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  Question regarding my nephew

  by caz in

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  2. experiences

  i'm the aunty of 3 the boys i wrote about a few weeks ago who had lost their jw father to suicide.

  my (16 year old) nephew has come to live with me and he has been brought up as a jw all of his life, although not baptised yet.

  he hasn't made one mention of them or meetings at all since his father's death, ( 4 weeks ago) other than to tell me he was very disappointed in the lack of support shown his dad by the elders of his congregation during his lowest moments of depression and to the boys since.

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  Were the people I studied with just crack pots?

  by caz in

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  2. experiences

  i have been thinking about my late mother today, ( it would have been her b'day) and i am feeling a bit upset over the fact that i no longer have a beautiful old wooden table that she gave me before she passed away.

  this piece of furniture was one of the first items that she bought when we emmigrated from the uk to aus' and she had bought it 2nd hand.

  i loved that table but i got rid of it on the insistance of the 2 women i was studying with as they told me it had demons in it!

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  Can the Jehovah's Witnesses society be sued

  by caz in

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  2. experiences

  my sister who is the ex wife of the fellow i posted about,( re: commiting suicide) was a jw for 17 years being df'd 4 years ago.

  i have told her about this site and read to her the replies to the posts i have made and she has had a browse around but will not join yet as she does not have access to the internet, although she really loves the site.

  she and i were talking this morning and thru me she would like to ask; does anyone here think it would get her anywhere if she were to sue the watchtower society for years of guilt and mental stress she and her late ex husband have suffered?

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  A question about the 44,000?

  by caz in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i studied with the jw's on and off for a couple of years and i could never get my head around the belief that 44,000 ( special ones) would be going to heaven and how they themselves worked out that they would be one of them?

  i remember at easter one year i was invited to a 'special' meeting, i think they called it "the memorial" or something like that.

  anyway, they passed around a goblet of what looked like wine and a plate of broken crackers and everyone just passed it around the whole room, from one person to the next.

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  A funny way to stop the door knockers!

  by caz in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my last 2 posts have been so sad that i thought i would tell you about something that i remembered once when the jw"s came a calling.

  i guess it would have been funny if it wasn't so darn embarassing!

  when i was younger i was trying to 'get fit' and had taken to doing aerobics in my loungeroom.

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  Update on my post re: The suicide.

  by caz in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  firstly let me start by saying thankyou to all of you who replied to my post re: the suicide of my brother in law.

  i was amazed to come in today and find soooo many lovely messages of condolensce!

  i cannot possibly reply to all but each and everyone of you, i want you to know that your replies have made a huge impact on my sister.

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  I'm just numb! :-( I need to vent!

  by caz in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have just witnessed for myself one of the most hypocritical scenes ever before in my life!

  my sister's ex husband, ( father to 3 boys, 12, 15, 20 years) commited suicide a few days ago.

  he has been a jehova's witness all of his life and and also suffered from bi polar disorder for most of it also, particularly bad in the past 3 years.

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