retirement homes are struggling so badly in the uk?.

http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/showcharity.asp?remchar=&chyno=1062023.

any ideas?

Cordelia

God what a thread!

I worked in two and lived kinda running one!!! yes eddie delaney does totally make a profit in fact he has been recently 'removed' of being an elder (guess his fraud finally caught up with him!)

It ruined some stuff in my family that i cant go into but boy them homes make me mad,

The nursing one i know well is a joke it is nursing not residental and so the really ill go there i mean people who need proper care, and yet the only requirement for working there is to be in good standing!!!!! so yes these poor old dears are not getting half the care they deserve and should recieve,

one has recently had to close!!! in fact just last week,

and another piont i worked nights sometimes and you get the same as day pay and that wasnt even the minium for a while, and oh yes you SHOULD miss the convention and yet when you go to the conventions you see 'examples' of people who gave up their jobs coz they weren't allowed time off!!!

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Evaluating Raymond Franz

by greendawn in

what do you think of ray(mond) franz?

i have seen here some people critisise him as not being a really heartfelt opponent of the wts, but my view is that he was quite honest about his expressed motives against the cult.

with his revelations he gave a lot of momentum to the ex jw movement (the apostate organisation according to the jws) and offered valuable assistance to those seeking to shake off the ideological and social dependance on the oppressive cult.

Cordelia

I think his book is good in fact its really good, but what worries me is what witnesses have said to me that its just an update of the watchtower slave one

I'd love to believe everything he said is true and the whole truth guess i'm still abit ingrained i hate the wt etc i just want to know that what i'm basing losing my family on (i.e. in part reading his book) is completely for real

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when youve left the witnesses you ever think?

by Cordelia in

that every guy just wants you for sex??.

thats there no decent guys out there coz they 'only exist in the truth'.

only ask coz thought i'd found the one, and (partly coz of my irractic behavior) we have finished) tho i dont think he was the one anyway i drove everywhere paid for most things, he lives at home etc..... so why do i feel so upset?

Cordelia

mrsmegmomma how long it take to find him then??

mrs jones thought they all wanted it!

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when youve left the witnesses you ever think?

by Cordelia in

that every guy just wants you for sex??.

thats there no decent guys out there coz they 'only exist in the truth'.

only ask coz thought i'd found the one, and (partly coz of my irractic behavior) we have finished) tho i dont think he was the one anyway i drove everywhere paid for most things, he lives at home etc..... so why do i feel so upset?

Cordelia

that every guy just wants you for sex??

thats there no decent guys out there coz they 'only exist in the truth'

only ask coz thought i'd found the one, and (partly coz of my irractic behavior) we have finished) tho i dont think he was the one anyway I drove everywhere paid for most things, he lives at home etc....

so why do i feel so upset? i know its coz as a witness you're brought up to think the're are no 'normal' or 'decent' guys in the world.

so is there?

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