it seems the watchtower staff have made a runaway train with the introduction of the mark jw.org.. the combination of using a gadget driven platform and the fact that the common jw is low educated and easely influenced.
by new occurrings in their religion makes the situation getting out of hand.. proof: gb members wearing jw.org buttons during their speech, gifts with jw.org are given away, umbrellas with the jw.org are available.
jw.org is more important then god, his son and the gospel.. it's the gadget and the jw.org mark that counts.. i am so happy my grandparents are not confronted with these idiots.. it's a runaway train heading to the end of the track.. gorby .
Apparently in my mother's congregation:
Almost all of the brothers take an ipad onto the platform when they do a talk (for their notes and what ever publications they need, and sometimes even don't take a bible).
Most of the congregations sits with their ipad on their laps instead of the WT or whatever other publications.
Some of them even take it out witnessing to show people the jw.org site.
here's a click to the cultic studies journalissue concerning jw women.
[url] http://www.csj.org/pub_csj/csj_vol14_no1_97/abs_wifely.htm#top[/url]
The rule that the man is the "head" of the household and the woman is the "weaker vessel" creates an environment where a woman can not have her own thoughts and identity, and where abuse is likely to go unnoticed. All the power is given to the men.
judge blasts church over sex offences .
by michele tydd .
a wollongong judge yesterday launched a scathing attack on the jehovah's.
Waiting, there are mandatory reporting laws in Australia.
I was abused as a child (but not by a JW), and my mother and I were seeking some sort of support from some of the members of the local congregation. We were approached by one of the elders (who was our book study conducter) and told not to talk about it. Apparently "people might get the wrong idea". I think he was scared someone might think it was a JW. So I had to shut up.
im new here, so go easy with me!
just wanted to know if any one has any idea's or personal experience in regard to drug and alcohol abuse in former jw's.
all the one's i know have just lost the plot when it comes drugs and alcohol, especially drug use.
I think there is a lot of truth in all of these answers.
I was raised by a strictly JW mother. Occasionally she would have a glass of wine with dinner, or one beer if we visited my nonJW grandparents.
I'd had severe depression and anxiety since at least the beginning of myteens, and at 15 was also diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. My doctor and I had a massive struggle to get my mother to allow me to take the antidepressants that I needed, and she still gave me a hard time about it constantly. (I wasn't praying enough and my faith needed to be stronger and I wasn't "relying on jehovah". All my problems would go away in the "new system", so I didn't need to worry about them now.)
When I was eighteen she married a man who was also JW and who is very abusive towards her.
Around this time I started drinking regularly. I would often sneak large quantities of alcohol into the house at night without my mother or that arsehole knowing about it.
Soon though, that wasn't numbing the pain enough. There was a family in the congregation whose house I used to hang out at a lotbecause I couldn't stand being at home, and because at the time I thought they actually gave a damn about me. I knew the brother had a regular supply of strong pain medication and I started finding excuses to ask him for it.
Soon after that I managed to escape the grip of the JWs and moved to the other side of town.
Suddenly I hardly knew anyone; the brainwashing was over and I was able to see that everything I had been taught my whole life was all lies; the aspects of myself that I had burried because they didn't fit with cult law could surface; I was constantly being guilt tripped by my mother; I was vulnerable because I had always been totaly sheltered and then when I was preyed upon my mother said it was because I had "turned my back on jehovah".
The level of my drinking increased and since I was not under constant supervision I started seeking out more drugs.
today, i was pissed.
so i wrote an official open letter to the borg.
i'm posting it everywhere i can.. .
Braincleaned, that is a great letter and I'm glad it has already helped people.
It makes sense to me. It points out where the GB is going against their own supposed beliefs; it doesn't detract from its meaning if they are not your beliefs.
so one of my in-laws, a born in dub, started asking me questions about the issues i am having with the religion.
so i told her, rather carefully, how i discovered all the child pedophile cases, went over some of the case details, explained it is occurring all over the world, so isn't just some random misunderstanding, but is widespread hiding of child sex u all abuse.
she was horrified.
When I was in my teens, I knew of a nearby congregation where some kids were being sexually abused by members of two families. One of the elders wanted to warn anyone with kids in that congregation and in nearby congregations, and all of the other elders were trying to force his silence. In the end I heard he stepped down from being an elder.
so one of my in-laws, a born in dub, started asking me questions about the issues i am having with the religion.
so i told her, rather carefully, how i discovered all the child pedophile cases, went over some of the case details, explained it is occurring all over the world, so isn't just some random misunderstanding, but is widespread hiding of child sex u all abuse.
she was horrified.
What...more donations? It was bad enough with the "contribution" box and the "www" box.
how's these comments in this weeks study?.
i understood that i had neglected my children when they most needed my guidance and affection, admits eduardo.
i had not been there to read them bible stories, to pray with them, to cuddle them, and to play with them.
True point, Blondie... In my mother's congregation an elder's son got DF'ed. I heard he joined the army after that (probably because after growing up in the JWs with an elder for a father he didn't know how to think or decide anything for himself, so he needed to find someone else to push him around).
how's these comments in this weeks study?.
i understood that i had neglected my children when they most needed my guidance and affection, admits eduardo.
i had not been there to read them bible stories, to pray with them, to cuddle them, and to play with them.
I was raised by a single mother (as far as I can understand from the little bits I've heard, my father kicked her out when she wouldn't stop preaching to him and his parents). Every morning she read the text at breakfast; she pioneered and cleaned houses while I was at school; we attended every meeting and prepared in great depth for all of them; she enforced extra family study every week; I struggled to do my homework while she was cooking or doing housework or after she went to bed; we trudged around the blocks on Saturdays and often Sundays as well.
My mother got a small allowance from the government for being a single parent. She struggled to pay the bills and put food on the table and petrol in the car (in fact, sometimes we walked everywhere for months on end because she couldn't aford to keep the car running), but money went in the box every week. If my grandparents gave me some money as a present, whether it was $5 or $50, my mother forced me to put it in the box.
Meanwhile, she was too busy with her ministry and her hopes for the future and her goals for both of us in the organisation that she had no idea about anything that was going on in my head and in my life.
I did get baptised when I was 16 but I left when I was 18. I don't believe my baptism meant anything since I'd never been allowed to think.
How are children supposed to "make the truth their own" if they are not allowed to know about anything else?
My mother is likely one of those sitting at home tonight, praying through her tears, asking where she went wrong. Where she went wrong was in joining that dangerous cult in the first place, but I don't know if she will ever understand that. She actually seems to believe in it!
how's these comments in this weeks study?.
i understood that i had neglected my children when they most needed my guidance and affection, admits eduardo.
i had not been there to read them bible stories, to pray with them, to cuddle them, and to play with them.
Oh yes, HeyThere, the thing that I find most disturbing about that story is that Lott would rather give his daughters to the mob than have them rape the angels! So disgusting!
