perhaps you have been reading this board for awhile, and you may believe some of the things we have been saying, however you are still gripped in fear of armageddon.. .
the wt society has been predicting armageddon for well over 100 years, and when the prophecies fail, they blame you and say "we never said that".
if i can impart any words of wisdom to you, it's just this:.
Welcome Lost&confused and MrChuffster. It's good to lurk and read a few things that will help you decide on a positive course of action to take. You sound like you both already know it's not the truth but the family pull is a big one. A slow fade is always a good idea in this situation.
Love Marie. XXX
i dont often post on here but lurk everday.
i was an elder for 11 years, raised as a witness from birth and eventually left in 2002 aged 42.. my dad died on friday aged 87. he was a witness baptized in 1940. he was congregation servant and then elder in hull, england.. we were arranging his funeral tonight with my 2 brothers who are still witness elders.
all they were interested in was what he had done in the "truth".
Sorry for your loss.
About sending your reasons for leaving to your close friends - don't do it. It's not worth it. You'll lose far more than you'll gain. It sounds like you still have a relationship with your jw family, so it's not worth jeopardising that is it?
you who don't know -- i'm daed but my mother still sends me very short e-mail about every two months.. this morning she sent me an email that said:.
25 today.
it would be sooooo wrong for someone to say -- "happy birthday" .. but its fine to mention that i am 25 today.
Happy Birthday Renee.
My mum, dad and sister have always wished me and my children a happy birthday by text message. That was when I was a jw and also have continued to do so since I have been df'd. I also got a card and a gift from my parents when I turned 18.
They are all devout jws. Go figure!
so the 144000, wouldn't you say then are all men?.
i can't remember what crap excuse they gave for that one to get out of it not only being men....but all the writer had to say was 'they were virgins' if it was both sexes.. what do you think?.
The whole book of Revelation is all poppycock.
http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/displaynode.jsp?nodeid=139760&command=displaycontent&sourcenode=139586&contentpk=16917608&folderpk=80785&pnodeid=139317.
date : 20.03.07. foster mother eunice spry has been found guilty of subjecting children in her care to two decades of horrific abuse.. the 62-year-old, from tewkesbury, beat them, fed them rat droppings, stopped them sleeping and rubbed their faces with sandpaper.
she thrust sticks down their throats when they misbehaved and made them eat dog food.. one daughter was forced to use a wheelchair for four years even though she was perfectly able to walk.. doctors, teachers and neighbours raised constant concerns about spry's treatment of the children but nothing was ever done by social services.. the catalogue of abuse only came to light when one of the children went to the jehovah's witness elders at the church the family attended.. spry, from tewkesbury, was found guilty of 26 charges of cruelty after a three week trial at bristol crown court.
This story disgusts me. I hope she rots in prison and I hope the other prisoners beat the cr*p out of her.
And if there is a god, I hope he sends her to the hot and firey place when she does the world a favour and dies.
so....do any of you believe in some person in the sky floating around called jesus?
or having a relationship with that person (or god) who is in some other dimension apparantly?
being a witness, they stressed so much having a relationship with "jehovah" and all that.
I believe that Jesus existed 2000 years ago. Then he died. That's it.
i was reading an earlier thread about ridiculous counsel and i just had to share this one with everyone.. you know how sometimes around christmas time merchandisers would package their products in a more "festive" wrapper?
the largest bread company here does that every year.
well one yuletide season (when i was about 7 years old), i was helping myself to a couple slices of bread and my aunt saw me.
Crazy brainwashed freak!!!!!
It's such a worry that she probably thought she was in the right too.
living or dead who would they be?.
1. jeaus.
2. egar cayce.
1 - Stephen Fry (for his brains)
2 - Jude Law (for his beauty)
3 - Jeremy Clarkson (for his sense of humour)
yep.
after she spent 25 years in the troof she finaly has come to realize that the org.
is a cult.
Well done. I wish I could get my family out. A pipe dream I fear. XXX
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