Posts by millie210

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too avenge ..?

by zeb in

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i read this recently in a stoics daily guide.. "the best way to avenge yourself is not be like that.

" written by marcus aurelius..

millie210

All the drug abusers, alcoholics, wife beaters and mate cheaters I know are active participating JWs.

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Is this something new?

by Butyoucanneverleave in

just heard from a friend who keeps in touch with the jw's.

a person who has been studying found out some things on line about the witnesses and decided to not get baptized and stopped attending the meetings.

she lives with a witness.

millie210

Well the nice little nugget in all of this is the JWs have reinforced whatever doubts the woman had after her online doubt came up.

She got out in the nick of time and there is always another place to live.

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Another one bites the dust

by stillin in

a close-by young brother, actually your basic, garden-variety, sexually-repressed, 40-year old virgin in the congregation has been charged with sexual misconduct with a minor.

i've known this guy since he was a kid and he has always been strange, in a nerdy kind of way.

he always wants to sound knowledgeable and wise when he comments at meetings, but i think he is bi-polar and depressed about who he is in life.

millie210

Ah...my apologies. The article linked in this thread is about a different person then I am assuming?

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Another one bites the dust

by stillin in

a close-by young brother, actually your basic, garden-variety, sexually-repressed, 40-year old virgin in the congregation has been charged with sexual misconduct with a minor.

i've known this guy since he was a kid and he has always been strange, in a nerdy kind of way.

he always wants to sound knowledgeable and wise when he comments at meetings, but i think he is bi-polar and depressed about who he is in life.

millie210

Thank you for sharing this local experience stillin.

I don't think you sound like your sympathies are with the man being charged. Rather, it sounds like you are trying to examine all the factors in his life that could have led up to where things are now.

In my area of the world, we define a pedophile as one who has a sexual interest in pre-pubescent children.

This man was accused of sexual assault on a minor. I am thinking that would be someone under the age of 18?

A different category of offender.

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As a JW Did You Prefer a “Stricter” Congregation or a More Liberal One?

by minimus in

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in my experience, there were three types of witnesses.

some were barely witnesses while others were extremely conservative types who followed the letter of the law.

and then you had those in the middle who just went with the flow.. i knew many witnesses who “felt safe” being in a stricter environment.they were actually proud that they belonged to such and such congregation because it was filled with strict bethelites..

millie210

Even the liberal JWs are stricter than life needs to be but interestingly enough, I was in a stricter congo and preferred it.

The liberal congregation in the next town over was looked down on circuit wide. I think the JW leadership encourages that kind of congregation snobbery. People get a kick out of trying to "outrighteous" one another.

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I finally did it

by paradiseseeker in

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it's done.. during the last month i've been talking with my closest friends about leaving the org and yesterday i finally talked with my parents.. it's been almost 5 months after i said that i would do it, but i think that this extra time has been beneficial.

i've said several times that i would opt for sending a resignation letter, but after talking to my best friends some of them suggested me becoming inactive and blocking my congregation's elders.

i've changed my mind and i will do that because the people that i care the most now know what's going on so they won't be worrying about me not attending the meetings.

millie210

Good for you!

Everyone has said all the things above I would say so just know that I am happy for you. If you have any minor set backs just come here and get advice from people who care about you for all the right reasons.

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by Atlantis in

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millie210

Isn't it wonderful that they advise a woman with PPH (postpartum hemorrhage) to have a hysterectomy rather than take a blood transfusion that would leave her and her life intact?

Wonder what the genius governing body would say if their options were remove a testicle or take a pint of blood?

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