(((((Inky)))))
My heart aches for you.
our niece, irene, who posts here as inky, sent me an email.
her 27 year old son is getting married in two weeks, and she posted a few days ago about how he didn't invite her to his wedding.. she told me i can post it as she doesn't want to read it again.. "dear mom.
i've needed to write this letter to you for some time now.
(((((Inky)))))
My heart aches for you.
i found this at h2o - lmao!!!
but the person posting was serious.
"actually thats a good metaphor for true christian soldiers.
Start putting two and two together.
Only in the organisation would 2 + 2 = the demons are using a realtor's laptop to post apostate information on a JW-only website.
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GRRRRR! I wonder why...possibly bring back some bad memories?
at the moment i dont feel great about jws.
i say this because i just had a call from my sister whos a jw- she lives in another country.
anyhows, we get talking about my brother who lives abroad in the same country as her.
I was the same way when I was little. When I was 2 or 3, I told my grandparents they were bad and were going to die because they celebrated Christmas. (They are not and never have been JWs.) Now I celebrate Christmas. :) There's hope. :)
125 years of the watchtower, and women are still considered garbage.. they cannot give talks, have a position in the congregation, cannot lead a study when a man is present, give a prayer etc etc etc etc.......... they can be of the annoited class, but a man who is a ms, still has more say !!!!!!!!!!.
to all the women on this board, did this ever bother you as a jw, and does it bother you know ???.
how can women sit at a meeting and in a round about way be treated like garbage and accept it ????
I think my independent attitude got me in bad graces as far as the elders were concerned. I dumped the JW guy I was seeing because he expected me to be Mrs. Doormat. He said I had to do all the housework, except the vacuuming, if we got married, because he didn't know how to do any of it. I remember saying, "Well, you can learn, because I work full-time and you only work part-time." He refused to even discuss it, so I dumped him.
I always spoke my mind around the elders, and I don't think they liked that. I refused to listen to them when they told me not to go to the police about a brother who threatened to rape and kill me. I filed police reports anyway, and they definitely weren't happy with me.
I should have known I never would have made it as a submissive JW wife. I'm too independent and outspoken. My loving and understanding husband (an athiest) says, "You're the boss, honey." Smart man.
i talked to my brother today who is still a practicing jw (i've managed to fade) .
we were talking and suddenly he asked me if i thought satan could read my mind.
and he said "yeah i though the answer was yes and then i found out that satan cant read my mind".
I was always told that he couldn't read your mind, but he could piece things together by your body language, habits, etc. Why I never questioned this is beyond me. It's nowhere in the Bible. I was so brainwashed. :(
i am on the last chapter of this book!
i can hardly put it down.
have you all read it?
Wolfgirl, ISOCF is more about Franz' ideas on christianity. It appealed to me when I first left the borg... but I didn't get to it, and now I don't care about "christian" freedom, when simple "freedom" freedom is so much more honest and appealing.
Thanks...I think I'll skip that one then. I'm of the same mind...I'm enjoying my freedom, living a happy life, being a generally good person. I'll leave it at that. :)
i'm not quite sure how to start this one, i'm new here and feel a bit of an outsider.
my sisters and mother are jehovah's witnesses and have been as long as i can remember.
i however, chose to follow a different path.
could you please elaborate upon your "going back" statement? Thank you for your expedient reply.
Sorry I couldn't get back to you right away. My husband was away on business for a few days, and just got home, so I didn't go online.
I am no longer a Witness. I was disfellowshipped. But about a year or so ago, I was still considering "going back," that is, trying to get reinstated. But after learning so much about what the organisation is really like, I decided against it. I don't like being lied to. :)
how did you find this site?
did you make a search in google for jw's, or did someone tell you about this forum?.
how did you end up here?
My aunt told me about the UN NGO thing in an email. I was in shock, and she told me to check out this site for more info. She used to post here a while back (don't know what her screen name was), said she learned a lot, and it would be useful to me too. She's DF'd also, and a happy "apostate" just like me. :)
i posted a thread about sending a letter to my jw best friend yesterday i think.
while doing that, i thought about a friend of mine who i went to school with, and we were already friends, but she saw me give my english teacher the "school brochure".
after i left the portiable, she asked me if i was a jw.
for anyone out there contimplating on contacting someone they think about, and it has been a LONG time...........DO IT
I'm so happy for you! I have tried this with a friend of mine, the only one who was nice to me throughout the years. She didn't reply to the letter. I've just recently sent a letter to what I think is her daughter's address, waiting to see if I was right and get a reply.