Posts by Tish

i guess i have been leading a 'double life' as the jw's love to put it ; whilst still going to the meetings i was still reading things about the history of the borganization .

I can't help much as I am very confused myself, but being a regular Nottingham Assembly attender I used to always mock those "apostates" that always used to huddle around the river end of the ground trying to convert us!! Now I know they were trying to make us see the "light".

I think that most of us ex Jay Dubbs used to throw ourselves into the "truth" to make use feel better, but isn't it amazing that as soon as you don't do everything that elders call you "weak" "immature" etc.

Why don't you ask your elder why he disagrees with the society on the issue of the Jesus being mediator for just 144,000? as they stated in "Questions from Readers".

Luv

Tish

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hello to warrington and falkirk

by ena in

hello to all... i would like to hear from any ex jw from warrington where i lived until i was 13 then moved to falkirk scotland and would love to hear from anyone else who remembers me....god bless ena marsh / young [email protected]

Tish

Hi there, not from that far north, but in Peterborough, Cambs.

Welcom

Tish

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PROMISES with a CATCH!

by Blueblades in

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people are often willing to endure great sacrifices in order to obtain what they have been promised will be theirs in the future.the wt.society promises people that if they become faithful jw's.and endure to the very end,they will then live on a beautiful new earth.the pictures in the societies publications can be very attractive and eye-catching.but with every promise there is a catch.even if this promise were true ( and it is not),in order for you to have even a chance of obtaining entrance into this new earth you must sit through five boring meetings every week,spend at least ten hours every month in "field service"(that is going from door to door),be in complete submission to the vast control the society has over every part of your life, absent yourself from any family gatherings at holidays or birthdays, not be involved in competitive sports,hate everyone else in the world as being evil,and never question anything the society does---even if the society changes its doctrine to just the opposite of what it use to teach.worse yet ,the society never informs you that the new earth they promise is something which,to be realized,you must spend one thousand years in strenuously building it by manual labor.yes," promises with a catch",start out with an attractive bait attached to its hook.most people, including myself, do not realize or have not realized that, promises with a catch are very easy to get caught up with and very difficult to get out of.do you find this to be true?has it happened to you?for most on this board i know it has.i want to thank all of you for helping me and my own to come out from under the societies "promises with a catch".

blueblades

Tish

The trouble is you don't know you are into promises with a catch until the damage is done. I could never have seen the catch whilst in, but only now that I am out.

Tish

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Update on my little sister

by mamashel in

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for those of you who were so helpful in the hard time we were going through in my sister in laws case of abuse, i have some really good news.. she is 14 yrs old and her mother is a jw, totally active witness, her mother married the girls father after he served only 14 yrs of a 25 to life sentence for manslaughter.

he was released because the prison closed down and the others are overcrowded.

the mother married him, and after only 3 months of being out he started physically abusing the daughter(my hubby's sister).

Tish

Hi there,

I just wanted to say that I hope you and your family will now be happy. It does go to show that there is a God out there and that there is some justice in this world. I hope this man rots in jail.

Luv

Tish

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I'm 40 today----YIKES!!!

by BoozeRunner in

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well, here i am....the big 40!!!

hey, this aint so bad.. boozy

Tish

Oh no, Boozy don't you realise that anyone past the age of 21 having fun with alcohol look stupid to teenagers and look sooooo embarrassing!

Don't try too hard to get to your second childhood, the likelihood is if you are a male your still in your first.

From not such a 40 year old. So here's your birthday kiss from me

Luv

Tish

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Awake! Photographer "throws" zookee...

by Rado Vleugel in

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a zookeeper was serious hurt after an

awake!

photographer asked him to get in the cage with the lion for a picture.

Tish

Is this instead of throwing children to the lions? Which isn't so bad!?

Tish

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Today I had been DA

by Ginosko in

first of all, sorry for my bad english i'm from peru south america.

there's a lot to tell but i'm going in this time to be brief, because i'm very busy.. i had been an elder for almost 8 years and a jh for more than 22 years.. i'm a searcher of the truth from the 10 years old.

i grow as a catholic and got baptized as a jh at the age of 21.. in october of 2001 a jw friend ask me about the un&wt and bulgarian affair.

Tish

Welcome,

I think this just about sums everything up, the Elders have not got a clue sometimes why they have to do something! I thought that only the judicial committee were to make the decision to DA or DF. But you see if your dangerously close to exposing something they have to shut you up!

Luv

Tish

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What can a mother do??

by Tish in

i have just had a conversation with my son who is 8 years old and don't know what to do.

i'll start from the beginning so you understand.. as some may know my hubbie left me when i was still a witness for not believing the truth and also went off with another woman.

i then after a few months met a man i fell in love with instantly.

Tish

Thanx for all your responses, I'll try some of them out. I am hard on myself I know that, I hate at the moment not knowing the answers like I used to think I did. May be one day i will.

Luv to you all

Tish

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What can a mother do??

by Tish in

i have just had a conversation with my son who is 8 years old and don't know what to do.

i'll start from the beginning so you understand.. as some may know my hubbie left me when i was still a witness for not believing the truth and also went off with another woman.

i then after a few months met a man i fell in love with instantly.

Tish

I have just had a conversation with my son who is 8 years old and don't know what to do. I'll start from the beginning so you understand.

As some may know my hubbie left me when I was still a witness for not believing the truth and also went off with another woman. I then after a few months met a man I fell in love with instantly. Obviously I was D/F as I confessed openly to the elders. My son latched on to all I told him when I was a witness from a young age and loved the meetings because of all his friends. He has said to me if he had the choice that he would go back to the meetings tomorrow, even choosing it over Christmas. I know this is just because he misses he friends, but I now know how false it all is as I can see clearly now I'm out of the Borg. It screws me up so bad. He says he misses reading the bible, so I have started reading it to him at night, even though I am too screwed up to pray for the children at night, I often hear him doing so. I know this is all my own fault, but don't know what to do for the best. My daughter who is 6 thinks it is a blessing in disguise not having to go to the boring meetings that she doesn't have to sit still for.

Yours very confused

Tish