I think that is the sort of feel-good spirituality that attracted most of us to the Witnesses, & is ostensibly what it is all about. However, in reality, the WTS is a dictatorial 'works' machine, piling rules & guilt onto our lives. Give me a simple Jesus story any day! Make love not war ...
Posts by JW83
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by candidlynuts inthe following is an excerpt from a larry king interview with the author of the book " the purpose driven life".
have to say there's a story in the bible where jesus is walking down the street, and a guy comes up to him, he's got a daughter who's sick.
and jesus goes -- he goes, "i need you to heal my daughter.
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need to vent - just got off phone with mom
by jaredg inman i hate the predicament that this religion has put me in.
i love my mom so much and to hear her cry is the worst thing in the world.
it's so frustrating when she thinks that things are so bad b/c i'm dfd.
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JW83
Yep, keep their guilt factor sky high! It worked for me! And, you know, even if they don't leave the Witnesses, so many Witness parents still keep in discreet contact with their exJW kids because when it comes down to it, families do matter.
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need to vent - just got off phone with mom
by jaredg inman i hate the predicament that this religion has put me in.
i love my mom so much and to hear her cry is the worst thing in the world.
it's so frustrating when she thinks that things are so bad b/c i'm dfd.
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JW83
Jared, I don't know if this will help, but I turned the tables & lay a guilt trip on my parents back by writing to all our non-Witness relatives & telling them about the shunning, which really helped them to see what they were doing. I also never gave up, I called them all the time and left messages when they wouldn't pick up the phone. Don't play by their rules & give as good as you get! Hope it helps!
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my mom stopped going to meetings today
by dh in.
i don't talk about my family very much on here, but today i feel i have to, because today after all the years of pushing, finally there is a result.. thanks to life & the universe and everyone on jwd, who by simply existing have helped in a way that i don't know how to write.. today is the day my mom stopped going to meetings.. i won't go into loads of detail at this point because it's very involved, but it's done.
my dad is an elder and is still going, but my mom is out now.. thanks
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Congratulations!! My mum let slip this information almost a year ago, and today both her and my dad (who I never thought would ever ever leave) are here on this board! Two strikes for us!! Good luck with the whole thing, I know it can be a very stressful time, mixed with tremendous relief!
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need to vent - just got off phone with mom
by jaredg inman i hate the predicament that this religion has put me in.
i love my mom so much and to hear her cry is the worst thing in the world.
it's so frustrating when she thinks that things are so bad b/c i'm dfd.
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JW83
Hi Jared, I agree! Stick to your guns because it is called emotional blackmail. You have to be true to yourself & it takes a bit of strength to do that, but you never know - they might come to realise that a relationship with you is worth more than the approval of their cong! Good luck!
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A Night in the Life of a Young Jehovahs Witness
by drum and bach inthe pre-meeting study had just ended.
mum whipped the teacloth off of her head and told us all to get our meeting clothes on.
those itchy, stuffy meeting clothes!
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JW83
Loved your story, especially the bit about Ethel!
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Can you comment on this story WITHOUT being negative?
by nicolaou injust for a moment try not to be a bitter, twisted, hate spewing apostate and read this....... .
by erin concors, tribune .
jerry and crystal baxter still look back on their first major argument as newlyweds and laugh.
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JW83
Nope.
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You know you're NOT a JW anymore when...(add some)
by Flindersgirl inyou don't automatically wake up with a headache on sunday morning.... you no longer go around (while in field service) mentally deciding what home you'll "have" after armaggedon.... every item of clothing you buy as a woman is not first assessed for its modesty value.... you no longer worry about the 144,000 watching you have sex...:).
when on holiday you don't have to find the nearest kingdom hall asap (remember brother and sisters you are not on holiday from jehovah!!!).
being able to laugh about having a numb ass at the assemblies from sitting and the hilarity in having to tell people that you found the meeting "uplifting" when really you were fighting sleep the whole time.... you no longer have to avoid entire sections of music stores in order to make sure you don't pick up and "demonistic" vibes from backmasked cd's.
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JW83
when you stop calling it 'the troof'.
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Funny FS experiences
by Effervescent ini was just watching an old rerun of "the nanny" where frans mom talks about trying to put spice into her marriage by meeting her husband at the door naked.
fran makes a face and her mother says "meanwhile you'll never see jehovah's witnesses in the building again".
i remember hearing funny stories about people coming to the door naked etc, but nothing quite that interesting happened to me.
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I remember an older sister who talked a lot witnessing to a guy sitting in his rocker on a porch and even leaving magazines with him - it turned out he was dead and she didn't notice! I don't know how true this is but we all believed it at the time!
I'm researching JWs in Australia & came across a funny experience of a sister in 1941 saying: "You are not fit to tighten the latchet on my shoe" to a journalist - what the hell is a latchet?!!
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Australian Supreme Court Orders Blood Transfusion
by Kenneson in.
the australian medical association applauds a supreme court decision that allows a perth hospital to give a blood transfusion to a 15-year old jehovah's witness, despite his family's wishes.. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12302762-1245,00.html
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JW83
Does anyone remember that Awake magazine with pictures of martyred children who died because they'd refused blood? It chills my blood to think of that now, & I think even at the time I thought it was pretty sick.