Posts by ShirleyW

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What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?

by minimus in

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i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.

ShirleyW

Can't take blood, but only blood fractions, whatever that is, but anyway, blood fractions come from blood . . WTF ???

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How long since your last memorial?

by NewYork44M in

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this is my 15th year without going to the memorial.

based on comments, it seems i did not miss anything.

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I used to ask my mother what happened to all the people that attend the Memorial the rest of the year? You never see the KH crowded for ministry school or Sunday meeting the way it is (or was I should say) at the Memorial, then her weak response would be " some of them still attend" which was a flat out lie, yet, they're always the first ones to point out Christendom always go the church on Christmas and Easter and that's about it, same for the Memorial.

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Remark at memorial about growing annointed numbers

by Gorbatchov in

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don’t know if it was part of the script.. at the memorial the remark about growing annointed numbers including this numbers from 2015 to 2017 was made (from 13.000 to 18.000+).. reason for the growing numbers could be:.

- feeling annointed because of former believe.

- psychical reasons.

ShirleyW

So now they're saying that it's OK for the numbers of partakers to grow and back when I was growing up the number was supposed to get smaller and smaller, yup, the Dubs certainly are the only "TRUE" religion on earth. . .

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Memorial Weekend Questions

by Iamallcool in

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i just don’t remember when it was the last time the memorial falls on saturday.

anyway, do they meet for field service tomorrow(saturday)?

do they have their meetings on sunday?

ShirleyW

Didn't they start cancelling the meetings the week of the Memorial like 20 years ago or something? Or did that new light fade away.

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Being a JW kid is hell

by JRK in

in therapy, i was told i should write a letter of grievances to each of my parents.

i really do not have any for my mother, except for things that directly relate to being raised as a jehovah's witness.

upon reflection, my childhood was hell because of the religion and its pernicious corruption of a normal childhood.

ShirleyW

JRK - Interesting thing is my dad didn't get baptized until I was around 19 or 20, everyone in the KH just loved him, and my mother, but me . . . . well, read the above again. So glad as a child though the Borg encouraged wives to still fix the holiday meal for their UBMs so I have great memories of the holidays going to friends and family houses and celebrating and gifts. But when you become a teen when,you want to be accepted, he started attending off an on, he was love bombed, even was appointed and Elder after a while. But still, my peers,the MFers, male and female, still decided to pull the "mean girl act" on me, but the thing that gets me my mom always seemed to back them up, saying only if I took an interest in da troof they would like me. That's why when she still crosses my mind to this day, the thoughts are not pleasant, at all.

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Being a JW kid is hell

by JRK in

in therapy, i was told i should write a letter of grievances to each of my parents.

i really do not have any for my mother, except for things that directly relate to being raised as a jehovah's witness.

upon reflection, my childhood was hell because of the religion and its pernicious corruption of a normal childhood.

ShirleyW

Ya' don't have to tell me being a born in, I thought my mom was the wackiest JW mom, but at least I didn't have to sit outside the Principal's office or go to the library during holiday parties like I've heard so many say they had to do.

I didn't play my cards right on this one, but a few of young sisters my age back in the day were going to see Anita Baker, so my mom turns it around like I turned down the invite when, of course, I never received one or had any idea they were going until she opened her big mouth, she says "I don't know why you're not going" don't remember if she thru in the " if you were doing what you should be doing in the truth" line but, for a concert obviously you tickets, you just don't show up at the front of the venue.

What I should've said was "yeah, I want to go" then she would've royally embarrassed me by begging them to add me along and get me a ticket like the stepchild nobody wants to be bothered with Wouldn't have gone anyway, but obviously it bothered her as well as to why I was never included in activities including my peers. Also I found out they went skating every week when I was in my early 20's, never was invited to that either. FUCK THEM ALL with their conditional love.

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My personal invitation

by Normalfulla in

so i got a message from my auntie yesterday .

hi normalfulla , i was hoping id see you at the memorial this saturday 😊i miss you and the family.

please dont be one of the ones that give up right at the end.

ShirleyW

You say all your cousins are out of da troof now, I'm thinking they were all raised in the lie, so my response would be " just like your children, I've decided to use the brain that Jehovah gave and did my research on the Organization and found out there are many things the JWs teach that just don't add up, for example, just about everyone knows the JWs don't take blood, but now it's acceptable to take blood fractions, the Bible has never changed, so what scripture says after all these decades it is now OK for JWs to take blood fractions?" So many other things I could mention to you, if you'd like me to go over a few things with you that don't add up within the JWs just let me know, thanks".

There are so many things you can point out to her, but of course if you wrote the above to her you would never hear back from her, the folks in the truth can't deal with the truth.

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Prince had enough fentanyl in his system to kill a horse or two

by Wild_Thing in

how can someone purposely take that much fentanyl and it still be considered an "accidental overdose"?

i understand that they call it that because they don't think he was purposely trying to kill himself, but that would be like someone firing a fully loaded gun at their head and saying they were playing russian roulette.. his blood had 67.8 micrograms per liter.

deaths have been documented in people with blood levels ranging from three to 58 micrograms per liter.

ShirleyW

On the show that analyzes the last days and autopsy report of celebrities, it was said that he was a cocaine addict for years, although he always publicly said he was against the use of drugs.

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Memorial.. To go or not to go

by Emily1987 in

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so, as some of you will know myself and my husband are in the process of fading.

haven't been to a meeting since beginning of 2017. .

we weren't planning on going to the memorial, but last week my mother broke down and said that we have to go to the memorial even if it's the only meeting i go to this year.

ShirleyW

I don't mean to sound harsh, but I say don't go. JWdom is deceptive, conniving, selfish, and cold. It takes lives. The religion is wrong

Hey mom, I'll attend the Memorial. It's like what, a couple hours of my life. Then you can sit down and go through Crisis of Conscience with me for a few hours. What? You don't want to? Oh, this only works one way in our relationship? Well then, I guess I won't be going

The two above comments should help you

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Memorial.. To go or not to go

by Emily1987 in

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so, as some of you will know myself and my husband are in the process of fading.

haven't been to a meeting since beginning of 2017. .

we weren't planning on going to the memorial, but last week my mother broke down and said that we have to go to the memorial even if it's the only meeting i go to this year.

ShirleyW

Are you able to have an out of town commitment that day?
That way you can tell your Mom you attended, just somewhere else.

Why go through all that? Her mom is pulling on her all my mom unsuccessfully tried to pull on me, haven't been to a Memorial or meeting since the 80's, don't go, stand your ground, like your mom is standing hers.