and would you want to?
its starting to seem like a distent memory for me, even though its only been a year.
I wish you could just forget all about it and start all over again... But for me I guess its impossible... Most of my family is still eager JWs - and in almost all of our conversations, they try to put in some spiritual thoughts...
I think its easier to forget if your family is not JWs.
Miss Bohm
hi all, i'm still pretty new here, but i wanted to talk about something more substansive than low quality generic soda brands (my first post and my logon name).. of all the negative side effects of my dub past, the one that still haunts me the most is my complete inability to develop any sort of depth in my relationships with others.
i'm not one to blame all my personal problems on the wbts, but i can't help but feel that it was a significant contributing factor.
i still hate talking about my past, and i work very hard to hide all aspects of my jw past from anyone i meet.
I really understand what youre going through!
I also find it very difficult to tell other people about my background. But after I have started telling some of my new friends about it - things have gotten much easier. They DONT hate you for it , and they DONT have all those prejudisms towards the JW as we have learned in the KH.
Actually those people I have told these things, are more than willing to help me in my fading, and to "protect" me from Elders comming to my door...
Well, keep on the hard work.
Miss Bohm
im fading...and i have a lot of problems in getting my parents to talk with me about a lot of things... especially my "worldly" boyfriend bohm.
have any of you tried something likewise?.
my parents wont see him - and we have been together for a year now... i really miss the close relationship i had to my family before... i dont understand why they wont even talk with him.. how can i convinse them into meeting him?.
Im in the early twenties and he is in the late twenties. I have not lived at home since I was 19. Im living at my own.
Since I began fading away from the socalled truth, I have missed the close relationship I had with my parents... I love them so much...even though they treat me this way.
My boyfriend and I are planning to get married, it would be terrible if my family refused to come to the wedding... So im a little desperate. Furthermore I have very old grandparents, whom I would like to introduce to my boyfriend before they die... Well, there is a lot of reasons why I would love my family to get to know Bohm.
Do you know any scriptures, or do you have any advice for a person in my situation? Personally I find it strange that a christian family cant welcome another person into their house without prejudism, when my inlaws who are atheists have been welcomming me without any questions.
Love, Miss Bohm
im fading...and i have a lot of problems in getting my parents to talk with me about a lot of things... especially my "worldly" boyfriend bohm.
have any of you tried something likewise?.
my parents wont see him - and we have been together for a year now... i really miss the close relationship i had to my family before... i dont understand why they wont even talk with him.. how can i convinse them into meeting him?.
Oooops I forgot to give my post a title..
im fading...and i have a lot of problems in getting my parents to talk with me about a lot of things... especially my "worldly" boyfriend bohm.
have any of you tried something likewise?.
my parents wont see him - and we have been together for a year now... i really miss the close relationship i had to my family before... i dont understand why they wont even talk with him.. how can i convinse them into meeting him?.
Im fading...and I have a lot of problems in getting my parents to talk with me about a lot of things... Especially my "worldly" boyfriend Bohm. Have any of you tried something likewise?
My parents wont see him - and we have been together for a year now... I really miss the close relationship I had to my family before... I dont understand why they wont even talk with him.
How can I convinse them into meeting him?
Love, Miss Bohm
i was just told by my dad that my name was brought up last night in the elders meeting.. my dad (is or was) an elder, and he told me that the elders are going to be giving me a call.
they have heard rumors that i am an apostate !!.
he said that the elders received a call from another hall that heard that i was an apostate and 1 local brother also turned me in.. does this mean that they have 2 witness to my sin and that they can df me without a jc?.
i say, go to the meeting, play their game and tell them the BS they want to hear. it would be dishonest, but you would be able to see your family and a BS religion deserve BS answers to their inquisition. besides, you will have much more luck de-programming other witnesses from the inside.
well the holidays are coming and there all those songs that will be on the radio and tv that we weren't allowed to sing or even listen to.. but there are other songs that weren't holiday songs.. my favorite is hallelujah by k. d. lang.
i cannot get that one out of my head this morning.
i heard a different rendition the other day and kept hearing kd in my head thinking that is where the singer would go.
I sing in a gospel choir... I just looove the music...it makes me so happy. Its much more touching than the songs they sing in the KH!
hey, im bohms girlfriend.. i have been arguing alot with bohm himself about the huge amount of time he spends in here:-) now i've decidet to look it out my self.. about me: i have growen up in the socalled "truth".
i was baptised when i was 18 - because of an earlier boyfriend, who wouldnt be with me when i was not.
now i really hate him for it... it would have been so much easier if ive never got baptised.
Until now they have only called on my cell - and I havent answered... I think they eventually will come to my place for a visit - but in that case i will not be at home... This is a new cong. cause ive just moved here. . . I really hope they eventually will give up.
if anyone has yet to see the excellent danish jw-themed film .
"to verdener" ("worlds apart"), check your local blockbuster!
last time i was in there, i saw the dvd on the shelf, with a .
I think it was a problem the jw family was allways depicted in an extremely moody and clinical way. What i am thinking is that that is rarely the case (im speaking out of my very limited experience here!) and will just confirm the idea of an apostate agenda in jw's who see it or in the outsiders. It would be far better to put even greater focus on how jw families are often well functioning on the outside, but very easy to mess up because children are often DF'ed. ofcourse that is more difficult to put into a movie. besides this, i would prefer some of the figures to be more fleshed out.. especially the father and the older brother.
and besides, whats up with the white 'cultish' clothes at the convention?! and SHE WORE TROUSERS IN FIELD SERVICE! (my girlfriend complained about that one, which i found kind of cute ;-) ).
hey, im bohms girlfriend.. i have been arguing alot with bohm himself about the huge amount of time he spends in here:-) now i've decidet to look it out my self.. about me: i have growen up in the socalled "truth".
i was baptised when i was 18 - because of an earlier boyfriend, who wouldnt be with me when i was not.
now i really hate him for it... it would have been so much easier if ive never got baptised.
Thanx for the warm welcome! I hope to get a lot of hope and comfort in this place...
