sooo i was a ministerial servant (omg a ministerial servant on this site!?
you apostate!!!
) yea yea i just wanted to see what other people think and whatever, coz i had a few questions myself, (butttt its not like i was about to start throwing them with rocks and stuff, they arent that bad).
Don't feel so bad about this situation .
You said yourself you have a sack full of questions ....taking time to examine what the true answers are to those questions are what you should be concerned with ,take this time to educate yourself .
Why would you want to be in a position of authority as a MS influencing others when you are not 100% sure yourself ? Sorry ,but it makes you sound immature and only concerned with outside appearances
i received the following email today at my website, www.watchtowerdocuments.com.
please help this loving uncle with some advice:.
hello, i dont know if anyone can help me with this but i thought i would give it a shot.
Maybe the Uncle should fien interest by attending studies with her ,and bringing up thoughtful questions she may not be mature enough to come up with yet. Attend meetings with her and make observations she may not be seeing . Since her parents don't seem as plugged in she is lucky to have an Uncle that cares .
I could not say it better than Nugget has already stated .....teach her some critical thinking skills through conversations . Avoid attacking the JW religion ,but bring up thinking type questions . Help her to think ahead (something most young teens don't do well )
we all know how jw brag about their strong internal love.
all are treated equal no matter rank, color, money, status etc.
is this really true?
Growing up in a 'divided' household puts you on the bottom of the totem pole ,so to speak, in the congregation. As a child we were NEVER invited to other Witnesses homes ,but my Mother was asked continually to help out single sisters ,or older elderly ones ,and she ALWAYS did .
When I married another Witness I got to see what it was like to be accepted ,because of his family we had many invitations to others homes ect . However after a few yrs once my husband refused to reach out to become a MS those invites evaporated . Even his own step brother stopped associating with us, in his words because 'we did not seek spiritual goals' like he and his wife did . So even though we were regular publishers ,always attended all meetings, assemblies and volunteered for Quick builds we just were not spiritual enough for .them
on monday i'm going to register to vote since i'm able to do so when i renew my drivers license.
i'm actually kind of excited since i never did register because of they way i was brought up.. how many of you are registered to vote?.
One of the first things i did after fading (absolute first thing was tearing up my blood card ) . The first time I voted was the Presidential election ,it felt good . YES I CAN
hi everyone, i would like to introduce myself and tell my story.
from the standpoint of being one of jehovahs witnesses, my whole family is deeply involved as i was the 5th generation of witness and any children that my brothers or sister have will be the sixth generation.
as some of my brothers and sisters are grandparents, i guess that makes their grandchildren a potential 7th generation.
WELCOME JAKE , I so appreciated your bio-post . My husband and I left six yrs ago.......I could relate to many of the things you experienced . I plan on saving your story to share with my sons ,because you put the JW experience into words better than I could ever do .Thankfully all my kids have faded too ,but I don't think they have ever looked deeply into why the JW religion is so wrong and distructive .
Thank you so much for sharing .
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Is it possible to have your Aunt's number blocked from your phone ? You do not need that kind of discouragement . The first year is the hardest ,be patient ,and keep dong what you are doing . Just maintain with your Mom that you are busy working ect...
Do not be afraid to stand up for what is best for YOU !!! You are now an adult on your own ,figure out what you really need and want personally (not what others impose upon you ) and get busy doing those things that matter to you .
All the best to you !
i am very proud that we have been together for 10 years!
being raised a jw, it was always hard for me to find a long term relationship.
most people that i met weren't interested in anything long term, and each time one ended, it left me feeling like i would never find someone who shared the same feelings.
Congratulations OhioGuy & Dave ,best wishes for many more wonderful years !
i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.
i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.
maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.
I am so very sorry for the loss of your son .
I can not imagine the pain you and your family are feeling today .......I wish strength for you ,and the ability to carry on , know that you are not alone .
((((Truman))))
"my dream has come true" i have a bullshite story in the latest watchtower..
Funny CoCo I was thinking the very same thing ,What the heck is she wearing ???
i, like most born ins grew up being taught that everyone who was not a jw was inherently wicked, that they were dishonest, unloving, selfish, bad parents who don't care about their children, and also sad empty people with no direction in life.. as i grew older i started to see that this wasn't always true with every one, that what i was taught wasn't equating with what i was seeing.. by high school i could see that my friends at school, (yes worldly friends eek!
) we're actually decent people with morals, they may have engaged in a little fornication here and there but not promiscuously, and they were good honest people, with goals and parents that cared for them.. but after high school i was phsycologicaly bullied into ceasing contact with my friends altogether, leaving me with little contact with outside world, and the cult mentality had more room to grow, not fully, but enough to unconsciously not fully trust 'worldly' people.. however, once i'd left the org and began to meet people again, i was amazed at actually how good, honest, loving, kind, and caring many people can be!
who love their spouses and children and try their very best to be good parents and partners.
Same experience here ... exactly the same . Sorry to say it took me soooo very long to realize the lies I had been led to believe . Once you are out and stop filling your head with Witness nonsense you begin to 'really' see and appreciate the people around you .
