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.
Posts by jemba
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39Don't tread on my dreams
by Xanthippe infavourite poem anyone?.
here's some of mine.
had i the heavens' embroidered cloths,.
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Out with a bang or Fade
by Honeybucket inwhat 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.
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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 inalot 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.. .
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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 inalot 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.. .
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jemba
Queensland Australia. Like FSP.
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Jehovah's Witness father botches kitchen floor circumcision...and goes to jail.
by Balaamsass intodays 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.
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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 inas 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.
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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 inmy 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.. .
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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
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Venting some rage and pain.
by jemba inmy 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.. .
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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.
We had to move 18 hr drive away for work 12 yrs ago but i still make the time each yr to travel down and stay with them, mum used to come up here for holidays till i told her i was not going to meetings anymore due to depression. Ive just faded not DF or DA.
I cant believe my kids are being ripped off grandparent wise. (Hubbys parents are into paedophilia so enough said there.) Im so friggin angry today, sometimes it just catches up with me esp when I see grandparents who adore their grandkids and spend every moment they can with them.
Its hard to believe how nice, loving and kind my dad is to the dubs, it makes me cry because i want that! As his daughter im entitled to that, them fools already have their own families, they dont need mine!!
Ive never been spiritual enough for my dad, simple as that - a big disappointment 'spiritually' forced into baptism at 15, kicked out 6 months later for not wanting to go to meetings, spent 3 yrs of my life living with prostitutes and drug dealers, being drugged and raped and ending up feeling very low and suicidal.
DF at 20 then my life got on track when I met my wonderful Hubby of 19 yrs, after my reinstatement at 22 my dad basically ignored me, hardly spoken to me since.
Thankyou all for listening to my angry painful rant, Im typing so fast there is no time for punctuation or spell check, I know if I dont write this while angry then I never will.
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All those who have recently joined us.........
by jemba inmy favourite post on jwn is the new posts.
so i'd like to start a 'welcome' list of all the new people who have joined in the last 6 months, i cant remember all of them so can you add anyone you know of?
welcome to....... roostermcdooster.
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solomon
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Nephilim found in the State of Chihuahua
by bats in the belfry inthe broadcaster, july 16, 1925. .
the broadcaster was a four-page, second-class publication, that hoped to reach hundreds of thousands of persons through the mails.
later, this publication was discontinued, because so many failed to reach their destination.
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jemba
Ha, ha thinking of the tiny chihuahua dog and the giant nephilim. sounds like a BS story to me.