The only embarrassing/hard to watch demonstration I've seen is where a sister was giving a talk and her boob fell out of her top She didn't realise and not even her householder told her. She realised toward the end of the talk and didn't come back to the seats. I was a kid, so couldn't tell her but I'm surprised nobody else did.
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listening to an uncomfortable talk / demonstration.
by man in black ini was thinking this afternoon about a sister who was married to a witness guy who worked pt, they had one 5 yr. old boy.
and a 1 yr. old girl.. one evening at the tms she was giving talk # 3, and halfway through the talk she stopped, looked a little flustered, and said "i can't do this anymore".
she proceeded to get off the stage, and walked out of the hall with her husband looking very red - faced while he was gathering up the kids.. shortly afterwards, she was df'ed and left her husband for another guy.. back then i was just mortified regarding what she said, ( along with most of the congregation) but now i understand her position.. another extreme demonstration was in the late 1980's.
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Australians can you help this person?
by Gordy ini received today an email from a friend who in turn where contacted by this lady in sydney, australia.. .
i post what she wrote, if any one in australia can help or know of someone or group there that can help.. .
i will let you have her email address.
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wantstoleave
He probably thinks that if he leaves her, she will commit adultery before he does, thus freeing him to marry a JW. Like wasblind says, he's probably already got one picked out
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 07-11-10 WT Study (WOMEN SUBMIT)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 07-11-10 wt study (may 15, 2010, pages 12-16)(women submit).
jehovah has established the orderly sequence that the apostle paul mentioned when he wrote that "the head of every man is the christ" and "the head of the christ is god.
what man is their head?.
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Meangirl...I totally get you I have worked since I was 14 and even went to College and got a degree...but it was not met without 'words' from elders and their wives, and anyone else who cared to offer their opinion where it wasn't wanted. I was berated, looked down upon, talked about and even told to my face that I should not be working or getting a degree but rather should be pioneering, that the end was near and I was wasting my time pursuing 'material gains'. I was doing nothing of the sort. I was merely helping support my family (we were fairly poor) and getting an education so I could better my prospects.
Meanwhile 'well meaning' sisters were forever telling me I was 'past my used by date' and 'on the shelf' when I was only 16 ! Once I passed 18 without a boyfriend, they all but gave up asking me at every meeting 'do you have a boyfriend yet' . When I married at 24, they all congratulated me and said 'well now you won't have to work'. Um yes I had to, even while pregnant, because my lazy ass of a husband refused to. Til the day he walked out, he didn't work but I worked full time. Yet everyone has the nerve to tell me when he walked how I now had to remain faithful and not ever date or marry again .
Funny, but the elders and bros and sis that used to condemn me for getting an eduction now praise me for having something to support my children with...especially as their good for nothing father doesn't support them but is still playing the good witness boy in another country .
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 07-11-10 WT Study (WOMEN SUBMIT)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 07-11-10 wt study (may 15, 2010, pages 12-16)(women submit).
jehovah has established the orderly sequence that the apostle paul mentioned when he wrote that "the head of every man is the christ" and "the head of the christ is god.
what man is their head?.
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wantstoleave
I've only read page 1 of comments so far (going back to read in a second) but just had to comment on the part where it said about walking hand in hand with your marriage mate. I realise it could be taken figuratively as in making a partnership, or also in the physical sense - yet - we are all told now NOT to touch our partner during meetings ie. hand on the back, hugging etc.
I married a JW (very slack one) and we legally divorced last year - but not scripturally. The elders never hassled me about it but they kept reiterating over and over how I could never marry again because in Jah's eyes I was still married. Nevermind that my now ex never supported the children or I materially, financially, emotionally or spiritually. In fact, he emotionally abused me beyond belief and twice before he left us, physically hit me. Yet all of that was swept under the rug and he didn't even get so much as a slap on the wrist.
I feel that for marriage to be a partnership you each have to view the other as an equal. Unfortunately with JW's, the woman is never viewed as equal, rather inferior and the 'weaker vessel'. And while some sisters may have decent husbands who respect them and their views, the majority out there have overbearing husbands who bring out the 'be in subjection' or 'I am the head of the house' rant when it suits them.
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Aren't You Embarrassed That YOU Ever Believed Any Of The Watchtower Bullsh*t?
by minimus ini do think about that and i realize that i should've gotten out sooner.
( i stayed in longer for various reasons).
but the last few years i knew it was bullsh*t!
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I only became embarrassed in my late 20's funny enough. Before then I was quite proud to be a witness. I do remember at age 13 having doubts though and wanting nothing to do with it, but fear overtook and I became more zealous as it were. At 19 I again had doubts and wanted to give it away but my mum and brother talked me round. Few years later my brother gave it away ironically.
I am over 30 now and finally beginning to be free of the witness mentality. Because of being practically born into the religion, we never had much to do with both 'worldly' sides of the family. My parents, siblings and I were the ONLY witnesses on both sides, so you'd think it would be easy for me to fall away right? Wrong. Being a witness growing up hindered my relationship with my relatives because they just saw us as 'weird' so kept their distance.
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Just Heard Some Shocking News
by jookbeard ina predatory jw paedophile micheal porter (uk) who has a 15 year record of abuse including the rape of his own baby but somehow evaded jail now is a member of my old congregation;wimbledon.
words fail me, to think of the years of shunning that these idiots have heaped upon me even by my own family and this piece of shit was seen a this years memorial laughing and joking with the congregation.
strange that this news story slipped passed me when it was broadcast by the british media in 2007..
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wantstoleave
Oh my goodness...how awful!!! I sincerely hope that people in the congregation know. Is he living in the same area where his original offences took place? If so, then the congregation is probably already aware. I would be moving congregations quick smart if I was still in and knew he was going to be attending! I'm sorry, but peds don't usually change, even if 'rehabilitated'. I would be very scared to have my children anywhere near this man.
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Is the length of a generation about to be 120 years??
by digderidoo inwith the definition of a generation now 2 overlapping lifetimes, is the society preparing to make it's length 120 years?.
watchtower 2003 december 15 pp.14-19 our watchfulness takes on greater urgency our watchfulness takes on greater urgency.
"keep on the watch, therefore, because you do not know on what day your lord is coming.
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Thanks cantleave :)
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wantstoleave
Right back at you Snowbird :)
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Court orders Jehovah's Witness boy be given blood transfusion
by purplesofa incourt orders jehovah's witness boy be given blood transfusionsean fewster from:adelaidenow june 04, 2010 7:12pma hospital has won the right to give a child potentially life-saving blood transfusions despite the religious objections of the boy and his family.. in a south australian legal first, the supreme court this afternoon gave the women's and children's hospital the right to give a 10-year-old boy - a member of the jehovah's witness faith - transfusions as part of his cancer treatment.. the decision, in line with similar rulings from around the world, paves the way for hospitals to take action in future debates with religious parents.. the boy is suffering from an aggressive form of cancer that doctors fear will spread throughout his entire body if not treated with an intense 39-week regime of chemotherapy and surgery,adelaide now reported.. .
the speed of that process will not allow his blood cells time to regenerate, meaning he will require transfusions so that the chemotherapy can continue unabated.. in a statement read to the court, the boy said transfusions carried spiritual consequences.. "the doctors have told me i might die and i don't want to - but i don't want blood," he said.. "the blood will change me... when you take blood, you are taking someone else's life.. "i really don't want this and my heart is ripping apart.".
read more about the court's blood transfusion order at adelaide now.. .
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wantstoleave
The little boy had the blood transfusion. Not sure of the outcome, but it definitely made national coverage here in Australia. In fact, one newspaper had a comments section running and due to public outcry (from witnesses) had to shut it down so no one else could comment.
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My letter to my aunt.
by alice.in.wonderland inmy grandparents are jehovah's witnesses and didn't raise their daughter to behave in such a manner.
i sent her this letter:.
g82 5/8 pp.
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wantstoleave
I hope to goodness that your disgusting letter doesn't push your Aunt over the edge, perhaps suicide...because then you will have blood on your hands. How will you feel then Alice?