some of you may have read my jw ex-wife's e-mail to my son last night after i posted it.
this is my son's e-mail response to his mothers initial e-mail.
i think i'll just let this speak for itself.
What a great son you have, flipper. To be honest, it made me have tears reading his email. I'm not saying your ex is, but you would have to have a heart of stone not to contact him straight away and just say "lets catch up and have a normal mother and son relationship". At least you can talk and reason with a person like your son. Very nice
Etna
....my final jw relationship.. i did it.
i killed the relationship.. my cousin rick and i had been inseparable as jw's.
rick is five years my junior, and in many ways i tried to look out for him like a little brother when we were younger.. i have wrestled with an on again/ off again attempt to stay in touch with rick since i left jw's.
thought this was pretty funny and right to the point.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fvqzcziqe&playnext_from=tl&videos=tkjj4l54s4a&feature=grec.
well i am hitting the big one on friday and i am happy it will soon be over.
it is lovely that all my new friends are excited for me, its just a little hard to get into it wholeheartedly when i am still nervous to get our son home.. .
still i did buy 6 bottles of champagne...so there must be a party feeling coming up in me!.
i think its probably too soon, but if anyone knows how many partakers of the emblems this year?.
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etna.
my doorbell rang about 30mins ago, standing out side was a 30 somthing man and a very very young boy.
the young boy mumbled and stuttered and limply waved about a awake magazine at me.
i told him i wasn't interested because his religon had a bigger child abuse problem than the cathloic church, the difference is jw's cover it up better.
highdose, I'm so glad you said something, I think if we all say something to them and get into a discussion with them we are more equiped than before. I've spent countless hours from door to door and I think I know more about the jws now than I did with 40 years in it.
Good on you for speaking up.
Etna
i was talking with a friend of mine on the board yesterday and the discussion gave me the idea for this thread !
( thanks friend !
) and it seems as we were talking the thought came up that many of us when exiting the mind control of jehovah's witnesses we really come to appreciate the freedom to think how we want and be able to have access to other views which helps us to have a broader scope , or broader world view than just the tunnel vision of the wt society.
this afternoon my wife received aphone call from an old elder friend, she was quite surprised.. we da'd ourselves a little over a year ago.. he basically invited us to the memorial on tuesday night, and he went into some story about how many people in the hall.
are inactive/da'd/ df'd.
and he launched into some info.
I'd like to know if there is this new program. I haven't gone to a meeting in 4 years and now has contacted me, and my wife just got re-instated 5 months ago (to talk to her kids) and hasn't been to a meeting since and no-one has contacted her. And my best friend was dfs 3 years ago and no-one again has contacted him. So much for "leaving 99 sheep to search for that lost one, and then rejoicing over finding it".
Etna
i was talking with a friend of mine on the board yesterday and the discussion gave me the idea for this thread !
( thanks friend !
) and it seems as we were talking the thought came up that many of us when exiting the mind control of jehovah's witnesses we really come to appreciate the freedom to think how we want and be able to have access to other views which helps us to have a broader scope , or broader world view than just the tunnel vision of the wt society.
Great thread as always flipper. I think (its probably been said) its the freedom to be myself and express myself without the fear of being judged and realizing that there are people out there that are real christian's (as Jesus said), by doing good to others. I only want to have friends that are like me and do not hold out conditions for being loved. I have un-conditional love for my children, I might not agree with everything they do, but I will love them just the same. I'm sure thats what our heavenly father would be like, as we are made in his image. I'm rambling on, SORRY., I've had a bad day.
Etna
i'm pleased to have found this site...i've browsed a little ...read quite a lot and gasped at some stories, giggled at the one liners and nodded in recognition of others' strong opinions and can relate to a great deal.. i'll try and keep my intro as brief as possible for anyone kind enough to listen.. i got involved with the witnesses in the late 70's in the uk.
i was in my early 20s and had had a love and fascination for the bible since my difficult childhood.
i soon brought my life into 'line' although it took a long time for me to pack up the smoking which didnt go down well in those days when 6 months of study should have been enough and if you hadnt cracked it then it was suggested that you were some kind of loser.... i reared my 4 children in the 'truth' as well as i could but i cant claim that we were a 'strong' family in their terms...just muddled along really..my husband at the time was a very difficult and abusive man and home life wasnt easy for any of us with his anger, jealousy and violence.
Welcome loz, hope you are ok. Its like that feeling "brokenhearted" when they treat you like dirt, but don't despair, because you can and probably are still a spritual person. I never thought I would read Ray Franz's "apostate" books, ut I did and they have more about the bible in his 2 books than in alot of Watchtower and Awake mags I've read. I hope you can get a copy of each of his books, they will help, and open your eyes on things you already knew.
Etna