Wow, before I clicked on this thread I thought this letter was for an "Adela" that I knew back at the Kingdom Hall ... but she's Albanian.
C6H12O6
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Dear Adela
by compound complex indear adela,.
i thought you so very much an english lady of refinement and poise that i am beside myself over this turn of events vis-a-vis your current infatuation.
it is, without question, out of character for you to behave in a manner that flies in the face of convention and our british social mores.
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~~ A friendly Hello ~~
by freeflyingfaerie init seems now it's longer and longer between times that i come to visit this site...but there is a deep feeling inside that calls me to connect with others whose lives have been ravaged in some way by the religion.
this even a few years after leaving it all.. sometimes when it is quiet, i reflect on how it used to be..how i now live such a different life.
walking away from the religion...there are no words to describe the sense of personal freedom and strength that has followed.
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it's saturday morning and i am headed out in service.....
by chickpea in..... service to my community, that is!!!.
i will be spending a 4 hour shift slinging sloppy joes .
at a fund raiser for our little community center/museum!!.
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sounds like a productive morning, chickpea
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For the Sisters: Were you ever happy you couldn't have male "privileges"?
by Open mind inwatchtower policies clearly make women second-class citizens.
i don't see it changing anytime soon.
this thread is not about how ridiculous it is that a female is not allowed to hand out mags, territory, books or carry a microphone if a qualified male is present.
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Yes and here are my reasons:
- Less work, Less stress
- I don't have to worry about not being qualified for these male "privileges" or getting snubbed of them.
- There's no one "encouraging" me to take up these male "privileges" or make these male "privileges" as my spiritual goals.
- There's no elders threatening to take away these male "privileges."
- If a relative gets DF or DA, then I don't have to worry about losing these male "privileges."
- Without these male "privileges," I'm not under pressure to set a good example for the congregation.
- Also, being an single female sister with no privileges or titles made my fading easier.
Once I heard that sisters will have an easier time adjusting to the new system because they're so humble and submissive.
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Who Or What Influenced You The Most To Leave The Organization?
by minimus inany person or situation ?.
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C6H12O6
I don't know, it's a tie between these 3:
- lack of love in the organization
- a certain friend / intelligent, kind hearted "worldly" people
- and this forum
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Birthday Warning
by Luo bou to init's my birthday today, i'm 63. i know your thrilled to hear that and are likely to party hard with wild abandonment, but please be careful not to worship me.
i am only a creature.
it's ok to worship the gb though.
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Happy Birthday!
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Hello everyone..
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my name isgeorge.i'mfrench.i'mglad iregisteredhere.iama jehovah's witnessfor 27 years.iamhappytoknowgod.. george..
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C6H12O6
Bonjour George and welcome to the board!
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Your Age at Baptism (into JWs, not Catholics or Baptists - duh)
by undercover inleavingwt mentioned on another thread the age of his wife when she was baptized.
she was a child.
how can you expect a child to make such a decision?.
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18 ... but the pressure came at 16
(I wasn't a born-in, but a teenage Bible study)
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Were You Ever Treated "Differently" Because One of Your Family Members Was Disfellowshipped?
by Was New Boy in"by their love"...... shunning in the "borg" many times has effected not just the person that was dfed but other family members too.. my father was dfed in 1962 for "rebeliousness against the organization" he wanted to go to a different kh than we were assigned to.
needless to say that decision was later reversed.. that was strange, but how the witnesses treated my mother, sister and myself....was even stranger.
it was as if.... we now had some kind of leprosy.
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More like I knew some witnesses who's relative or family member was DF, and it afffected the witnesses too.
There was one explemary family. Both parents are pioneers. The Father was a MS. The son was doing very well. They volunteered their house as a field service meeting spot. All this lasted until the son DF'd. The Father was stripped of his MS title. Their house was off the list for field service meet ups. Suddenly they're like the black sheep of the congregation. The mother was clearly showing symptoms of depression, but one sister called her lazy.
There was another family who's dad DF'd then reinstated, then older daughter gets DF'd, then mother gets DF'd. So that leaves the son and younger daughter, and they were treated like second class citizens.
When there was still a home book study night, one kind elder even admitted that witnesses do get treated negatively because of a DF'd relative. He said that they tend to get ignored and excluded, and sometimes they end up changing congregations or leaving all together.
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I didn't, this is my first time I'm missing the Memorial. I have been attending the Memorial since I was a preteen.
I was given plenty of reasons to go: car ride to and from the Memorial, dinner at a restaurant afterwards, meeting the "friends" again, make my parents happy, etc.
Instead, I stayed home and declared myself an atheist. It was because I can never go back to such an unloving "cult" that publishes lies to its members and break up families.
Since I don't plan on going back to the WT and missed the Memorial, there's a chance of me being evicted from my parent's house. I think I should celebrate.
