Posts by SonOfLiberty

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Could use some advice, divorce and children

by SonOfLiberty in

i understand a lot of you have had experience with different situations but i just need to see if there is anything to shed light on my situation.. i separated from my wife of 13 yrs (been apart for the past 2 now), and left.

this was our second separation.

i couldn't deal with her ways anymore so i chose to leave.

SonOfLiberty

Then maybe I should just meet with them and explain. Since I got nothing else to lose, I could always try to appeal it I guess. She just kept saying how I was such a pussy for not letting "her go" at least to remarry and etc etc. Got tired of it and acted.

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Could use some advice, divorce and children

by SonOfLiberty in

i understand a lot of you have had experience with different situations but i just need to see if there is anything to shed light on my situation.. i separated from my wife of 13 yrs (been apart for the past 2 now), and left.

this was our second separation.

i couldn't deal with her ways anymore so i chose to leave.

SonOfLiberty

Thank you for your time and response. Surprisingly the elders have not really bothered me at all. I just don't want to be DFed and lose anything with my children. I know they would choose me over my ex, but I don't even want them to have to have such a choice. I just want to raise them together as single parents. I did write that letter, but it was only for her to be "free" of me. I just couldn't stand her crap and all her taunting me anymore so I just felt I did what I needed to do to make it final. I just fear if I do not answer any calls or speak with them they will see it as disassociating myself and DF me anyway.

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JW's Should Be Banned!

by mr_doubtful in

i'm all for religious freedoms.

i am not for a religious organization demanding freedoms from the government that they in turn take away from their own members.

why should the organization get religious freedom when they take that very thing away from it's members?.

SonOfLiberty

I think as long as the religion isn't violent, terrorist types or physically harming people it should be given religious freedom. Once you ban one, the domino effect begins. I do agree though, banning the act of shunning should be looked at. As it is essentially thought crime punishment. I don't know it's sticky. This shit has been done since the scriptures were written, so it's nothing new. Perhaps a regulation on how it's done or to whom. It shouldn't separate families though, they should let families decide that on their own like they did during the time in the scriptures.

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Writing Letters Go's Against Their Teachings? Scientology has already done this!

by mr_doubtful in

i'm not sure why they are writing letters for a number of reasons.

1st, isn't god supposed to harden the hearts of world leaders?

if this is the case, wouldn't they be going against god's plan by trying to soften the hearts of one of the leaders?

SonOfLiberty

1. if you believe this, then you should believe there is nothing anyone can do to "go against god's plan." This question kind of ignores a lot of Bible history lore honestly.

2. again, you are missing a lot of OT/NT lore. Plenty of times Christians were "liquidated" before the "turn on false religion" ever occurred. Prophecy is like shooting from the hip honestly. If Paul for example saw all the crazy persecution he saw and was like "ehhh dont worry about it dont do nothing" thats exactly what would have happened. Nothing. Except they all were encouraged to put up a hard fight for the faith in any way possible.

3. Control of the Church, yes through Jesus I guess. But of governments? Idk. I saw the WT depict Satan as in control of that. I guess you could say he is in "control" of the grand scheme of things, but there are plenty of variables to occur from now to his "time table".

4. Who cares? Whats this have to do with Scientology?

5. ^ Again.

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Could use some advice, divorce and children

by SonOfLiberty in

i understand a lot of you have had experience with different situations but i just need to see if there is anything to shed light on my situation.. i separated from my wife of 13 yrs (been apart for the past 2 now), and left.

this was our second separation.

i couldn't deal with her ways anymore so i chose to leave.

SonOfLiberty

I understand a lot of you have had experience with different situations but I just need to see if there is anything to shed light on my situation.

I separated from my wife of 13 yrs (been apart for the past 2 now), and left. This was our second separation. I couldn't deal with her ways anymore so I chose to leave. I knew obviously this would affect how the congregation viewed me so I left the congregation too as I felt guilty anyway so couldn't really go to meetings anymore, though I wouldn't have minded continuing as I had plenty of friends and good relationships.

Anyway, I got tired of her bullying even apart. It came down to me just going out on her and committing adultery just in hopes of her leaving me alone. I promptly wrote her a letter admitting it and gave it to her. Of course she still did not stop her badgering me.

Anyway, I think she's finally after these two years, realized I'm not going back to her. And we've been able to make some kind of peace in the last 3 weeks. Now she's telling me that I need to come back because I will not be able to talk to my kids 2 of which are baptized and that they will probably DF me. In the 2 year period I've been gone, I've talked to maybe 3 brothers. 2 elders and 1 brother that has always been nice to me. All 3 though have merely just been to check on me and not so much any kind of official congregation business.

Now I am worried as to how all this will affect my young children. My 14yr old is baptized and my oldest is too. but my middle son isn't. My oldest already doesn't really communicate with me at all save for when he needs something. But I have a great relationship with my two younger ones, I see them almost daily and they stay with me weekly.

I just don't know what to really do now, I seem to have this dread of waiting some kind of visit or call or something for more "official" business especially regarding my letter. Any thoughts?