Here in Missouri...it's $1.28...yesterday....of course they had the ladder up to the price sign!...
Sure wish we had free medical here! We are paying $550. (For both of us)a month for cobra insurance since hubby retired. That's dental also.. And prescription coverage and hospital.
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now thats something ,you may answer no, do you think youve been *abused by the socirty heres a question for you whatever religion you are in, or were in ,youve spent years doing as you were told,you thought you were serving jehovah,or some diety,think of your experiences as a training ground for life.
all the time you have spent there youve been placed over a barell, with someone rumaging through your pockets ( donations etc,) telling you what to do, and now you realize youve been shafted over & over again, but look on the bright side youve learnt quite a lot,youve had your mind cleansed ,your heart has been broken ,youve sufferd pain sorrow ,discomfort ,anxiety, hate jealousy , broken friendships ,family fueds sleepless nights pressure,& much more ,all in the name of religion especialy at the hands of yoooooooour brothers ,its the closest you will ever come to,to be driven insane, .
Never been physically abused by the Society..have been verbally abused by the witnesses..and also been verbally abused on the X JW's boards. I think worse on the boards than by JW's..Just hurts more when your real family (JW's)do it!.......
Now what?
Signed ...A tough Cookie!
Snoozy......
Edited by - Golden Girl on 17 December 2002 17:33:2
It was a stupid article. Made me sick. They just say you must scream at all costs..unless you are frozen with fear .... Stupid religion..stupid questions and stupid answers.I would do whatever I could to try and save my life!.I'm sure they won't be around to take care of my responsibilities if I scream and die because of it!!!
Maybe they should rehearse a rape first? Maybe they should have a talk with illustrations and role plays for the JW's so they know what to do!.If they don't properly instruct ..aren't they bloodguilty for what happens?
That is so sad!..I know your mind goes crazy when you read something like this. Just thinking the worst. We have had 2 small children dissapear here in Mo. recently. One was found killed and the other has never been found. The first one was found by a Meth lab. Way in the country not far from the home they were visiting. A guy (druggie)staying at the home is the one that abducted the child and killed him.
The second one dissapeared without a trace.
This is somethng I always feared when I had small children. Now I worry about my grandchildren!. ...
You have to watch them constantly!..I guess we will have a bunch of paranoid kids running around eventually...with good reason!
Having a hubby and mother in law and brother in law and sister in law that are JW's is TOUGH!
Ater coming to these XJW sites for a while..it felt so good to stand up for what I believed in. I got sick of hearing.."But you KNOW it is the TRUTH"..If you aren't a JW..you Will die!...
Well he can believe anything he wants..it has broken my heart more than once.
Now that he has teminal cancer..he is breaking it again when his family groups together and prays for armageddeon to come soon.Course they used to pray for it to come when I first met them 45 years ago!
Do they really realize what they are praying for? That's like saying.."God, please hurry up and destroy all my family and loved ones that aren't JW's..so that I can be in a Paradise world"...
It really hurts to be called an apostate with such disaste that I feel like I should have a scarlet A on my sweater!
But thanks to sites like this..it really helps! Just seeing how others are going through the same things.. Gives me the strength to say ..."Those are your beliefs..not mine...please keep them to yourself!". I never could have done that a few years ago! Being the sweet little JW submissive wife I was!
Thanks...Snoozy...
Edited by - Golden Girl on 16 December 2002 16:24:2
Thank you ALL so much. I have copied this page so I can refer back to it. It is so hard to imagine what someone goes through..until it happens to you. It is complicated for me because hubby is a JW. He wants to be cremated and his ashes spread at the KH. I will have no grave to visit! He doesn't want a service! No chapel or church. I imagine his Mom may have a memorial at her KH but it is about 2 hours away. He has been inactive but was starting back when all this happened.He couldn't wait until he retired (Last January) so he could start attending all the meetings. Now he is afraid he won't make it in the "new world" because he got sick and couldn't start back regular..
What a sick religion!
And I can't say a word because he thinks that's the only hope he has....
Thank you all again for all the information..I am going to need it!...And the support!
Snoozy.....
And my heart goes out to all that have been through this already. Both my parents died in a hospital. 9 months apart.They were both in there for 2 weeks before they died. I took care of my Dad at home for 3 months before he had to go in a hospital. That was a lot easier but I always worried how he was treated after I left!