I just want to thank each of you for taking the time to respond. You’ve each given me some great feedback and insight!
Princess Daisy Boo
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Family drama... a personal share.
by Princess Daisy Boo inhi guys.
i was an active member of this forum many years ago and it played an integral part of my awakening and making peace with my decision to leave.
it’s been a while since i posted here.
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Family drama... a personal share.
by Princess Daisy Boo inhi guys.
i was an active member of this forum many years ago and it played an integral part of my awakening and making peace with my decision to leave.
it’s been a while since i posted here.
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Princess Daisy Boo
Hi guys. I was an active member of this forum many years ago and it played an integral part of my awakening and making peace with my decision to leave. It’s been a while since I posted here. For the most part, I’ve just been getting on with my life, raising kids, getting a degree.
Over the last few months though, some unpleasant JW stuff has popped my relatively happy bubble. It started with sharing the famous Leah Remini tv show late last year on FB. I don’t have many JW friends on FB, but I was suddenly blocked by a few of them, including the long inactive ones. One of them even took it upon herself to contact my sister, who is not on social media, to tell her about my post. My sister, who is married to a CO, decided it was time to shun me.
Three months ago, my 75-year-old JW dad had to undergo emergency heart surgery for a quad bypass. It was essentially a life or death situation and the doctor refused to do the surgery without his permission for a blood transfusion. My mother, who is almost 80, has terminal health issues and my father is her main caregiver. He chose the transfusion. My mother, a staunch JW, stood in tears at his bedside, telling him that the decision was between him and Jehovah and she didn't want him to die. For the time that he was ill, she went back to speaking to me and texting me. But she's gone quiet again.
It is a few months down the line and Dad is well on the road to recovery. My sister decided that he is healthy enough to create some drama and she gave him an ultimatum. He needed to come clean to the elders about the transfusion or she would turn him in.
My dad is fairly open-minded and he shared the story with me. I was really open with him for the first time, and I have shared some info from the Journal for Medical Ethics on the inconsistencies about their dogma.
I am just so angry guys and I wanted to come somewhere to share the story where people would actually get it. I really hate this f*&Cking religion. It has screwed up so much in my life.
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Princess Daisy Boo
...to get me all riled up!
I haven't posted on here for ages... Mostly because I just felt over it. Surrounding myself with ex JWs talking all day about JW stuff just left me angry and negative and... stuck... Which is not to say that this site, and sites like this are bad - they were great in terms of freeing my mind from the last vestiges of dubbism!
Somehow, though, I felt the need to come here today to vent...
Last week, a JW family member passed away - an uncle. I am still in touch with most of my family and out of respect to them I decided to go to the memorial on Monday. It has left me so angry!
1. The service - yes - I know - their memorials are basically just a recruitment campaign. Unusually, each of my uncle's 5 kids wrote an eulogy of sorts which the elder read out to the audience. He read out each one in full except for the one from my openly gay cousin - he openly admitted to editing that one - I'm sure it was because it included something about his father's acceptance of him - despite their beliefs, my uncle never turned his back on his gay son - I somehow don’t think that my cousin was ever baptised though - that might have changed things slightly?
2. The idiot woman sitting next to me in the KH who kept going on about what congregation I was with and when I said I was not with any cong, she went on about how I was still going to find the truth - she knew my immediate family and didn't realise that I was a part of them and therefore obviously born in and no longer...
3. The offer for free reading material given by the elder at the end of his talk.
4. The comments amongst the witnesses about how good and uplifting the talk was and what a good witness it was to all "worldly" ones in attendance.
5. The fact that my attendance, as a mark of respect to my family, now appears to be a sign for their hopes that I may come back. Which I will N.E.V.E.R do!
6. I have always kind of classified this part of my family as JW lite - they weren't big on meeting attendance, most of the kids have been df'ed at one stage or another, one of the kids is out and proud and is accepted by his family... but despite all of that, they are all still very much in the clutches of the WT society - I witnessed a conversation on FB today between one of the brothers and sisters encouraging each other to make good of their studies and grow strong in the truth again so that they could see their dad again... just made me sad - these people will probably never be free.
Anyway - I just needed to get that off my chest - I know you guys will understand!
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Princess Daisy Boo
Thank you!!! :)
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Rugby World Cup 2011
by dm6 in21 days to go!.
whos looking forward to it?.
any kiwis here on this board?.
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Princess Daisy Boo
Yeah Bill - we were all excited and hopeful for a good finish but didn't work out that way... and now we have a nation in mourning (us South African's take our rugby seriously!) Ah well... such is life.
May the best team win (as long as it's not the Ozzies )
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Rugby World Cup 2011
by dm6 in21 days to go!.
whos looking forward to it?.
any kiwis here on this board?.
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Princess Daisy Boo
Go Bokke!!!
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Pray for our Brothers in Japan
by doubtful inthis is my first post.
the first portion is my story, and toward the end, you will find the section pertinent to the title of this thread.
(starting with the portion in bold print).
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Princess Daisy Boo
Hi Doubtful
I totally get what you were saying about all the social shite, clicks etc... I remember it all too well!
I moved out of my parents home at age 19, never went to another meeting again. I managed to somehow avoid disfellowshipping and 14 years later my parents and I have a semblance of a relationship, but it is not great and I still believe sometimes that it might be easier to have been DFéd or DAéd myself... but I just can't deal with the heartbreak that would have caused.
Good luck with your journey hun!
Boo