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do you have a person, thats very close to you that you can reveal almost anything, your joys pains, just about anything to?.
or, do you keep all your worries inside and deal with every emotion you have by yourself?.
Nobody.
I open up more on this board than I do to anyone in real life......
I don't know anyone else who can handle the things I have learned about the org. Even all of my inactive and df'd friends still won't speak against the society. I don't want to mess with the only group of friends I have, so I keep quiet.
i only have one that comes to mind.
a sister was visiting our hall from another congregation and was sitting in the back of the hall.
she raised her hand to answer a question, but only had one finger in the air.
I have another one. I fell asleep during the last prayer at a bookstudy. When everybody said "amen" it woke me up and I started clapping. Didn't live that one down for a long time.
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our kingdom ministry june, 2004 p. 3 announcements .
"in order to ensure the security of the kingdom hall, the last person to leave the building should lock the door.
What to do when you leave............Jump High and Click Your Heels!!!
my sister and i have speculated for quite some time about the possible motives of the gb and all others in charge of the wtbs, i.e., their raison d'etre, so to speak.
after finding out about some of the history of the wtbs and the supposed f&ds, i realized that they weren't god's spokepeople on earth.
but, then, what's their motive for all the work they're doing in the organization?
I think also that they really believe they are chosen by God and directed by angels. Money is just one of the most powerful drugs out there. Power is usually ranked just as high or higher than money. Control is also on the level with the other two. Sort of a motivational trinity.
I think they are drunk with the thought of being the mediator between six million people and God. That belief allows them to commit any kind of atrocity in the name of "righteousness". They can even control families, splitting them right down the middle. It's the kind of wacked out rush that has moved people all through history to do insane, violent things.
today at work i was handed an article to read from the science and technology section of nature reviews:.
human dignity: a guide to policy making in the biotechnology era?
by timothy caulfiend and roger brownsword.
Dignity is something I never felt I had as a witness. Dignity is also something that I feel the witnesses are trying to keep me from having if I stay away from them.
i only have one that comes to mind.
a sister was visiting our hall from another congregation and was sitting in the back of the hall.
she raised her hand to answer a question, but only had one finger in the air.
One time at bookstudy, one boy about 19 was reading and we were studying the family book. He read this paragraph:
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Really, the explaining of sex need not be as difficult as many parents imagine. Children become aware of their bodies very early, discovering the various parts. You name them for the child: hands, feet, nose, stomach, buttocks, penis, vulva. The little child is not embarrassed, unless you suddenly change and become "hush-hush" about the genital parts. What appalls parents is that they think they are going to have to explain everything, once the questioning starts. Actually, the questions come piecemeal, as the child reaches different stages of his development. As different stages are reached, you need only supply the proper vocabulary and very simple, general explanations.
After he read "vulva", he said, "Whatever that is?!" and kept reading. The whole bookstudy erupted into uncontrolled laughter. The person laughing the hardest was his mom!
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do anyone remember the new policy of disassociates in relation to contact with familiy member, as mentioned in km 2005 ?
i don't recall the month.
I was just having a beer last night with one of my friends who is df'd. It came to my attention that he didn't even know about the new announcement. He laughed when I told him that they said "Atypical's buddy is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses". He thought he got off pretty good. I laughed at the fact that he was so positive about it.
my family and i stopped being active witnesses some 3 and a half years ago.
we did the fade thing, thus we are neither das nor df.
before we stopped, i served as an elder.
I'm happy for you. It sounds like your sister has decided to be an individual, and to accept you as such also. If only we could all have the same experience.
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hello to all i am new here, well as a member anyway, i have been browsing the posts now and then for a good 4 years!
thought id thank you all for your help since i left, i think that there are so many of us that you have all helped and never hear from.. all of my family are still in the org and i could not have gotten through the initial couple of years of leaving without the support that i have found here, even if it did not involve direct communication with you all.. thank you!
Welcome. Glad you decided to post.
when i quoted from it after my dad said elders aren't judges, my dad said, "where did you get that book?
from another post .
when a fellow elder once said on a body of elders meeting - the co shot him down in flames.
That's my biggest argument when I talk to my family about disfellowshipping. How can we say elders are imperfect and not blame them when they screw up, and at the same time allow them to judge people, sentencing them to death in effect? We are told all the time that only Jehovah can read the heart, and then we watch as elders sit in a closed session and decide the fate of people's lives. They are given so much lee-way that the regular jw is not even allowed to know the slightest detail of a judicial committee meeting.
