kh meetings were utter hell.
the boredom, particularly for a child, was awful.
i feel it was a form of child abuse.
Flipper, I think I remember sleeping on the floor. I bet they spanked us as we got older for falling asleep . I think I have a lot of repressed memories. Damn this site . J/K.
I hope you can get your daughters out. My father was a quiet inspiration over the years, stepped down as an elder...blank...blank... then at some point made a very successful fade.
I must get him alone and ask him when he came to his senses! Never occured to me until now.
i registered to vote today.
it all came from my political science class i am taking in college.
the more i heard the more i wanted to vote.
I registered a few years ago. Pushing those buttons was like being a kid in the elevator pushing the buttons. WooHoo
kh meetings were utter hell.
the boredom, particularly for a child, was awful.
i feel it was a form of child abuse.
not active but you get the point.
- some loser once took offense that i hugged a sister goodbye at a leaving do and ran back to the elders like a little child telling on me.
i was 15, this sister was in her 40s at the time.. - this elder said someone told him they saw me with a copy of the sun newspaper.
yes, this paper is known for its 'page 3' topless girls but far from pornagraphic and i wasn't even thinking along those lines.. - one brother who had a good job was 'counselled' because he was actually able to buy himself nice things including a new car (shock, horror!!
I was at a friend's house (pioneer, very devout little sister). The CO was over for dinner (such an honor, her family was so proud). I came down the stairs first, said hello sat down at the table. She came down a moment later, happened to trip on the rug in the living room. A week later I was called into the back because she claimed I must have done something to the rug to make her trip to look bad in front of the CO because I was jealous and envy is a sin.
most of us here know what a hypocritical, backstabbing bunch of gossips many of the jw's tend to be.
far too often, a jw wont tell you to your face what's eating them, but they'll sure tell others.
when i started waking up (the second time around) this made me very paranoid.
I don't think my mother ever spread this but I had been out for a few years. I was roommates with my best friend who happened to be ten years older than me. For some reason this led my mother to believe I was a lesbian. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I still give her hell about that.
all i discovered back then was i did not feeling like a freak!....i really started liking girls then, so found a way to make valentines and love notes like everyone else even though my parents were very clear to teacher i was to be sitting in the flukkin library for every holiday, birthday, you name it!!!
i wanted cupcakes dammit!!!
and you think i was going to sit there during the pledge of allegience?
I remember in middle school wrapping a red hair ribbon around an ivy plant and hiding it under my bed. That was my Christmas tree. I then wrapped up some of my own belongings and gave them as christmas presents to my friends at school. I wonder if they knew...
all i discovered back then was i did not feeling like a freak!....i really started liking girls then, so found a way to make valentines and love notes like everyone else even though my parents were very clear to teacher i was to be sitting in the flukkin library for every holiday, birthday, you name it!!!
i wanted cupcakes dammit!!!
and you think i was going to sit there during the pledge of allegience?
I remember in middle school wrapping a red hair ribbon around an ivy plant and hiding it under my bed. That was my Christmas tree. I then wrapped up some of my own belongings and gave them as christmas presents to my friends at school. I wonder if they knew...
hey all, i'm new to posting, but i've lurked for a while.
quick intro: i'm a 25 yr old guy, brought up a jw, strayed for a while, then got baptized convinced it was the best thing for me, the rest of the world is satanic, etc.
i overcame that ridiculous belief and i know the truth about "the truth" but my friends and family are all deep into the cult so leaving is a huge risk that i'm not willing or ready to take.
Well said sinis!!! I remember being called into the back room. I thought I was going to be commended because at the time I was being such a good JW. Nope, was told I had stumbled somebody (story for another thread). They catch you off guard and you're so stunned by the stupidity of it you don't know what to say or how to respond. I love his idea. They probably won't expect you to stand up to them. They won't like it but you are well within your rights.
Be a man, and act accordingly or they will forever shit on you... Again sinis, well said!!!
hey all, i'm new to posting, but i've lurked for a while.
quick intro: i'm a 25 yr old guy, brought up a jw, strayed for a while, then got baptized convinced it was the best thing for me, the rest of the world is satanic, etc.
i overcame that ridiculous belief and i know the truth about "the truth" but my friends and family are all deep into the cult so leaving is a huge risk that i'm not willing or ready to take.
Tell the elders that you have been stumbled by the stumbling because you have broken no scriptural law by talking to the young lady and there is nothing in the literature that says two people can't speak at the Kingdom Hall in front of a bunch of other people. Should not everyone be especially kind to this young lady so she feels welcome? Express much dismay over the whole situation.
I pity you man. What someone else said on this thread is so true. It's hard to find someone in your age group that is still single. If they are single there is usually a pretty good reason.
I hope you continue to come to this website. I have been out for around 20 yrs., not d/a or d/f, just faded, but there were times when my family tried to "shun me" into coming back. It didn't work and I have lived a fun filled, very happy life and am now married to the man of my dreams. My family loves me to death and they don't treat me badly any more. Good luck on your journey!!!
cried myself to sleep.
last night was the second time.
i have been out for 20 (give or take) years.
You said it Quandry. It's a wonder I don't bite my tongue off sometimes.
