Posts by dogisgod

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My wife wants to plan an anniversary party but we have different social circles...

by garyneal in

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perhaps some of you who are unbelieving spouses married to witnesses have had to deal with this at one point of another.

this is the first time for me and my wife and it has her concerned.

my wife wants to plan an anniversary party for us and she wants to invite everyone that she and i know.

Disfellowshiped ARE REQUIRED to sit in the library!

by brotherdan in

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my mother-in-law is making leaps and bounds in her progress to get out of the watchtower.

for those of you that don't know, she is df'd but has been working on "coming back".

recently i've been able to exchange emails about the dangers of the organization and share jesus with her.

My cong dsf a very prominant brother. He was a very tall, well built man and good looking in a manly kind of way. For a whole year he would come to the meetings and stand at the back of the hall behind the seats holding his bible. It was the elephant in the room. He was later reinstated. I think they were afraid of him. He had a photo type memory but I guess he wasn't smart enogh to get out. I really liked him and his family. He has died now but I still remember him fondly. He was not going to be shamed and he wasn't.

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The struggle to avoid being bitter

by crazycate in

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i dont want to be bitter.

but i now understand why some or many ex-jws are bitter.

i remember when i was an active zealous jw thinking, if someone wants to leave, go ahead and leave.

dogisgod

What is the difference between "bitter" and "anger"? My mom jumped into the borg when I was 8 mos old. I was fully and totally indoctrinated. I left at 36yrs. I still believed for quite a while and then when I read Franze's book I was totally blown away and then did more research. I want to separate the anger towards the society from the anger against my mom. We went round and round this even when I begged to NOT discuss it. She was "faithful" till the end but when she died that was it. She couldn't drive at night so they gave her a phone thing that she could listen to the meetings at home. The problem is that she wasn't getting their association. It was easier to give her that than pick up an old lady for the meetings. I told her I would take her and even sit with her but I'd be reading a book. (I really would have done that even though I never wanted to step into that place) She felt it was too disrepectful (which it was to the WT but was not for her). My brother and I always took her out and did for her but she missed "her congregation".

I am trying to reestablish connections with my relatives which is not entirely successful. I blame both her and the WT for cutting us off from our family. So how do I just separate my mom whom I really, really loved and that irresponsible, despicable group of men who take everything that has meaning from out lives?

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Do you think your baptism is still valid?

by karter in

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i got baptised about 25 years ago and was told the new system would be here by now.. along with a lot of other false promises.. so the answer for me would be no!!

!.

dogisgod

The sister and brother that studied with me asked me, who will surviv Armegeddon? Ans....The Great Crowd. Ques. How are individuals identified as members of the great crowd? after much prodding I finally came up with, you have to be baptised. So they said, You are not baptised so you will be destroyed. I went with them th next day and got baptised...didn't even tell my mom.

Do I think being scared into something is valid? No

Am I going to live my life by a scared 16yr olds decision? No.

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what was the worst advice given to you while you were a JW ?

by wasblind in

mine's was, if your job interfere with the meetings you have to decide who you will choose,.

serving jehovah or serving man, if anyone knew my needs it most definitely was jehovah.

and he knew i needed my job to eat.

dogisgod

You can't divorce your gay husband because he is repentant and if you do you will be disfellowshipped. You also cannot tell anyone about this because you would hurt his reputation.

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Does anyone else feel like an alien?

by bluecanary in

you guys remember the show third rock from the sun?

if you don't, a group of aliens take on human bodies and pose as a family on earth.

they try to fit in but get things wrong and hilarity ensues.. yesterday my family celebrated easter.

dogisgod

I always remind my friends how strange their human festivities are. I was Marilyn in the Munsters growing up. Still am but I like me.

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Dub Neighbor

by Farkel in

i have a neighbor who is a dub.

she is elderly and bound to a wheelchair.

i haven't told her i was once braindead, too.

dogisgod

As my mom got older and her vision worsened the Cong got her a telephone where she could listen to the meetings. That way they didn't have to pick her up and take her home. Then they cancelled the Tuesday book study that she could drive to during the day. In her last year, no one came over, no one called. The elders with wifes showed at the hospital to ensure she didn't get a blood transfusion. They kept wanting to see her documents. She had appointed my brother to call the shots in case of her incapacitation. He would love to do a drive by on a few KHs . I'm sure it would have been onn the news. They made an intolerable situation a million times worse.

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