Joey Jojo... This is exactly the point. It may seem innocent but it is the first step to turning someone into a cult member.
silentbuddha
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Letter from Mother: "...go right ahead on death's road and take your kids with you."
by silentbuddha inso my jw father is sick.
my mother uses the opportunity to try and preach to my 16 year old daughter.
i simply told my mother to: "please refrain from trying to lure *my daughter* in with jehovah's witness questioning.
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Letter from Mother: "...go right ahead on death's road and take your kids with you."
by silentbuddha inso my jw father is sick.
my mother uses the opportunity to try and preach to my 16 year old daughter.
i simply told my mother to: "please refrain from trying to lure *my daughter* in with jehovah's witness questioning.
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silentbuddha
I've accepted my mother and my family are beyond hope. 60+ years in this cult and your mind is literally fried.
This is the first time I have spoken to her in a looking time because my dad is sick. It doesn't hurt me that she responded this way. I posted it to show what happens to the mind of a true believer. She is literally mentally gone.
If courts force people to associate with the disfellowshipped then the disfellowshipped are basically opening themselves up to even more harassment. NOT WORTH IT.
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Letter from Mother: "...go right ahead on death's road and take your kids with you."
by silentbuddha inso my jw father is sick.
my mother uses the opportunity to try and preach to my 16 year old daughter.
i simply told my mother to: "please refrain from trying to lure *my daughter* in with jehovah's witness questioning.
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silentbuddha
So my JW father is sick. My mother uses the opportunity to try and preach to my 16 year old daughter. I simply told my mother to: "Please refrain from trying to lure *my daughter* in with Jehovah's Witness questioning." Pretty simple request a parent would have for someone trying to re-indoctrinate their child. Well notice the JW hellfire this insane person unleashed:
"Listen to me because I'm saying this once & then I'm DONE! I am not trying to LURE *your daughter* in with questioning. This is a copy of what I sent to her. ......
Hi *my daughter*'
This is Grandma. Your dad gave me your cell phone #. I hope you're doing well. I'm sure this must be your school time so I'll be brief. Just wanted to send love your way & let you know that grandpa is in the hospital. He had a *medical procedure extracted* . He's making progress. Please pray to Jehovah that he can recover. Its difficult for him because he's an independent person. We're all praying for him. Do you pray 🙏 to Jehovah? Please call your grandpa. He will love to hear from you. His # *number removed*. Have a good day sweetie. Love you a bunch.......
There is no luring or questioning!! I said we are all praying for *your father* & I asked her to pray for him too & does she pray. Are you so paranoid about our faith that I can't ask my grandchild to pray for her grandpa?!!? I remember a little girl who gave a wonderful witness to her teacher about birthdays & holidays. A little girl who told her teacher that JEHOVAH doesn't like magic & she didn't either. A little girl who played Kingdom Hall after every meeting with her friends & she took the lead. Has your apostasy destroyed that child's knowledge of Jehovah, the only true God?
Have you brainwashed her so she doesn't want to even hear about praying to our Creator to our Maker. Did I bring a child into this world who has truly turned away from Almighty God & embraced Satanic ideas. I can't & won't deal with it. I AM ON JEHOVAH'S SIDE.
When Jehovah put Aaron's 2 sons to death, he was told not to grieve. If Aaron had grieved it would appear he wasn't in harmony with Jehovahs decision to punish them. Most of Jehovah's servants have unbelieving relatives that turn from the truth. A friend here in my congregation has cut her son off completely because it hurts her too much to see the course he's taken.
I've tried & hoped that some day you would return because Jehovah knows our heart & i truly wanted to believe that my son who made the truth his own, after all you had done.....I just knew you'd be back. Some of your old friends tell me ''he'll be back *mothers name removed*''. Well you have reinforced all the negativity I've tried not to listen too. You want this world & what Satan offers but its all a trap. When he's got you at a certain point your going to wonder what hit you. And it will probably be too late for you or your pride won't let you humble yourself before Jehovah.
So you go right ahead on deaths road and take your children with you. I'm thankful to Jehovah for the children & grandchildren that Jehovah has given me as He promised. They soothe my heart for the ones I've lost. Your dad seems to be having a difficult time because they put him back on the opioid that was so bad for him. I won't contact you or your children. I'm literally sick over this. Trying to deal with my own failing health & care for *father's name removed* isn't easy but Jehovah helps me. Isa.30:15 my strength comes from staying calm & trusting in Jehovah. I'm blocking your numbers. You can call your sister or brother. PLEASE don't stress your father with your foolishness."
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Squandered Life of Jehovah's Witness Youth
by silentbuddha in08:30 - 15:30 = school.
08:30 - 15:30 = school.
08:30 - 15:30 = school.
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silentbuddha
SBF, I had a very zealous mother who assigned reading and studying. If it wasn't done then punishments / beatings would ensue. There was no option but to study.
Joe, he was 48. He had been disfellowshipped twice and had recently decided to go back about 4 months ago. When he was not reinstated he kind of went off the deep end...
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Squandered Life of Jehovah's Witness Youth
by silentbuddha in08:30 - 15:30 = school.
08:30 - 15:30 = school.
08:30 - 15:30 = school.
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silentbuddha
Unfortunately the schedule above was my existence... I am sure the same as the majority of you here. You are right, throw in talks to prepare and hall cleaning and random other wastes of time and you literally see that your entire life was devoid of any true meaning or fun.
Then add in the fact that everyday of your life you are worried that Armageddon will arrive and because you played street fighter in an arcade with the one quarter you had on the way home from school Jehovah is mad and will kill you at Armageddon. The list just goes on and on. Now his wife and kids are left without him.
Insane
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Squandered Life of Jehovah's Witness Youth
by silentbuddha in08:30 - 15:30 = school.
08:30 - 15:30 = school.
08:30 - 15:30 = school.
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silentbuddha
This past weekend I went to the funeral of a person who was a friend of mine that I grew up with as a J.W. I won't get into the in's and out's of the reasons why he did this but he said something in his suicide letter that really hit me like a ton of bricks. One line from his letter is , "it isn't the fact that my youth was taken from me, it was the fact that every hour of my life was packed mundane tasks that made me feel empty and sub-human".
At first I thought that was a stretch, but I thought about it, and thought about it. I actually went and wrote down what an average week of my life was like and I damn near had a heart-attack:
Monday:
07:00 - 08:00 = Get dressed for school, make breakfast and walk to school.
08:00 - 08:30 = Walk to school
08:30 - 15:30 = School
15:30 - 17:00 = Homework
17:00 - 18:00 = Make dinner before parents arrived home
18:00 - 18:30 = Eat Dinner
18:30 - 19:00 = Do Dishes
19:00 - 20:30 = Study for Ministry School
20:30 - 22:00 = T.V. alone because parents went to their room
22:00 = Sleep
Tuesday:
07:00 - 08:00 = Get dressed for school, make breakfast and walk to school.
08:00 - 08:30 = Walk to school
08:30 - 15:30 = School
15:30 - 17:00 = Homework
17:00 - 18:00 = Make dinner before parents arrived home
18:00 - 18:30 = Eat Dinner
18:30 - 19:00 = Iron Clothes for meeting and walk to Kingdom Hall
19:00 - 22:00 = Ministry School and time walking home if no one offers a ride
22:00 = Get home and go to sleep
Wednesday
07:00 - 08:00 = Get dressed for school, make breakfast and walk to school.
08:00 - 08:30 = Walk to school
08:30 - 15:30 = School
15:30 - 17:00 = Homework
17:00 - 18:00 = Make dinner before parents arrived home
18:00 - 18:30 = Eat Dinner
18:30 - 19:00 = Do Dishes
19:00 - 20:00 = Study for Bookstudy
20:00 - 21:00 = Family Study
21:00 - 22:00 = Sleep
Thursday:
07:00 - 08:00 = Get dressed for school, make breakfast and walk to school.
08:00 - 08:30 = Walk to school
08:30 - 15:30 = School
15:30 - 17:00 = Homework
17:00 - 18:00 = Make dinner before parents arrived home
18:00 - 18:30 = Eat Dinner
18:30 - 19:30 = Iron Clothes for bookstudy and clean house. Talk to the people in my house for 20 minutes before it starts.
19:30 - 21:00 = Bookstudy and 30 minutes talking to people who hang around
21:00 22:00 = Watch T.V.
22:00 = Go to Bed
Friday:
07:00 - 08:00 = Get dressed for school, make breakfast and walk to school.
08:00 - 08:30 = Walk to school
08:30 - 15:30 = School
15:30 - 17:00 = Homework
17:00 - 18:00 = Watch T.V.
18:00 - 18:30 = Walk to the corner to buy Beef and Broccoli, Fried Shrimp and Pizza. We ate out on Friday
18:30 - 19:00 = Go over presentations for Saturday morning Field Service and quickly go over material for the following weeks family study such as reading the article parents thought would help me not be a sinner while drooling as I smelled the pizza.
19:00 - 22:00 = Eat lukewarm pizza and play video games with the witnessed that lived across the street.
22:00 = Get home and go to sleep
Saturday:
07:00 - 09:30 = Wake up, eat breakfast, go over presentations again, clean house so the field service group thinks we are the cleanest people in the congregation.
09:30 - 09:45 = Meting for service
09:45 - 13:30 = Service and Return Visits (My mother said we had to get 15 hours not just the minimum of 10)
13:30 - 15:00 = We studied the Watchtower with all the Insight books and study aids because we had to make "deep" comments.
15:00 - 19:00 = Clean the house bathrooms, go to the laundromat, go shopping. We had no car so we took the city buses
19:00 - 22:00 = Watch T.V.
22:00 =Go to sleep
Sunday:
08:00 - 09:00 = Mom made pancakes that we would quickly wolf down. Get dressed for meeting.
09:00 - 09:30 = Walk to Kingdom Hall, talk to people before the meeting
09:30 - 12:30 = Talk, Watchtower Study, talk to friends after the meeting ends
12:30 - 13:00 = Walk home
13:00 - 14:00 = Frantically call everyone I knew to see if I could go to their home and play.
14:30 - 18:30 = Play Basketball (if you were lucky otherwise, just stay home and watch T.V.)
18:30 - 19:00 = Walk home from the park.
19:00 - 19:30 = Shower and wait for mom to ask if I did my personal study for the week.
19:30 - 20:30 = Inevitable personal study(Usually something along the lines of looking at the example of some bible kid that was devoted to god at an early age, or a topic that my parents felt I needed to work on)
20:30 - 22:00 = Watch T.V.
22:00 = Go to Bed
After writing all of that and realizing that somehow I left out the other J.W. related nonsense that I had to do that weren't consistent but still occasionally necessary I wonder why I never lost my mind. WTF
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Logical Fallacy… can I get some help here?
by DATA-DOG indr. leanna wen is currently spreading the fallacy that unvaccinated persons should have vaccines mandated because they are like drunk drivers… they have the right to be drunk at home she says, but wanting to be part of society at large without being vaccinated is like driving drunk and putting others at risk.
besides ignoring the science proving that persons who have had sars cov-2 have natural immunity that equals or exceeds anything that could be imparted from the mrna shot, without the side effects or need for boosters, ( sorry big pharma, you’ll be losing $$$ ) this illustration just smacks of illogical reasoning.
it reminds me of the borg comparing getting baptized to getting your driver’s license.
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silentbuddha
I don't care what run of the mill hospital doctors and definitely not nurses think. What percentage of average doctors and nurses at your local hospitals do you think actually know what this or any other vaccine you take actually contains or what it does?
They merely administer the fluid in the viles. They read the same info as you, hear the same reports as you. They are not scientists or virologists.
The only voices that matter are those from the FDA. If the drug received a full clearance from the FDA then people will trust this more. Until then you will have these discussions.
I took the vaccine. I already had covid. I live in a small rural area that during growing season goes from a population of 600 to about 4000 during growing season. They are all Hispanics. No idea if they have been innoculated, but I am willing to bet many have Covid or could carry a new variant. Cut out the immigration till we get a hold on things.
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What Was Your Most Memorable Field Service Experience?
by Sea Breeze inme: selling the wt and awake for 10 cents at 5 years old.
i don't mean to brag or anything, but i sold 'em like hotcakes.
i musta been a cutie at 5 yo.
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silentbuddha
My fondest memory comes from my bethel roommate getting hit in the mouth with a frozen better on Ralph Ave in East New York.
It knocked out 4 teeth and busted his lips. The guys who did it stood there laughing... It actually was funny, until I saw the utter mess it made of his face
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Do You Support Cubans Protesting Against Communism?
by minimus insome people have thrown their support for the government while others show support for the rebels.
what’s your opinion?.
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silentbuddha
I'm not Cuban, so whatever the Cuban people on the island of Cuba want and are willing to fight for.. good for them.
However, I have a huge issue with people who escaped Cuba or American citizens stopping traffic and engaging in other types of nonsense that utilize tax payer dollars.
If you escaped Cuba and became a naturalized citizen of this country you should not inconvenience this country or it's native born people with this type of tomfoolery.
I am for revoking citizenship of people who do this. Harsh... Yes. However, if you are American you should be concerned with our issues
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Blacks attack Asians and other races but the fake news is silent
by mickbobcat inthe press or fake news i.e.
npr, abc,nbc,cbc, cnn, pmsnbc, all are suspiciously silent.
as blacks rampage around killing, attacking and looting the press says nothing to see here move on.
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silentbuddha
I'm doing none of the things you said. I'm not reading into anything. People literally stated that No one cares about, Juneteenth, Kwanzaa or any of that other shit. Not my words, but theirs. The comments in every thread about black people or culture are so vile it's almost funny. Then the desire to consistently try to slip in the "n" word.
If you read my comments you will say that CRT is not my bag and I do not even come close to blaming white people for everything.
Juneteenth has been a holiday in many regions of the USA for generations so I have no idea what you are talking about. There have been parades across the country for years. What are you even talking about?
I must say it is wonderful watching the evolution of folks on this site