Posts by vanillamocha

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SCARY(actually hilarious) JW Urban Legends (smurf content)

by *jeremiah* in

does anyone have any dub urban legend stories?.

i remember a story running rampant when i was in my pre-teenage years that went a little something like this:.

word on the street was that a young child went to the circuit assembly with his parents.

vanillamocha

I was not allowed Smurfs because of the legend, nor trolls. Barbies were encouraging sex worship. Star Wars and Star Trek were encouraging us to accept demons on earth. Fantasy the same - demons were taking on physical form just like Noah's day so it would invite demons into our home. Of course, anything that contained lecithin was actually derived from blood (bread, chocolate, candy) so that could not be eaten. I can't remember the rest. Tons of stories about angels and witnessing - the two guys and more.

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The Battery is almost Dead.

by KW13 in

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for over 100 years the same message of doom and gloom for the world has been preached with a twist.

if your a jehovah's witness you can be saved.. .

i think people are tired of expecting the end of the system, the older generation (there are more older ones than younger i am guessing) are seeing the end of their lives when they thought they never would and some of them probably think about the false prophecy.. .

vanillamocha

The deserving? Sounds like WT mentality. As I recall, the JW Bible even says "Undeserved kindness." Definitions of deserved on the Web: merited: properly deserved; "a merited success" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Definitions of undeserved on the Web: not deserved or earned; "has an undeserved reputation as a coward" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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Is there Racial harmony among the JWs?

by Amazing in

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when i joined the jws, racial issues were not really discussed much, other than some mention in the material given to me during my bible study in the "truth" book.

our kingdom hall had only one dark skinned individual, who is portguese, and one of the anointed.

i believe that he is now deceased.

vanillamocha

My friend is 1/4 African American, but blonde with white skin. She married a dark-skinned brother. They were told that they were ineligible for circuit work or missionary service, because of their status as a mixed couple. The excuse given was that it was too hard to place a mixed couple in a circuit (even in the US) or in service safetly. Makes sense, maybe... The KH I was married in pitched a fit because my entire wedding party was black. I think that was just a cultural holdover from the area / era.

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The Great Taboo Discussion---Suicides among former Jehovah's Witnesses

by The wanderer in

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the great taboo discussionsuicides among former jehovah's witnesses to write about this discussion neither appeals to me nor does it make me feel comfortable to discuss it.. however, it is necessary to consider in light of all the trauma, negative experiences, and personal traged-.

ies that have happened to individuals on this board.

(what inspired me to write this subject was a bone chilling account .

vanillamocha

I attempted several times - half-heartedly. Since teen years, trying to "measure up" was always so hard. I remember being very depressed over being told that my mom was going to heaven and would not be with me in the "Paradise" (she was anointed) and my father was going to be killed because he was an unbeliever. From that, I married an alcoholic wife-beater (or should I say ministerial servant and regular pioneer?). All the times I pleaded for help from the elders, it just got worse and worse. Finally, we were living in an abandoned house with a new baby and my husband's 6 year old son with no food. I was called into the back room by the elder who drove the Cadillac, because I had been seen standing in line at the food bank hosted in the Catholic Church. That time, I was beat so bad at home that night, that I put the babies in the car and went looking for a truck to run us over. Somehow, it didnt work though. I lived for several more years with this abuse, as I was told "be a good wife and he won't have to complain about you." At the end, I was disfellowshipped in 5 minutes flat. So, I got to start my life over with no support from "friends" - stripped of everything. That was another cause for serious depression - attending the KH in an appropriate attitude of shame... Then one day I found the tract someone had given me in door to door and ventured into a Christian church. WOW.... Depression has left for the most part and it feels so good to be free and loved.

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Disfellowshipping

by vanillamocha in

i was recently in court for the domestic violence charges against my former (and still in excellent standing) spouse.

he is using all jws to say how he is such a wonderful person, etc - all total and complete lies as some of them are actual eyewitnesses to my abuse.

in his sworn statement, he says that jws do not disfellowship, do not shun, and that i am not disfellowshipped, but that all my "friends" won't talk to me because it is their choice.

vanillamocha

I was recently in court for the domestic violence charges against my former (and still in excellent standing) spouse. He is using all JWs to say how he is such a wonderful person, etc - all total and complete lies as some of them are actual eyewitnesses to my abuse. Anyway... In his sworn statement, he says that JWs do not disfellowship, do not shun, and that I am not disfellowshipped, but that all my "friends" won't talk to me because it is their choice. Oh, and this legal drivel was prepared by his WT appointed attorney. So, does this mean that I can now march into my old KH and talk to everyone cheerfully? LOL Even better, he used a former CO to swear that I had never complained of abuse, when the afore-mentioned CO was the lovely gentleman who sat on my couch and told my husband to stop beating me. Has anyone ever heard of JWs lying so blatantly in court? Is this a new thing? Don't they realize that they are making themselves bloodguilty for anything that happens to me or my son?