i have thought off and on about the jws for years.
my little sister brenda converted about 30 years ago and raised two sons in the truth as she called it.
one boy, mason, is still being raised as a jw (he is 15) and my other nephew, aaron, left the organization on his 18th birthday.
Welcome to the board Johanna,
I am another smoker trying to quit so I know how hard it can be. I've also suffered from depression in the past. I left around the time one of the elders told me that I was depressed because I couldn't cope with life like normal people. A lot of christian love there.
i googled that name and found a trust fund that is named after her.
i also found the tax returns for 2005,2004,2003 for that fund.
the riley trust funds largest revenue is oil and gas royalties and in 2005 over 3 million dollars of oil and gas royalties flowed into the riley trust fund.
I've actually seen this mentioned before. I will try and find the link. They have shares in the tobacco company. I think the WTS gets around it by saying it gives money to them they don't control it. It's a bequest of the lady mentioned in the trust.
i use to be based on the nw coast sometimes burnie, sometimes devonport, sometimes i wandered as far a field as sydney.
just wondering if there were any other tasmanians around
Hi Paul Grundy (and everyone else). My name is Ellani. I am sure I've met you Paul. Either in Tassie or maybe at Bethel, I had a friend Simon who was there for awhile from Devonport.
Be interested to here from some of the old group, see who is in and out.
i use to be based on the nw coast sometimes burnie, sometimes devonport, sometimes i wandered as far a field as sydney.
just wondering if there were any other tasmanians around
I use to be based on the NW coast sometimes Burnie, sometimes Devonport, sometimes I wandered as far a field as Sydney. Just wondering if there were any other Tasmanians around
ok, other than my father, i don't miss anything about being a dub at all.
seriously, i love my life right now, its great, thinking for myself, doing what i want, etc., etc.. i've only been out 3 months, officially, and i find no "void" or anything.
i've got a bunch of great friends on the outside, that i had for years while being jw, and then i have my mother and all her family supporting me.
I was in from 17 to about 29/30. I was lucky that the only member of my family in the Borg was my sister and she still kept associating with me after I left.
When I finally made the decision to fade away I remember the first night that I deliberately didn't go to a meeting. It was such a relief. I sat around, watched television, ordered out pizza and started the next day to throw out all my literature.
No more meetings, no more field service, no more trying to be accepted into a congregation where as a single sister whose family was "not in the truth" I wasn't considered to be "marriage material" for the few single brothers available (not that any of them were interesting).
It was wonderful. Congrats on getting out.
do household chores without the rush....... spend time with my little neice(now fatherless) without worrying..."i need to take her back home, i gotta study that wt lesson for tomorrow!".
hang out with my younger brother without thinking..."crap it's monday...that lesson in the "revelation" book ain't studying itself!".
visit my sister without thinking......."should i see her before the meeting or after field service?
well since leaving I have finally started a life, found a fiance and had a wonderful baby girl.
It's great to have finally been able to go out and meet someone without worrying about their religious background being different to yours and the reaction of the elders, the gossip of the congregation.
some of you know my sitch.
long & short, had a temp secretary who is a jw.
had problems, eventually got rid of her, but she still works at the firm.
If she is a temp and her agency finds out about this they will be mortified (and probably remove her from their books). As a temp she is employed by her agency not by the law firm so she shouldn't be able to sue you.
She is totally nuts though. I was temping when I was a JW and never, ever brought up religion at work unless someone directly asked me a question first. (Obviously a very bad JW from hearing this story though lol)
(1 peter 3:7) you husbands, continue dwelling in like manner with them according to knowledge, assigning them honor as to a weaker vessel, the feminine one, since you are also heirs with them of the undeserved favor of life, in order for your prayers not to be hindered.. .
*** w06 5/15 p. 32 the value of "a weaker vessel" ***.
13 husbands, show self-sacrificing love ***.
Thanks for the rundown Blondie, it's very informative.
Tired..rest up a bit—as JW men leave their children in the care of their wives at the conventions/assemblies as they go off to do more important things
I have to say this was very familiar. I was in a congregation for a while and the PO's wife had terminal cancer and was wheelchair bound. He'd turn up, park her chair and then disappear. He'd come back and sit with her during the meeting and disappear afterwards for "important elder business" not returning until time to go home when he'd pick her up. Quite often I'd look over and find her sitting by herself so I'd go over to chat, she always looked so lonely and would say things like "I'm such a burden to him" or "he could be at Bethel if it wasn't for me". I use to think what a wonderful marriage that was that his own wife felt like she was a burden, what kind of happiness she had in her final years. A real fine way of showing love.
She died a year later. He remarried in within 6 months and moved to Bethel.
got a e mail today full of urban legends j.w.
style.
the heading is "jehovah knows what's going on".
Being an Aussie I've heard the one about the Kingdom Hall bombing and seen photocopies of the "news clippings" circulated about the Hall but never remember seeing it mentioned on the news.
However I do know that a bible study was picked up for burning down a historic church because he believed he was doing God's will. The elders kept it very quiet that he was studying and going to meetings. Strange that, lol
after i found out the truth abouth the troof, i could not--- i mean physically could not---- sing a note of a jw song at a meeting.. this was way before i decided to make a plan and a final break.
this happen to anyone?.
Never had thought of it before but I had started mindless mouthing during songs without actually singing.
The first thing I did was just gaze at the page of the WT without really looking at it and my mind would just drift. I turned the page when everyone else did and if people were consulting the bible I'd just pretend to open it up to around about the same area as if I was really looking up a scripture. If anyone had checked I would have been busted.
Then the songs were I dutifully would open and close my mouth but no words would come out.
I said Amen up until I left.
