ok i came from a very crazy family.
lots of abuse.
my dad exposed himself to me from the age of three until i left home at 18. my dad did lots of gross things but that is not the jest of this post.. one of the things my dad did that i clearly remember was exposing himself in the elevator at work to woman twice and he almost got fired for it.
It really doesn't surprise me what the elder said to you. They are taught to protect the org. at all costs. I live in the UK where the policy is to report it to the police.
I don't see that scriptually it matters if you live in a non reporting state. It is always going to be wrong to cover up serious sins or crime in a congregation.
I totally agree with the others, get out and seperate yourself from these people. It is clearly not a religion that God approves of.
has wt ever published a number of how many they expect to die at armageddon?.
will it bring the population down to the georgia guidestones advice for a manageable level?.
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To my knowledge they have never said that. Just that it will be the vast majority of mankind. Seeing that they expect the big A any day now, and that you have to be under the shelter of the WT, then JWs would expect about 7 billion to slaughtered.
my husband has been so upset at her ignoring him in the street lately (he was disfellowshipped 15 years ago but , she has only just started ignoring him ,shes 19 and about to get married ) i know she must find it hard to start ignoring him all of a sudden and wonder if its her future husband to be influencing her already or just the fact that she feels "guilty"for talking to her own brother , she walked past with her fiance and they both looked at my husband but looked away when he spotted them , so he can not even be introduced to his future brother in law , like normal people .
my husband approached his parents about it and they said it is "her decision" but he is welcome to start coming to their home again as they miss our daughter since he was banned from the home a year ago .i wrote to his sister pointing out there are other girls like her who think they are doing gods will by ignoring relatives who have been disfellowshipped from the "one true religion" and these girls went on to write books when they themselves were eventually disfellowshipped also , escape by carrolyn jessop was one book and another was not without my sister by christina jones , they were brought up in the flds and children of god religion s that they thought were the "truth" and i hope she reads these books as she will be amazed at the similarities to the jw religion .
i told her her brother would welcome her with welcome arms if she ever wants to be in his life again , its so sad , i feel helpless ..
I can just about go along with having no contact with someone who is totally anti God and lives a life of sex and drugs etc. But there are very few ex witnesses in that category. The vast majority either before or after disfellowshipping realised the falseness of the Watchtower org, and had no wish to stay in it any longer. I guess we just have to remember the reason why the society keeps to this unchristian way.
It is simply because that it scares the pants off them that current witnesses will start talking to ex members and leave the org. themselves.
we haven't been to a meeting or turned in a field service report for 2 months, so we don't know where our cong's memorial will be held this year.
we have 3 options.
either 1)we attend a meeting before the memorial and get the info, 2) we call one of the elders and get the info or 3) we wait to see if they contact us and if they don't we just miss for the first time ever.
I would agree with option 3.
You may get a visit afterwards. You don't have to invite them in, just say you have some personel things to sort out.
If you want to carry on fading the important thing is not to give them any ammunition for a judicial committee. Just keep everything vague and non commital. Good Luck
for a period of time when i was a jw, i lived with a family of jws.
they had 2 young children under 12. the family were good friends with another jw family who had 3 children under 12. .
so were talking about 5 kids under 12, this will be important later.. .
You were totally right in what you said. These women should know what the bible says about obeying the law. It certainly does not surprise me though. Many JWs don't care about the law. My JW son never keeps to the speed limit.
Apart from that I'm sure in Australia they would have thrown the book at you if you had got caught.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/03/10/25418.htm.
imo, this jerk doesn't have to go door to door.
he could get his time in by informal witnessing.
I think this case is a little different to what we have seen among some witnesses over the last few years.
He made a mistake and immediately apparantly gave himself up.
The only thing I would say, is that the org. do not demand anybody HAS to go out on the doors twice a week.
I agree it is not ideal but there are many witnesses that go from door to door regularly that are probably a lot worse than him.
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to the elders of the maitland congregation and governing body of the watchtower tract.
and bible society,.
They will certainly read the main letter and it is written well enough to make anyone think about their own position.
The second letter to is well written and even if it is not read by the elders it has been read by people on this forum so far 209 times.
Well done for having the courage to do this and yeh start living your life the way it should be led.
I wish you well
here is a link:.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_oldest_american.
as she was 114, this would have made her what, approx 8 in the year 1914?
I know a lady who was 111 on Sunday. in U K. Amazing how some can keep going.
As far as the WT society goes it doesn't matter any more if the old ones do die off as the generation teaching doesn't apply any more to those seeing 1914
...the whole of canada hooked up by phone.. no big announcement that it was all a scam, no cancellation of the field service arrangement, just a praise of the new printing press and some regular drab.
what a waste of my saturday evening..
I am from the U K and have no idea what you are talking about. Can you explain?
having read a lot of threads on how difficult it can be to deal with parents who cannot understand why a child leaves the jw's etc, i decided to post about my mother.... mum joined the jw's in the early 70's.
she had 3 children, about 8,10 and 12. after divorce and remarriage she had two more (twins) when i was 15ish.
we three first children all left home, older brother d/f first, younger sister d/a years later and i left my wife and was d/f too.
You're mum sounds a great woman, she realizes I think that she may or may not be right in what she believes. There are others like her. My mother in law never said anything negative to me when I faded. Unfortunately they are not in the majority. Most take the hard line the society preaches and cut themselves off from the one leaving.
