..having been raised in your nutty cult i now have confusion over my world view!.
as i'm a brit we don't go in for therapy.
i tend to see it as some bloke trying to ask about freudian sex associations from my childhood.
Yep, pretty much f*$ed my life up as well. Made my childhood unbearable.
All those wasted hours at those horrid meetings. And the bathroom was always
minging. I hated it so much I used to make myself sick just not to go. I even
contemplated running out in front of a car once on Thursday nite.
my jw grandmother passed away last night after a long battle with alzhemers disease.
she suffered a lot at the end of her life, a shell of who she ounce was, so i am happy she is at peace.
as i mentioned my brother died a short three months ago.
ExJ...
I am pleased that you decided to go. I have a grandmother who has been a JW for over
60 years..she's 87 and still pioneers. I have and always will love her very much..she's is
the kindest person I know and never tries to shove religion down my throat. Like you, I
chose to leave as soon as I could because I could not reconcile the belief system. I will
be in the same quandary as you when she does pass, and I dread it. But I am so glad that
your time went well and everyone behaved. That's what your grandmother would have wanted,
I'm sure. My condolences....
i recieved a letter today and it reads:.
sister jennifer b****,.
we request your presence for a judical hearing.
i have to give this talk in a few weeks.
any ideas.
im the most educated person in the hall.
I can't believe how dumb that article sounds suggesting part time work. Doesn't give any suggestions on what to
do once you get too old and sick to clean restroom bathrooms now, does it?
so, at my house we have a christmas party annually.
i told my koolaid drinking bro that i'd tone down the xmas part if he and his family would come and they said 'yes'.. my parents and other siblings are very merrily shocked.. my question to this board is....what should i do or say or not do or say to keep the peace should jw topics arise?.
i guess i'm looking for advice to get them to think without scaring them off.. thanks,.
I'm in the same situation with my parents. I am just going to tone it down, not
make a big deal about it. As long as each party understands the other's stance.
the watchtower endlessly prates on about pagan traditions in popular holidays - while the bible itself is loaded with subtle pagan religious ideas - such as wicked spirits being cast "into tartarus" (a pagan greek place in which the rebels against zeus got imprisoned) or "sacred secret" - a term the apostle paul likes that was adopted from pagan 'mystery' religions.. then we can throw in the reference to being divinely 'called christians' in acts - which uses a pagan term that refers to demonic oracles of the day.. of course, the watchtower has no objection to accumulating millions of pieces of paper that feature occult symbols (any dollar bill!).
in recent years, for good measure, they have added birthdays and thanksgiving to the official banned list, despite the sketchiest justification for doing so.
if birthdays are wrong simply because they figure in two negative accounts, then it makes much more sense to ban dogs as pets because of all the negativity in the bible about them!.
Something you might find amusing...I invited my parents over Christmas Day for dinner but my
mom asked if we could do it Saturday as Sunday was too "Christmasy." So I'm cooking Christmas
dinner on Christmas Eve....I don't get it. And she made a point of telling me that she couldn't be there
until 5:00 because they have a Bethel speaker. Exactly how most people want to spend their
Christmas Eve, I imagine!
a letter to jehovah.
to write a letter to santa.
to write a letter to jehovah.. thank you for promising.
I ate a vertboten birthday cupcake when I was six. I was the best damned cupcake I've ever had.
what saying made it all around the country?.
the ones that were passed around, word of mouth.. for example.
"donations basis proves jehovah is behind the work!".
Bad associations spoil useful habits.
Our dear Heavenly father, Jehovah....
AND the kicker...Jehovah's happy people.
inspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.
if you would like to join me that would be great!
we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.
This brings back memories of JW articles while I was growing up...do you notice that they list the
"positive" things about a subject ALWAYS followed by another paragraph starting with, However.
Yes, college may be able to get you a better job, etc.. However, you'll probably become an alcoholic,
commit fornication and die of AIDS; that is, if the New System doesn't save you first.
myth: parents who are jehovahs witnesses.
force their children to follow their faith.. fact:witness parents strive to inculcate love.
for god in their offspring, just as the bible.
I couldn't take it anymore and left at 18. Fortunately, I refused to consider getting baptised since
I knew I was going to leave as soon as I could.
I hated the threats. Like God wasn't going to love you if you didn't want to go and sit through
hours of boring crap THREE times a week.
I am actually writing a book on how it was growing up JW AND having a weight issue and how
I finally made peace with myself....