ok, so i have another thing to chalk up to the watchtower.
this weekend my dad told my husband that my mother actually asked my dad to divorce her because she didn't want to be married to an unbeliever and he wasn't going to get baptized.
not so much the story my mom told me all those years ago..... .
OK, so I have another thing to chalk up to the Watchtower. This weekend my dad told my husband that my mother actually ASKED my dad to divorce her because she didn't want to be married to an unbeliever and he wasn't going to get baptized. Not so much the story my mom told me all those years ago.....
I remember being so devastated when my dad left home that I went through a bout with anorexia / depression that nearly did me in. Thanks, Watchtower!!!!!
so today was a bit of a lazy monday.
first i slept in an extra hour.
then i took my 7 year old son to school, a task usually performed by my wife.
Spent many hours doing this street work stuff and / or parking lot witnessing. Back in the day, street work was also known as the "courting grounds" - where all the singles paired off while the unsuspecting parents were away. You got to meet all the specially spiritual regular pioneers bros from other congregations. (Oh, I mean the abusers and pedophiles...) Spent much more time talking to each other than to people....
Parking lot witnessing was just another excuse to sit in a car full of 5-8 people, gossip, drink coffee and burn gas. Every now and then we would have a discussion about whether to approach a car with a person in it. We'd only talk to cars that had people just sitting there in the parking lots (how many of those do you see at 5am on Saturday?).. and then only single people - no cars with more than one person. The funnest time was talking to the drunks at the casino. Entertainment value was high.
did anyone see this today?
very weird:.
madeleine suspect: oddball of the algarve.
Well, the story about her being a JW and then the holiday parties and him living with her and stuff didn't fit at all. Was wondering if the GF is not who she represents herself to be at all......
not sure where to begin with this paragraph, im just a little dazed & confused.
i was in the jw religion for 20 years of my life, baptized, almost ms, i recently left, i am 20 right now.
living with my girlfriend.
Your feelings are pretty normal. They will get better over time - just keep going!!! I don't know if the hurt ever goes away entirely, but it does get better.
i don't have a lot of time to post at the momment.
i am a new mother of twin boys...when i get an update picture of both of them together i will use it as my icon..til then you just see jimmy.
here is a link to my story, it was posted on another wonderful board.. http://p196.ezboard.com/fexjehovahswitnessforumfrm14.showmessage?topicid=377.topic.
Your experience is a common one. My last meeting - I was so alone and so sick that I had a very visibly difficult time even walking down the KH aisle. They didn't care at all. My worldy co-workers took one look at me the following day at work and wanted to call 911. I truly think my ex-husband would not be as bad as he is if he didn't constantly have the Borg making him feel inadequate and unworthy. While that might not physically kill in itself, it surely does take a toll on its members.
you had been raised by the same family, but in a different religion, or non-religious home?
i am not addressing birthdays or holidays.
i am thinking about everyday life.. the reason i ask, is that so much of our parents problems may have been caused, or enhanced by "da troof.
Definitely.
So, in short, I would likely have been better educated, struggling a lot less financially and able to stand up straight and breathe completely.
humbly submitting to loving shepherds.
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"At times, an elder may not do things as directed by the faithful slave class and its Governing Body. If he continues acting this way, he will have to render an account to Jehovah, "the shepherd and overseer of [our] souls." (1 Peter 2:25) But any failure or mistakes on the part of certain elders would not justify an insubordinate attitude on our part. Jehovah does not bless disobedience and rebellion.-Numbers 12:1, 2, 9-11."
Translation: At times an elder may sexually molest you or your children. If he continues doing this, Jehovah will take care of him someday. But if we speak up or fail to submit or have a bad attitude about this elder, Jehovah will not bless us.
That sound reasonable to you?
what question do you want to ask or have you asked that would stump or have stumped an elder?
i'm in the position where my mom wants me to come back and wants me to have my questions answered (even though she has dodged most of mine) so that i will once again see its the truth and want to return.
so i'm going to set a meeting with an elder to see if he would be willing to attempt to answer some of my questions to prove to me beyond a doubt that i'm in the wrong.
If they can be a member of the UN without being DF'd, why can't we be members of the YMCA without being df'd?
Will the people from Sodom and Gomorrah be ressurected or not? Has God made up His mind about that?
Where did they come up with 607 BCE from when every history book contradicts this?
Why do we accept dates based on pyramidology (1914) when we are supposed to flee from occult practices? Whatever happened to 1975?
How about the difference in treatment of Mexican brothers and Malawi brothers in regards to neutrality?
Do you get df'd for a blood transfusion? How come the brothers guaranteed the government in Russia that they won't? Is the Russia JW God different?
what are the new publications released at the district conventions this year?
?
One new book on Jesus - it was on this forum somewhere....
we're basically in the quiet part of the suburbs.
it's not run down much and it's concidered a nice neighborhood.
i haven't seen any homeless people around here.
Just don't leave him a WT and tract.... A blanket and maybe gift card to your local supermarket? We were just about homeless ourselves - you can believe the KH didn't help, but just having people show me how to work the food bank and how to find odd jobs I could do with baby in tow meant a lot and I will never forget...
