Shy,
usually i would not tell a young girl not to confide in her mother.however, if your mom is a real hardcore jw-she will haul u before the elders and they will most likely DF ,u, unless u can do a reallly good acting job of being repentent. And since they are already shunning u, it will only be worse.
I would try and reach out to a school counselor type person, and find some friends at school.
just got an info e-mail from bill, board is going down dunday mn.
due to too much ngeative talk.
possible he says the rev may open another formum not associated with sl.bill says the effort needs to be concentrated on the coming court cases.
I feel confused by all this. i thought the purpose of bill challlenging the WTS was to bring about change and to allow the SL to tell their stories. We are the people he went to bat for.
. Well who are the abused supposed to talk to? JW? Sure they will help."Worldly" sources? they don't understand the unique plight the abused jw is in.I think i see that bill does not want to align himself with the xjw movement, but who are the lambs supoosed to talk to? Jw will not help them and many are DF.
So where are the lambs supposed to go-if they go to jw, they will be further silenced and probably DF.
And i do understand that there a jw that are abused that want to stay jw that were coming to the board. I guess they did not want any xjw influnence.I do understand, i hope jehovah will clean up this mess, and clean up this org.
Ideally the WTS would have already seen the light and started to help abuse survivors themselfs. Then people would have a choice as to where to go for help.
Edited by - wednesday on 15 December 2002 8:4:49
ever been ******************** (edited for language) .
now thats something ,you may answer no, do you think youve been *abused by the socirty heres a question for you whatever religion you are in, or were in ,youve spent years doing as you were told,you thought you were serving jehovah,or some diety,think of your experiences as a training ground for life.
all the time you have spent there youve been placed over a barell, with someone rumaging through your pockets ( donations etc,) telling you what to do, and now you realize youve been shafted over & over again, but look on the bright side youve learnt quite a lot,youve had your mind cleansed ,your heart has been broken ,youve sufferd pain sorrow ,discomfort ,anxiety, hate jealousy , broken friendships ,family fueds sleepless nights pressure,& much more ,all in the name of religion especialy at the hands of yoooooooour brothers ,its the closest you will ever come to,to be driven insane, .
LOL i actually thought the title of the thread was "have u ever been edited".
just got an info e-mail from bill, board is going down dunday mn.
due to too much ngeative talk.
possible he says the rev may open another formum not associated with sl.bill says the effort needs to be concentrated on the coming court cases.
yes TH, ty for what u are doing.
ALL THAT HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR PLS BEWARE
many people do not. Even at xmas time.. i got bumped off a chronic pain list(people who really need a sense of humor) b/c of Simons PMS joke (see hormone post).And i am female and it was funny-LOL funny.
So before u innocently pass this cute post on think -will some humorless grinch bump me off a list for it being off topic?
just got an info e-mail from bill, board is going down dunday mn.
due to too much ngeative talk.
possible he says the rev may open another formum not associated with sl.bill says the effort needs to be concentrated on the coming court cases.
Rev,
I never took it as a dig against bill, i agree , it was just too much anyway.
yes i think the public are getting used ot hearing about sex abuse due to the catholic church scandal. My therapist said it is almost like the "wave" of MPD dx back in the late 80's and early 90's. I know for me, i have to put a face with the crime, or well u hear so much horrible stuff on tv-this is just another horrible thing.
just got an info e-mail from bill, board is going down dunday mn.
due to too much ngeative talk.
possible he says the rev may open another formum not associated with sl.bill says the effort needs to be concentrated on the coming court cases.
Rev,
well probably this was just too much for bill to try and do and someone else should have been running the boards all along. I agree, sometimes we need to vent , which is something the WTS, even if they acknowledged we had been abused, refused to let us do.
I hope the board goes on, but if it does not, well there is the child abuse section her on this board;and i guess it can be used. But i personally hope the lambs boared will continue.
Bill does need to concentrate on these court cases, our only hope of makeing any headway against the WTS , is if we can win a few. if they have to pay money-they will think twice about some of there rules and we might get some "new light" on the 2 witness rule.We definitley need major TV exposure. I noticed those Williams girls got on oprah, looking all great for jws.
Edited by - wednesday on 14 December 2002 12:22:11
you have just won 100,000,000 in the lottery!
what would you do next?
change my name and move to some place WTS can't find me bc according to a bro i heard give a talk"if u even think u could win the lotto and keep it, u are wrong,u will give it back or u will be df."
i don't intend to offend anybody with this post, so please excuse me if i do.
i have often wondered why some people that leave the wt organisation go really weird.
there is a couple near me who left a couple of years ago.
jerry bergamn has a tape on a site i will have to find,but he talks about this. sometimes severe repression causes people who weren't too stable to begin with to do odd things.. And u must know, there are so many wacho jw-would it be such a strech that when some leave they do wacho thngs?
U will never stop jw form fostering that lie that all xjw are returning to the vomit. it makes them feel better for having to live such deprived lives. I know an eldrer who has a very nice and kind wife.but not physically attractive.. But what he really wanted was a wild woman./pretty woman. So he looks at the pretty sis and dreams, And he hates all those who divorce and get out of a bad marriage or even get a better looking wife. he feels, and has said, if he has to follow the rules , so does everyone else. If this man ever left the org. he would go nuts with women, b/c he has repressed his hearts desire.
just got an info e-mail from bill, board is going down dunday mn.
due to too much ngeative talk.
possible he says the rev may open another formum not associated with sl.bill says the effort needs to be concentrated on the coming court cases.
BTW, thanks WEDS for amending the title to your thread! making it a positive! G.R.I.T.S. Girl Raised In The South
u r very welcome. I had just gottne bill info e-mail and i believe he said the board would be down starting sunday , so that is what inspired the title of thread. U are quite right-this is mujch more positive. Glad we are have a discussion board/
