note: this is the text from a 1996 image of a website that no longer.
sex in the sect.
sex in the sect.
I have this book. My sister in law (never a witness) bought it for me @ at book shop about 2 yrs ago. I will ask her if it's still available. It made me laught till I cried. Vicki J. tells her story with a most amusing slantt. It helps if you know the back drop well (and we do).
Marilyn
my eldest son is bound for oz!.
visa application is now being processed that will allow him to work in australia for just one year just once in his lifetime.. he's letting out his flat, he's selling his car and all being well he will set off in mid-may.. he will be looking for work as he travels, a few weeks here and there.
he's 26, has some carpentry skills, he's good at heights, used to power tools and will willingly do labouring work too.
::::::::So,wotcha got that would be useful to m'boy?
Make sure he applies for the reciprical health-care thingy. Our UK friend's daughter did the travelling bit for a year here and she got burned in a camping fire and all her hospitalisation was on Australia. She then stayed with us for six weeks until she was well enough to travel back to the UK. Make sure your son has travel insurance. Our friend was able to fly out after the accident to see his daughter - on travel insurance.
Tell him to bring a pull-over. I've been on planes returning to Australia, with poms on board in T shirts and the temperature on landing was 4 degrees. It's not warm in Southern Australia between May and October!
contact us on: [email protected] if there is anything you want to ask. We have appropriately aged young people who may be agreeable to outings view friendship!
Marilyn
larc mentioned our heritage as jws recently.
i used that same word in a response to a thread started by jt.
mrs. gene brandt, wife of the famous district overseer, spoke our her witness heritage in her life story, published in the watchtower.
:::::::::::Guess that's what got me interested in antiques
Geez Waiting, Why are we all so predictable???? Though I'm even over antiques now. I'm at the stage of wanting less not more. I dare say you know what I mean??
Marilyn
ps my husband had blond curls but no gold chain. It made all the difference.
larc mentioned our heritage as jws recently.
i used that same word in a response to a thread started by jt.
mrs. gene brandt, wife of the famous district overseer, spoke our her witness heritage in her life story, published in the watchtower.
What a lovely post. Funny coz I was looking at old photos yesterday. Most of them were of our WT era. The one thing I noticed was all the second hand clothes I was wearing. I had good taste and could always find something attractive in an Opp Shop.
When we got married (as witnesses) I was 19 and my husband was 20 (we're still together). He was finishing College coz he was in College when I converted him. I had given up my full time job six months earlier to pioneer and I had some savings of about $500 in the bank. My husband had $100 tops. His income was $28.50 which was a Commonwealth scholarship to study and we paid $16.00 rent on our flat. This was 1972. It was a miserable start to a marriage. We ate at my parents place a lot and slowly made our way thru the money in the bank. But I clearly remember thinking that life was way too difficult without money.
Life has been very good to us and we have prospered - but sometimes both my husband and I have little tantrums over the cost of something. We're always saying "old habits die hard"! Like my son called someone on their mobile overseas yesterday and I hit the roof. Does he think we're made of money? Wait till you have to pay your own bills bla bla bla. The fuss I made was disproportionate to the indiscretion - but that call probably cost the equivelent of our weekly income in 1972!!
Marilyn
"... soul-chilling terror will spread through the masses... .
a flesh-eating plague will destroy many... eaten up will be .
the tongues of those who scoffed and laughed at the warning .
My mother agreed to a *Bible* study for me and my brother when we were about 8 and 10 - coz we didn't like Sunday school at the local Congregational Church. The study of the Paradise book was a success. It was probably the fear factor that worked where the gentler approach of sunday school failed. Kids are mesmerized by violence, whatever form it takes. I know that I developed a most unhealthy fear of the end of the world, which took me years to rationalise. It would be interesting to compare books and ascertain how many became JWs as a result of what book they studied. I suspect the paradise book would be right up there at the top.
we are sitting at lunch when my friend casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of "starting a family".
"we're taking a survey," she says, half-joking.
"do you think i should have a baby?
I worry constantly about my two children - aged 24 and 22. The 24 yo has just started her career as an intern doctor and the 22 yo is still at University. It all sounds good, but it's constant worry and stress. My husband is working overseas and I spend most of my time here being supportive of the children. I wish I was the type who could leave them to sink or swim. But that's the nature of motherhood and some suffer worse than others. I think I'm way too senstive about my children and I don't think it's good for them. I just don't know how to be any other way. This whole procreation thing is mine field - the establishment of my children (the next generation etc) is all consuming. Most of us try so damned hard and most of us make loads of mistakes - with the best of intentions. The latest problem for us has been a relationship break up for our 24 yr old. She has been so shattered that it's been like going thru it ourselves. It's been really awful and Christmas was totally ruined by it. What was worse was the the ex boy friends parents were so mean to him that we'd practically adopted him.. After two and a half years we feel like we've lost a child.
Oh well, what's that saying "life's rich tapestry"? I enjoyed your hormonal rantings anyway!
Marilyn.
grrrrrrrrr.
my mother had major surgery on jan. 4th.
she needs at least 8-10 weeks bed rest.
There's a middle aged JWcouple who look out for my elderly parents - they are very kind and hepfuI. They've been that way for a good many years. I am so grateful to them. The rest can hardly even be nice to my parents (coz they don't shun me). I know they all have their own lives and problems, but I suppose it all just goes to show that there is nothing special about JWs. They talk a lot and that's about it.
Marilyn
get this.. a knock at my door... i answer it, it's a sister who claims to be anointed.
i used to study with her but lost contact for awhile after i moved.
so anyway, she is standing in my doorway making idle conversation and manages to ask her way into my living room.
Or ask her why she stopped taking her medication?
Seriously, it's why I feel very surperior to JW's nowdays. They are all sooooooooooo off the planet! (your little old lady a bit more than most!)
Marilyn
Rolling rock, The drama's were the ultimate in a corn-ball experience. I had a leading part in one once. It was called Jehovah Blesses the Loyal ones. Kinda similar theme to the drama depicted above. Actually we never got anything out of being in the drama - but I hear the guys above are due to get a bunch of virgins when this play is finished. Guess that's pay off enough for some.
Marilyn
my mums in hospital in nottingham england she is a current jw and has stomach cancer.she is a lovley mum but has been brain washed not to have the blood so they left the opp to build her up.
because she would need blood during the opp if she is weak she will die on the opp table.but she has got worse and weaker so now am losing my mum through waiting.she would have had a chance.
but now it looks like she has 2 weeks of life left.why???
Dear Mark, Getting a blood transfusion wouldn't save your mother now. So don't worry on that score. It might prolong her life, but it woudn't cure her. She is going to die happy in the belief that she's been faithful to her God. That's VERY important to her.
However it's important that you get to share some private time with your mother. You can explain this to the Witnesses and ask them to BUTT out for a few hours (though you better put it nicely for your mothers sake). Tell them you have no intention of fighting the blood issue and that you want some private time with just you and your mother. No decent person would refuse you that. If they decline, tell them you are going immediately to telephone the newspapers to do a story about how unreasonable and inhumane Jehovah's Witnesses are. I know this works, coz I was never allowed to see my elderly JW parents until I threatened (in a yelling fit) to take their behavior to the newspapers. They backed off big time after that.
Anyway, if they don't give you the time you request, you have the right to ask the hospital to stop all visitors but family. Hospitals will do that on request from family members, at least they do in Australia. Just stop them until you have spent the time you need with her, then let them back in. Basically Jehovah's Witnesses have nothing better to do, but poke their noses in other people's business and this is why they are intruding into your most difficult hours.
I have to face this sometime in the future too, because my mother has invasive breast cancer and I'm a disfellowshipped Jehovah's Witness. Pls let us know how you get on. My heart goes out to you.
Marilyn
