this morning i went to my computer to find my screen packed with messages.. several asswipes keeps sending me advertising messages on my yahoo!
messenger.
when i put the username on "ignore" the person increments the username-number by one and sends another message.. this has been going on for the last few days.. [>:(][>:(][>:(][>:(][>:(].
I'm not sure if it will work in your program but this might be worth a try
Take the name - let's say " sam1@hotmail.com" is the nutcase posting to you. You block sam 1 and he sends sam2 sam3 sam4...
try blocking sam* and it might get rid of all the sams
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
i've always felt that the adult jws got off pretty easily compared to jw kids.. for instance: .
my dad went to work, and didn't bother his co-workers with jw stuff.
it wasn't allowed.
terafera - the good news is "I survived" and the best revenge is that I have learned to live well.... and happy... just met a wonderful man and we got married last August - my choice this time and a good one 
and the 15 years was not a total waste - I have two beautiful daughters (both out of the borg) and now a wonderful grand-daughter (never ever even exposed to the borg):):)
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
i've always felt that the adult jws got off pretty easily compared to jw kids.. for instance: .
my dad went to work, and didn't bother his co-workers with jw stuff.
it wasn't allowed.
Oh gosh Scully I can sooo relate to your "choke chain" - think my mom had one too although it never seemed to work on my brothers - they got to run free.
Funny thing is that they always got into trouble - with other kids - the police - at school. I never got into trouble - with anyone - too afraid of my own shadow but I was the one with the choke chain.. I can relate too with the public phone and lack of privacy. Since the only kids I babysat were my siblings I never got the opportunity to have the occasional phone chat.
Must have been all that WT indoctrination that made them think we were so anxious to be wicked
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
i've always felt that the adult jws got off pretty easily compared to jw kids.. for instance: .
my dad went to work, and didn't bother his co-workers with jw stuff.
it wasn't allowed.
I have a comment and then a question.
When I was 16 my mother started on this campaign to get me married. I know she was scared I would have sex before marriage (although that was pretty impossible considering the very short leash I was on). But she would dress me up and we would go to different congregations and CA. She would talk to the single - mostly much older available brothers - and make it pretty clear she had a daughter of marriagable age. Some of these men were definitely mentally ill - guess no one else wanted them.
When I was 17 a young man started attending our book study - in our home - and would stay after to ask a lot of bible questions. At first she stayed to answer his questions but before long she was leaving us alone in the living room more and more. She would create excuses to get us together like me being friendly with him to make him more welcome. Well after 6 months of this she stormed into the kitchen one day when we were going over some mag or book or something and announced that we better get married or people will start to talk. She then said we had 5 minutes to think about it and then would be back.
I think we were both shocked. But he really liked me. I didn't really like him much but he was an improvement over some of the other older men - this one was at least my age. He said "So what do you think?" and I said OK. MY mother came in and was thrilled we said yes. She set the date - 6 weeks away - the week after he got baptized. He knew I didn't love him - barely knew him in fact.
Most people in the congregation were shocked. Not too many people knew him - or liked him. One sister even told me she thought I could do better. I would have said no to this whole arrangement if one of her sons was even remotely interested but then again I knew that neither of her sons would have allowed themselves to be railroaded like this.
After 2 weeks of marriage I knew this was a terrible mistake and begged her to let me come home - Answer: You made your bed now lie in it. Hmmm thought this was her idea and she was much more concerned about how it would look in the congregation if I left after 2 weeks. Would up staying for 15 years before I got the courage to leave.
OK my question: Do you know of any other JW kids this happened to. I now realize how sick my mother was/is but were other parents like this?
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
i've always felt that the adult jws got off pretty easily compared to jw kids.. for instance: .
my dad went to work, and didn't bother his co-workers with jw stuff.
it wasn't allowed.
I too can relate to so much in here - the skirts and sitting in the hall. Being told which other witness kids to look up to as good examples when I knew that they were the worst kids at school.
But to put two slightly different spins to this.
1) I remember sitting in the hallwya during the anthem and prayer. Sometimes it was very embarrassing. But considering how low my self esteem was I would sit there and think how "special" I was because I was one of the few chosen ones who would survive the end - OK I was really brainwashed. But I guess that was better than the reality of being a true outcast.
2) As a parent who left when my kids were 12 and 8 I was glad to not have to force them into all those stupid things anymore. They loved xmas and birthdays and it was a great joy to give them something I never had. Something about the forcing them to sit quietly at meetings though used to really bother me. I hated having to force them to sit. I would usually bring something for them to color or play with. We would get away with it until there was yet another talk telling us "no toys" Then I would get more creative - taking them to the bathroom or to the back - anything to help them take a break. My elder husband was not so understanding. If one was sitting beside him he would reach under their arm and pinch them with his nails. I wouls see the child squirming and take them to the back of the hall to get them away from him. I was so furious and would find these little bruises all over their arms after meetings. No amount of talking/fighting would make him stop. Glad I left and took the kids away from him - sadistic bugger
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
kingdom ministry school for congregational elders audio files .
the audiofiles from "kingdom ministry school for congregational elders are now transfered to new and faster servers.
fortunately we have got help from people here, and this moment you may download the mp3 files fro 2 different servers.
Downloaded all of the sessions - fits very nicely on 1 CD with lots of room to spare
Thanks Kent and all those who helped get this available to those who are interested
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
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edited to fix the link
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
does it ever surprise you when you see people that you grew up with as a jw and they're still witnesses?
i went to school with a lot of those jw kids my age and i can't believe that they continue to be jws when they are free of their parents.. i want to say," you're an adult with a high school education or a ged!
haven't you figured the scam out?!".
I suspect that it might be harder in some ways for those raised as a JW to leave after they grow up. They have only implanted fears and no real experience to see that there are good people and good things in the world. Plus if they have been raised in it then there is a good chance they really don't have many friends or family on the outside. Leaving the borg means losing friends family and entire support system - a hefty load to want to take on
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
i'm wondering if the majority here were seriously conservative squeaky clean dubs?
i took the whole thing very seriously.
there seems to be such a fun element here - i can't imagine everyone being those dull folk all decked out in their wt uniform with accompanying plastic expressions.. marilyn
I was so clean I was a drag to be around - partly due to being an elder's wife and mostly due to WT-inspired depression --- well scrap those two. I learned how to have fun and .... well the only thing the org could possibly DF me for now ... is coming here... so still clean just having fun doing it
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
could everyone just give me the figure for the number of years they have been out?
what is our total in years of combined experience here?.
me 7 years.