long time lurker from the uk... making my first post ooh scary...the reason posting now is that i need some advice on talking to my jw family and friends, without their walls coming up!
having read this forum for a good year, you all seem to be expert linguists!
i want to be like an indiana jones type character and slip through the sliding door in to the tomb (my sisters brain!
Welcome to the forum.
Baby steps works best with JW, if you come to your sister with a question and asking for her help on a specific topic like 607/587 she will still be the JW teacher and you the student. You will be making her think and that's all you need a little seed of doubt. Call her up and tell her your sorry the way you reacted and ask her for help.
do you believe that divorce rates among jw's is higher or lower than the averages now?.
in the us - at least recently - it was said that about 50% of all marriages will end in divorce.. for decades as a jw - i believed that jw's were immune from this statistic.
among the older married couples divorce seemed almost unheard of - and still, among the older crowd, that holds true i believe.
It's the same here in South Africa. Divorce among the JW is very high.
the societys stance on birthdays is either blatantly a lie, or a lack of bible knowledge on the part of the governing body!
while still attending at the kingdom hall i read job 1:4 where jobs childreneach had celebrations in his own day.
then read in job after his kids died and all his possession were lost where job cursed his own day.
It's just anotherway that the WBTS make the rank and file feel unworthy. We receive undersered kindness from Jah and we are not worthy enough to celebrate our birthday. We are not worthy enough to receive gifts from friends and family to celebrate being alive! What a lot of bs.
so i am at home by myself.
my active jw wife is in town.. i hear an engine running out front and peek through a window.
some car i don't recognise.
Same thing happened to us. When the False Religion tract was been handed out we saw the JW walking up our street. We couldn't wait for them to knock at the door so we could ask them a few questions. The youg man knocked gave his presentation my husband replied "Oh good we've heard about this tract and were wondering when we would get our copy." He smiled said thank you and left as fast as possible. I could not believe it. If a householder reacted like that when I was still putting in time I would have been happy to chat. Seems like they would rather just place whatever they have and run.
r. f. wondered how many lurkers there are on the board.
i don't know the answer, but i will admit that i since a few years am one of them.
i read here almost every day.. like many others here i am an ex-jw, left the organisation about 25 years ago and never regretted it.. .
Hello Madame
Welcome and enjoy!
i am a disfellowshipped j.w.
single mom that needs a ride cause i have to walk with a stroller with my 4 yr. old toddler to the oakland congreations on oakland st. this is a very dangerous area of the city and because its blocks away from frankford ave. and lights and stores we could be attacked.
please email me at: [email protected] if you are going to the same hall and also trying to be reinstated.
Hi Ladyofsmiles. Welcome to the forum. Most of the people here were very hurt by the witnesses and are trying to move on with their lives. Some have realised that you can have a relationship with God without the influence of the WBTS. I hope you find happiness and unconditional love. Help when you need it instead of been told your too bad to be part of a group.
i picked up my kids from my ex (still jw) tonite.
she wanted to come and get them back off me on sunday morning so she could take the meeting and every sunday meeting.
of course i wasn't going to agree to that so she said that she wanted them every second weekend so they could go to the meeting.
Hi Beaker. My heart really goes out to your children. Your x sounds very abusive, why not try get custody of the children?
stuff i never really touched much when i was a studying with the witnesses.
i'm in awe.. amazed.. at the things jesus is saying/doing.. some of it is even putting me in tears.
one chapter that i really love so far is i'm in luke and i'm reading about the woman who came into the pharisee's home and started kissing jesus' feet and jesus told the story of the two people that owed money.
It really is great when you read the bible without someone telling you what you should read into it. Enjoy.
stuff i never really touched much when i was a studying with the witnesses.
i'm in awe.. amazed.. at the things jesus is saying/doing.. some of it is even putting me in tears.
one chapter that i really love so far is i'm in luke and i'm reading about the woman who came into the pharisee's home and started kissing jesus' feet and jesus told the story of the two people that owed money.
It really is great when you read the bible without someone telling you what you should read into it. Enjoy.
what is the real reason why kingdum halls don't have windows?
to people on the outside looking in that is just too wierd and very cult like like they have something to hide.
wasn't in the 80's when they started to build them without windows?
All the KH in South Africa have windows cause it's a building regulation. I think it's to cut costs. I don't think it was part of the mind control freaky stuff, just about good old money.
