Very sad...I wonder if someone in the family can give his therapists a heads up whille he is in treatment. Providing a copy of this email would be a good start.
jamiebowers
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Email from my father in law to his daughter
by elder-schmelder inhere is a email from father in law, to his daughter (my sister in law).
little history about my family.. my wife and i quit going to meetings about 5 years ago.. my sister in law has been df'd for about 10 years - she has 3 kids.. my father in law was an elder for 20 years, and has stepped down about 2 years ago.
(still believes and mostly active).
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Too old for children's hospital
by d ini was wondering what is the average cut off age that a child can go to a children's hospital i hear in some places it is either 18 or 21. when i was in the hospital once, at a children's hospital i once saw that a guy was 22 in the child hospital..
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jamiebowers
My father in law spent several months at a childrens hospital when he was in his 60's, because it was the closest burn unit to us.
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New to the board
by jbeau504 ini'm new to this board and looking to see what it's all about.
i'm currently an unbaptized publisher and third-generation jw, so for obvious reasons i can't give my real name due to personal concerns.
so from now on people can refer to me as "jimmy".
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jamiebowers
Welcome...very interested in learning what you think.
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Be a part of research about leaving the JWs...
by TerriO inhi guys,.
some of you may remember me, i've been on here before in the past and been about on the exjws forums on and off for about 7 years now.
you've probably also seen me advertising the xjw meet ups in london as well..... :-).
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jamiebowers
https://kentpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_37Row0YtLkAwNWA
Marked for later...will put it on Facebook as well.
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Open Mic Night
by TOTH ini have been considering signing up for open mic night at a local sports bar here in my little town.
when i was about 16 years old i started recording some songs i did alone and also with a couple of friends.
back in 2009 an old girlfriend of mine found a box of my old reel to reel tapes in a box in her mom's garage and she sent them to me.
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jamiebowers
TOTH, I established an account and downloaded Drop Box, but I can't find your song. How do I do it?
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New member
by Kool Jo ini've been lurking here since late last year...was very hesitant to join the forum because of fear that satan would control my pc.... .
i'm born in, but always had my little doubts about "the truth" since i was young, but went ahead and got baptized ect.... .
i stumbled upon this site while looking for a km and initially thought it was a jw forum, but after seeing some of the titles of various threads, i thought to myself "i'm on an apostate website".
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jamiebowers
Then for those who have become agnostic/atheists after leaving the WTBS, what do you think is the purpose of life and will it continue like how it is now?
Every person's purpose in life is diffeent. For me it was being a wife, stepmother and now stepgrandmother. In recent years it has evolved into also helping as many exjws as I can to assimilate to life in the real world. It might not sound like much or anything special, like finding a cure for cancer. But it's been a great leap for me, because I was always afraid of having kids, for fear they would have the same nightmare childhood that my brother and I did.
Just take your time. You'll figure out your spiritualality and life path.
Also, the media coverage of the Catholic Church's problem with child abuse is fierce, because several millions of people are Catholic. There are only seven million jws, but there's been quite a bit of coverage about the Watch Tower's cover ups over the years, and i's been worldwide. Here are a few examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLAC9kS_EqM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwQoKygx0pE&feature=endscreen&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ac9EobF5kE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDyh2TOeuVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XJQvpduyYA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzWupVczfCQ&feature=related
...i wonder if anyone who has written to WTBS and told them about what we now know about "the truth" got a written response from them?
Please don't do that. Your letter will be sent back to your elders, and you will be df'd or apostasy.
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New member
by Kool Jo ini've been lurking here since late last year...was very hesitant to join the forum because of fear that satan would control my pc.... .
i'm born in, but always had my little doubts about "the truth" since i was young, but went ahead and got baptized ect.... .
i stumbled upon this site while looking for a km and initially thought it was a jw forum, but after seeing some of the titles of various threads, i thought to myself "i'm on an apostate website".
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jamiebowers
Welcome...look forward to hearing your story!
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I have a problem any suggestions would be appreciated
by nugget inthis year will be my parents 50th wedding anniversary.
my mum is a jw my father is not.
my husband and i hade been df'd and i have 3 sisters.
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jamiebowers
It is my understanding that jws can comfortably attend a family gathering with da'd and df'd relatives if it is held in a public venue such as a social hall or eatery. Whether the party is large or small, the jws can sit at a different table than you, and your parents can sit at their own little table for two.
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A Popular Question Raised by people who were never JW.
by Momma-Tossed-Me ini talk to a lot of people about the watchtower because it comes up in conversation all of the time.. money eventually becomes a topic as it is a very wealthy corporation.. so the question is always raised and it is a good one, "who controls it?".
people want to know "who has the power of the purse strings?
" and quite frankly so do i.. there is someone behind the scenes who knows so much that the wtbts could never fire him or her.
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jamiebowers
What I don't understand is how they can live like they do and feel ok about it. They are living on the donated money of people living extremely poor lives without higher education. But maybe they think that it is a blessing from Jehovah? Who knows how they sleep at night.
Like all successful scammers, they sleep in very comfortable beds.
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In love with a JW...
by CuriousUK inapologies if this has been discussed before, or is in the wrong forum, but i could really do with some advice.
two years ago i met the love of my life; someone i regard as my soulmate.
he is an active jw and i am a practising church of england person.
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jamiebowers
Here is an experience of a man becoming a jw in order to marry the so-called love of his life...I'll let his story speak for itself:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/222940/1/My-Experience
I also got baptized in order to marry a jw man who seemed so sweet and caring. We weren't married a month before he started hitting me. Eventually this evolved into kicking, strangulation, him driving into oncoming traffic...anything to terrorize me. As a jw woman or child, you are strongly discouraged from involving the police in cases of domestic violence and even child molestatiom...I can cite cases to you if you can't find them with Google. But my jw husband was so crazy that his doctors had him forcibly committed to mental wards twice throughout our six and a half year marriage. Despite the rulings of doctors and judges that he was a real threat to my life, the elders insisted I either stay in the marriage or stalk him long enough to determine whether he would commit adultery or murder. You see, there is no remarriage in the Watchtower cult unless adultery is proven; therefore giving the abuser continued control over his victim. I made a false confesson of adultery, divorced him and was disfellowshipped for my trouble. As a result, with the exception of a few requests for family medcal history, I've been shunned by my jw mom for almost 25 years. My brother shunned me for 18 years, but we reaquainted after he too left the cult.
Is this really the type of thing in which you want to be involved? Run, don't walk, my dear. If he wants out of the cult, he needs to take those steps himself. If he does leave, require him to get specialized therapy. Even then, if I were you, I'd also have him sign a pre-nup regarding finances and custody of any future children. Instead of thinking about what you would have to do to be with him, start thinking about the things he should be doing to be with you.