Posts by Butterflyleia85

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Nation wide protest on the shunning policies of The Watchtower Organization!

by koolaid-man in

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on jan 21 and 22, 2011 a nation wide protest is being organized to alert people on the discrimination that is blatantly taking place in the watchtower organization.

the public needs to know about the disfellowshipping and subsequent shunning that is going on in the jehovah's witness cult.

this flagrantly heinous,wicked practice must be stopped.

Butterflyleia85

I agree with Coffee_black... not to into protesting.

But the message I get and fully support, because I'm dfed and seen my dfed friends suffer worse then me even... I think getting groups together holding events around different areas and giving motivational speaches do better... Then also seeing people passing out buttons or braceletts even shirts that people want to support or volinteer too... passing out brocures to educate... and advertise... is the best way of getting the message out there!!! Not looking like crazies but looking like conserned citizies for our community!! Even getting the news people involved helps. :) Attracting young, old, parents, mothers, teens, grandparents... all important.

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Why Chinese Mothers are Superior

by skeeter1 in

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below is a wall street journal article on oriental parenting.

see similarities to jw parenting?

be in a school play.

Butterflyleia85

Wow ... I wonder if that's why my Japanese grandma and her husband my military grandpa was so strict with my dad... thus my dad was strict with his kids...

Western thinking... basicly us or me... well I agree we are lacks in discipline thus resulting in laziness or not rising to full potential.

I have a soft heart like my mother. My sister is a tough cookie and I think discipline and Chinese mothering would have done her good... she would be a genious and probably even achieve the world. As for me I probably would have commeted suiside... lol I don't do to good with pressure.

I'm due to have a baby March 3rd and it's my first... I hope to balance my mom's way and my dad's way of raising kids...

Interesting topic btw (by the way)!

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What would you hate about the Paradise...

by Butterflyleia85 in

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well i was thinking... kinda random stuff this morning.

there was on the news of volcano eruption in brussel and it was so cool looking.

no injuries were found but i got to see the lava and thinking how beautiful it was.

Butterflyleia85

Well I was thinking... Kinda random stuff this morning. There was on the news of volcano eruption in Brussel and it was so cool looking. No injuries were found but I got to see the lava and thinking how beautiful it was. How actually all worlds distructive events are truly remarkable. Like tornatos... I think of the movie Twister where they were strapped down whirling around inside the tornato. That was amazing and I weirdly enough wanted to do that! ha This is just a few examples...

I also think of the amazing people who were in my life that weren't to moral and maybe even evil... How if they weren't or never been in my life how boring and simple life would be without them. Not saying I wanted to be them but just observe them. ha

Then what about shedding a tear now an then how it's like a release... I would hate to cry all the time because of the embarressment... but the emotion of sadness makes us appressiate the happiness. As well with a little bet of anger and violence... it's a release... to punch a punching bag or to do kick boxing... man the adrenaline of it. Not really injuring anyone but the feeling of it just a little bet at that moment for that short period of time can be such a release.

Am I weird... lol Well I guess this invites crazy comments... What would you hate about the Paradise?

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Sticky Situation - What to do?

by I<3MYGod in

i have posted about my experience with the cult....so now i find myself in a difficult position.

i have left it alone for many years but i wonder what you guys think.. i faded away from the cult and stopped going for quite a while.

my older sister took it upon herself to meet with my family and discuss all my sins and actions (they were active).

Butterflyleia85

Mad Sweeney and WingCommander! Seriously that might back fire! Even if they are out, mentally they are not! My mom hasn't been to a meeting over a year and still she has this thing in her mind that JW are the only true organization God put here on earth for us! She won't look at anything I give her and she gets upset when I say negitive things about the JWs... even if it is the truth.

For alot of my friends that are DFed... they still mentally are in the organization mindset. My friend who got dfed twice still goes to meetings and claims she will be good later and get back in, my exBF who just got married and was DFed for two years just got back in and shuns every one of us nonJWs... That's just to name a few examples. They still aren't out unless they see the truth for themselves.

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Sticky Situation - What to do?

by I<3MYGod in

i have posted about my experience with the cult....so now i find myself in a difficult position.

i have left it alone for many years but i wonder what you guys think.. i faded away from the cult and stopped going for quite a while.

my older sister took it upon herself to meet with my family and discuss all my sins and actions (they were active).

Butterflyleia85

Yelp I would confront your sister that's what I did with mine. But in my sister's situation was she wasn't baptised and did all the bad things I did (I wasn't to good of example anyways so I am no innocent person) but she never got punished and I of course was DFed. I see her with her boyfriend, they get married, and she wants to get baptised so she shuns me. I feel hurt, I keep her little secret then what do I get for my loyalty to my sister, shunned and she is now all holyer then thou. I confront her... It took a while for it to absorb in her brain I think but then I hear from mom that she confessed everything to the elders and her husband. Her husband thought she was a vergin. He left her for two weeks upset but forgave her. They held off baptism for a year. So I guess all is well. I never want her to experiance DFment but I did want her to see how unfair it was for her sins to be unpunished (even if it was just through guilt... guilt I feel is good punishment to ones self).

She still shuns me but I feel ok with her actions because she feels she is doing it for the good of God... as long as she doesn't be a hypercrite I respect her choices. I feel she is better off with this new spiritual lifestyle then the bad she was living... But I would feel even more happier if she learned what I learned, she could then be her normal self and still a good person she has inside her, but that will probably never happen.

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Probably going to be DFed for "apostasy" soon

by WontLeave in

i've been doing a lot of research lately and decided i'm not going to allow the losers in cheap suits to order me around like their dog.

they are not masters of my faith and have no authority to 'lord it over' me.. all the same, many even of the rulers actually put faith in him, but because of the pharisees they would not confess [him], in order not to be expelled from the synagogue; for they loved the glory of men more than even the glory of god.

- john 12:42-43 .

Butterflyleia85

I like your attitude.

Keep that confidence in God!

I totally agree with you.

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Father Severely Abused Me

by Band on the Run in

my father severely abused me.

several times i fought for my very life.

i was the eldest and the scapegoat.

Butterflyleia85

Wow that is defiantly before my time (I'm born in 1985), to think that all happened just seem so crazy... what went on at that time. But as far as your personal abuse I can truely simpathize. I too was a victim of my dad's abuse... as well as my mother being a victim, who still holds on to the hurt to this day! She speaks out freely about the abuse but it's so embarressing to me... she tells everyone... but I guess she will never get over it completely. I just wish she can let go ... let go of the religion that abused her as well. I see it but she always makes excuses for them and then says when the end comes God will take care of things, for now we just have to be thankful we have a guidance/organization that God gave us, it the closest to perfection we are going to get. (I think man why why, if only I could gave her more confidance in God alone not in these organization)

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Got a letter inviting me to my Judicial hearing- should I go?

by hoggieman in

hey everyone, my family and i have not gone to meeting in over a year.

rumors have swirled about us, but i have always dodged the elders calls and never said anything about my feelings.

so after a while the calls/visits dwindled, but in october they came by again and saw our halloween decorations.

Butterflyleia85

Nope I wouldn't go through the trouble if you don't plan on going back... your caught... and especially if your family don't talk to you anyways. I think it would be kinda different if they did though, I would have a hard time answering that one sence I would love to have been in you secretive shoes before you were caught. I wanted to get in to just fade out really and blame the holiday stuff on my nonJW husband.

If you do go to the Judicial hearing ... expect them to check up on you more or some how (even though gossip isn't allowed) other JW come and visit you and your family to see how you are (ha really to see if you are living worldly).

That's my opinion anyways.

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when will i taste freedom?

by Evidently Apostate in

for all those that have been able to rescue thier loved ones from this religion the feeling of freedom and security must feel incredible no matter what outside influence attacks you it must be easier to fend off with a family united.

i am not one of those situations and i am always dancing around the truth about the truth with my wife.

she can turn on the blinders and question me and level blanket statements like" you dont belive in an armageddon" or "your a completely different person than you were a year ago".

Butterflyleia85

Aww I feel for you. I was worried at the time when marrying a nonJW that I might give him the run around (back before knowing what I know now)... anyways dealing with my JW family that still talks to me... I truely feel for you and understand when you say "she usually becomes very agitated and concerned about me and looks at me like she is losing me" My family is the same way with me. I feel all we can do is pray that God will wake them up and see what true love is and give them understanding.

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I just heard from OOMPA!!!!!!!

by mouthy in

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friends

you all know he was in a terrible motor bike accident.broke every bone in his body.

was in hospital for ages.

unconscience ...his exwife nancy.

Butterflyleia85

Oompa! Your in my prayers!" Thanks mouthy for sharing hope he gets feeling better!