jwvictims has done an excellent but disturbing article on how jw's feel about the child abuse problem.. http://jwvictims.org/2013/11/23/jehovahs-witnesses-caught-laughing-at-child-rape-accusers/.
The talk and the response of the audience are in contrast to the "public relations" line that the Watchtower spokesman parrots off to the media - "Jehovah's Witnesses abhor child abuse."
One standard at the Kingdom Hall. One standard for the public eye.
30 minutes and a km article of 13 paragraphs to consider how the field service group should be 5 mins brief!.
how ironic!.
(find this in the kingdum misery for march).
i am not sure if anyone else here heard this phrase.
i did from a circuit overseer when i was a servant many moons ago.
with my newly enlightened mind i finally understand what this means.
That's been said to me a few times.
I don't go into the "back room" for conversations either. If they can't say it to me out in public, they needn't bother saying it at all.
so i had about had enough of reading jw's excuses online about wt child abuse and the candace conti nightline abc video about her case.
this is a really deep burning topic to me as i'm sure it is to many of you.
so today the gloves came off.
i'm sitting here now going insane with this program of fear, obligation and guilt!.
oh man....seriously mind numbing.. i can't bring myself to share too much of it all now.... but i just want to get out...... tell you all more soon about the manipulative trash..... .
anyone else go to this?
I went to this today. I ended up getting bored so I did crosswords instead.
(I keep a pocket-size book of crosswords inside my meeting notebook)
it's finally finished!
it's a fictional story about an old jw.
it is very long, about 7000 words.. the opal ring.
Hi Julia
You have a gift with words and I noticed on another thread from some time ago, that you have a gift with painting as well.
hi readers and lurkers, .
i decided it was time to register to the site.
after all these years, it was just a matter of time.
Hi Lifeisfun
I'm new here as well. I just registered recently but have been reading for about 5 years.
I'm a convert and have always had a network of friends outside the congregation.
I've always got some project or interest going on and I find that I meet new people through those ways. At the moment, I'm trying to teach myself how to play golf. I can't putt straight to save my life, so to speak. The other players at the driving range notice this and the conversations arise from there. People love to talk about themselves and their interests, so I ask them things like "how long have you been playing? What do you like about the game? Etc, Etc, Etc" The conversations go from there. (I don't ask personal questions and just keep the conversation about golf and the weather and so forth.)
You have the social skills and as has already been mentioned, you made friends in the congregation, so you just use those same social skills out in the community.
hm have a hobby?
im not asking what.. hm have taken up a constructive hobby since leaving?.
My current interest/hobby at the moment is trying to teach myself how to play golf. Emphasis on the word "trying."
I can't hold my wrists straight yet so the golf balls go either left or right but rarely straight ahead.
I putt in Forrest Gump style - "you never know what ya gonna get"
so far i've managed to keep service time to a minimum and i don't put my hand up to comment at the meetings and already certain ones are distancing themselves or not talking to me at all, i have to laugh!.
i wonder if they think i've commited a serious sin well sorry to burst their bubble i haven't, well not yet anyway lol.. i find it funny everything is measured on what they see, but yet i have too but my faith in 8 guys who i don't know or have never met, too stand a chance of everlasting life.. there was a part in the watchtower this afternoon saying we should be thankful we are 1 in 1000 of people in the world who have accurate knowledge, give me a break..
"I find it funny everything is measured on what they see, but yet I have too but my faith in 8 guys who I don't know or have never met, too stand a chance of everlasting life." - tamagotchi
I never understood this either.
