i know some have thought that about me.
my family used to but i think that hope is dwindling now..
Chaserious: I used to hear various witnesses say that 90% of DF'd witnesses come back. I specifically remember the 90% figure used. I wonder where they got it from or if they just made it up.
Witnesses make things up? Nah, never!
I think you're making THAT up.
You must be one o' them there evil apostates!
it just all hit me at once,i was with a friend earlier talking and i felt really good after our talk.
went down my moms,and wifey text me she going to meeting,and all this stress and anxiety hit me all at once.
this crazey it consumes my mind and no my body.
Ravens: you've gotten some great advice.
Sorry you're going through this. It's really messed up what this religion does to people.
Hang in there. I don't know if it ever goes away entirely, the anger, resentment and frustration, bet eventually it gets better ... and so will you.
00DAD
last year i did a review of 2011 for the forum.
this was more of a review that focussed on some of the awful stuff that was printed in the literature that year - the first year of my awakening.. 2012 has been more interesting from the point of view of things actually happening outside the literature.
i thought it might be nice to take a look back and put some of these events in chronological order.... .
Ah yes, the Summer of Sparlock ... I remember it fondly.
i know some have thought that about me.
my family used to but i think that hope is dwindling now..
How can I "go back" when I never left?
I was kicked out. Even then, I never left God, just the organization. Oh, that's right. In the mind of a JW, Jehovah IS the organization. Silly me.
Q: What kind of person returns to an organization that expels them?
A: A co-dependent enabler!
EG: I always thought that people who had doubts or turned their back to the borg were angry or bitter.
That's another lie they tell you.
Of course, many of us are angry for a time. Some of us for a long time. But that "anger" is not a result of "doubts" or "turning our back" on a God that has nothing to do with this religion. This is the lie.
The truth is we are angry because they LIED to us about some really important things, and they are NOT who are what they claim to be and they ARE hypocrites that are more interested in protecting their silly publishing company than little girls or boys. Also, their wrong-headed policy of institutionalized shunning has broken up a lot of families and destroyed countless relationships.
The anger is justified. They are the ones at fault and yet they continue to blame the victims. Typical response from an abuser.
00DAD
they excuse it by saying, it's ok since at least they were on the watch.. i believe they should think about god's view of watchmen who constantly gave false pronouncements.
they would be judged accordingly by god!.
Simon Morley: By their own rules they are unrepentant as the "degree of deviation should be commensurate with the degree of regret". I do not see anything remotely resembling the regret over the harm caused.
Yeah if a R&F publisher tried that kind of "apology" in an Judicial Hearing, they'd be labeled unrepentant faster than you can say "Overlapping Generation!"
they excuse it by saying, it's ok since at least they were on the watch.. i believe they should think about god's view of watchmen who constantly gave false pronouncements.
they would be judged accordingly by god!.
Not a huge point, but notice they don't say the Faithful & Discreet Slave or the Governing Body got it wrong. Jehovah's Witnesses got it wrong.
Are you kidding? Not only is that a HUGE POINT, it is THE POINT!
Duh
EG: ***I know it's werid to say this but I've received more help on this board during the past couple days than the last 10 years as an M.S.***
There's a reason: It's a cult!
Out here in the real world we're all ... REAL!
no, that's not a line from a rude film.
it's the title of a brief article on page 3 of the latest february 2013 kingdom ministry, which reads as follows... .
"when sharing in field service, some publishers customarily stop at a certain time, perhaps at noon.
How dare you want to take a break from the hamster-wheel of JW life: Everlasting Life, Life Without End at Last!
There's someone out there somewhere that doesn't have the lastest 16 page issues of the Watchtower and the Awake!
Now get to work and stop whining!
00DAD
relationship issues: boundaries, freedom of choice and codependency .
i just read a very interesting thought in the book, "boundaries" by cloud & townsend.
the basic problem in human relationship is that of freedom.
Apognophos: How many more Pharisaical rules can they come up with?!
00DAD
Apparently they have a limitless supply!
