i am new to this board, posted only a few times so far.
no i find myslef going to the computer time after time to check this site and i feel like i am getting hooked!
what is the matter with me?
Welcome both Grace and glenswoodwoman.
Both of your experiences show how damaging that cult is. I'm glad you both are strong women to get out of there.
Glen, please go to Al-Anon meetings. You may be surprised by the support you get there from others dealing with alcoholic mates.
Enjoy the fun stuff that goes on here at JWD. It does get very addicting but comforting to know others understand what you are venting about.
Joy
i'm aware of ed dunlap from coc - but who else of the upper echelon?
hey DanTheMan
I believe that I may have been the lowest level JW to leave.
no, every single woman who has left was lower than you. A 12 year old male baptized publisher was higher than a woman in that publishing organization.
No Appoligies, I'm calling your bluff. You were no more than an instructor or puzzle worker than I was appointed an elder.
Joy
my soon to be baptised friend has started talking to me since i said i might study with jws.
he tells me some people really believe jws have let their kids die over the blood issue.
i suggested that may have been the case in the past but he says it is all lies.
Having worked as a CNM (certified Nurse-Midwife) for the past 18 years in many hospitals, I have seen several babies die due to the blood issue. Especially premature babies who had no other reason but lack of a blood transfusion to lose their life.
It was very frustrating for the neonatalogist or other physicans to try to save a life when the parents were unreasonable about a publishing corporation's policies.
Please look at the website mentioned above (ajwrb.org) it is very informative.
Joy
i am completely surprised by the amount of posts over the last couple of weeks of people (lurkers) signing up to the board and introducing themselves.
most still part of the jw cult, but thinking for themselves and wanting real answers.
i?m still a newbie to the board so i would like to know if this is common.
1. Questioning and becoming honest with yourself
2. The rinsing and drying of a brainwashed mind
3. Anger, don't kick the puppy
4. Relearning how to learn
5. Epiphanies and discovering reality
6. Now where? Finding your Teddy bear
7. Finding Balance
8. What the hell is normal?
Great idea, Dave, but are you going to make it into a mini-series for the "lazy to read" class???
dear all,.
it's a little over a year now (2 years last february) that my family and i left watchtower and i can't begin to tell you how wonderful life has been!.
ok, i'm saddled with a serious illness at present and enough has been said about it, but i'd just like to focus on how much a family can really grow once it has been freed from watchtower's yoke.
Wonderful!
*shaking head at how we used to pity the "worldly" people. but we were the fools"
Enjoy!
i was in a deposition today and one of the parties told us about her friend who was a heavy user of soft drinks.
for years she drank around five to seven a day.
she had been having bone pain and went to the doctor and was told "your bones have the consistency of lace.
Bombay Saphire
*sigh*
i was in a deposition today and one of the parties told us about her friend who was a heavy user of soft drinks.
for years she drank around five to seven a day.
she had been having bone pain and went to the doctor and was told "your bones have the consistency of lace.
Martini straight up
hi, my name is janet and i love jwd.
if there were any doubt, it has been blown away by my 5000?th post, making me a supreme one.
for newbies, i am a non-jehovah?s witness married to one.
YEAH!!! Janet!!!! the supreme one!!!
YEAH, go Janet. You such an asset to this discussion board. Thanks for your wonderful viewpoint.
Hugs,
Joy
some of you believe in souls some don't.
it doesn't matter.. all of you who post here, are doing a great job.
a great good on the planet!!!.
hey (((Keith)))
wow, wb and now you're using your real name! lol, Look at you.
Let us know how you are doing and what's new with you.
Joy
a recent thread brought this to mind:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/86271/1.ashx.
i had a male friend, when i was a jw, who was taught by his mother to always sit when he pee'd.
OMG!! rotflmao @ ballistic
ok, what do men do standing up, women do sitting and dogs do on 3 legs?
shake hands
