Are they checking on this for Baptisims now? If they are, get it on tape and sue. For sexual harrassement.
If not, then, as noted above, "Don't ask, don't tell".
what is the current "light" on this hairy subject?
is it okay for a jw to have a brazilian wax?.
Are they checking on this for Baptisims now? If they are, get it on tape and sue. For sexual harrassement.
If not, then, as noted above, "Don't ask, don't tell".
i've been out since 1998 so i've had time to learn how to be normal.
i've had time to get over the pain and hurt of shunning by those who claimed to love me.
i really can't blame them because my mom was born in too.
What a wonderful, well written thread.
i have done this thread a long time ago , but a few newbies have joined recently and may have had some experiances to share , there was 2 in the congregation i was involved with (i was a "study" ) one was from bethel in america and got deported after his prison sentence and the other was reprooved for abuse then carried on abusing in the congregation , years later he abused my daughter and after i found out i reported him to the police , but he had got off "scot free" for 20 years untill i reported him .
i believe the one from bethel was reported to the police simply because elders kids were affected ..
I can quickly think of 3 right off the top of my head:
Brother *F* who was a MS and was molesting both daughters.
Brother *Q* who was the father of at least 6 and was a serial molestor in the neighorhood who went to jail and was also a Peeping Tom and Flasher.
Brother *K* who was molesting his stepdaughter, natural born daughter and son. The daughter and son were both *slow* and he took advantage of that and told them never to tell anyone when daddy touched them. The older stepdaughter he threatened with throwing out of the house. Ends up the mother knew all along it was going on.
There are more. Our cong was a seeming hotbed of sexual predators.
what are their first names?.
mine are henry and daisy, thomas and katherine.. sylvia.
Fred & Wilma
Barney & Betty
he has been ill for some time, but it was still unexpected.
he was never a jw and i didn't really have a close relationship with him, since he remarried after my parents divorced.
i reunited with him in the mid 90's after over 10 years of not seeing him.. .
Very sorry for your loss!
randy watters, owner of freeminds.org father just died a couple of hours ago from pneumonia and alzheimers.
he was 86 years old.
as randy has been tireless in his efforts to help countless people come out of the wts, i would like to express my sincere condolences to him at this time.. .
My sincere condolences to Randy and his family on their loss.
i posted here a few times some months back about my jw bf, and i'm glad i did because i was on the fence about the whole thing.
i had to stop because the nature of his profession might have brought him here, and the details i had given it wouldn't have taken much to figure out who i was talking about.
i still lurk though, daily.. i hate this.
Being female, being treated as a second class entity is pretty crappy. My Mom, being a fighter, was always fighting with the Elders. As a result, my sis and I were pariahs in the cong. So was my Mom. (Dad was DFd and they got divorced when I was a young teen).
Going door-to-door every Saturday and most Sunday afternoons, when you just need to clean your house, go to the mall, get your errands done, etc., starts to take it's toll. Also, when your husband starts to diss your opinions because he is programmed to do that because you are a woman and not to be listened to, well, it starts to get on your nerves.
Since you have been out in the world and understand that women are equal to men and shouldn't wear Burquas, get ready to basically put one on. It goes beyond wearing a dress three times a week to meetings and out in service.
Read about women *Being in Subjection*. Those are key words. For any woman who has gained equality in the work force or education and you walk into a KH and realize that a window washer or janitor is trying to tell you that you are basically dirt with the brain of a Cow (Watchtower from the 1960's) and not as smart, well, you realize that they are a bunch of misogynistic assholes.
And in a major Cult. That is key. Cults are hard to get out of.
...........at the kid's playground swings.
i hate the monkey bars since my feet drag on the ground!.
april fools!!!!!!!!!
I wonder how many will open the thread because they're interested.
i posted here a few times some months back about my jw bf, and i'm glad i did because i was on the fence about the whole thing.
i had to stop because the nature of his profession might have brought him here, and the details i had given it wouldn't have taken much to figure out who i was talking about.
i still lurk though, daily.. i hate this.
Welcome Confuzzled. I am very sorry for your situation.
Being a born-in and having family still in the Cult, I understand. I just spoke with my Mom this morning and yesterday and I had to lay down yesterday and take a nap and just zone out. I wanted to bang my head on the wall after talking with her. Most of our conversation was JW related and why I won't go back and my fighting with her on why I won't. ERRRR, ARRRRGGGHHH.
I sent her the Crisis of Conscience book and she read it and declared it Apostate and evil. (sigh). Trying to get those tentacles out of their heads is, as you are finding, almost impossible.
Please keep reading here. Do not get involved with those mind bending Cultists. It seems easy to say "I won't get sucked in", yet, look at Katie Holmes and others who become Stepford Wives for their husbands, all in the name of *love*.
please, please, please let the libertarians, republicans and their offshoot the tea party, run on this issue.
oh my heavens what a joy it would be to line up all the runners and tell half of the americans - the vast majority of those who actually live on their social security, that they want to take it away.
abolish it.
Bravo JWoods!!