I remember you! I'm sorry to read of your wife's passing. Even when one was suffering and ill. that they are no longer suffering doesn't make us miss them any less.
I hope you continue to do well and stay in touch!
JWdaughter
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It's been a long time....
by Yizuman inlong time, no posts.... .
those that remember me, well, i'm doing ok, so far.. those that remember my wife, she passed away as of june 26th this year after a long battle with various health issues for the past 6 years.. thought i'd drop a note to say hello to everyone that knew me.. .
i hope everyone is well.. .
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That's it......
by whathehadas inthis might be my last post.
i've had quite a few things on my mind over the past few years, mainly my belief in god.
i've tried to move on from the jw past but that's really being foolish.
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JWdaughter
Hello! I just want to remind you that you are a lot of things-not just an ex JW. From your letters, it is as if you are ashamed and thinking that there needs to be some disclaimer pinned to your shirt or something. The world is probably not going to look at you sideways unless you demonstrate reasons why they should. For most people, faith is more important to them than their religion. And most people don't wear it on their sleeve. You won't be forever defined as a former JW unless you make that your banner.
Please get focused on your life-your future. A partner, children, a career that you love and activities that you enjoy. We can't just forget our strange pasts, but they can turn into an interesting anecdote or the subject of some kind of expression of art or an impetus in charity-our pasts are not and should not be the standout thing in our life. Now it is a new, fresh decision and choice, but part of your choice was to leave it behind-so start putting it behind you and move to the future that you want without constantly referring to that past.
What else should we know about you now or know about your future goals? That matters more than the past-no matter how is has harmed you until now-it is your PAST, so let it live there while you move forward while you find your normal.
You can't ignore that past-so therapy will help,but please remember, you got out so that you could leave the cult and live LIFE. You really need to wrap your head around that and stop letting JW.org(think) control and define you, even to this day. When you put it behind you and move forward, it becomes a smaller and smaller thing on the receeding horizon.
When the old stuff comes up and harms you, we are all here for you.
Kind regards,
Me
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Pedophile Elder Is Harassing Victims His Victims, What Can they do?
by BucketShopBill ini have proof the elder molested two victims, can i make brochures and blanket his home and neighbors with his confession?
he lives in a mexican area (gang bangers who hate chomos) with a high amount of hispanic families, will this help expose him?
the elders have warned me to keep my mouth shut about his pedophila but this pedophile keeps hanging around his victims and think's because he was saved by the statue of limitations, he's home free.
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JWdaughter
Harrassment and stalking NOW is not covered under the SOL (which is an ironic acronym) statutes. Encourage the victims to report such things. Don't get yourself into legal trouble for it, but that doesn't mean that you need to let a wrong go unpunished. You can also go to the local law enforceement office, describe the situation and ask their advice (or possibly the local prosecutor if they were involved in the SoL issue. They may be just as happy to get him for something.
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needing advice on neighbors and ...
by advice-on-neighbors inguns.
i am not jehovahs' witness, so thank you for allowing me this visit.
i have friends i respect deeply who are, and much apprecaite their faith and integrity.. however i have a problem with my jehovah witness neigbors shooting guns often, five days this week.
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JWdaughter
I am from WA state originally and guns are not generally glorified among JWs, but they are not any kind of forbidden, either.
My cousin/2nd cousin is a JW. His family is totally redneck. His dad was killed by his mom about 30 years ago along with daddy's mistress. All were JWs. Mom didn't even get charged because it came under the allowable honor killing of spouses in the US. Find one in the act in your marital bed and apparently, anything goes. So, 20 years later, he is hunting, and in an accident, killed his half brother (mom remarried, ain't that nice?).
All this is to say that guns are used among JWs. My family used to hunt and target shoot (in ok places to do those things, not our backyard). After my (first) cousin(A JW) killed himself during a hunting trip, it kind of put everyone off of hunting and they only ever went camping after that.
If the law(sheriff/police) itself won't help now, go to your local congressman and senator (or city council?) and tell them the problem. It might be time to change the law. If you know any lawyers, now is a good time for a friendly conversation. Shooting up neighborhoods is dangerous beyond the annoyance factor. The elders won't do you any good probably, but sure, try to even get one on the phone. Good luck with that.
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Sleep Aid Recommendations
by LV101 inin addition to the recent thread, "how to shut your mind down .
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" (which is excellent) but there was another thread about the same time i'm searching for and unable to locate.
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If someone already mentioned this, sorry. I read something once that said if you have nighttime sleep issues, then stop struggling to go to sleep(which is mentally wearing) and do something that makes you feel productive instead of desperate. Try to nap during the day if that works better. The general idea was that we all have different body rhythms and body clocks and we shouldn't fight them so much when they don't fit our 'schedule'.
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Sleep Aid Recommendations
by LV101 inin addition to the recent thread, "how to shut your mind down .
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JWdaughter
Tylenol PM. I really only resorted to it a few times,but it worked with no unpleasant aftereffects. I don't have any chronic or desperate kinds of issues that way. After surgery when I don't want the hardcore meds is when I am likely to use it for a few nights until I can sleep without it.
*Note, I am a minimal drug user in any case, and the Tylenol PM was only so I didn't have to resort to narcotic pain meds which have had hallucinatory effects on me that is worse than pain.
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The Watchtower 11/15/2014
by wifibandit inhttp://bayfiles.net/file/1jpu5/qhxxxl/w_e20141115.pdf.
select "premium download".
(thanks breakfast of champions).
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So, the lesson I got from the whole thing is, protect your ties with your life if you want to have special privileges during the great tribulation. Oh, and you might survive armageddon if you don't wear dresses to the meetings. Maybe-but those women pretty much looked like death would be preferable to going to the meetings.
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Is this the start of a change of policy regarding individual JWs preparing internet pages.
by joe134cd inthis is a quote of a quote taken from anthoney mathenia:.
" for organizations like the watchtower, absolute control of their message is paramount.
it will not even allow its own adherents to spread their good news online.
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JWdaughter
Network marketing is why they are (or will be) letting in the non jw.org sites in, looking independent of the WT, but mirroring it. Anyone in network marketing knows that its about PERSONAL relationships. If you can point someone to a "personal" congregation site, they are less likely to think they are getting sucked into a borg. So, it looks like it is from the Spring, Texas congregation then when people are looking at it, it seems more real, more personal, less CORPORATE. They will personalize them just enough to give the message that they want to-but it will really likely all morph into the same 'friendly, personal' site with links to the bigger site. Maybe elders could put up pictures of the congregants out in service or doing some (faked) community service, or the outside of the hall or inside during a meeting or a cong. picnic or something. But with no comments or anything thatis not corporately approved. Cause that is what it is all bout-the corporation.
All network marketers have personalized cookie cutter sites. It doesn't mean much in that world other than to expose folks to the product and give them a way to contact the marketer directly (or purchase from them).
They're JW.org ing the world now, but ultimately, I think congregataional sites linking to the corporate site will be the norm. Butthey will be strictly controlled.
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Publisher Statistics
by lurkernomore ini was watching a couple videos on youtube earlier and always like to peruse the comments at the bottom of the page.. i'm no sure if this has been discussed recently, but one indivdual made the claim that the societies numbers are massively over inflated, as he/she believes that they include inactive, df'd and da'd in their figures.. does anyone have any information to confirm this or i this just another assumption made without evidence?.
(also has anyone heard from witnessmyfury lately?
i had a pm chat with him a few days ago but not had a reply to my latest msgs.
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JWdaughter
My mom came in because a JW woman who went to their door when she was a baby told my grandma that she would take her to church a few times a week to give her a break with her new baby. When the next new baby came, she brought my uncle, also. So, my mom went on the JW "church bus" from infancy (she was about a year old). Her mom never joined but went to some meetings. Her brother did join. My mom brought ONE person in that she knows of. Her next door neighbor/best friend (not through d2d service unless coffee morning gossip counts). My mom has no JW kids ever baptised. One friend-who got her husband (now an elder) and one kid out of two (also an elder, I think) in. I don' know their stats, but my mom, as much as she hates it, has been goin out in service regularly since she was baptised (well after 30) No suckers other than the neighbor to her credit and the neighbor was baptised before my mom was, so she probably doesn't even get credit for it. One of her sisters eventually gave in to family pressure (myriad family crises) and joined, left, joined, left, joined (ad infinitum) and now is a pioneer () The one brother, was totally a mess before he died. So, not one JW kid (or ex-none of the ex spouses are still JW). Just my mom and her sister. there may be a few shirttail relatives that still go to memorials, but none joined as a result of my mom though some did join. They are a whole other kettle of fish and the one that is still in killed a spouse and the mistress and her son killed his brother 'in a hunting accident'.
So, don't know how much happy happy joy joy I ever saw in the JW world, but I sure never saw anyone really come in because of FS unless you count the spiritual kidnapping that basically happened to my mom as an infant.ff
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Outrageous propaganda. "Treat your disfellowshipped loved ones like they're dead, but without mourning them." NOV 2014 study Watchtower
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In Leviticus, God struck them dead-it wasn't their dad or anyone else who took it upon themselves to report it or be judge or jury. So MAYBE what some JW could comment on was that if God strikes down any of our (DF'd? Those guys were struck down while in good standing but had apparently done a wrong towards God) friends or relatives in a supernatural way, then we certainly should take that example and not mourn them. Because if you are seriously taking the Bible at face value, that is the face of it.