real shock i know that a jw would do that.
i found out today that my mom took my son to the kh behind my back when she was in town visiting.
he's just a little baby so he will have no memories of it.
Could some of the creative and well-informed people here put there heads together to create a booklet entitled Jehovah's Witnesses and Children--Where's the Harm? laying out the various concerns as clearly and succinctly as possible, of course including quotes and illustrations from JW material itself?
~Merry
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".
My condolences on your loss. You seem like a kind and thoughtful person and I'm sorry you are faced with choices you may not be able to feel entirely good about either way. Definitely don't rush your decision. When the time is right and the choice is right I pray you will know it and find peace through it.
~Merry
my mom says that one of the reasons that the wtbts is the true religion (after i told her many things they were wrong about) is that: .
only they told of this "war between governments and religion" and she can see "things coming to a head" in recent years and that this proves so much that this war is just part of the "sign" that the society has always pointed to.
she gives as example also the strong conservative christian leanings of bush and his regime.
WAR in IRAQ: Is this about Religion or Oil???
What are the *specific* reasons they (average citizens) hate us and that we are the "Great Satan"???
Here is one view, but you'll have to read the whole article to get the full sense of it. I think it covers both questions.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB22Ak05.html
And here is a contrasting view:
More:
http://www.alternet.org/story/11592/
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-159.html
And here are the more personal voices of the people:
http://electroniciraq.net/news/iraqdiaries.shtml
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/diaries.shtml
Hope that helps.
~Merry
from jwd.
it has helped me so much and i appreciate everyone sharing their stories.
i have read so many amazing posts with unbelievable research and thought put into them.
Wishing you all the best
~Merry
i've been a writer for most of my life but this is the only thing i have ever written about my life in the borg.. our house.
madness bloomed in our house after the day two women came asking;.
have you heard the good news of the kingdom?.
*heartfelt applause*
~Merry
when i came to this board, i thought that it was for encouragement amoung people who had been treated badly by the wtbts, i did not understand that people were going to come here and bash god, his son and the bible.
i could understand some embitterment over religion but some of you people are down right insulting.
not to mention the fact that i have tried to contact others on the board and have had my messages ignored.. .
Just happy to see Seven, and suddenly feeling very content to be broken, insecure and neurotic
~Merry
i'm "tarty smurf".
http://www.quizopolis.com/smurf_name.php.
Hypochondriac Smurf or
Strange Smurf
~Merry
okay, so my best friend calls this morning.
she has left the borg, but the rest of her family hasn't.
she was invited over to her moms house last night for dinner and her grandparents were suppossed to be there.
Good friend
~Merry
i believe we all want to think that we are very much loved and respected.
when we were in the "truth", we used to say that we knew our brother or sister would die for us----if they had to.
but in reality who really loves us???
I am certain of the warm, embracing love of 4 people--my daughtermy longtime girlfriend (although,oddly enough we are sorta foul-weather friends, there for each other in bad times more than in good times)my tatlimand my newest myspace girlfriend (we just "clicked" instantly)
Other people have claimed to love me but I didn't feel it. Maybe that's just me, I don't know, or maybe it's because their love included shunningemotional blackmail or other unhealthy demands.
~Merry
as a kid was there a particular fictional character that you really wanted to be ?
or have there been fictional characters in books that you admired or loathed or epitomised a particular quality for you?
one that springs to mind periodically.. i havent read any dickens for years but some of his characters, even if sometimes a little deliberately one dimensional were portrayed in such detail that the character and the quality become embroiled.
~Merry
