was there ever such at thing in jw families, or is this phrase oxymoronic?.
sometimes the meetings encouraged "variety" in family studies, assigning certain research projects to different family members, or setting up a bible reading as though it were a play.. none of that happened in my family.
it was just dry question-and-answer.
Stepdad saw anything and everything as a "bad attitude".
pretty much the same and probably like you, it wasnt just bible study time either...mine used to push me around and hit me.
KW, I just realized that basically our parents treated us, the way the society treated them, like crap.
Just the trickle down effect I guess.
she was beautiful.
her name was aliyah.
she would have been 5 mos tomorrow.
What a beautiful baby!
Words fail me, I can't even imagine what your family must be going through.
I am so very sorry this has happened to you.
thought i'd bring this up again, i found it on the watchtower library and thought it was extremely annoying how they can say rubbish like this.. rape has become increasingly common today.
a major reason seems obvious.
sex and violence explode from tv and movie screens, from radio, newspapers, magazines and billboards.
It is just like a rapist organization to promote 'blame the victim' policies - in every situation - from rape to mental illness to all other suffering. The GB is a collective, rapist bully.
AMEN!
was there ever such at thing in jw families, or is this phrase oxymoronic?.
sometimes the meetings encouraged "variety" in family studies, assigning certain research projects to different family members, or setting up a bible reading as though it were a play.. none of that happened in my family.
it was just dry question-and-answer.
WHAT? THERE IS A WAY TO HAVE A NONE VIOLENT FAMILY STUDY?
It usually ended with one of us getting a whipping with a belt, because we did not show enough respect, or we didn't answer properly, or we held our book wrong, or we did not have the right expression on our face. (seriously)
Stepdad saw anything and everything as a "bad attitude". Then the leather belt would come off, and he would fold it in half with some slack and then quickly pull it taunt so that the two haves would make a slapping sound as they came together. He would be standing there going snap snap snap with the belt while he told us to bend over.
No, it was never fun.
thought i'd bring this up again, i found it on the watchtower library and thought it was extremely annoying how they can say rubbish like this.. rape has become increasingly common today.
a major reason seems obvious.
sex and violence explode from tv and movie screens, from radio, newspapers, magazines and billboards.
By no means would it be proper for her willingly to submit to being raped.
The GB has such a f*cked up idea of what rape is.
Don't even get me started about the "respect and be understanding" of your rapist BS. I was still a jw when that article came out. I was torn between being enraged and trying to pretend it didn't say what it very clearly said.
I think every member of the GB deserves to be raped, and then told that they were not raped, but that they had commited fornication. And then their asses get kicked out of their cushy little cocoons at bethal. (just a little fantasy of mine)
my mum showed me this e-mail her jw friend had sent her last week.. in it the friend explained how wonderful the magazines are and how they provide food at the proper time because they had recently had an article in about ' being prepared for the unexpected'.
the article had told them to have a bag packed with emergency stuff in case they ever needed to leave the house in a hurry.
so they were told to pack dried food, a wallet with important documents in, waterproof clothing etc.. now this, it seems, was pretty relevant because i live in gloucester where were had terrible floods a few weeks ago, and some peoples houses were flooded out, the entire city had its water cut off for a fortnight because the pumping station flooded, and most work places were unable to allow staff in because they were not able to provide flushing toilets or running water.. so my mims friend was totally blown away by how jehovah is so clever - although having dried food and your passport in a waterproof wallet did nothing to help you flush the toilet for a fortnight.. but - now heres to point of this long and rambling story - i suddenly got super angry about this article and its survivialist mentalilty.
Katie I share your rage.
I remember as young as five years old to "prepare to be tortured" Different methods of torture were described to us kids so we could "be prepared". One method stands out it my mind, involving slowly burying an infant in sand to get the parents to renounce Jehovah. I am in tears now just thinking about it. The fear of being buried alive still haunts me.
Because JW's don't believe in Sunday school for kids, we sat right there with our parents and heard stuff that small children should never hear. I heard about Armageddon, how we would be persecuted, how we had to fight for Jah, and how all the worldly people would die.
I understood this to mean that I would be responsible for killing all my kindergarten classmates and the teacher too. This tormented me terribly, I DID NOT WANT TO KILL MY CLASSMATES, I tried not to think about it. I assumed jah would give me the ability when the time came. I have a few pics of me at that age and I looked miserable in every one.
I remember very clearly sitting in class, dreading the day when I would have to kill for Jah.
my dub mother sent me a package today, inside was a nwt bible, a picture of me around age 5 at an assembly - i looked miserable and my dad was holding a battery operated fan in front of me, and a letter, here is the letter.
i ask that you remember that i was 18 when i left and i'm now 42, that there is a total of 8 children in my family and there are only 2 that are still jw's, oh and that my mother is a complete nutcase!
dear nj:.
That letter is so over the top it doesn't even sound authentic,
it's like a parody of everything dub.
I think you should reply with this statement,
her words only validate how I feel about this religion and her.
have you ever had one of these kinds of days where you've reached a point when you finally just had to write a complaint letter?
(ladies, you'll understand this one).
actual letter sent to proctor & gamble.
what do you do when a tampax catches on fire?
you tampon it. hahahahaha
(Psst, Bigdreux, your making jokes on a PMS thread.
Try to slip out quietly and maybe you won't get hurt)
i'm doing a research on pms/pmdd and what it does to relationships such as friends/spouses/children.. pms affects about 85% of women....mild to severe.
pmdd affects about 3-8% of women...severe to intolerable.. .
edit to add..... http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007193.htm#signs%20and%20tests.
Seriously though, I have never had any of those symptoms (well maybe the food cravings)
All my relationship problems stem from getting married at 17 and then spending the next eighteen years trying desperately to make an impossible relationship work. Onse I started making my own decisions, instead of letting a bunch of old men in NY make them, my relationships just got better and better.
i'm doing a research on pms/pmdd and what it does to relationships such as friends/spouses/children.. pms affects about 85% of women....mild to severe.
pmdd affects about 3-8% of women...severe to intolerable.. .
edit to add..... http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007193.htm#signs%20and%20tests.
What if you have those symptoms 24/7?
Is it still PMS?
