You are very welcome in the forum Zil. So good to hear of a family escaping with all the assorted parts intact! (moms, dads, kids) I hope your son can work things out for himself. I think you will find lots of great support and encouragement here-maybe some things to help your boy out with. Thanks for encouraging us all by 'coming out' here. We need that!
JWdaughter
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Finally time to introduce myself!
by ZIL ini have been a loooong time lurker on this board.
i want to get in on the action now!!
i was a jw for nearly 25 years.
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Did you know anyone in the "truth" that was in an abusive relationship?
by The wanderer indid you know anyone in the "truth" that was in an abusive relationship?
this topic of discussion draws its inspiration from a prior thread.
about a woman's perspective regarding the watchtower society.. the organization maintained the ideal family life making your family life happy, happiness how to find it and.
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JWdaughter
My best friends mom was abused by her non-JW husband and put up with it because??? I have no idea.
A friend in the congregation (now OUT) was abused by her husband (who I also grew up with in the cong.) One of my ladies who had a book study with me was abused at least mentally and I think physically by her first husband(they divorced, both still 'in the truth', the last I knew). There were a lot of really nice and I think truly loving couples, but I was a kid and probably missed all kinds of things that were going on. I think abuse happens everywhere, but the problem with the WT org is they are more worried about how THEY look, than how the abused ones look! Its all about the organization. That is sad. They should be protecting the women, not encouraging them to stay and be hurt.
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Curiosity dictates a question like this...
by Juniper inhave any of you out there ever taken the "opposite route" and studied paganism or wicca?.
i know of some that practice that.
but i've been thinking about what a strange irony that would be, right?
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JWdaughter
I am exploring everything. I think I will take wisdom, kindness, love and generosity where I find it. I am not going to be a evangelist for anything. I think that most religion/faith/belief systems have some good to offer. I will take the good and leave the stupid/ridiculous/insane stuff alone.
Wicca is not the same as voodoo or Satanism( two things I will not explore, btw).
Does anybody else here feel kind of jealous of people who have a simple faith and never got hooked up with doctrine/theology to the extent that they felt compelled to talk and debate about it? Just simply going to a nice ordinary(are there really any???) church on Sunday, believing in God, being a nice person and not taking the rest of it so seriously? Or are those the people that join the JWs? I wish sometimes I was just a church on Sunday, and leave me alone kind of person-choosing how to believe about creation, womens rights, anything political w/o putting a bunch of religious hooha in the middle of it all, just a conscience of what is really intrinsically right and wrong and an openness to consider things that aren't necessarily right and wrong (religiously) for what they are, instead of putting them to some christian 'values test'.
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Frugal woman dies at 100, donates $35.6M
by Sunnygal41 infrugal woman dies at 100, donates $35.6mflorida native's fortune goes to local diabetes and cancer researchupdated: 8:27 a.m. et oct 18, 2006coral gables, fla. - a 100-year-old woman who quietly amassed a vast fortune before her death last year left $35.6 million to local diabetes and cancer research.. eugenia dodson donated two-thirds of the money to the university of miamis diabetes research institute, the largest gift in its 35-year history.
the rest goes to the universitys sylvester comprehensive cancer center.. she didnt want any recognition in her lifetime, so she directed her lawyer to keep it confidential, said dr. w. jarrard goodwin, director of the sylvester center.
i told her people would be grateful.
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JWdaughter
It is good to read of such unselfish generosity. I hope that the organizations so gifted use the money wisely. She did well-I hope they do too!
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Researching the WBTS is painful and shocking
by restrangled inafter lady liberty gave a link to the new re-examine site, i found some details that are so disturbing its boggling my mind.. first, the original presidents were voted in, but not one vote per person but for every $10.00 contributed you received a vote.
so those already in power and with much money had tremendous sway as to who got in and who didn't.
this little scheme was not stopped until 1944.. so when rutherford was "elected by a unanimous vote" we can assume it was mainly of his own doing based on money contributed.
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JWdaughter
I think there are instances where Russell referred to himself or the WT as a prophet or inspired )"We believe these are Gods dates not ours"), however he did not have the hubris and dishonesty of Rutherford in manipulating the business/congregations, etc. If Russells vision had held, it would have been a much smaller, if not extinct, organization.
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Does It Bother You That Some Posters Give Misinformation???
by minimus ini don't like the fact that at times, false information is disseminated here.
where's the "big announcement in october"???
or we hear that the blood issue will be changed or that something big is going to be happening at the next assembly.
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JWdaughter
yep, but none of them are doing so in the name of Jehovah-I don't think-unless it is the JWs, and I have already dealt with that disappointment.
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Blood Transfusion Question - Dogs
by Duncan indear everyone,.
there was a very interesting item on this morning's bbc breakfast news programme - to do with blood transfusions for dogs.
a new website has been set up, along with an appeal to owners to type and register their pets as potential donors, should the need arise.
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JWdaughter
OMG, that is so whacked. Even for JWs! Even JWs must know how truly whacked that is.
Shelly
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Mars bar post reminds me of another!
by 5thGeneration ini was yelled at once by a sister for buying the canadian beer 'sleemans' because apparantly it's founder john sleeman was an apostate.. trust me, you can't make this #$@& up!
lol.
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JWdaughter
I thought Albertsons (and Marriot-watch out at convention time!) were owned by Mormons (LDS). Never heard the JW theory.
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Anyone else do this in the morning?
by free2beme ini get up each morning and turn on the news, right as i get out of bed.
not because i want some news to start the day, but rather this is often been a major moment in my life.
i remember turning it on one morning and hearing about the first trade tower bombing, turning it on and hearing about the oklahoma city bombing, turning it on and seeing the trade towers burning (well, one of them, i watched the second plane hit live).
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JWdaughter
The other morning I looked in the mirror and it was pretty much a natural disaster. And Hawaii had an earthquake, N. Korea set off a nuke, the president is Israel is being accused of rape. . .isn't that bad enough for you? Oh, an Ken Lay is now innocent cause he died. What a world!
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Question
by Moomin inyou've been invited to stay on the island of fiji for 6 months.
your loved ones are not invited, only you are welcome, would you still go?
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JWdaughter
In 10 years when they are all grown up and the youngest is getting seriously annoying as a teenager. . .not now, I'd miss too much. Plus I am den mother!
Ok, I see that you really were not inviting me. . .oh, well, I got two weeks in Hawaii last spring. I shouldn't be greedy!
Shelly