These stories always piss me off. I was once suicidal myself and didn't actually come out and say that I wanted to do it but my words and actions showed it anyway and NOBODY CARED. The elders just said to pray more and to go out in service. I was told that I was being presumptuous and self-centered for thinking about how much I hated my life. I never got any comfort from anyone and the magazine articles about it only made me feel worse and more guilty. I had cuts on my arms the day I got baptized and no one noticed or cared except my mom who slapped me as I was about to change into my bathing suit. Nice memories...anyway, they don't give a shit about suicidal people except that they "lacked faith" and "turned away from God" and "don't deserve to be resurrected."
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4 Suicides I Am Aware Of This Year, Why Elders, COs Are Not Competent To Handle These Matters. (Life Or Death, Your Choice!)
by AvocadoJake ini would like to relate with the first suicide that took place this year, this was more than seven months ago.
this person was deeply distraught and was talking about killing themself.
the conduct of this person started to escalate (deep depression with morbid thoughts.
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What was the last meeting you ever went to?
by lilbluekitty ini figured out it's been 4 months and 5 days since my last meeting ever.
july 10th, it was a sunday.
i hadn't been there in 2 months or so and decided to see if anyone noticed i'd been gone.
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I figured out it's been 4 months and 5 days since my last meeting ever. July 10th, it was a Sunday. I hadn't been there in 2 months or so and decided to see if anyone noticed I'd been gone. I decided to wear PANTS after a heated debate on Facebook with my JW family, kind of just to prove them wrong. I was given cold stares and angry glares and people who knew I've been baptized for 8 years asked me who I was studying with. ONE person talked to me (for longer than one sentence) and that was one "brother" who was nagging me about turning in my time. He handed me a time slip and I wrote fake hours down and smiled and handed it back. I went to talk to one of my "friends" and she looked down at my pants and shook her head at me and turned away. I decided I would never go to a meeting again.
My outfit, by the way, was completely modest and even classy. I've heard people say you should wear what you would wear to an office so I did. I wore a blue blousey shirt with a nice jacket over it, black trouser pants that were not too tight or too baggy and not too long and some heels. The blouse was not too low and my hair was how I always wore it to the meetings.
I stopped going because of how I was treated and a couple months later signed up on this website which was the first of many "apostate" sites that really opened my eyes. I read CoC too. And I "ain't" going back!
What was your last meeting, how were you treated, and what was your reason for it being your last?
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jws on facebook talking of getting drunk , and being very nasty about a nice person on tv ! how i miss the "christianity " in that cult !
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Speaking of, my aunt just posted this last night of her mom (my grandmother) having some sampler. I was like, Whoa, was all that for her? And she commented coldly, All of that equals one beer. Yeah, I think not but I have PLENTY of photographic evidence of people who call themselves JWs doing all sorts of interesting things on FB.
By the way, my "speeeeritual" family on my dad's side are mostly total alcoholics and talk about how much they drink and what they drink almost every day. I know "wordly" people who drink less than they do!
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Acceptable and unacceptable dress for visiting Bethel
by smiddy ini just came across this on another thread with pictures/photos ,is this for real ?
i couldnt beleive my eyes or ears?.
the control that this organization has over it`s members... is ..is ... well it`s a cult !!
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So, I'm going to assume that if a homeless person decides they want to come in to see what it's all about that they'd turn him away and tell him he looked like a slob basically and hand him that tract or whatever with all the "proper" dress in it? I showed it to my husband who's never been a JW, he was pretty disgusted. His mom went to the Mormon headquarters (she's Catholic but was interested in seeing the place) and wore PANTS and had a grand ole time. I went to Bethel quite a few times and was just astounded at how there was hardly anything to do except look good and look at boring videos and stuff. The only thing I really liked was that model of the temple thing (I forget if it was in Walkill or Patterson now.) Also, as a side note, I felt like I was getting slightly high off ink fumes...LOL.
The last time I toured the Bethel branches (and the time I toured Bahamas bethel), I was told my my mother that I HAD to wear stockings and that they wouldn't let me in the door if I had bare legs, even if the skirt was fairly long. So, the very last time I went I made sure to fit the standards but they never said anything about makeup so I went rather gothy with thick eyeliner and bright red lips. LOL. I wore all-black and the dammned stockings.
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What is the most embarassing moment you've had while still a JW?
by african GB Member ini remember having to preach to my girlfriend/classmate while i was still at school.
i was with one of the elders and it was my 'house' to preach.. wished i could vanish from the surface of the earth..
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Oh but really the most embarassing thing for me was having to explain to a judicial committee a couple years ago what I meant by living with my husband before we got married and when they asked me if it was intercourse, oral sex, or anal sex? I was like, um, we did everything. That and the shame of hearing the announcement that I'd been reproved when I had just started making friends with people in that congregation. I got treated a lot differently after that.
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What is the most embarassing moment you've had while still a JW?
by african GB Member ini remember having to preach to my girlfriend/classmate while i was still at school.
i was with one of the elders and it was my 'house' to preach.. wished i could vanish from the surface of the earth..
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When I was a kid (and therefore we still met at people's houses for the book study), we were in someone's basement and we were sitting on metal seats. My sister leaned over and farted, right into the seat while a paragraph was being read. It was one of those really long farts with a whine at the end. :P I felt so embarassed for my sister but then my mother made it worse and hissed my sister's name. I was sitting next to her so naturally everyone's gaze fell on me AND my sister, even though I didn't do it. My face burned for a long time with embarassment for her and, I'm sad to say, shame at her being my sister.
It was always horrible going to houses and meeting my friends at school, some of whom didn't know I was a JW and found out the hard way.
I think the most embarassing thing as a kid anyway (besides having people make fun of my meeting clothes when we'd go to the grocery store after the meeting) was this weird part my dad had where my sister and I had to pretend we were fighting on the platform so my dad told us we should bring a doll to play tug of war with and say "give it! it's MINE" and stuff. I think the part was about how to witness to people who are busy and don't have time to talk. This other sister pretended to be our mother and my sister and I are in the background behind her trying to yell and look like we were fighting even though it's wrong to do that at the hall while my dad was pretending to give her (the one playing our mother) magazines and she was busy pretending to yell at us. It was just a really weird part but my dad loved to have props (he had this public talk he was famous for where he would use our Play Doh to explain how Jehovah molds us). But the most embarassing part was that I was 10 or so and didn't play with toys much anymore so when people saw me walk in the hall with a doll it was awful how many people told me I should be ashamed of bringing toys to the hall, espescially at my age. I still cringe when I think of that night!
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2011 December Kingdom Ministry & 2012 January Kingdom Ministry-PDFs!
by Atlantis in.
credit goes to anonymous**2011 december kingdom ministry-pdf*click the link in the blue box.
*http://www.sendspace.com/file/avzdl1**---------------------------------------------------------------*2012 january kingdom ministry-pdf*http://www.sendspace.com/file/zb7mi9***atlantis
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I can't seem to download them? There are too many download buttons, which one is the correct one? I got some .exe BearShare file??
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Blood Transfusion?
by Friend inconsidering the latest questions from readers article on blood transfusion, i was wondering what the feelings are among this forums participants about blood transfusion.
over the years the society has been receiving a growing amount of letters on the subject of blood and blood transfusion.
any interesting biblical perspectives here about whether "abstain from blood" means abstain from blood transfusion?
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Where's the latest Questions From Readers? I don't read the literature anymore but it'd be interesting if they have any New Light™ on the subject.
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Is Field Service really a Commandment?
by Quarterback inheard something strange last week.
a speaker in the congregation said that you must preach.
he stated that this is a commandment.
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Everyone I know who's a dub says it's a commandment...I disagree though, I don't see in the Bible that it's a commandment for everyone...
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Catching the Manipulation in Sundays Watchtower Article
by Butterflyleia85 ininspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.
if you would like to join me that would be great!
we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.
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I won't read that stuff anymore, it messes with my mind =/
