so far my oldest niece and oldest sister cut me off.
i'm waiting for the goodbye texts from my other siblings.
my parents asured me they would never cut me off.
Never forget that your mum does love you but there's this big cult holding a gun to her head saying its gonna kill everyone if she doesnt follow orders.
That and they dont want to lose their get out of death card. Just about everyone on this site suffers from shunning to some degree.
yesterday, i got our credit card statement, and looked at the charges.
over $500 to itunes.
questioned everyone, and it's for "jewels" for a kim kardashian game my 13 year old charged.
my husband and i (both born in jws with extended family all "in" except for one of my sisters who left when we did) left the church 5 years ago.
we did not fade, we just didn't believe it anymore, told our families so and left.
obviously, big drama in our family after this, messy feelings, etc.
Ask her why god punished the snake if it was just satan speaking through it.
yesterday i drove to mcdonalds and noticed that the nearby kingdom hall had the new blue jw.org logo.. the rebranding has started here in holland.. g.. .
Lismore has theirs front and centre.
the october kingdom ministry for the united states reported the 2014 memorial attendances for the us branch office that has subsequently been well discussed in a separate thread.
in that thread, a poster asserted that in some parts of europe the attendance had been higher than last year - but to date no source evidence has been provided.. so, have memorial attendances for other parts of the world been reported in any of the publications such as kingdom ministryyet?.
if so, could you direct me to the source(s).
They lie about everything else who's to say any of these numbers are real.
Just looked up the Australian census for people who identify as JWs and it was down 2.8 percent in the 5 years from 1996-2001
Scientologists are always on about their increasing numbers but the census says otherwise as well
i believe in god but i'm not sure of anything....what about you?.
I dont believe you insult anyone Cofty. Religious people feel any attack on their beliefs is a personal assault on their intelligence.
If you believe in talking snakes and worldwide floods you deserve to be mocked.Too many christians not enough lions.
wow, it's true - they don't call to 'promote god's kingdom' anymore but just their website!.
we just had an old lady call and tell us that was exactly what they were doing and it has "lots of good things on their for children".
yeah, right ... sparlock?.
Have you heard about this new thing called the internet? Yeah people sell shit on it .
here's a thought: we're told over and over how employers sing the praises of their jw employees, sometimes with a vague quote about how 'if we could only hire jws, we would as they are so honest'.
however, while some jw employers themselves may hire jw employees (usually cheap entry level positions), most don't.
in fact, many jw's in general who have businesses have a rule not to do work with jws, even those in their congregation.
Forgot to add she came crying to my mum and dad to confess she'd lost their money and said they could have her 10 carat diamond ring as collateral till she paid them back. Mum took it to a jeweller to have it valued and they said it wasnt a diamond and was worthless.
here's a thought: we're told over and over how employers sing the praises of their jw employees, sometimes with a vague quote about how 'if we could only hire jws, we would as they are so honest'.
however, while some jw employers themselves may hire jw employees (usually cheap entry level positions), most don't.
in fact, many jw's in general who have businesses have a rule not to do work with jws, even those in their congregation.
My parent used a sister who was a paralegal secretary to do the bookwork on an inheritance they got when my grandmother died.
She knew how much they got so hit them for a loan of 40 grand promising to pay back with a high interest rate.
She also got her aging parent to remortgage their house and ended up losing the lot when her investment in a business went belly up.
I think she lost nearly 200,000 altogether.
i had a flash back yesterday.
my non jw husband and i went to disneyland and bought my young daughter a set of 7 dwarf toys.
after a few months i felt guilty and threw them away, thinking they were demonized.
I used to get old 45's off the Jukebox for 20 cents when they replaced them with newer ones.
I had over 3,000 and 500 odd albums all burned or made to be sold in case they had backward masking on them.
I ended up having a huge fight with my father over it and told him that was it. I left saying I was never going back.
Were's all these satanists who read Harry Potter novels and bought Beatles albums. Must be millions of them.
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