here is an email that my grandmother sent me yesterday.. .
shawn, it's very difficult & sad to come to this decision, but because of your attitude towards the truth & us personally (thinking that we are stupid) we're going to treat you as a disfellowshipped person from now on.
actually, you're worse than them because usually they know they have not kept their oath to jehovah & don't speak abusively of the organization and don't turn apostate.
Wow what a predicament ES sorry you have to face this. Good luck with what ever you choose to do.
This is a very unfair situation she has put you in. When I was 15 my parents made me choose between a roof over my head and the cult, I had to leave. It was hard but I stuck to my guns, no one was forcing their religion on me. In your situation it may be easier to pretend to concede a little, your livelihood is at stake.
when someone is reprimanded by a judicial commitee there is usually a talk given to the congregation about issues that leads to serious sins.
sometimes that talk takes you by surprise because the reproof was private and no announcement was made to the congregation.
other times you figure out why an individual was the object of a judicial commitee...i heard talks on the usage of drugs, cigarettes, pornography, bad forms of intertainment, fornication, adultery, fraud, gambling, disapproved medical treatments...but never on child abusers and mostly how to protect your children against this terrible crime.. do you think the reason there is never mention of child abuse is that if many knew there is a child molester in their midst they would pressure the elders to go to the autorities?
To Fernandos wife.... I am deeply sorry you had to endure this horrific abuse. I hate this cult more everyday. Im so glad you all got ouy Fernando.
before, i was thinking, this whole thing with the character the writing department has must be a coincidence.
they must use other names?.
nope.
Hahaha, dirty Andre, the elder was laughing so hard it brought tears to his eyes.
where's the damn "little yellow smiley face guy eating popcorn emoticon"?.
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DJEggnog and Nannanana. So annoying and full of it.
my mom has had visits from various jws and they have asked her if they could say a prayer before they left.
i respectfully listened to the prayers while i was visiting and might silently say amen if i felt the prayer was appropriate for my mom.. i'm just curious, how would you handle this type of situation?.
No diff than when I was in. Sit if everyone else stands and check out what everyone else does during the prayer, oh and pull faces at little kids. lol. I never believed in prayer, seriously, does anyone actually think that God is interested in their butt kissing? God cannot and will not 'answer' prayers.
march 8th 1974 issue, pages 13-16:.
"scream!
scream!
Thats funny Ninja, I dont remember the 'guidelines' being 'inform police', I do remember 'call legal'.
soldier 77 just posted this about two hours ago but i think his post got lost is the great debate and straw mans that another posters was throwing around.. anyway i hope soldier 77 does not mind if i make a thread from his insight.
soldier 77 "this seems to have missed in the tangent argument going on: http://pastebin.com/3nitctlf.
anonymous are needing some more people on the inside to help.
bttt
i was just thinking about how often i prayed when i was going downhill.. now i subscribed wholeheartedly to the 'don't pray for bullshit requests' concept, so at first i rarely prayed.. starting around middle school, 9/10 i prayed for friends.
didn't really pray to stop the teasing, my fists did some of that and besides...racism isn't/wasn't jehovah's fault anyway and i can't pray for that to end when he allowed the witnesses to suffer in ww2.. through high school, same issue and then when i started pioneering and hanging out with some of the other witnesses, those prayers prayers for friends intensified cuz they were asses.. but they were dominated by the prayers to love god starting around 15. i didn't want to read the magazines, despite how much i love reading.
didn't want to stdy the lessons, didn't want to plan my presentations, though i did enjoy giving the talks and crafting them.
Ha ha Blacksheep, hilarious.
http://www.bit.ly/jwleaks-anonymous.
hello citizens of the world.
we are anonymous.. dear brothers and sisters,.
cool keep us informed.
i'll start .
kingdom hall: a place where cult members get together to be faithful and discreet .
inactive: not going out in 'field service' or attending 'the meetings' enough to get into 'the paradise' and get 'everlasting life'
theocratic ministry school: 'giving talks' to teach others in the congregation how to make 'jehovah' happy when going out in 'the ministry'.
