on my way in to work this morning (saturday), at 6:05 am on a commercial business street in chicago, i saw two sisters and a brother bundled up in winter clothes and doing "street work.
" it wasn't that cold, so i guess they started even earlier when they needed their scarf and gloves.
there was absolutely nobody else walking and all the businesses were closed.
OODad,
I never realized how much it was all for show until after I had been out 20 years and I was toting my mother back and forth to the KH while she lived with me. I just about cried from tears and laughter seeing these families tote these young kids, dressed to the hilt and all carrying bookbags, little miniature versions of the ones their parents carried. I felt so sorry for those little kids.
i'm posting this in the public section as i would like any active witness with children to think about this carefully.. .
for those of you who haven't seen it yet, this is the picture in question :.
(source : http://www.jw.org/assets/m/ijw13fr/502013170/ijw13fr_id-502013170_e/502013170_e_cnt_1.pdf ).
anyone remember the Paridise Lost book? That was full of violent pictures and monsters too.
just a (slightly) quick introduction for now.
i am a 4th generation born in.
father an elder since i was an infant.
Put your feet up and stay a while................
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i have been lurking here for about a month or two.
it is really awesome to read so many similar experiences.. for example, when i was still 'in' i wondered if i was the only one in the hall that really hated the meetings.
MinistryofTruth,
I have been out 27 years and I am going to tell you exactly what I told both my sons, who had the advantage of not being raised a JW:
The world is your oyster, and with education, you have an opener in every pocket. Follow your passions, whatever they be; the money will follow.
My eldest is a chemical engineer and my youngest is in med school.
so my husband (who was never a jw) saw a christian bumper sticker today and asked me if the witnesses have any.
i said no (not that i know of anyway) so here are a few he came up with.. 'honk if you're a zombie'.
'my other car is noah's ark'.
Stop Honking! My car is shunning your car.
i moved to florida from north michigan a year ago.
i have not been to a kh in over 15 years, that said they know who i am at my old hall.
i got a knock at the door and it was an elder from my old hall.
If upon their first visit you realized they were still JWs, break off the relationship ASAP. They WILL report anything and everything to your old KH. They are spys and you can take that to the bank.
my wife and i stopped going to meetings in 1988 and da'd in 1989. for a few years we both actively participated in the xjw world, she quit doing that a long time ago, and has pretty much completely moved on.
the other night i told her about my planned blog (which will probably launch this weekend) it will mostly be about my writing, a lot of which is mostly about jw related issues.
she asked why i am still so drawn to this subject.
Here is my comparison. Though not as physically deadly as the Holocost, the trama is exactly the same. The Jewish population volentarility gave up their guns and any means to defend themselves, trusting the Nazis could never, ever think of extermination. Even when most heard of what was really going on the vast majority would not believe it..... it was beyond comprehension. The same is true with the Printing Company. They love bomb you, or you grow up in the mindset dependent on those around you. How can anyone comprehend a parent or child turning on them? Is it not the same? It is the total disbelief that a human being can actually act like that. It has been since 1986 when I left in the middle of the witch hunts of that time; the utter emotional devastation is not meant to go away. The pain it cost us was as hard of a reality check as the Holocost. But our pain taught us that the Printing Company is EVIL. Sometimes I STILL, after all these years, cannot get my arms around it, that anyone could be that evil. I am afraid, truly afraid, if I do not keep remembering/recalling what happened, it will happen again. I have come to accept that my ability to trust anyone will never develop. I didn't lose it, I never developed the ability in the first place as a born in.
So yes I "cling" to those like those here on this board to confirm over and over again what I went though. I never want to forget, and as long as there is breath in me, I will work to keep remembering. I have to... lest it happens again. This is the cross I carry.
we've missed some meetings due to work and thinking it's bs and also one night my husband got drunk n fessed up n had a shepherding call n now the e is coming to see 'how we're doing'.
help me please i dunno what to do..
Hurry!!!!! Put some hot sauce on your door handle
today i was doing some research for a new article, and i came across the following quote which succeeded in raising my eyebrows.... "the obligation to hate lawlessness also applies to all activity by apostates.
our attitude toward apostates should be that of david, who declared: 'do i not hate those who are intensely hating you, o jehovah, and do i not feel a loathing for those revolting against you?
with a complete hatred i do hate them.
MMMM this was made in July 1992. I do remember that summer as my youngest was a babe in arms. A non-JW cousin of mine had a August family reunion. And she invited my sister and I, we left in 1986. We got there a bit late, but as soon as we showed up all our JW relitives 3/4 of the people there left on the spot. My poor non-JW cousin was so upset, she had a whole pig roasting in a pit, tents set up, big expense. "I thought this was a family reunion, not a JW convention." She was so upset. It makes sense now.
Makes me wonder with the 2013 summer convention centered on "obey" and "apostates" the shunning and ill treatment is going to intensify again.
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unlike god's word, that jws believe to be absolute truth, any one of their directives given at the 2013 district convention could be subject to misinterpretation.. .
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Human Apostates
Alien Apostates ......Ron Hubbered is on the GB
