the other day i was watching "charlie's angel's" (the weekly series from the '70's) on tvland.
it dawned on me how much i used to wish they had aired that show any night but thursdays.
maybe twice a year, if i was too sick to go to the meeting i would get my hour to watch my favorite star...farrah!
Having friends at school. I had to act like I didn't have any to keep my mom from making me feel guilty. And because I couldn't do birthdays or anything, I never got invited to anyone's house. My mom married a non-believer and we were poor so that left us out of any congregation activities.
I also missed Christmas, I always wished I could go to school and say I got this or that of Christmas. Having fun would have been nice too. But I wasn't allow to be a kid, I got baptized at 13.
Pam
our niece, irene, who posts here as inky, sent me an email.
her 27 year old son is getting married in two weeks, and she posted a few days ago about how he didn't invite her to his wedding.. she told me i can post it as she doesn't want to read it again.. "dear mom.
i've needed to write this letter to you for some time now.
Calling it the brotherhood, makes it sound like the KKK or something. I am so sorry. I wonder if the young woman he is going to marry is really all that mild? Hopefully she will have a mind of her own, and show him that women need to be respected. I hope she takes his headship and shoves it where it belongs. That whole letter was a mean power trip, and designed to make him feel good about himself. Most abusers are that way.
Also, even if the elders are shown the letter, they will not be upset. That is what a good jw is supposed to do, make the offender feel so bad they will want to come back. They think shunning makes you miss them so much, you will beg to be let back in. Makes me want to run farther and faster.
Pam
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please.
can you send me the scann of new book and brochure
How come none of the families are bi-racial, and why does the white family get the biggest picture?
You should see some of the pics inside the book, poor kids preaching on the school bus and walking away from other kids getting beat up. It is really a sad little book.
Pam
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please.
can you send me the scann of new book and brochure
Here is the cover, it seems the model they use as Jesus now is not as good looking as in the past.
125 years of the watchtower, and women are still considered garbage.. they cannot give talks, have a position in the congregation, cannot lead a study when a man is present, give a prayer etc etc etc etc.......... they can be of the annoited class, but a man who is a ms, still has more say !!!!!!!!!!.
to all the women on this board, did this ever bother you as a jw, and does it bother you know ???.
how can women sit at a meeting and in a round about way be treated like garbage and accept it ????
I has always bothered me. That is why I am no longer a jw and I am single. I won't be walked on by anyone. I see how my mom and sister are still treated and it makes me sick. It makes me so crazy that I have to be careful how often I talk to my mom. My mom just came back last weekend from the district convention, and showed my the new great teacher book. I had to put it away. It was making me sick at my stomach. It says that the women followers of Jesus, must have cooked his clothes and fixed his meals for him. (pg. 75-76) In truth these women had money and supported Jesus. He could not have done what he did without them.
Pam
the july 1, 1962 wt.
asks "can the demons read our minds?
"" the demons.
I can remember being afraid of demons as a kid. My sister (still jw) has the demon fear bad. Anytime something happens that seems odd, (her whole life) she throws something away. As a jw I was always worried that the demons were following me.
My life is so dull now, I don't even follow myself.
Pam
now i know there's a lot of sceptics here (myself included) when it comes to the reliability of horoscopes, but i found one that seemed alot more accurate than the regular crapola you see in the papers.
look yours up to see how accurate this is!
aquarius (jan 21 - feb 19): you have an inventive mind and are inclined to be progressive.
CAPRICORN: (Dec 22 - Jan 20): You are conservative and afraid of taking risks. You don't do much of anything and are lazy. There has never been a Capricorn of any importance. Capricorns should avoid standing still for too long as a dog might think he is a tree and pee on him.
Here poochy, poochy. !
I loved it, been feeling rather lazy today, now I know why.
Pam
i myself was raised in the "truth" til i was df'd at the age of 21. i have often wondered that if i were allowed to grow up just as every other child did in the u.s. would i have been interested in looking at the organization and taking interest?
do any of you think and wonder the same thing?
No, I don't think I would have. The only reason I stayed as long as I did was because of family. I even went back after being df when i was a teenager. I needed my mother's help and that was the only way to get it. (Some love huh?) But now, I am willing to give up the family to be myself.
If I had heard the witness message as an adult I would have asked way to many questions. And I would have hated being told what to do. So I would not.
Pam
in answering the question about why do jws continue to believe whatever the society prints and postulates we must start with an inward look at ourselves.
every person had his or her own reason to become a jw.
in fact, when we were jws the first question we used to ask of those we recently meet, say in the hall or at assemblies, was how did they become a jw?
Personally I was raised a jw, so I didn't think about it until I got older. But I always hated being different. But my mother chose to be a jw, and I think it is because they gave her all the answers. She didn't have to think for herself, or may any more hard decisions. If she doesn't want to do something, or wants to get out of something she just says her beliefs will not let her. And sadly her life is awful, and she as spent 30 some odd years waiting for the "end" so her life will get better. By waiting she does not have to do any hard work, like learning to be a better person. She can coast through life. It is her escape.
can the church be saved?
as allegations of sex abuse--and official cover-up--mount, outraged roman catholics are urging their leaders to redeem and reform the faith.
by johanna mcgeary.
Path,
Elders in congregations do know what is happening, and they do nothing. My sisters and I were molested by my new babtized step father, and the elders blamed us, and our mother. And then told my mother that Jehovah hates divorces, so she could not leave him. After all he never had real sex with us, no matter what else he did.
There is all kinds of abuse in the wt. Wife beatings, child abuse, sexual abuse, and no one does anything. After all men pretty much get away with what ever they want in the cong. The jws are no better than the any other religion. They are just better at hiding it.
as far as one person against the other, you error on the side of keeping children save. Do what the public schools do, if there is even a hint of abuse you turn it in. If after an investigation, there is no substance to it, then good. But if there is truth to it, then one more child is saved from a horrible experience.
the wt lies and says that its people never do anything wrong, that they only love each other. That is the biggest lie of all.
Pam
