Yearning to feel precious in her daddy's eyes
Your words of caring turned out to be lies
Hoping for happiness and praying it will last
I'm forever marred, haunted by the past
Quandry
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How do I respond to this? from my father
by alamb ina daughter .
daughters are precious, in so many ways,.
from the day of their birth, till the end of your days.. .
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How do I respond to this? from my father
by alamb ina daughter .
daughters are precious, in so many ways,.
from the day of their birth, till the end of your days.. .
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Quandry
I prayed God protect me and help me get through
another night dreading I'd be touched by you
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How do I respond to this? from my father
by alamb ina daughter .
daughters are precious, in so many ways,.
from the day of their birth, till the end of your days.. .
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Quandry
My "pleasing you" came from an incestuous touch
As a child I endured it I loved you so much
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Hello Again!
by Joe Grundy init's a few years since i participated on jwn.
i'm not, and never have been, a dub.
my history is available for those who want to research it.
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Quandry
Hello, Joe.
I cannot tell you why many educated people believe in their religion. I suspect that many were raised in their church and have possibly never investigated any other beliefs. Or it may be that their reasoning tells them that a creator must have made all, after pondering the subject. After leaving the JWs, I am, I think, leaning toward agnostic but do feel that the teachings of Jesus, and the love he showed for his fellow man was outstanding, and still consider myself Christian.As you can see by my onscreen name, I don't feel I have all the answers anymore, but am learning to accept this as time goes on.
I do hope the young man you spoke to will study science. He will be confronted with much evidence of man having been on this earth for obviously much longer than 6,000 years. Perhaps you planted a seed for him that can be watered in the future.
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Hi - I'm new here!
by Flicka ini have been lurking on this site for the past 2 months.
for the past few years i have been going to the meetings and doing fieldservice out of guilt.. my husband (twisty) told me regularly i only do it out of guilt but i denied it and said it i want to do these things because i love jehovah and it is the right thing to do, but how can it be the right thing if you don't feel welcome and it feels like everyone is judging you the moment you walk into the kingdom hall.. it has taken a few years and a lot of tears to open my eyes.. over the past few years twisty spoke to me about the various things he didn't agree with but it just went over my head.
a few months ago we were lying in bed and he brought up his concerns again, and i'm not sure what was different this time but i understood and agreed with the points he was making.
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Quandry
Welcome to the forum.
Glad you and your husband are together in the journey.
Please don't make things more hazardous in the time being by talking to family of your doubts.
Take the time to research. You have plenty of time to decide what to do in the future, as it doesn't look like the end will be sooooooon like the WTS has been saying since the mid 1800s.
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WTS successfully refutes bogus UN conspiracy theory/hoax
by trthskr inhttp://jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/translatable.html.
there will be more to come folks, when i'm allowed to start another topic.
cheers.. to respond to the posting below (since i can't reply right now), it's because they weren't aware of the change until then..
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Quandry
But, if the UN is "the disgusting thing that causes desolation," why was there ANY reason that the WTS would want to approach it in the first place?
I don't have a collection of literature any more....what was the Awake article that extolled the virtues of the United Nations and its "Year of the Volunteer?" I remember reading it (I believe it was in the 1980s) and wondering why the WTS publications would cast the UN in such a good light?
Cand someone find the article I am referring to?
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New here, need support: I wrote an open letter regarding my issues with JWs
by exjehovah ini'm new, but i have been acquainted with your site before.
i'm a 40 year old female with a family knee deep in the jw religion.
i left when i was 18 and never looked back, but the majority of my family is still in.
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Quandry
Welcome, exJW and welcome to enda75 (clever name).
ExJW, When people come on this forum and say idiotic things like JWs don't shun former members, etc. they simply haven't read posts such as yours. The WTS places a "life sentence" on those who wish to leave, yet say it is voluntary. Life is so short Nd family is precious...I'm so sorry your family can't see the destructiveness of that organization.
Enda75-Isn't it amazing that some don't think the Wts was promoting "the end" was coming in 1975? I was there, listening to talks, so glad that I was baptised in 1973 just in time.....just in time for what?
I can't imagine why someone would go to meetings after disassociating themselves. They must be gluttons for punishment!
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Had very intense discussion with Mum
by Qcmbr inmy mum is hard core lds and of all the family (3 boys 1 girl) i was the favoured son from a religious view point.
my defection to the atheist side has hit her hard since i was the one who married in the temple, served a mission, was the wards elder's qurum president etc.
we've never really talked face to face but she's been using the usual long distance stealth tactics (christmas presents of church quotes, church dvds, mormon abc type books for the smallest and inviting the kids to church activities while having covert one on one 'what shall we do?
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Quandry
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I think the important thing here is that you and your mum continued on. Find common ground as a family, and stick to that. I know it's hard, but I know one other thing. One day, your mum will be gone. You won't look back and wish that you'd made more arguments that forced her to see your point. You'll wish you had spent your precious time together enjoying one another's company, talking about enjoyable times when you were young, family history, etc.I wish I could spend just one day with my mother talking about places we went as a family,etc. She's been gone four years now. Doesn't seem possible.
I hope you can just agree to disagree, and overlook anything she sends to you about her faith.
Hope the best for you in this new year.
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Blackballed by the Elders
by Hangin_on inmaybe it's just by one of the elders..... he told someone not to help me out because i did not heed council (almost 2 yrs ago i was counciled).
and maybe i would take advantage of them because he doesn't know my "status" i was thinking about returning evil for evil..... what if i got a disfellowshipping form, filled it out with his info and sent it to the branch.... you think that would work?.
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Quandry
I went back and read some of your previous posts. Did you and your wife get reinstated? How are the parents treating you? Are you still attending the KHall? If the answers are yes, it all must be extremely hard for you. Perhaps you need to stay "in" for family reasons. Don't you have a child now?
Know that once you have been in the "back room" the edlers don't look at you the same way. They are wary...and may look for opportunities to bully you.
After reading so much on this forum, how do you feel about the WTS now?
Hoping the best for you
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Help with talking to JWs in the family
by bblightnin ini have never been a jw.
my dad was an anglican clergyman, so was my grandfather and my uncle.
my older brother is a clergyman.
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Quandry
Welcome to the forum.
I remember a place where I worked had a poster on the wall with a circle. Inside the circle were the words, "BANG HEAD HERE."
If you wish to see what it is like to do that, have a one-sided and frustrating conversation with them. Didn't you get a clue from your father in law's statement?