I just realized I was his age when I got baptized. How sad.
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My son
by wonderwoman inmy son (almost 13) and i got home from school shopping and there was a package in the door.
addressed to him from my super jw sis.
my heart sank, the convention...i knew what was inside.
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My son
by wonderwoman inmy son (almost 13) and i got home from school shopping and there was a package in the door.
addressed to him from my super jw sis.
my heart sank, the convention...i knew what was inside.
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My son (almost 13) and I got home from school shopping and there was a package in the door. Addressed to him from my super jw sis. My heart sank, the convention...I knew what was inside. He tears it open to find a couple cds and a note along with "What Does The Bible Really Teach" book with his name inside the cover. I'm pissed. Who the hell does she think she is??
I was planning on writing on this topic soon, but now it seems appropriate. It goes hand in hand:
I divrced my son's father when he was 1 1/2. I left the jws at the same time. His dad was an off and on jw. when it seemed convenient for him kinda guy. He died a couple years ago. My son still sees both sides of the family on occasion. His experiences include going to meetings with grandparents, uncles, aunts etc...when he visits. He has accompanied them door to door too, which he dislikes very much. I tell him he doesn't have to do any of it, but he does to appease the fam.
I know they are telling him "if you want to see your dad in the paradise you have to do this and this" (puke) and I can see that makes him feel bad. He doesn't really believe any of it and I need to keep it that way.
I want to tell him everything but am worried is he too young to understand?
How should I approach it?
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Baptized July 05. Left Dec 05.
by Moomin ini have been lurking on these forums for about 6 months and thought it was time to join in.. i was a child/teen when i first became introduced to jehovah's witnesses through my mum who studied for a while but never fully committed.
i had a study and attended some meetings but it all petered out by the time i hit my late teens and we moved to another town.. for the following 10 years i just lived my life how i pleased.
got married etc.
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once again welcome moomin.
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Leaving the meeting early
by beautifulisfree inwhy is it that when ever you would leave the meetings any earlier then when they were all done...did you feel like everyone was watching you or even sometimes guilty?
sometimes, i would leave at 'halftime' (at the second song) either to go to work or just because i was having trouble dealing with the b.s.
and of course everyone was nosey and would ask my elder dad after the meetings where i went as though i was off to commit some horrible crime.
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wonderwoman
When I used to get dirty looks for leaving at half-time I just figured they were all jealous and sad that they didn't have the balls.
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COFFINS in the Kingdumb hall.....
by kid-A ini recall going to several jw funerals as a small kid where the coffin had been brought into the hall, a service that must have been provided by.
the funeral parlour.
however, since the early 80s, i have never again attended a jw funeral with a casket present in the hall.
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wonderwoman
I remember closed caskets in the kh as a kid, with some open at a funeral home only and it didn't seem highly looked upon.
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2006 Convention: Vow taken?
by lostlantern in.
does anyone know which talk at the convetion contains the "vow" on not visiting internet chat rooms, etc?
i was hoping to listen to it.. thanks.
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wonderwoman
You have got to be kidding me. I can't believe I still have family who believe and obey this garbage without question.
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DID YOU HEAR UNBELIEVEABLE STORIES WHILE IN JWS?
by badboy inafter reading the stories concerning the 7/7 bombings,i wonder how many heard unbelieveable stories at convention and other meetings?
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wonderwoman
I heard that apostates worshipped Satan.
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How Many Here Have Ever Been Before A Judicial Committee???
by minimus ini've been on plenty of jcs but i never was the target of the elders, judicially.....although i would be now.
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wonderwoman
Forscher,
I am so sorry to hear what your fam went through. Those assholes make me sick.
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Public Reproof: What is it? Has it ever happend in your Hall or to you?
by jayhawk1 inwhat is public reproof?
does the watchtower corp still use it?
do they use a judicial committee for it?
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wonderwoman
*"Because you were reproved, your "privileges" are removed. You can go out and service and you can talk at the doors."
Weird... my jc said no talky talky at the door.
I remember visiting a friend in another state while being PR and at the bookstudy the conducto called on me (no hand up, me zoning out) and asked me a question from the book. It was an awkward moment. -
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Public Reproof: What is it? Has it ever happend in your Hall or to you?
by jayhawk1 inwhat is public reproof?
does the watchtower corp still use it?
do they use a judicial committee for it?
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wonderwoman
I got PR'd when I was 17. I was baptized (at 13) and could of really given a rat's ass, except that I was terrified of my dad. I had moved out, and he said I couldn't talk to my lil' brothers/sisters or my mom. I got back in the good graces a year later to only be DF'd a year after that.
The best was I couldn't answer at the meetings, or talkat the door in service. OHH. BOO-HOO!!!