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  Theocratic parental horror stories

  by vikesgirl101 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  so i am reading my new favorite book "i'm perfect, you're doomed" and the flashbacks have started.

  this book is like my childhood all over again.

  anywho, it reminded me of the horror stories my parents would create.

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  vikesgirl101

  So I am reading my new favorite book "I'm perfect, you're doomed" and the flashbacks have started. This book is like my childhood all over again. Anywho, it reminded me of the horror stories my parents would create. To get us kids to sit still at the meetings, my mom would say "Remember what happened to Lot's wife when she looked back, and did not look straight ahead?"

  My question is this: Did other parents have strange ways of making you abide by their rules like mine did? If so, what did they say/do?
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  My 8 year old Daughter's Pageant

  by vikesgirl101 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is in less than 90 minutes.

  we are so nervous.

  wish us luck.. btw..it's a city pageant for the "little miss" in case you have missed my threads.

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  Yes, Jamie, I will post pics on Facebook.

  She won 2nd Princess. Yay! On another note, my parents did not come, and did not congratulate her. How rude!
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  My 8 year old Daughter's Pageant

  by vikesgirl101 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is in less than 90 minutes.

  we are so nervous.

  wish us luck.. btw..it's a city pageant for the "little miss" in case you have missed my threads.

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  is in less than 90 minutes. We are so nervous. Wish us luck.

  BTW..It's a city pageant for the "Little Miss" in case you have missed my threads. It is certain to wreak havoc in the JW world.
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  Living in sin

  by vikesgirl101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have been seeing this great "worldly" guy for about 8 months.

  he has been married twice, and i have been married once for 13 years.

  we both had bad marital experiences.

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  I welcome the opinions. Thanks!!
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  Living in sin

  by vikesgirl101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have been seeing this great "worldly" guy for about 8 months.

  he has been married twice, and i have been married once for 13 years.

  we both had bad marital experiences.

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  Thanks Mouthy. I think I agree. I just thought maybe I was being selfish. It feels like it just leaves an opportunity to leave whenever one wants. Oh, I don't know. Obviously I must not be ready, huh?
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  Living in sin

  by vikesgirl101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have been seeing this great "worldly" guy for about 8 months.

  he has been married twice, and i have been married once for 13 years.

  we both had bad marital experiences.

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  So I have been seeing this great "worldly" guy for about 8 months. He has been married twice, and I have been married once for 13 years. We both had bad marital experiences. Anyways, he wants me and my kids to just MOVE IN. I rented a townhome for a year first. I think I am buying my time. I want to KNOW that I am making the right choice. I have eight months left on my lease.

  The problem is that he never talks about getting married. Granted, I am a little gunshy myslef. Really, living together would be ideal if it wasn't for all the stigma attached to it.

  1. It feels dirty for some reason. Right now people just speculate as to what we do alone. Living together announces it.

  2. It is so hard on my kids. I think they would lose respect for me.

  3. Small town, ex-JW, parents, family and friends still in the Borg...That's alot to dodge.

  So how do you decide if this is an area that needs to be reconditioned? What I mean is, "Do I have this stigma attached to it because I was a JW?" Or is this just good moral makeup? Has anybody else gone through this?
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  Too bad our daughter was born....

  by Albert Einstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "too bad our daughter was born...., otherwise we could jehovah more fully.... ".

  thats what on many occasions our long time family friend (an elder) told us.

  believe it or not, they were saying this in her presence (she was 16 at the time)!!!.

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  I once had a sister come up to me after my daughter was just born and said she thought it was not a bright idea that I be bearing children, because during the big A, I would probably have to witness by daughter being tortured for my faith. What happened to congratulations?
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  what was the worst advice you were ever given

  by rockmehardplace in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was that one way to increase my field service time for me and my wife was by standing at a truck stop and hand out tapes to truckers in the early mornings.

  this is the same lot that is frequented by drug dealers and hookers.

  another time, while studying, i said i did not understand the blood issue.

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  That there were no good men outside the org. and that I had married the best that I could get.
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  My Mother Says Matter of Factly "You're Gonna Die At Armageddon"

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  we were conversing and she said it like it was a fact that she simply has accepted.. i actually found it quite funny..

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  I love that you have a sense of humor about that statement. I got that one too. Oh wait...my kids are gonna die too. And it's all my fault.

  I think it's a great idea to store that information away for inspiration to move on.
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  Missing School Functions

  by WTWizard in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know that the witlesses are not supposed to go to many school activities.

  these include after-school sports and competitions, scouting, and other extra-curricular activities and class trips that may last beyond school hours.

  the most cited excuses (flimsy they may be) are bad associations, the money, time, and the possibility of compromise.. now, i wonder how many people have missed field trips that happened during normal school hours because of being witlesses.

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  vikesgirl101

  I was not allowed to go on any overnight field trips while I was growing up. I guess it was the bad association, and missing meetings they were worried about. Funny sidepoint: My older sister babysat alot of my friends growing up. I was always allowed to play with them. Sometimes we had the kids overnight. I think I had my doses of bad association within my home. You know those kids were dangerous with all their care bears and Smurf toys.