yesterday i spoke of my disfellow-shipping from the jehovahs witnesses.
i had been depressed for many years due to a lifetime of abuse.
as long as i could remember i thought of suicide as the ace up my sleeve; something to do when i thought i could not take it anymore.. after 15 years of marriage to a witness who was emotionally and sexually abusive the thoughts of suicide were on my mind almost constantly.
Thanks, I've talked to a doctor, and they recommended marijuana - so I'm trying that. I was really suicidal last monday, and on Tuesday I started on the marijuana and it calmed my brain right down. So I think it might work. I'll let you know as time goes on how I feel.
I appreciate your concern. :-)
clyde and i have a friend who is quite anxious to get us signed up.
it has to do with buying products and services at a discount.
supposedly, a lot of money can be made by getting others involved.
Not all network marketing is bad. Both Donald Trump and Robert Kyrosaki (sp?) endorse it as a way of producing a good cashflow. That said, they are not easy to do. You have to like sales, and be realistic that that is what you are doing. It is not for everyone as they claim, and not everyone will make money. But, if you find a good company and a good product, and work it like a business, you can make money.
I'm in a network marketing company now in addition to my own business that I own, and I am enjoying it.
DS
yesterday i spoke of my disfellow-shipping from the jehovahs witnesses.
i had been depressed for many years due to a lifetime of abuse.
as long as i could remember i thought of suicide as the ace up my sleeve; something to do when i thought i could not take it anymore.. after 15 years of marriage to a witness who was emotionally and sexually abusive the thoughts of suicide were on my mind almost constantly.
I actually think about suicide a lot. I know I'd be dead, and I think it would be a lot easier. I'm not in that much pain - I'm just tired.
I've thought this way on and off since I was 16 (about 23 years) - so I figure it is just a matter of bad brain chemistry. I always talk myself out of it, although I think that is getting harder to do since it seems like it always comes back to the same thing.
So, I don't think it is about getting rid of the pain, I think it is about exhaustion and relief.
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sao paulo .
a brazilian court ruled this week that mcdonalds must pay a former franchise manager $17,500 because he gained 65 pounds (30 kilograms) while working there for a dozen years.. .
I'm not sure I agree with the suing McDonald's (although I do believe these companies have to be held accountable) - but the fact is that fast food is addictive, and it is not the same food as if you or I were to grill a hamburger for ourselves at home. There are additives in the meat, the bun, the sauce, the sodas, etc that make that food highly addictive and since the caloric load is dense, of course it causes weight gain.
Did any of you see Supersize Me or Fast Food Nation?
My 2 cents.
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my father will not leave me alone.
i need your suggestions on what to do.. my father is elderly and his health isn't good.
still, he pioneers.
If I were you, I would stop responding to those emails and throw them away like your aunt and uncle do with the letters. Write him an email about how you love him as your father, and want a relationship, etc. but that you would like him to stop sending that material, and that you will not respond to them. Only respond to his emails that contain other material.
If he doesn't email you without talking about the WT, then you take the lead and periodically write to see how he is, shoot the breeze, etc. No mention of the WT. I would make it a moot point by not responding to the material. At this point in time, it sounds like he will not change. IF you want a relationship with him, you will need to set the boundary, and stop responding rewarding his behavior with your response. When you engage in debate, he still thinks there is a chance to win you over. IF you stop responding, there is nothing for him to struggle against, and the fight will eventually die off.
Just my 2 cents.
DS
the january wt has some good stuff in it.
the basic message is that armageddon is just about to come, god will kill people, and jws will be spared because they use gods name (of all things!
he is really picky about that name!).
So work hard tomake your marriage mate feel secure. By your words and actions, look for ways to reassure your mate that to you, he or she is themost important person on earth. To the extent that it depends on you, do not let anyone or anything come between you and your mate."
is there a difference?
page 111 of the new elder's manual:.
making known a firm decision to be known no longer as one of jehovah's witnesses.. if the individual is agreeable, the committee should first try to speak with him and provide spiritual assistance.
I read this passage too and wondered about it. Can we get away with just saying "i don't want to disassociate, but I don't want to be actively associated with the congregation?"
in one of the new pieces of information in the new elders manual - section 5:18 - it shows how elders are instructed to keep all judicial committee information private from media or attorneys.
keeping in mind how secretive the wt society has been in hiding child abuse within the jehovah's witnesses notice these instructions to elders now.. it states, " if a member of the media or an attorney representing the accused ( or possibly victims ) contacts the elders , they should not give him any information about the case or verify there is a jc.
rather, they should give the following explanation, " the spiritual and physical welfare of jehovah's witnesses is of paramount concern to the elders, who have been appointed to " shepherd the flock ".
If they are going to claim ecclesiastical privilege - then by default that makes them mandatory reporters of child abuse in a number of states. How do they get around that??
Why doesn't the society inform elders of their legal (to say nothing of their moral) obligation to report??
as i've read through the new elder's book, something kept nagging at me about it.
then i went to compare one passage in the new book to the old and it hit me.
i've mentioned it on a couple of posts, but i wanted to start a thread on it.... what hit me was that the new book was like an instruction manual to supervisors in a plant.
Taking to court any 'organization' whose owners are all JW's is grounds for disfellowshipping!
The Governing Body refers to the board of directors, doesn't it? And the "officers" run the corporation - but they don't own it. None of them own it - it is, as was mentioned it's own legal individual - as recently determined by the Supreme Court - so the WTBS could even contribute to political campaigns if they wanted...
reiteration that the below is a discussion of chapter 5 from 'shepherding the flock of god' which is published by the wts of penn/ny.
the wts is a non-profit that distributes it's publications free of charge worldwide.
this particular publication while not for sale (well none of the wts publications are either technically) is not distributed broadly but is still nonetheless part of their bible educational work, while not required donations are joyful accepted by all jws for the purpose of this work....... here are the previous discussion threads:.
I bet more than a few new elders were delighted to see this - I imagine there will be a few wives who get to look at this page of the book:
Paragraph 5:
Oral & Anal sex is ok as long as YOU ARE married to each other.
