You can keep your straw men about loving child molesters etc.
I stand by what I said.
I hope we can stop feeding and growing the hate toward the people who left.
i want to start by saying i will not participate in discussion here about my resignation as a moderator at jwn.. simon please consider this as my resignation from that position.. i have been posting on this board for almost 12 years.
i know some of you a lot, others a little and some not very well at all.
i have remained here for those of you who have needed support as you make the transition out of the wts, who needed someone to listen to your experiences of abuse at the hands of jehovah's witnesses, and to both laugh and cry with you as you progress out of the watchtower society.. we know that we have all experienced the cruelty of abuse of one kind or another.
You can keep your straw men about loving child molesters etc.
I stand by what I said.
I hope we can stop feeding and growing the hate toward the people who left.
i want to start by saying i will not participate in discussion here about my resignation as a moderator at jwn.. simon please consider this as my resignation from that position.. i have been posting on this board for almost 12 years.
i know some of you a lot, others a little and some not very well at all.
i have remained here for those of you who have needed support as you make the transition out of the wts, who needed someone to listen to your experiences of abuse at the hands of jehovah's witnesses, and to both laugh and cry with you as you progress out of the watchtower society.. we know that we have all experienced the cruelty of abuse of one kind or another.
Hating someone can make us forget they are human.
This place is feeding hate toward the people who left. It is not healthy. It is not good.
Let's stop feeding and growing and nurturing the hate. Let's stop.
i want to start by saying i will not participate in discussion here about my resignation as a moderator at jwn.. simon please consider this as my resignation from that position.. i have been posting on this board for almost 12 years.
i know some of you a lot, others a little and some not very well at all.
i have remained here for those of you who have needed support as you make the transition out of the wts, who needed someone to listen to your experiences of abuse at the hands of jehovah's witnesses, and to both laugh and cry with you as you progress out of the watchtower society.. we know that we have all experienced the cruelty of abuse of one kind or another.
"I HATE people who try to make others feel guilty because they don't get what they want.... "
i had the chance to speak with a circuit overseer, he was not my circuit overseer and it was my chance to get the offical party line why the watchtower joined the united nations.. .
"are you a jehovah witness he asked me?
(theocratical warfare allows lies according to the gb!
How do I destroy this nonsense,
"SO it the WT DID join with the Wild Beast?? To use the library???? (pause to think) Wow. I never thought they would compromise like that. Wow. (pause) For a library?? and some human rights protections?
wow.
I thought JWs would never compromise, no matter what persecution they faced. (pause to think)
This changes everything.
I really didn't think it was true...."
And then just walk slowly away in a state of sad shock...
so if i send money to al gore to pay for carbon credits, will it warm up the 30 degree temperature outside today?
pearly on years ago when i realized a few people and organizations were using junk science as away to build a cottage industry of money making and taxing, i knew it was a hoax.
then when the data came back to show the earth has been cooling instead of warming, the con artists changed the label from global warming to climate change.. believe what you want to, i don't care, but blind allegiance to the gw idea is so similar to jw belief in my mind, blind!.
"@besty
What exactly do you know about the amounts of co2 and their role in temperature change ?"
"betsy:
The last few years have not seen any extreme weather situations. Look at the stats, the worst earthquake was not even in the last 100 years, same goes for faminine, volcanos etc."
Can we possibly warm Mars and Neptune by putting CO2 into the air? I don't think so.
We did it with Venus to make it hotter than Mercury, we can do it again!
background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .
our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.
my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!
AggieNostic....Please check your PM's...
this is a forum of people seeking refuge from bullying, taunts, oppression and mind games.. how do you heal such wounds if your own brothers-in-banishment treat you with cold, heartless contempt?.
it doesn't cost any poster here one shiny penny to be respectful when disagreeing with their wounded comrades.. there is really just no excuse, in my opinion for getting personal.. .
personal means actually naming a person and referring to them in a way that provokes a defense on their part to a perceived insult.. a general statement such as "the rich" or "the poor" or "democrats" or "republicans" is quite different from a statement about "joe", "mary", "jose" or that places them in a disparaging context.. example: "republicans are racist" is quite different from "joe is racist.
I like it.
looks like the awaa people are here to stay.
i sense they have withered the rentless criticism and now have been refined for the long haul.
they have been washed in the previous blood of jesus christ and declared fit to the fine fight.
What I personally found disturbing about Lady Lee's involvement in AAWA is her response (or non-response) to the confidentiality problems at wAAWAh. From what I understand, she is a licensed therapist. Her not speaking out about the outing of people speaks volumes about her objectivity. She also showed a passive-aggresive snarkiness in the way she resigned from this site. I think she needs to heal herself, before she can effectively counsel others.
That was not an attack, it was an observation.
Oh. I thought it was an ad hominem attack on her.
Much like this one:
Marvin obviously has an axe to grind.
looks like the awaa people are here to stay.
i sense they have withered the rentless criticism and now have been refined for the long haul.
they have been washed in the previous blood of jesus christ and declared fit to the fine fight.
What I personally found disturbing about Lady Lee's involvement in AAWA is her response (or non-response) to the confidentiality problems at wAAWAh. From what I understand, she is a licensed therapist. Her not speaking out about the outing of people speaks volumes about her objectivity. She also showed a passive-aggresive snarkiness in the way she resigned from this site. I think she needs to heal herself, before she can effectively counsel others.
Ok, so now we are going to attack LL's character and I guess her mental/emotional health ('needs to heal herself')? No matter what she said or what she didn't say I think the outcome around here would be the same. It was only a matter of time. She was smart to leave before the wolf pack started in on her.
this place is starting to make me sick.
i want to start by saying i will not participate in discussion here about my resignation as a moderator at jwn.. simon please consider this as my resignation from that position.. i have been posting on this board for almost 12 years.
i know some of you a lot, others a little and some not very well at all.
i have remained here for those of you who have needed support as you make the transition out of the wts, who needed someone to listen to your experiences of abuse at the hands of jehovah's witnesses, and to both laugh and cry with you as you progress out of the watchtower society.. we know that we have all experienced the cruelty of abuse of one kind or another.
So sorry you won't be around here.
I wish you all the best.
This is a big loss to the board.