it has been 2 and a half years since my departure from the religion.
i was told by my parents from the start that i would never speak to them until i returned to jehovah dog.
a few months later they told people they hoped i died before the end came, then all of this culminating in them telling my inactive / fading sister that they don't consider me a child anymore and they have given me up to satan.
@Paulmolark
Is she able to act abusively to any other children? I note that point was picked up on by one therapist you mentioned. If so have you considered involving the authorities for what sounds like historic child abuse.
Reminds me of the "lovely" JW Eunice Spry in England who's adult foster children finally took her to the authorities and she served 6 years in the slammer. Due out this month in fact.
http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/maincasescreen.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=2109889&doc_no=s226656&search=party&start=1&query_partylastnameororg=watchtower bible and tract.
started 5/27/2015.
Matt 23 v 23 - 25
http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/maincasescreen.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=2109889&doc_no=s226656&search=party&start=1&query_partylastnameororg=watchtower bible and tract.
started 5/27/2015.
@Fisherman
The Plaintiff wants the Defendants to be legally liable. Is that the same as wanting "what is in WT deep pocket."? Might the Plaintiff not have had "what is in WT deep pocket." by settling out of court?
are you familiar with the motto "professionals built the titanic amateurs built the ark?".
i find it somewhat annoying.
i've been looking for a good analogy like amelia earhart was a professional pilot dorothy was just a girl from kansas but she got back home..
pixel, cappytan, and wifibandit present for your consideration:.
https://youtu.be/g16_p3tncxq?list=plrw9u-n1z2m-_z5_a55vmqj1biuwnslhq.
the saturday program will be added tomorrow, followed by the sunday program the next day..
i believe that the religion will remain stagnant due to their achilles heel, the kids, the children, that next generation.. most of them really don't wa t to be in the religion.
the parents may have tried everything within their power to make the kids love jehovah but we all know you can't force someone to love you and you can't make a grown person stay in a relationship or situation if they really don't want to be there..
What Finkelstein just said.
And the internet is so much more accessible now. Kids in their early teens have in their hands (phones, tablets etc) instant access to the net. Ten years ago they would have had to use the family computer and looked over their shoulders.
imagine three single sisters who qualified to be appointed as elders in the congregation.
they qualified because they started reaching out in their early teens.
persistently and methodically they worked their way through the ranks by pioneering then becoming a m.s.
We in the UK had Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. Not for nothing was she known - and sometimes admired - as the "Iron Lady". But in 1982 when her son got "lost" in the Dakar North African rally for 6 days did she get distressed? Oh yes.
Denis Thatcher on the other hand was reported as saying of his son ... "he'll turn up - give him a beer and a sandwich a wash and a shave and he'll be fine."
And he did.
Women elders? OK until the nepotism for their own children raises it's head and then watch'em squeal.
so you all know that my wife is still blinded....i am well awake and so are our son's.
so she is expecting me to use my vacation time from work to attend the d.c. waste 3 days of dribble from the cult.
what of waste of time....yet i will do it to keep the peace.
i often wonder if apostasy could be defined as the "silent problem", as the majority who leave for this reason choose to fade saying nothing.
in all the decades i was a witness i could probably count on 2 hands those who were disfellowshipped for apostasy.i must admit it wasn't until i came on the internet that i fully realise the depth and extent of the problem.
i think of that young girl high school speech that went viral, and you can't tell me all those 300000+ views were all none jws.
Over 600,000 views now ...
About a year ago one left our hall. DA'd. No family but she let it be known she didn't agree with doctrine. Those in the know say she went apostate.
Now as for faders one went six months ago but didn't specify why - I hear that she won't answer the door/take phone calls. It was sudden but unannounced. I suspect it might be pedo/apostasy but can't be sure. Perhaps she just got fed up waiting for Armageddy.
When I was an elder not one DF/DA went for Apostasy - it was always unpermitted sex! (With an isolated fraud case too) Though funnily enough six with Irish connections went within two years in the early 1980's following Ray Franz and "trouble in Ireland".
hey guys i just wanted to share my jw broadcast parody with you all.
i think some of you may find it humorous.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kvrqwwgnq.
