My now-husband...we were just at the very beginning stages of our romantic relationship. He sat quietly next to me and just held me while I confronted my father about his sexual abuse of me. He comforted me and was a huge support for me after the conversation was over. I cried all over his nice shirt.
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What Is The Kindest Thing That Someone Has Ever Done For You?
by codeblue in.
i have been thinking about this a lot lately.........kindness shouldn't go unnoticed or not appreciated.
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How Many People Are Less Stressed Since Leaving The Witnesses?
by minimus indo you feel better----emotionally and mentally since stopping meetings and living under the rules of the witnesses?
i've heard reports of better physical and mental health since persons have left the organization.
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Wolfgirl
So much for "Jehovah's Happy People". I fooled myself into thinking I was happy, but I was depressed most of the time. Now....what a relief! I am so much happier, and I have never been this physically healthy in my life!
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Ahhhh!!! Sunday Mornings....
by Confucious inhey guys, .
nothing in particular to rant about this morning.
just wanted to shout out to you guys this... .
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Wolfgirl
I love knowing I don't have to rush around to get to any of the meetings. Like during the week...rush home from work, hurriedly make dinner, shower, get yourself all dressed up, and then go and sit and listen to someone drone on, all the while thinking, "ER is on right now," or "I could be at home, listening to music, and playing with the puppy."
Sunday mornings...I still have to get up because we've got 3 dogs. But I can go back to sleep. Life is so good now.
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What made you "see the light"?
by hubert ini realize many (or all) of the ex-j.w.
's in this forum have either gotten out of the org., faded, or in some way have come to the conclusion that the watchtower is not the "faithful and discreet slave", and is not the "true" religion that they claim to be.
i am curious to know..... "what made you see the light"?.
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Wolfgirl
For me, it was the complete lack of sympathy I got from elders in two congregations when I decided to divorce my abusive (not physically) husband, and then when the revelations came out about my father sexually abusing me. I needed someplace to talk about it, so I talked online. I got more sympathy and support from "worldly" people I'd never met in person than from the elders or my family.
I decided then that I was going to do what made me happy. But I still thought that their beliefs were pretty much on-target. I didn't really investigate much; just didn't go or read anything. I had been disfellowshipped for *gasp* having a sexual relationship with a man I wasn't married to. (I am now married to him.)
Then one day, out of the blue, I got an email from my long-lost aunt, who had been disfellowshipped over 25 years ago. She had been searching for me. She directed me to this site, and helped me discover more information. I never looked back; devoured everything I could. Ordered Crisis of Conscience. Now I know how seriously messed up that "religion" is.
I've been free and happy for nearly 4 years now, and no amount of emotional blackmail will ever get me to go back.
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Tell me about your "Dedication"
by ezekiel3 infor jws, there is a two-step process for committing yourself to god.
before you get baptized in public, you are supposed to privately "dedicate" yourself to god in prayer.. i was a child who knelt in the corner of my room after completing my final "interview" of questions from an elder.
i tried to be sincere, but i was aware i had no emotional currency (i was only 13, give me a break!).
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Wolfgirl
I did this formal little prayer thing in my head, because I knew I was supposed to. But it didn't make me feel anything; none of my prayers ever did. I was only 13, what did I know?
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Quest for photos of Wachtowerbuildings Brooklyn
by mitch inabout two years ago, i saw somebody (i think larry if i remember correctly) posting pictures of a postcard from the wachttowerbuildings in brooklyn.
these were overview pictures.. can somebody please send me these photos.
online or by e-mail.
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Wolfgirl
I always find it funny that when a TV show or film is set in New York, somehow the bright neon WT sign is always "missing" from the skyline.
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Afraid of Dying?
by PointBlank ini don't know if this subject has been discussed here before.
if it has, could someone help me find it?
if it hasn't (i can't imagine that it hasn't), here's what i was wondering.
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Wolfgirl
I was just thinking about this the other day. It's exactly how you say...we smugly believed that we were going to survive, and rejoiced at the thought of all those "worldly" people being destroyed. Makes me sick just to think of how I felt back then.
I guess I never really thought about it until just recently, that I WAS going to die someday. It was kind of a jolt, even after these past few years.
To quote a Robbie Williams song..."I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to."
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JW VIDEO New Edit
by Corvin in.
complete video ready now.. jehovah's witness 'neath the tower of fear.
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Wolfgirl
That is great! You even got them saying "stay alive til '75" in it...fantastic!
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Never Told Anyone this...
by gespro in... but i think it would help me to relate it now.. a day before a big convention in montreal [i must've been 8 years old] my mother, who was running late as usual, was trying to get ready for an appointment.
she was frantic and needed the bathroom mirror.
i'm sitting on the commode and i remember finding a thrown out metal flimsy paper towel rack in the garbage so, i pick it up and i'm trying to bend it around, my mother storms into the bathroom, grabs the towel rack and screams, 'you know i'm in a hurry' and bashes my head in on top!
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Wolfgirl
What a cold-hearted woman. (I'd say other things, but they're not allowed here.)
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Wolfgirl
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