being an adult, i choose not to attend the meetings.
i would prefer my children not attend meetings, however being married to a diehard jw, this is difficult to accomplish.
the kids do not want to attend, as the meetings are boring, as they have often said.
Ooh PaintedToeNail I want you to pick up your kids and all of you get the hell out of there and away from your JW husband. Let them grow up with freedom! Easy for me to say on here I know. I was the strong JW mum who forced mine to go. I deeply regret it. Hindsight is wonderful, but please free them if you can, and not let them get spanked for missing a meeting with the cult.
Loz x
as i was rumbling thru the internet i came across this site: www.newsystemschool.org.
i didn't know that they had started homeschooling.. .
grewup.
I homeschooled a daughter for a year through Key Stage 3 because of emotional difficulties she couldn't handle in her first year at High School. I set up a classroom and we kept timetables and went through schemes of work very successfully. Academically when she rejoined school she was actually ahead of her peers, but I was diligent and conscious of her not falling behind, and we worked hard together. There is however, no compensation for the social interactive development that learners gain from working and growing with their peers.
Now that I am actually in the teaching profession, understanding the domains of learning, and teaching and learning styles, I see that we were actually very lucky to have been so successful. There are many skills involved in pedagogy that JWs with such poor advice from the WTBS can't hope to achieve. Learners should be in the best possible environment to achieve their full potential for life/work. With all its failings, the education system in the UK is excellent and free, so unless there's a very very good reason, it would tragic to take a learner out of it, and especially not to pacify a cult.
Loz x
well it's been about 8 months since my final wake up.
as some may remember for my intro thread, i panicked and was way too aggressive at first with telling my wife all about this scam we're a part of.
she freaked, thinking satan had me for sure.
Well done Captain! I think you're doing very well as you are, if you speed it up or drop bombs there will be fall out and mess possibly? 'Cunning as serpents, innocent as doves' remember? Sounds like your wife is already on your side in many ways, and if you get hunted down I think she'll be indignant at them. Then might the time for her to see the control issues, cos if you stated your views you'd be DFd for apostasy. Meanwhile keep up the loving care of her.
i don't quite get the issue with your mom? She's DFd but won't talk to you?
might be back, might not.
i really appreciate the historical information on the jw's this board allowed me to find out about.
it really put things into perspective.
I get what you're saying Cage. Sometimes the whole sad mess that the WTBS causes is just too much to keep dealing with. You have a right to protect yourself and your feelings and I'm sure you're not judging anyone, and you're right, life is too short to waste. We're all victims here, and that's so sad.
Loz x
might be back, might not.
i really appreciate the historical information on the jw's this board allowed me to find out about.
it really put things into perspective.
Cage- Go well in peace my friend, you will be missed.
Tal - What a refreshing change to hear a non believer taking a stand for poor treatment of believers, thank you. Sending you hugs re your very difficult situation. If you don't mind I'll keep you in my prayers.
Loz x
i just wanted to take a survey.
let's not let this get into the same old same old debate of atheism vs belief.
just respond with "atheist" or "believer" or "maybe god exists".
Definite believer.
Loz x
i have only just recently found this site, in fact only recently gone online to do research of my own about jws.
before i left i had only gone on my gut instinct, not even realising i was not alone with my feelings.
the week i was appointed an elder some 11 years ago, i had had to write to a congregation many miles away from me about how unloving they were (more details below).. not long after i started to have concerns about jws, expecially as the message of 'following the bibles message' subtly changed to 'follow the fds', this did not sit well with me.
Hello and welcome. What a painful story. I'm so sorry that the WTBS didn't protect your family as it should and also that further injustice has occurred. I agree with you that it doesn't equate with love at all. I believe that the creator must be so disgusted by their policies and procedures. But you're out now and here with us, and that's good. You will find support and encouragement alongside research and information which will help to heal your pain and help you. I look forward to your posts in future.
Loz x
my dad heard from the co who heard from a do that heard from his brother-in-law that heard from the friend of a governing body's wife, that the gb is getting very concerned that "the friends" are losing sight of the nearness of the panda-petting paradise.
many of these friends are also looking too critically at the "spiritual food" provided by the "faithful slave class.".
don't tell anyone else, but i hear that the gb has begun testing something new on some of the sheeple.
Hilarious Billy
Loz x
until recently, i had never encountered this word "believers" used as it is being used on this board, to describe pejoratively a group of people.
it's not clear to me whether they scorn all who have a faith of some sort.
do they include buddhists, hindus, followers of the baha'i faith, followers of the cargo cult, native americans along with christians, or is it just christians who are honoured with this epithet?.
i was totally thrown by the initial reaction to this thread, but as it has gone on people have been very supportive. It's not about a proof of God. As Soledad said earlier, you can't prove God is there through science. This thread is about the behaviour, not of all atheists, but of those atheists who choose to attack and mock and scorn those who have a faith. I am very pleased that Soledad widens the discussion beyond just Christianity.
I can never comprehend why atheists want to attack and mock believers as some do...especially ex JWs, for the life of me I don't see that such disdain for others' experiences of God provides an arena for honest discussion and growth. It smacks of the KH attitudes to me. Our 'god' is truer than yours. It's almost a promotion of atheism being a religion in itself. I totally get the anger at the misinformation of the WTBS and the consequential ruined lives, it's justified. Post that life we all have to find our individual or collective ways to be true to ourselves. I don't see why if that means that a believer maintains their beliefs it is a reason for scorn. Neither do I accept that we have to prove the existence of a creator to pacify others. Faith is what it says on the tin-faith. Many of us have a great deal to base it on. I don't mock atheists for their disbelief, they have the right to choose, it should simply work both ways.
Loz x
until recently, i had never encountered this word "believers" used as it is being used on this board, to describe pejoratively a group of people.
it's not clear to me whether they scorn all who have a faith of some sort.
do they include buddhists, hindus, followers of the baha'i faith, followers of the cargo cult, native americans along with christians, or is it just christians who are honoured with this epithet?.
Excellent thread Chariklo, thank you.
Loz x
