have anyone of you read, the absolutly jaw dropping paragraph in this article about a women who was hit by her husband?
its in page 25 of the 2/15/12 wt study edition (i read the dumbed down version).. .
if there was any question, that the watchtowers stance is for wives to simply take it when their husbands abuse them, this makes it crystal clear.. who the hell is scanning these things before they go to print?
Fuck that shit! As someone who got beat to a bloody pulp almost everyday growing up (by my loving WItness parents ) this has me seething with anger!!!! It's misogyny in its truest form!! How could anyone in their right mind defend this load of horseshit? God really, if ever there were any doubt in my mind that MAYBE Witnesses have the "truth" (which there isn't) this would give me the answer. Shame on them and their fucked up culture!
i mean door to door (sort of), not informally to non-witness friends and family!.
so for a few weeks, i have suspected that my neighbor across the hall was being studied with by witnesses.
i wasn't sure but saw a couple of older women leaving with what looked like bibles, but never saw watchtower literature.
That is so fantastic!!!!!!!!
i was a third generation witness, a ministerial servant twice in my life, a failed pioneer (i only made it six months).
when the article about higher education come out, my family finally decided it was okay for me to get a two year degree.
and that enabled me to provide for myself--before that is was impossible.
Beautiful post! As for your father, don't give up on him. I'm an ISFJ also and I was the first one to break away, with my husband (an ENTJ) following later. You never know
i 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..
Glueman - OMG!! I couldn't help but laugh at that one!! I guess she was feeling guilty about feeling herself
though there are still problems in my life, as with everyone's life, i see the world so much differently now.
i no longer feel threatened from "worldly" people, as though somehow they are out to destroy me or take advantage of me.
it's very mentally liberating to realize that those walls the organization so erroneously put up can be scaled and that there is true beauty waiting on the other side.
Though there are still problems in my life, as with everyone's life, I see the world so much differently now. I no longer feel threatened from "worldly" people, as though somehow they are out to destroy me or take advantage of me. It's very mentally liberating to realize that those walls the organization so erroneously put up can be scaled and that there is true beauty waiting on the other side. I often feel that the shades have been lifted and the sun is finally pouring in on my soul. It's amazing! I will never again subject myself to such control and fanaticism.
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
i was in the mood today... got the tree cheap (came w/lights), decorations and ribbon for half price and made the bow myself to save money.
i was going to put it aside until after thanksgiving, but couldn't resist completing the project.
i just have to get some fiber fill for "snow" at the base.
That's a pretty tree! I love the variety of colors. Hopefully we will celebrate our first Christmas this year :)
i found this site randomly the other day on an unrelated search, and its nice to find a place where people can discuss a relgion that in house cannot be discussed without either being quoted mantras or a very skewed view of the world.. ok about me.. im a 24 year old taiwanese-american, and i have been raised as a jw from the age of about three to the age of 17, when i unoffically left.
i started to have doubts around age 12, but did what i was supposed to to keep mommy and daddy happy.
my parents are jws, as well as my older 1/2 sister, and my younger sister.
Welcome! The world can be a beautiful place, so enjoy the journey and embrace your freedom
since jehovah's witnesses supposedly have "the truth" and are part of god's visible organization living in a "spiritual paradise" you would naturally expect that they should be the happiest people on earth!
this clearly is not the case.
wha happened?
A dear friend of mine, one whom I knew since we were 6 years old, shot himself in the head a few months after his baptism. He was only 24. When his sister found him, he was surrounded by Watchtowers and the NWT and there was a note saying something to the effect that he couldn't live up to Jehovah's standards. A few weeks back, a sister I know in a local congregation took an entire bottle of sleeping pills. My brother, a sheriff's deputy, received the call that she was missing and he found her face-down in the woods near her house, barely breathing. She left a note saying she would never be good enough for Jehovah. Thankfully she survived, but damn what a shame! My other brother attempted suicide a few years back and I was on the verge myself a few years ago (before leaving the Borg). An elder in my old congregation, his first wife threw herself off a building after many years of battling depression. There was a brother in a nearby congregation who used to be best friends with my oldest brother. His wife found him hanging in their boathouse. He had been there for a while
that their bible is different from any bible anyone else reads in that it has added the name jehovah to the new testament greek scriptures??
when it is not there in any ancient manuscript????
i mean they put it there where it aint quoted at all....like all 12 times in revelation....i mean how can they not have a problem with that???
Honey badger don't give a shit! haha....ok that has nothing to do with anything, I just wanted to throw it in there
so as i stated in my first post, i was born to witness parents.
from early on, my parents were both quite fanatical about the "truth.
" we couldn't even eat lucky charms cereal because they thought it had satanic connections.
Exwhyzee: You are very right. I don't trust my parents for a second. I have no doubt that they are still capable of abuse and if they ever tried to lay a hand on my baby boy I would go completely ape-shit on their asses!! My mother is still verbally abusive to me on the rare occasions that we speak to each other. I have purposely been trying to keep our communication to a minimum because of the way she treats me even now. I will always be there if they need some kind of assistance, but I'm not their punching bag anymore, that's for damn sure.
