Sounds like the WTBTS's yes doesn't mean yes, and their no doesn't mean no!!!
whathappened
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More legal trouble for the WT? jw.org
by blond-moment inhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/99911315/lorterdan-properties-at-ramapo-i-llc-vs-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-of-new-york-inc-case-11-cv-3656-cs.
anyone speak legal-ese?
sounds to me, (not fluent in legal-ese mind you or real estate-ese) like they are being sued for a bad real estate deal.
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I told my daughter I was leaving "the truth" this weekend.
by whathappened inlast week, i told you i was going to tell my daughter that i was leaving the truth this weekend and you all gave me sound advice.
but, i cannot keep a secret this heavy from the person i love most on this earth, my only daughter, who is beautiful inside and out.. well, i have always had an open and honest relationship with my daughter, and i guess it paid off.
this weekend i visited my daughter (who lives in another state) and i told her i was leaving "the truth.
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whathappened
Everything that was in my binder is readily available on the internet. I will try to put it together and share it with all of you. I will also let everyone know what happens this weekend.
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I told my daughter I was leaving "the truth" this weekend.
by whathappened inlast week, i told you i was going to tell my daughter that i was leaving the truth this weekend and you all gave me sound advice.
but, i cannot keep a secret this heavy from the person i love most on this earth, my only daughter, who is beautiful inside and out.. well, i have always had an open and honest relationship with my daughter, and i guess it paid off.
this weekend i visited my daughter (who lives in another state) and i told her i was leaving "the truth.
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whathappened
This is an update to my story about my daughter and I. After a couple of weeks, she called me and said that she had decided to call me every Sunday evening to see how I am doing, and, that would be all the contact we would have.
I lost it. I cried and begged her to reconsider. I told her this would be the death of me. I told her I didn't want to live without her and my grandson in my life. She said she was sorry and that's how it would have to be.
Then, I emailed her a heartfelt letter appealing her decision, pointing out that she was alive today, (she was born in 1978) because of my not listening to the organisation about not having children. I said if I had listened to them, you wouldn't even be here. I told her that wasn't natural or healthy for us to sever our relationship. Within a week, she called me and denied she ever said that our contact would be limited to simply weekly phone calls. She invited me to vist her and I went to her house and spent the weekend there. We agreed only to discuss non spritual subjects. I continued to be invited down every 4 to 6 weeks and went. We had a wonderful time together.
She asked me if I had reconsidered coming back to the hall. I simply told her no, that I couldn't because I didn't believe it was the truth. She dropped the subject and continues to talk to me.
Since then, I have come to visit her bringing my nephew's exwife, who is disfellowshipped along. She met us and we ate at restaurants together. She didn't shun her. My daughter has also came to visit me in my current home town, and visited the home of my sister, who is also an ex JW, and my nephew and his ex JW family.
I recently sent her an email, informing her that if anything ever happened to me of a medical nature, that I would now accept a blood transfusion and I stated why, using the article on JWfacts as my outline. She wrote back and said she understood.
This is the latest. My 87 year old JW mother is now in a nursing home under hospice care. My daughter and a girl JW cousin are coming to visite her and they are staying overnight with us. My JW cousin knows my sister and I are both apostate but she is still coming to stay in our home and of course will be sharing a meal. This weekend, we are hoping for an opportunity to discuss with both of them why we no longer believe the whole JW thing in a more relaxed atmosphere and in person.
We are ready and well prepared for their known JW apologist responses. Please, everyone, wish us luck.
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Rumors-that circulated about you ( when you left.)
by Pitchess Co-Gen init seems they can't even let you get disfellowshipped in peace !
i've been out for three years now, and i heard that i'm a whack job, i'm gay ( i'm married with a son ), that i lied on a judicial committee, and these rumors were started by my ex-fiance and her meddling congregation.
when i heard about these things i called my p.o or c.o.t.b.e ( mind you i'm disfellowshipped when i called ) .
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whathappened
Rumor has it that my sister quit going to the KH because she is bi polar. Of course, there must be something wrong with "her." I've heard they think that I am a huge card carrying apostate. Neither of us have been df's or da'd. We are shunned by some, hugged by others. It's amusing.
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JW Longo Story on ABC TV July 11th "Final Witness"
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20120611abc02/.
final witness*.
air date: wednesday, july 11, 2012. time slot: 10:00 pm-11:00 pm est on abc.
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whathappened
I watched the show last night and thought it was excellent.
I'm in total agreement that if she had been of another religion she probably would have left him after finding out he was a liar and a thief. She probably felt since Jehovah hates a divorcing, she had to stay. Poor woman and so sad about the children. Another sad tale about lives destroyed by this horrible cult.
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whathappened
In our congregation they always acted like the name cards were very exclusive items of high value and their attitude gave me in impression that they were begrudgingly giving me my name badge. I was always a low time publisher.
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How the Conti case has re-opened a can of worms for me
by Soldier77 ini haven't been one to start a lot of threads and i've actually been gone from this board for about a year only to return after the conti case blew open.
i stopped coming here because i had moved on with my life and really started to put being a jw behind me and stopped concerning myself with it.. my anger and hate of the wtbts had come to a simmer, i don't think it will or would have completely cooled, but then on one fateful morning i awake to an email from my mother.
i haven't talked to my mother in about 6 months as our last conversation was her spouting off how great of a time she was having serving where the need was greater and it was all about her and her husband and jehovah this and jehovah that.
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hello I Am the Tater-T
by Tater-T inso here i am... finally.. i'm 3rd gen, df'd since 87 .. married a worldly girl in 88.. to save my soul, daughter in 90 divorced in 92.... let my daughter be raised by others, figured if it's the truth... i'll present it when she old enough to be acountable... just sent her the video growing up jw 1960-2010. by not wanting to teach this to my child, resonated within and well here iam... thanks to this site and all of you... everyone on my dad's side of family is df'd or inactive except my older sister, who has been flying over here to idaho to see us from hawaii.. which is making me think she is getting tired of the retoric.... i don't know where i'm going with this... i just want to change my way of thinking.. i can't see the future... but now i know why.... i have a lot to share, but for now just one thought, on being a jw child.. in 3rd grade i never got see one cartoon on saturday.. when all the other kids were talking about how awesome hong kong phooey was... i just sat there paralized, prentending to have seen it... and angry lol ... i think there are a lot more people out there like me... out but still clinging to 'the truth' in their heads.. because going against is the ultimate 'unforgivable' sin.... that it for now l8r t8r.
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whathappened
Welcome Tater-T. This forum is a life saver. I don't know how I would have made it without the support and advice I find here. I log on whenever I feel lonely. There is always something interesting going on here. Stay with us and enjoy the ride.
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My grandmother has died - All I am thinking about is the JW funeral...
by exjehovah inmy jw grandmother passed away last night after a long battle with alzhemers disease.
she suffered a lot at the end of her life, a shell of who she ounce was, so i am happy she is at peace.
as i mentioned my brother died a short three months ago.
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whathappened
My advice is to stay home and spend time thinking about your Grandmother. You will regret making the effort to attend just to be shunned and being forced to listen to a minimum of 30 minutes explaining the resurrection hope and how great being a JW is. Funerals are to honor the dead but in this crazy religion they are just another opportunity to recruit new members into the cult. Stay home and keep safe. Your grandmother wouldn't want you to suffer.
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by exwhyzee inwe hooked up with a family member who is married and in bethel 15+ years.
it's almost too exhausting to go into the details here so i'll condense everything into a few main areas that were talked about over a few days.. bottom line, my wife and i finally let them know that we are not jw's anymore and so far it looks like they aren't going to shun us.
we had a really nice time with them and their witness friends who assumed we were jw's too and couldn't have been nicer.. our bethelite family members had no idea what we had been through at the hands of he elders that was the final shove out of the organization and were in agreement that things were handled badly.
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