Posts by biometrics

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If you were raised in a home with a JW parent and a non-JW parent: a few questions

by Lady Lee in

if you were raised in a home with a jw parent and a non-jw parent: a few questions.. i am going to be addressing the international cultic studies association (icsa) in july at the conference in montreal.

my focus is on 3 groups.

the third group consists of people people who grew up in homes where one parent was a jw and the other wasn't.

biometrics

No, never. However he was friends with some of the JWs. I don't think he ever stepped into a KH.
The JW parent.
Sometimes. The JW parent didn't want me having non-JW friends. The no-JW parent wanted me to make friends at school.
Until the non-JW parent died I wasn't really made to go. Sometimes I'd stay at home with the non-JW parent.
Sometimes, we'd go with the non-JW's family to celibrate Christmas, Easter, birthdays.
It ended when I was 7 years old when the non-JW parent died. So it's hard to say.
I don't see any therapists.
Not that I'd like to post here.

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R&F Rumblings

by biometrics in

so i had a good conversation wth my brother, who i thought was a devout jw.

he eventually asked "are you going to the meetings?

", i said "no" then he said "why not, you know we're near the end".

biometrics

I too was told I was ready for baptisim at 12, what does a 12 year old know? I was able to answer all the baptisim questions cause of all the indocternation I recieved from my early childhood till the age of 12, but was I ready to dedicate my life to an orginization??

They tried that on me too, at age 14. I always got the answers wrong because I wasn't interested in getting dunked.

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Some "Publisher" Is A Rat Here! The Elder's Are Inquiring If I Am Apostate Material!

by Sunflower Samurai in

i knew this party was too good to last, some inquiring mind is a troll (yes, here on jwn we have moles!

), i think we have a rat here!

i don't feel like "apostate material" and i am not the only one who is going down for this offense!

biometrics

We had a big spit at our KH because an elder's brother was DF'd. Apparently the elder's brother took his PC to get fixed at a local computer store where a JW works. The JW found something (rumor was apostate material or porn) on his PC. The elder left the cong because he beleived his DF'd brother was innocent.

Perhaps the leak is closer to home (someone looking at your history).

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Fistfights for seats at DC?

by Blind_Of_Lies in

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biometrics

A relative of mine used to save us seats, even though they were all told not to.

You could never get a good seat, and the venues were always too small to seat everyone.

And the love you'd express when someone came in late and asked the whole row to move up two seats.

Then there's the loving brother's and sisters who constantly kick the back of your chair.

It's all love.

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R&F Rumblings

by biometrics in

so i had a good conversation wth my brother, who i thought was a devout jw.

he eventually asked "are you going to the meetings?

", i said "no" then he said "why not, you know we're near the end".

biometrics

I know there are quite a few who are trapped because of family ... etc. But what surprised me the most was when my brother said he knew 5 others having doubts about 1914.

Personally I think there's a significant percentage (10-20% or more) of JW publishers who are having serious doubts about 1914 overlapping generations. And the fact they're talking about their doubts with other (non-elder) JWs.

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R&F Rumblings

by biometrics in

so i had a good conversation wth my brother, who i thought was a devout jw.

he eventually asked "are you going to the meetings?

", i said "no" then he said "why not, you know we're near the end".

biometrics

I would think that anyone who openly stated they wanted their baptism annulled, would be a target for the df'd door

He's moved congregations four times in five years, so they may have lost track.

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R&F Rumblings

by biometrics in

so i had a good conversation wth my brother, who i thought was a devout jw.

he eventually asked "are you going to the meetings?

", i said "no" then he said "why not, you know we're near the end".

biometrics

He also said he's tried to have his baptism annulled,

why??

Because he was pushed into it at age 12.

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R&F Rumblings

by biometrics in

so i had a good conversation wth my brother, who i thought was a devout jw.

he eventually asked "are you going to the meetings?

", i said "no" then he said "why not, you know we're near the end".

biometrics

and why is he not df'd?

It's a long story. He has been df'd (twice). I actually encouraged him to come back to 'the truth' the first time. He also brought his wife into 'the truth'. I don't think anyone in our family ever shunned him, I know I didn't.

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R&F Rumblings

by biometrics in

so i had a good conversation wth my brother, who i thought was a devout jw.

he eventually asked "are you going to the meetings?

", i said "no" then he said "why not, you know we're near the end".

biometrics

So weird how he was trying to get you to go back, but he is only going because of his family....

Reading between the lines, I think he was testing to see if it was safe to talk about the Organisation with me. You know how it is when you're 'in'?

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R&F Rumblings

by biometrics in

so i had a good conversation wth my brother, who i thought was a devout jw.

he eventually asked "are you going to the meetings?

", i said "no" then he said "why not, you know we're near the end".

biometrics

So I had a good conversation wth my brother, who I thought was a devout JW. He eventually asked "Are you going to the meetings?", I said "No" then he said "Why not, you know we're near the end". I said "I've got a few doubts, that's all". That started a deep conversation about various JW doctrine. He confided in me that he also has doubts, and he personally knows of at least 5 other rank and file JWs who have the same doubts about 1914.

He said he's still going to meetings & FS because of mum, and his wife and kids expect him to.

I never expected this conversation from someone who never misses a meeting.

He also said he's tried to have his baptism annulled, but the elders won't let him.

How many other JWs are in this situation?