this is my first post here.. first a few details about myself.
i am 33, married, from switzerland and i have a little baby boy.
i am still a jehovah's witness and i am still attending the meetings.
Welcome! I'd choose 2 (and destroy your blood card.) The chances are slim that anything catastrophic will happen in the first place, so you have time to win her over before you hit her with that one.
Go slowly with your wife, and shower with more love, attention and praise than you ever have before.
Enjoy non-"theocratic" activities like museums or parks or whatever you like to do together.
In short, make your wife's "new" husband better than her old cult one.
Best of luck,
BOC
i have just finished the most difficult year of my academic life by far, since august i have had 4 days off.. the exams were from hell, i ran out of money with 2 months to go, 2 months rent to pay and 2 huge exams to go.
with few friends and family around, it made for a scary situation.. but i did it.... today i got the 'pass'.... 6 years done, one to go.... i am it i'm the final year of doctor training.
for all the kind words and encouragement from people here, thank you xxxx .
Very nice
http://www.svhelden.info/witchtower/2011/04/postkarten-mit-biblischen-motiven/.
many christian profiteers offer postcards with bible verses and appropriate scenes.
the witchtower now enters this business area too, offering a set of twelve postcards for free download.
Especially like "the wicked are the sea"
i am so thankful that i was able to learn the truth about the truthtm (ttatt).
i owe everything in my life to having left watchtower corp: my education, my position as a college professor, being able to write and publish, travel, family life, my beautiful children, being able to be openly gay -- and happy.
unlike those closeted homosexuals in the truthtm, i do not have to be afraid to be who i am.
One of the single best things that happened in my life. No regrets.
so about 8 years ago, we had a local needs talk about dents an scratches !!!!
it was given by the cobe and this guy was just your normal everyday elder.
except he had his occasional pet peeves... like (you guessed it) dents and scratches on some of the brothers' vehicles.
Listen Obey and use Bondo
for those of you who missed the dc, i thought i'd share my notes so you, too, can partake of the spiritual feast.
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I'm sitting at home from the meeting,
A full breakfast with coffeee I'm eating,
I will go take my shower,
While they study the Watchtower,
So sad they wasted their morning.
i heard a rumour today to the effect that there is a new gb member in his late twenties/early thirties.
i stress that this is unsubtantiated and requires confirmation or quashing.. can anyone confirm or definately deny it?.
Certainly possible, but have not heard that.
their email address is: xxxxx.
and their message is:.
you probably would say, 'i didn't abandon him, i can still serve him on my own.
Interesting. What I see here is someone trying to figure it all out, and doing a pretty poor job of it. A least they're giving it some thought, albeit within the confines of their cult-controlled mind.
Thanks for sharing
i have been on this site lurking for over 2 years and this is my first post, i feel so bottled with emotion that i have to let it out somehow so i do not have an emotional breakdown!
i was raised in the organization and am married with 2 children ages 4 and 2. my wife and i have been inactive for about 2 years and i have always had hard questions that were never answered growing up, such as blood policy and how david and his men were allowed to eat from the bread reserved for the high priests without death penalty since it was life or death.
carbon dating on human remains/tools that date back 30-40k years, far surpassing the 6k year man creation date, the double standards and very real "human" aspect on the organization and its decisions and history.
Welcome EASTCOAST.
Handling this with kids is tough. I think a lot will depend on whether your wife is on board or not.
it's a well known phenomenon i've observed from jwn, my own cos. a new co we had once who was fresh from being a normal elder and after a couple of visits he said, "well i've finally become a true co...i now have food intolerances.".
i mean, only once did my husband and i ever have a co around for dinner and they couldn't eat this, he couldn't eat that, she couldn't eat this...it was so hard to cook something with none of the zillions of things they were 'allergic' to.. and then after all that the wife couldn't come anyway because she had a naturopath appointment or something.. why do all co's seem to have weird dietary problems?.
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stress - depression - psychosomatic illness.
I'm with LOST on this one.
