Oh, wow. I'm sorry, restrangled. I think the toughest thing is being a JW child. I really, really do. It's abusive.
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Little Girls in the '70's KHalls: Dresses
by White Dove indo you remember the short little dresses small girls wore back then in the khall?
my mom wouldn't replace ours until they were very short on us.
she was very cheap.. when we sat down in a chair, it was very difficult to keep the skirt down far enough.. i remember getting slapped hard on bare skin several times because i couldn't keep my dress down when told to.
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Hello
by Thor inmy wife and i have been lurking here for almost three years now and finally decided to join!.
we were in the borg for over twenty years.
we came in together as a couple and we left all together as a family of four.
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Welcome, Thor! Glad you joined us. We'd love to hear more about what prompted you to leave.
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Making the leap - lurker to member - Hello!
by Hadit inive been lurking here for the past couple of months since i started researching the organization.
i dont have many people to talk to and its been a saving grace to read your posts.. i dont really know where to start so here i go.
its been a long journey getting here and it looks as if i still have a long ways to go to get somewhere healthy, stable and strong.
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Welcome Hadit! I'm glad you have joined the forum. I enjoyed reading your post.
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It's a very good article. I hope everyone will read the whole thing. This cult is so isolating. Everyone in it is a victim of spiritual abuse.
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I am moving
by mouthy injust so you all know.
moving june 1st... going back to an apartment... .
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=440+b+st+patrick+st+e+fergus+ontario+canada.n1m-1m+9&ie=utf8&hq=&hnear=440+st+patrick+st+e,+centre+wellington,+wellington+county,+ontario+n1m+1m9&gl=ca&ei=avvfs92kn8ob8gbt7osabq&ved=0cacq8gewaa&ll=43.711254,-80.3725&spn=0.011136,0.01929&z=16&layer=c&cbll=43.711178,-80.372612&panoid=ltw26lrf3zi01miizev-zg&cbp=12,326.76,,0,-16.62.
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I am happy for you. I've been worried abou you. It looks like a house from the picture. Keep us posted.
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Do/Did you have comfortable chairs in your KH?
by african GB Member in.
anyone with a bad kh chair experience??
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Yes, I remember White Dove. And I agree with you.
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Did The Witnesses "Do A Job" On You?
by minimus inwere you really screwed up because of having been a witness?.
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I relate to some of what you say, upnorth. I think being a born-in had some of the same effects on me. And it's hard to "see" it in yourself.
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Do/Did you have comfortable chairs in your KH?
by african GB Member in.
anyone with a bad kh chair experience??
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1956-1960 Molded wooden nailed to the floor.
1960-1967 Folding metal Absolute torture. I don't know why we did it. And we used these at most assemblies too. I mean, seriously.
1967-1973 Padded, upholstered permanent seats. Not bad.
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Gray hairs and the Stress of Coming Out of the WTS
by Scott77 into many, coming out of the cult- griping wts's enslavement, mind control and bondage to freedom have not been an easy journey.
some have developed stress, depression, other committed sucide, had broken marriages, severed family and social relationship.
still, others had to contend for years, the scourge of emotional turmil on their lives.
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Eventually you forget what "field service" even means. It's just some term that you used to be familiar with in a previous life. My gray hairs are just genetic, maybe a few from raising teenagers.
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How did 1975 effect your family? here's mine...
by Aussie Oz ini just spent a few days with my dad.
i asked a few questions about the time when mum became a witness which i know is still, 38 years later, a painful thing for him to talk about.
in the course of it, he also learned some stuff that he did not know about the pressures of the times.. as i expected, mum and dad have different versions of this time, and it is pretty hard to find the real truth in it and in some ways it does not matter anymore.. mums version: she first was contacted in echuca late 1960s and dad put a stop to it.
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I agree with you that it varied somewhat from congregation to congregation or maybe circuit to circuit. In my case, it wasn't really mentioned much officially in meetings. It was more the talk before and after the meetings. There were brothers and sisters running around saying that"Armageddon's coming." Our elders were screwballs and we had a few fanatical, weirdo people that kept the 1975 alarm going. My memory is that our "elders" were in their 40s. And I don't think they had all been JWs all their lives. In fact, I know they hadn't. They did nothing to try and keep things calm and encourage a "wait and see" attitude. I remember clearly my father having discussions with them about how he did n't believe that we knew a date and he used that scripture about how we don't know the time or the hour. (Is it in Matthew?) He and another man in the congregation( a fairly well-off and well-educated lawyer) were the only 2 that believed that everyone else was going down the road of hysteria. In fact, if my memory is correct, the lawyer was made an elder in 1971 but by 1973 he was brought into a JC and removed as an elder and put on "probation" because he was so vocal about not believeing that 1975 was THE date. I believe that my father was counseled also. But I don't know that for sure. I left shortly after all this and I don't know what happened after that first hand. I couldn't take it anymore. I would have committed suicide if I had stayed.