i'm 26 years older than i was when i got started as a jw.
i was a hurt and angry young man who wanted a world that was a better place, a place where it was ok to be ok and not the same.
i think maybe my anger and hurt helped to blind me from how angry and hurt everyone in the world really is and was and will be and perhaps this is one more reason the idea of a paradise following swiftly on the deaths of billions was not so much a trouble for my self-absorbed mind.. i wanted to believe and i convinced myself..
The sad thing is that youth should be a golden time that you look back on with a smile and a wicked glint in your eye.
You were not angry because you were young, but because of what may have been happening in your life at that time. Angry is not the exclusive right of youth nor is vulnerability to cult indoctrination it can happen at any age. Otherwise the cong's would be full of young people instead of the elderly and grey haired.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ilzaaami.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uazdcs-rmf4.
I just can't pray anymore not even when my baby was in special care. It’s not that I don't believe in a higher power it’s that if one exists they either don't care or have a lot of explaining to do.
I remember my last prayer vividly asking why I had been abandoned, since then the more I think about things the more I can't equate a caring God with the injustice and suffering of so many good and innocent people. In my heart I hope there is an answer and that one day I will understand, but for now I will learn to trust in others and my own inner strength.
i have been in a world of pain this weekend.. some of you know the ongoing battle i have had with my ex wife, an uber dub hypocrite, over seeing my kids more.
3 weeks ago i managed to secure an agreement from her that provided my 13 yr old daughter friday night to sunday afternoons and for my 16 yr old son to have friday night to sat afternoon with the option to extend it to sunday if he so desires.
this is each second weekend.. first due weekend visit she rearranged the days so that she was technically pre agreement start date.
Oz don't feel guilty you had to lay it on the line for the ultimate benefit of your kids. In the end they know that you love them and will fight for them rather than backdown for a quiet life.
I know you don't want to put pressure on your children, but they needed to understand that they have to support the agreement if they want to keep a relationship with you. Overtime your ex's tactics may well backfire as they come to see that the time they get to spend with you is much happier and less stressful than the guilt filled cult manipulation they experience with her.
With much love,
LittleSis
fyi : my wife and i each sent a da letter to the org, and our hall one an a half years ago.. we were done with this religion completely .
this morning at 10:45 a jw appeared at our door, we invited him in and he said the org.
had a "loving arrangment" in which persons who left.
I think you are being very reasonable, but sadly that's no guarantee that the WT will be as reasonable.
Have you read JWFacts thread on getting his records from Bethel?
fyi : my wife and i each sent a da letter to the org, and our hall one an a half years ago.. we were done with this religion completely .
this morning at 10:45 a jw appeared at our door, we invited him in and he said the org.
had a "loving arrangment" in which persons who left.
You have my commiserations it’s never nice to find a dub fookwit at your door.
I'm lucky hubby Spawn scares the crap out of most of them so they tend to stay away except when they visit my mum which is rare and always unannounced.
My advice have a nice beverage of your choice and remember how happy you are now you’re not part of their stupid deluded world.
I love Shamus even though I do have a major phobia of monkeys.
Oh and I’m also female.
today is st george's day the patron saint to england.
he is also the patron saint of a few other countries like germany plus a fair few cities so he does get around a bit.. have a happy st george's day everyone .
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today is st george's day the patron saint to england.
he is also the patron saint of a few other countries like germany plus a fair few cities so he does get around a bit.. have a happy st george's day everyone .
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St George held the rank of tribune in the Roman army and was beheaded by Diocletian for protesting against the Emperor's persecution of Christians. George rapidly became venerated throughout Christendom as an example of bravery in defence of the poor and the defenceless and of the Christian faith. Due to his widespread following, particularly in the Near East, and the many miracles attributed to him, George became universally recognized as a saint sometime after 900.
George was adopted as the patron saint of soldiers after he was said to have appeared to the Crusader army at the Battle of Antioch in 1098. The banner of St George, the red cross of a martyr on a white background, was later adopted for the uniform of English soldiers possibly in the reign of Richard 1. He become acknowledged as Patron Saint of England at the end of the fourteenth century.
The legend of George and the Dragon
The town of Silene had a pond, as large as a lake, where a plague-bearing dragon dwelled that envenomed all the countryside. To appease the dragon, the people of Silene used to feed it two sheep every day, and when the sheep failed, they fed it their children, chosen by lottery.
It happened that the lot fell on the king's daughter. The king, distraught with grief, told the people they could have all his gold and silver and half of his kingdom if his daughter were spared; the people refused. The daughter was sent out to the lake, decked out as a bride, to be fed to the dragon.
Saint George by chance rode past the lake. The princess, trembling, sought to send him away, but George vowed to remain.
The dragon reared out of the lake while they were conversing. Saint George fortified himself with the Sign of the Cross, charged it on horseback with his lance and gave it a grievous wound. Then he called to the princess to throw him her girdle, and he put it around the dragon's neck. When she did so, the dragon followed the girl like a meek beast on a leash. She and Saint George led the dragon back to the city of Silene, where it terrified the people at its approach. But Saint George called out to them, saying that if they consented to become Christians and be baptised, he would slay the dragon before them.
The king and the people of Silene converted to Christianity, George slew the dragon, and the body was carted out of the city on four ox-carts. "Fifteen thousand men baptized, without women and children." On the site where the dragon died, the king built a church to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint George, and from its altar a spring arose whose waters cured all disease.
after lurking around here for about a month, i thought it's appropriate to introduce myself to such fine group of people.. i was never a jw.
been married to a baptized mate for over 15 years.
my wife was never technically all in, more of a fader, rarely went to meetings, the occasional memorial, a convention once or twice.
Hi Yan it's always great to hear about another great escape from borg land.
Welcome to the board.
love,
LittleSis
today is st george's day the patron saint to england.
he is also the patron saint of a few other countries like germany plus a fair few cities so he does get around a bit.. have a happy st george's day everyone .
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