back in 2001 or 2002, a jw sister who i consider it as a friend confided in me that his son got df'd, she told me about all of the details.
he tried not to get df'd.
he started explaining to the elders why he committed fornication with another jw sister(also got df'd) is that he personally watched his uncle shot himself in the head.
happyexjw - Good for you to have the strength to go through that, survive and still be happy!
What you went though is spiritual abuse.
I say that, not to call you a victim, since you sound confident and recovered, but just to highlight the methodology of a cult that 'shoots their wounded'.
On topic, for dodging shepherding, investgative action and judicials, claiming depression is probably the best - just never be caught in denying that the society is god's organisation.
my lord spoke to me for the first time yesterday and this morning he told me to post my experience.. i know there are going to be ones who will call me names and thats ok. i will accept whatever you feel you need to say.. here goes.
i heard a voice calling ''my child'', this happened while at the zoo so i was taken off guard!
i replied ''who is this?
Water sprout - I don't mean to be flippant, but if it was Jesus talking to you, why did he call himself JAHESHUA MISCHAJAH? Why not Jesus? Or are you a Hebrew speaker?
i have from a safe source that the bethel branch office in austria, ireland, italy and switzerland are closing down in the near future.
most of the business will be taken care of from the german bethel.
nothing is said thru official channels yet, but there is no reason to doubt my source.. can anyone tell more about this topic?.
I thought the Ireland branch admin was going to be taken over by the Britain branch. Austria / Switzerland will come under Selters. The Britain branch will continue to do a lot of oversight of Africa/Asia, but it wouldn't surprise me if Germany eventually has oversight over Europe and the East (Russia etc)
so, just had one of our 'elders' ring to see how we are getting on and if we need any help etc.. when my hubby was honest and said we were ok and that we had decided to just move on with our lives and our family right now and concentrate on that and nothing else, but thanked him for their interest and care over last few months.... he replied by saying, ok, he would let the body of elders know this???
?, and he also reminded him to not forget "the times we are living in".... my husband told me the conversation after coming off the phone and now i feel, after being on a high the last couple of weeks (despite coming off my anti-d's cold turkey, drs orders) , i feel now actually really crap, quite scared and once again like i am making a bad decision for my kids... what is wrong with me!!!.
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Lost generation has it exactly right.
"...remember the times we are living in..." is scary because of the implied, unsettling but unstated threat. Translate that phrase into what he actually meant. "... God is going to kill everyone who doesn't worship at the Kingdom Hall any minute now".
If you actually believed that you'd still be 'going along'. Try and laugh at it, and see it for what it is, - a play for control.
i only heard some sorts of musical instruments.
(although there were a few jw females i once knew who just happened to be wider than the shoulders in a place somewhat lower than the shoulders.
do you like females with huge butts?
Fantastic! Really funny.
What with Nebs dream about a statue, and then making a statue, doesn't the glorious ruler of Babylon seem a mite obsessed with phallic shaped objects? If he had a 10:1 ratio himself, maybe that explains his madness...
i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.
i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?
i've already found several by reading older posts..
London SE
the study editionof the watchtower for september 15th 2010, p13 states "similarly today, a governing body composed of spirit-anointed christians contributes to the unity of the worldwide congregation.
the governing body publishes spiritually encouraging literature in many languages.
this spiritual food is based on god's word.
Welcome Elm!
It's absolutely chilling when you realise the only never-changing belief of a Watchtower believer is that the governing body and the slave class are to be followed and obeyed.
The society could bring out a brochure tomorrow called "Why you should believe the Trinity" and 7 million witnesses would be obliged to change their beliefs immediately.
for me, i was 100 percent brainwashed.
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100%, born in. True believer.
was there an official or unofficial reason that anyone knows of?.
it seems to me that pretty much every publication was studied at the book study, but we never did that one..
I'm from the UK and we did study it - looking at the schdule, I think we studied it in the "Happiness How to find it" slot in the early 90s. I remember sitting in the study & looking at the ying yang symbol, & I also remember the trouble the reader had in saying Taoism.
i met an elder a few months ago at a local convenience store and the word is out that i am no longer "arrogant" .
good to know, huh?.
No longer arrogant?
Hmm, soon you may be receptive to loving correction from the spirit-appointed older men who will kindly try to readjust your wrong thinking, now you have abandoned your haughty independant spirit and are no longer influenced by the spirit of disobendience that now operates in the blinded minds of those in this system of things.
I speak fluent Dubbish.
How kind of them to judge your attitude. Does this mean you'll be some Elder's time counting project now?
