Posts by acsot

I don't know if this will be any "comfort" to you, but I was super-Dub. Special pioneered, served where the need was great, learned two other languages to serve in foreign language groups (which was one good thing to come out of the JW experience - all those meetings and field service certainly help when you want to become fluent - I learned Spanish better than some lawyers here at work who spent two years in Barcelona in post-graduate studies).

I read everything, and I mean everything. I love to read so it was no hardship. I even read Insight on the Scriptures from cover to cover. If anything, it made me have more doubts. I repressed them for as long as possible, then the Dateline program came on T.V., then I found the SilentLambs website, read about Jesika's experience, found this website, then the scales fell for good and I realized with great relief that it wasn't me who had the problem, it was the WTS.

However, I don't feel it was all lost time. As mentioned, I am now fluently trilingual, have traveled extensively, visited Israel, Egypt, many other countries, much of it due to JW contacts, so I certainly did not waste all of my time. I do recognize however, that being single has aided me in being able to accomplish things in spite of the WTS. I don't have the responsibility of looking after young children, thus I have more time to devote to other things; being single I don't have to cope with a die-hard JW husband, a definite plus, etc. (you get my drift).

Maybe what I'm trying to get at is that I was able to pursue activities which I would have done anyway, JW or not (i.e. learn Spanish, travel, get involved in other cultures, etc.) so I'm taking those good experiences with me as I start to extricate myself from the WTS.

Staying "spiritually strong" in the dub sense will not prevent the light from getting through to a thinking person. You (and I) "fell away" because we were able to see the truth about the troof.

Congratulations.

(this may be rather incoherent - I'm at work and trying to post in between tasks)

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NEED URGENT INFO NOW - HEMOPURE

by Scully in

i'm at work right now and i have been asked to help.

a jw patient will probably die during surgery if she does not accept blood.

to the best of my knowledge the hlc is not aware of her presence in hospital, and her non-jw family wants to know what she can have.. how does the family get in touch with the hlc in the area?

acsot

Utopian Raindrops:

If god is on your side why would that even matter?

You are so right. It seems that the WTS is pretty quick to throw principles to the wind whenever a lawyer appears. I mean, if it's wrong, it's wrong, if it's right, it's right. And hang the consequences. Unless of course, you have just hired a kick-ass s.o.b. litigator to sue the pants off the WTS. Then wrong is right and right is wrong - isn't there a verse condemning this type of behaviour?

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NEED URGENT INFO NOW - HEMOPURE

by Scully in

i'm at work right now and i have been asked to help.

a jw patient will probably die during surgery if she does not accept blood.

to the best of my knowledge the hlc is not aware of her presence in hospital, and her non-jw family wants to know what she can have.. how does the family get in touch with the hlc in the area?

acsot

Scully:

Had our meeting last night, given our Medical Directive cards (hmm, haven't filled mine out yet.......), then the elder said that with respect to HLC, it's the elders who are supposed to call and give the details as to the patient's condition, whether it's an emergency, blah, blah, blah (even when a patient's bleeding to death they have to follow their friggin' hierarchy).

Can you find out where the patient's from and in any case, where are the elders? Shouldn't they be showing Christian love? support in time of emergency? or maybe the non-jw relatives not want them involved?

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Birthday List

by nicolaou in

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c'mon guys, we can celebrate our birthdays!!!.

post your birthdate here and let us know how you want to get your 'birthday card' (email, post on the board, text message, soaped-up kyliegram!).

my birthday is october 16th and i'd be happy to receive any of the above.. .

acsot

Am I the only February 23rd here?

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Are You Tough, Or Are You A Baby?

by minimus in

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if you were to describe your temperment, would you say that you are a pretty tough person or a crybaby?

do you wear your heart on your sleeve and tend to be emotional, or do you let things just bounce off of you?

acsot

TresHappy:

Definitely the latter. I am so sensitive, I cry at supermarket openings.

LOL!

Farkel:

I cried at the end of the movie "Titanic," but I will deny this in any court of law.

I know lots of people who did - I, however, cried during the awful movie "Three Men and a Baby". Talk about being a sissy. Schindler's List almost gave me a nervous breakdown, ditto for Life is Beautiful.

I'm definitely in the wimp class, although I've had lots of practice at hiding my feelings and pretending to be tough; all a sham however.

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The Pain of my Daughter

by LeslieV in

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my oldest daughter wrote this to her father to show her pain of his choosing his religion over her.

of course, once he read the letter he told her he has just choosen jehovah.

she wanted me to share this with all of you, and especially if there are any jw's that are lurking on this board, to show what a child feels when religion is more important than your children.. dear daddy;.

acsot

(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((LeslieV and daughter))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

It's so sick that the WTS mouths off so much about their loving worldwide organization, and quote Jn. 13:35 to prove they're the true religion, love your enemies even, then proceed to reject their own families.

What a load of crap. My thoughts are with you.

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For those who don't believe in God

by freedom96 in

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when we were witnesses, we certainly believed in god.

some of us were born into it, and others have perhaps come from other religions, while still others may never had any religious faith at all.

some here on the board now claim that there is no god at all.

acsot

Gedanken & StinkyPantz: Thanks. I've got more to read now (other things I'm interested in also) than all the dub stuff combined!

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Meetings

by JH in

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hebrews 10:25

let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-- and all the more as you see the day approaching.

the dubs teached this as an obligation to go to the meetings.

acsot

It means inviting me to your American Thanksgiving feasts and snack time and I will be very encouraged. And encouraging: "Wow, this is delicious. Can I have seconds? I can't believe you made this from scratch! Can I come back next year?"

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For those who don't believe in God

by freedom96 in

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when we were witnesses, we certainly believed in god.

some of us were born into it, and others have perhaps come from other religions, while still others may never had any religious faith at all.

some here on the board now claim that there is no god at all.

acsot

StinkyPantz:

Do you have any recommendations as to a "beginners guide to evolution"? Something like "Evolution for Dummies"? LOL

I don't know where to begin in my search for anything scientific.