Posts by rebelfighter

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Awake! The silent treatment

by punkofnice in

an awake!tm article about shunning spouses.. http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201306/the-silent-treatment/#?insight[search_id]=f6240b1c-2a33-4ac9-a50b-f2130feaa43e&insight[search_result_index]=0 .

apparently it's retaliation and manipulation.. i wonder what they think about shunning df'd or da'd victims?.

rebelfighter

Only lasted 30 minutes in house, my kids got all the chores done in record time.

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Awake! The silent treatment

by punkofnice in

an awake!tm article about shunning spouses.. http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201306/the-silent-treatment/#?insight[search_id]=f6240b1c-2a33-4ac9-a50b-f2130feaa43e&insight[search_result_index]=0 .

apparently it's retaliation and manipulation.. i wonder what they think about shunning df'd or da'd victims?.

rebelfighter

Not a JW but a red hot Italian single parent who at times could have a short fuse. My kids also used a method called selective hearing so when I asked for things to be done they selectively heard them. Well eventually that fuse got a tad bit to short and when the hot Italian mom became extremely silent it was amazing how quickly they suddenly remembered all those things they had selectively not heard before.

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Nothing We Don't Know, But Nice To See Articles About Shunning Come up

by freemindfade in

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jehovahs-witnesses-disrupt-families-survey-finds-300101146.html

rebelfighter

Nice article. Would be nice if some of the US papers and Internet media's would blast it around!

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Barings Bank & the JWs

by Doltologist in

in the early 1990s, i was in a meeting.

we were making some major changes to the main it system of the company i worked for.

during the meeting i said, 'what would happen if one of our major customers went belly up and shouldn't we build something into the system to cope with this?'.

rebelfighter

I am not sure about the taxation exemption as a 501C3 which churches are in the US they do have to prove charity. I know we are audited (not church) on a regular basis and we must prove that we are not accumulating assets and that the money is going to charities.

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Barings Bank & the JWs

by Doltologist in

in the early 1990s, i was in a meeting.

we were making some major changes to the main it system of the company i worked for.

during the meeting i said, 'what would happen if one of our major customers went belly up and shouldn't we build something into the system to cope with this?'.

rebelfighter

From the outside looking in. The WT is very ripe for attack for people waking up. First you have all these child rape cases going on right now. Get a good lawyer question: My son or daughter committed suicide when he was d/fed because of the WT policy. There is another string of lawsuits/settlements. Third you have the blood issue: another lawyer -- dad says I am now raising 4 children by myself and I lost my loving wife because of the WT policy on blood. More lawsuits/settlements. It is not going to take to long for all of these settlements to add up to billions $$$$. How long before the real estate empire has to disolve.

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Demon Stories

by humblepotato in

jw
friends

so we all know that "crazy" brother or sister.

every kingdom hall has one.

they give the best comments (from a hilarious perspective), have experiences with the "demons", but most importantly, they are on about 10 deifferent kinds of medications.

rebelfighter

In the early 90s my husband and I bought a very large 4 story colonial, we had an infant son not yet 1 year old, so we knew he was not to blame. Each night we would go through the entire house and turn everything off. Get in bed -- in the silence we could hear a radio playing. Out of bed search the entire house never finding anything. This went on for months. Finally someone suggested that we ask an electrician. The previous owner had put an antenna system in the walls of the attic and we had a speaker phone in our bedroom. Speaker phone was exchanged real quick. Mystery solved but drove me nuts for months.

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JW's are Egomaniacs and the Org is an Ego machine

by freemindfade in

i've been thinking a lot lately about ego vs self.

i have also been trying to differentiate freudian model of ego, super & id, but more of a ego=false self vs soul=true self.

while there are many ego institutions out there, the witness reality buries its victims in a avalanche of ego.

rebelfighter

How do you reverse accidentental dislike? Sorry, dubstepped.

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Another heart breaking recording of how witnesses are really treated on JWstruggle

by Crazyguy in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=46ctpddnaom

rebelfighter

Someone told me this was a loving organization. All 3 of these Elders should have responded immediately the moment they first heard she was suicidial and called the authorities, it is their responsibility. Had she of followed through with the suicide and they had knowledge of her threats they could be brought up on charges.

To ignore a child in this situation is just plain ignorant. Again this is another case of emotional abuse. Where is the love here, what did the child do????? Answer that question. You leave him sitting, struggling in pain.

I sure hope she teaches him TTATT!!

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My Real Calling / Mission In Life Is Here on J-W.com

by smiddy in

sometime during or after my conversion to jehovah witnesses 55 years ago , i felt it was my calling , duty , mission , to preach the word , and witness to as many people as i could about the watchtower`s interpretation of the bible that i believed was the truth.. and may i presume i am not alone there .i feel many if not all would have had similar thoughts.. without being presumptuous i think i have found my real calling in life , in doing what little i can to add my 2 cents worth in exposing this religion for what a fraud it actually is ,especially to the newbies , because most of us here have already found ttatt .. so witnessing to the truth about jehovah`s witnesses on this board , gives me much more pleasure than i ever had witnessing for the watchtower organization.

and this site / board has enabled me to do that , thank you simon ,ang, and company.. smiddy.

rebelfighter

This "Worldly Person" LOL realy did not understand disfellowshipping and shunning. Never exposed to it before. But got that email "good bye, have a nice life". The Elder had been in my life for five years and gone that fast, I sure did not understand this thing. My girlfriend called him the "Devil", my daughter called him " flaming idiot jerk"

It was not till I found this forum did I understand how this man turn from being the sweetest, kindest, caring, loving human being I had ever met into the Devil instantly.

YES, Smiddy and all of you, JOB WELL DONE!!!

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Placement of KH

by rebelfighter in

from reading my previous post many of you know i am a worldly person and have been a life long child advocate.

my heart goes out to the jw children and women.

these last 5 months education here and jwfacts, jwstruggles, has been very enlightening.

rebelfighter

Finkelstein, being a single parent of two children and working extremely hard to put one of them through private school and one of them public school. Then college. BUT I found time to fight for other peoples kids too. I am totally APPALLED by not only the sexual abuse BUT the level of EMOTIONAL ABUSE!!!

Child advocate is not a career for me just a passion, by profession I am in the financial field I just did this as the need presented itself. I cannot stand to see a child hurt in anyway.

My heart goes out to every child who has to endure this life, just the emotional part is horrible and education! !!!