the new study watchtower page 9 explains how sisters should be happy to be servants to their elder husbands.. "co-operate in financial matters".
"joyful to see her husband active in the congregation".
if he makes a decision you disagree with "she displays a quiet and mild spirit and cooperates with him to make his decision work".
"co-operate in financial matters"
"joyful to see her husband active in the congregation"
if he makes a decision you disagree with "she displays a quiet and mild spirit and cooperates with him to make his decision work
Good thing the organization still allows alcohol and anti-depressants, otherwise the above would be unattainable
i ask this in consideration of last week's and this week's congregation bible study which focuses on the responsibilities of christian parents, and husbands.
i also ask this in harmony with itscrap&theyknowit's thread which is a heluva opening post by the way.
i linked it below for those that aren't familiar with it.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/206133/1/why-i-eventually-left.
Life is too short - I sure give you a lot of credit for sticking it out with that man. Very few women would have stayed!
in my old congregation, there was a group of dubs who started field service at 4am - yes, that's 4 o'clock in the morning.
i went with them on a few occasions.. to be ready, you'd have to be up at least 3:30am to get washed and dressed and maybe get a bite to eat.. at 4am, our designated driver would show up along with a couple of sleepy eyed jws trying to "get their time in.
" many times we'd go pick up a jw only to find they forgot about service and overslept.. .
Yes, we would do it every Wednesday morning. Now that I am on the other end of the stick, it is not so cute. I was filling up my car with gas the other day at 6:00 A.M. and this teenager came up to me with a JW tract. What the F***? It was like being handed a rose at the airport by some Rastafarion with frisbee eyes.
do you know if any jws who made a conditional donation to the watchtower ever got it back or were there problems associated with this?.
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truthseeker.
My very senile grandmother donated close to $100,000 last year. My parents were very upset and asked Brooklyn for it back. They did return it without delay.
i ask this in consideration of last week's and this week's congregation bible study which focuses on the responsibilities of christian parents, and husbands.
i also ask this in harmony with itscrap&theyknowit's thread which is a heluva opening post by the way.
i linked it below for those that aren't familiar with it.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/206133/1/why-i-eventually-left.
Itscrap&theyknowit! Your posts are spot on!! You have to live it to believe it. I just shake my head in disbelief that I actually stayed in the marriage for 20 years - Not very bright on my part! At least I did not have a mother in law to add to my woes - so sorry you did!
i ask this in consideration of last week's and this week's congregation bible study which focuses on the responsibilities of christian parents, and husbands.
i also ask this in harmony with itscrap&theyknowit's thread which is a heluva opening post by the way.
i linked it below for those that aren't familiar with it.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/206133/1/why-i-eventually-left.
Not only did it aggravate the marriage - it totally destroyed it. One does not realize how disfunctional JW marriages are until you have been on the outside of the organization for a while. 20 years of serving a husband that lived by the scripture -"for those who have wives, act as if you do not". I was an absolute prisoner - I was to be seen and not heard. From the day of the wedding, I was cut off from all my old witness friends and witness family. I was not allowed to visit or call my family (even though they were witnesses that lived 20 miles away). When we were at assemblies and conventions with my family, he would not let us sit by them. I belonged to him and only him. Most of the 20 years, I spent suffering in silence. I did call in the elders twice through the years, begging for help in his unreasonableness. But, both times, it was very obvious it was just a Good Ole Boys Club. My husband was the perfect elder in their eyes. I involved my elder father the last couple of years (in absolute desperation). He talked to the body of elders in my hall three times about my husband's unbearable headship. They felt there was nothing they could do.
It has been five years since I quit. I took my teenage girls and have never, ever regretted leaving the cult and miserable marriage. My daughters thankfully were saved from any of the brainwashing (since he did not have time for any of us). I am quite bitter toward marriage in general. I doubt I will ever tie the knot again - the thought scares the hell out of me. I love being able to come and go and be a free girl.
ohhhh.... do i ever have loads of these stories!
i pioneered in the mid-90's (mostly out of guilt and fear and hope to pacify my parents before dropping the "i wanna go to college" bombshell on them, but i digress...) and i gotta tell ya, it was the most frustrating 2 years of my life!
at that time, there were over 20 of us as many my age recently graduated high school to "join the ranks" (as the co at the time said).
This thread is too funny! That pink slip story is hilarious! And FirstLastName your memory of a van of 8 people brought back some miserable memories! It seemed as if I was always in the back of some jam packed van without any open windows - and of course somebody would be silently passing gas.
I did get some of the best advice I ever received in my life out in service though.......It was 1991 and I had pioneered 9 years at this point. My firstborn was about 4 months old, and yes I was dragging her out everyday, like I thought I was supposed to be doing. However, she was not your typical baby. For the first 12 months, she did nothing but scream and throw up. She was the baby from HELL. But, I merrily kept going from door to door with this screaming, foul smelling baby. I was working with an older (visiting) sister one day and in the middle of the block, she stopped me and said "Let's go back to the car". When we got in the car she said very kindly "You need to be at home with your baby, not out in service" I went home for good!
do you miss the "friends"?.
do you miss the meetings?.
do you miss field service?.
I miss the new clothes every month from Neiman Marcus. I no longer have any need for them nor the money to shop there anymore.
when the challenger exploded?.
i was dutifully going door to door to door, when a lady came to the door crying about the cahllenger.
she invited me in and i placed a set of magazines.
FINALLY FREE... standing outside of Islington subway station in a cheap suit and tie peddling watchtower and awake magazines
Too Funny!! (and sad at the same time)
when the challenger exploded?.
i was dutifully going door to door to door, when a lady came to the door crying about the cahllenger.
she invited me in and i placed a set of magazines.
When the Challenger exploded?
I was dutifully going door to door to door, when a lady came to the door crying about the Cahllenger. She invited me in and I placed a set of magazines. I told her in the months to come these kind of things would never happen again.
