Posts by jemba

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SECRET SANTA 2012

by finallysomepride in

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secret santa 2012. with only 7 weeks to go until christmas, should we start to do something now, especially for those posting overseas.

just a thought.

i recently found myself on a gluten free diet and have never felt better, finally my health problems are solved, pity all those prayers to jeehooha didnt help me when i needed it.. now i am finding myself occasionally accidently 'glutened' and remember how crap i felt before.

just another wonderful discovery ive made since getting out of the borg.. how have you found being on a gluten free diet and being gluten intolerant?.

jemba

I recently found myself on a Gluten free diet and have never felt better, finally my health problems are solved, pity all those prayers to Jeehooha didnt help me when I needed it.

Now I am finding myself occasionally accidently 'Glutened' and remember how crap I felt before. Just another wonderful discovery Ive made since getting out of the borg.

How have you found being on a Gluten Free diet and being Gluten intolerant?

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Where does all the JW money go?

by LouBelle in

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i want to know.. does every kingdom hall, bethel and assembly hall belong to the watchtower, bible & tract society?.

each of those kingdom halls, bethels etc are built with the money obtained by that country's contributions.

if a loan is needed the bothers of that specific congregation pay off the loan.. the society has then an extremely huge amount of property worth billions of $$$$ who has control of all those funds?

jemba

Eventually I really hope that the world starts getting sick of all the billions of dollars that religions have stashed away in properties and shares and starts tapping them for taxes and also expects complete transparency, at the very least the JWs should expect to know what is happening with their donations. Maybe they would stop giving so much if they knew where it was really going. I'd love to see a huge money scandal with the society, showing them up as scammers or doing something illegal. That might get a few more people waking up.

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Don't tread on my dreams

by Xanthippe in

favourite poem anyone?.

here's some of mine.

had i the heavens' embroidered cloths,.

jemba

I had to read the road not taken by robert frost for one of my trainings at a call centre. I got up and read it like an upbeat public talk and got a standing ovation. Yes I actually got one or two positive things from being a dub all my life.

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Out with a bang or Fade

by Honeybucket in

what did you decide to do?.

leave with a bang, trying to educate those around you before leaving?

perhaps writing letters to others forgiving/ asking for forgiveness.. or.

jemba

We have been fading in and out for 20 years but them moment we both learned together TTATT we never went back. There is no way I could deliberately fade or even worse stay in knowing TTATT. Even while mentally in I found it really hard to do anything JW related because it made me physically ill, I hated every part of 'the truth', it was as though the cognitive dissonance was finally just too much and it all had to come to a head. As a born-in there was no escape as I didnt want to be destroyed by jeehooba at the big A. We are so happy now and so damn relieved that we never have to go back.

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Where Are You From?

by finallysomepride in

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alot of members don't have a flag or country name beside their user name, and well frequently one doesn't know where that particular person is from, tell us your country, state, county or what ever you feel like giving out.

if you are going to post please at least devulge your country.. me, i'm originally from taranaki, new zealand via auckland.

for the most of this decade i have been living & working in brisbane, queensland, australia.. .

jemba

Hey FSP, hope you didnt get too battered by todays storms, we are further north of the sunny coast so were ok so far. Good topic.

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Where Are You From?

by finallysomepride in

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alot of members don't have a flag or country name beside their user name, and well frequently one doesn't know where that particular person is from, tell us your country, state, county or what ever you feel like giving out.

if you are going to post please at least devulge your country.. me, i'm originally from taranaki, new zealand via auckland.

for the most of this decade i have been living & working in brisbane, queensland, australia.. .

jemba

Queensland Australia. Like FSP.

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Jehovah's Witness father botches kitchen floor circumcision...and goes to jail.

by Balaamsass in

todays google alert, from the toronto sun;.

man who botched son's home-circumcision guilty of criminal negligence, top court rules 21. by brigitte pellerin,parliamentary bureaufirst posted: friday, november 16, 2012 11:41 am est.

the supreme court of canada in ottawa on july 21, 2011.

jemba

As much as I love bad media about JWs this isnt a regular JW issue, this guy is even more of a nut-job than the usual stupid dubs. Youd think after botching his own cock-mod he wouldnt then put his little son through it too. I agree he should be taken away from this crazy father.

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nobody cares

by Honeybucket in

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as joyous as this is... what if noone cared wether you stayed or left.

perhaps they viewed you as annoying, or a pain.

maybe your not in their clique.

jemba

Some congregations are so focused on bringing in new people that they not only dont care about those who leave but actually disrespect them for leaving 'paradise'. I have been gone for some years now and have never had a shepherding call, just the occasional dubs calling past on their preaching work, sometimes stumbling upon us by accident then regretting it when they get my cool reception. Get seen doing anything forbidden though and youll soon get the 'encouraging visit' from the elders.

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Venting some rage and pain.

by jemba in

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my father the coboe and much loved member of the cult has ignored me and my children 17yrs and 8yrs old for much of my life and all of my kids lives.

i hate that religion for taking my father away and i hate him for being sucked in and putting all his love, time and kindness into the org and the stupid dubs and leaving himself too tired and uninterested in us.

my kids dont have grandparents, my mum is ok, she rings me once a month but kinda ignores my kids, just gives em $50 each a yr as a substitute for love and attention.. .

jemba

Wow, what beautiful supportive messages of love. Thankyou from the bottom of my heart!

Today I have woken up in a much better frame of mind. Its so true that I am the winner in this, with my lovely children and loving partner, what do my parents have but conditional friends and servitued to a cult.

Sometimes you get so damn frustrated because you want to shout from the rooftops all the injustices of this religion and the behaviour of those in it but it would fall on deaf ears. Ive thought about approaching this Father of mine and telling him all but that would just force him to do what he obviously doesnt want to do - give us his time and attention. I only want it if its genuine.

A lot of my childhood was filled with a fierce jealousy of people in the cong because they saw the loving side of my Dad, but I think as some have said - My kids and I see the true man, he is a fake.

Yes its not wholly the org that I have to blame, its my fathers attitude, however the org is keeping him in that state of dissassociative disorder and I hate them for ruining so many lives.

Thankyou Flipper, 'sick mentally' is so true, I will remember that, it will help me stop being such a JW hater. I recognise that I was also a JW and extremely mentally ill, with depression, anxiety and panic attacks.

I love this forum and really appreciate what wonderful therapy it has been so far with all you fantastic, kind posters.

Jemba xxx