i posted a few days ago that i had started my series of "tough questions" for jehovah's witnesses.
shockingly so far i've only gotten positive comments.
today i got my first negative comment obviously from a witness.
Even if people have heard the name Jehovah's Witnesses, doesn't mean they know what they believe in. Just the other day, my husband asked me why none of the women rode bikes around, only the men. OMG...we've been married how long? And you still ask me a question like that? It's because they have to wear such long dresses, silly.
j/k
lisa
so my girlfriend and i are getting very serious, and i've bought her engagement ring, should be done being built sometime in may.
then at some point later, i'm going to ask her to marry me.
she was with me and picked out her ring, so she knows its coming.
My dad didn't give me away either. At none of my weddings...Neither parent ever attended any of my weddings.
I guess I'll stop inviting them. ...Or getting remarried.
Enjoy your special day.
lisa
i didnt go to my prom because it was not allowed.
i didnt even bother to ask.
i don't regret it alot, but it would be nice to have a picture or two for memory sake.
Get this...I was allowed to go over to a witness families house, where the girls that were going to the prom, met up to get dressed, then they were all going out to eat, then to the prom together as a group. I was allowed to hang outand help with their hair and makeup so THEY could get ready. But I was not allowed to go.
Not only was I NOT allowed to go to the prom, my dad gave a special needs talk, a few nights later, because so many of the witnesses DID go. It was the regular..blaa, blaa, worldly assoiciation, blaa blaa, type talk. but I was embarrassed and all my friends were mad at me.
lisa
i love (hava good laugh) when i'm reading the posts on this site and i see all kinds of names dedicated to the jw's.
i'm gonna write the names i've seen and if anyone has something else, please do contribute.
1. kingdumb hell .
I don't know where else to put this, so I'm putting it here.
My (never been a JW) husband, was telling his sister that I was in the Witness Protection Program. He said we go to apostafests to meet other people in the WPP.
lisa
can't everyone just put this one item on their profile before posting.
it seems like most posters have no profile, but this info could help in several ways.
i am just guessing, but it seems like more here were born in.....your thoughts on this?......oompa.
My mom had been raised around the JW's. When she at 16 married my dad who was 29, my grandmother send the brothers over to study with them. My dad fell for it hook line and sinker, I was 2 years old.....Less than 8 years later they moved half way across the states "where the need was greater."
lisa
as you all know i was raised in a very prominent witness family in california .
dad was , and still is an elder since 1953 !
in my youth in the 1970's i did my share of sneaking around / yes, although being an elders son!
The year is 1979, I got on the school bus, in front of my house, both parents home seeing me leave, rode to school, went in the back doors where the bus dropped us off. Walked to my locker, smiling and waving to my friends, walked out the front door and into my worldly boyfriends little yellow MGB. We went to his house...did stuff all day..he drove me back last period of the day. Dropped me off out front, and I went to my locker, smiling and waving along the way. Went back out the back door and on to the bus. Our high school year book, we could leave a memorial for upcoming freshmen. mine says, "I leave my ablity to skip class and not get caught."
I did this at least 3 times a week. Never did get caught.........oh wait, that's not entirely true. I did kinda get caught..... A year later, I had a baby girl. I confessed my pregnancy to an elder and told him not to tell my parents, (he didn't) I ran off and got married to the boyfriend. I told the elder we only did it one time, I think he felt bad for me, he and his wife threw me a baby shower and I wasn't df'd...that time.
lisa
this is just a question that i will ask for the ex-jw's in this forum.
personally i did apologize to my friends in personal, for trying to convert them to jw's.it was a great experience!!!
i told them i was wrong and i was misleaded by a banch of false prophets, and i was really sorry that i tried to convert them to jw's.
I've appoligized to my children. They rolled their eyes, they don't even think about it.
lisa
i find this question another i hate to think of!!.
i view myself through others which is a reality of zilch so it is bad karma for me to consider it!.
maybe its circumstantial of many life events but i'll bet exjws feel the power of the above dynamic as a negative force for humanitarian ectics and personal self worth!
I think I'd like me as a friend...most of the time
lisa
i told my friend "flawed" by i really mean a "fraud".
i had lunch with one of my old jw friends a few days ago, and then he asked me, where i went for "memorial".. uhmmmm.
i did not want to lie, so i told me i did not go.
You did a good job. Get smarter friends.
best answer ever.
lisa
if you guys don't mind would you read my blog on myspace and read the comments a jw left and read my response.
any advice on how to further address this would be greatly appreciated.. here is the address:.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendid=8455632&blogid=369515438&mytoken=e4bf4614-bf8c-416f-9399dabc065f11a520399641.
I think you are throwing too much at him at once. He's going to shut down or start getting mean. He'd rather say they are all lies and ignore you than really look at the issues.
ps...I tried to add you to my friends list but it asked for a last name or email address.
lisa
