One has only to take a look at Salman Rushdie to know why any publishing house would pull its punches when talking about Islam. I wonder what the Ol' Judge would publish today if he were still at the helm?
cobaltcupcake
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THE REAL REASON WHY THE WATCHTOWER NEVER WRITES ABOUT ISLAM OR MUSLIMS IS FEAR!
by ÁrbolesdeArabia infor a religion that claims to be "fearless and bold" the watchtower has avoided writing about islam and muslim practices and how they are part of babylon the great.
the attacks on christendom are not a bold move because the "tower" and "gb" know the christian church is not going to send a suicide bomber into a kingdom or district convention.
it's not fair to christendom to receive all the hate speech from the "leaning tower of brooklyn", why don't they write the truth about islam?
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Reflecting on my JW life
by Gojira_101 insorry i have been m.i.a lately...life got very busy for me.. this morning i woke up at 5:30 and couldn't get back to sleep because i was having many thoughts running through my head.
my grandma shunning me, what it was like for me as a jw and i remembered something that i thought i would share.
guess i'm needing some group therapy today :).
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cobaltcupcake
You're doing great! My getting-out process took so long that by the time I made the actual break I didn't believe one word of that crap anymore, so no "God's gonna get me" worries.
However, I do still have dreams of being at meetings or assemblies and hating it or else trying to fake it that I'm still a Dub. I'm always glad when I wake up and realize it's just a dream. Sometimes I actually dream I'm arguing with my family trying to convince them that they should leave.
Big hugs to you!
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Empty Cartons well past the sell-by date
by Terry inlurking elders abound on jw.net.
curiousity killed the cat...but, not them!.
they come to sniff out the forbidden zone and indulge themselves as covert peeping toms.. they survey the damage by peeking in on us--their victims!.
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cobaltcupcake
C'mon, guys! Life is so GOOD out here!
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Is this co-dependancy or just plain stupid?
by hoser inmy grandpa was a slobbering abusive drunk.
he treated my gramma like shit.
he was also abusive to his two children, my father and his sister, my aunt.
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cobaltcupcake
You're right - it's like staying in an abusive relationship.
My brother worships the memory of our father, even though the guy was abusive to us as kids and ran through money like a drunken sailor. Little brother is in denial about a lot of stuff AND he's still a staunch Dub.
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OMG ....we overslept lol
by judi8751 indid anyone else do this on sunday mornings: when i was slowly waking up i realised that i didnt want to be at the meetings anymore, my hubby would be sleeping and i realised it was time to get up & get ready, so even though i was bursting for the loo i would hold it so as not to wake him up .
sometimes i was in pain holding it in , but waited till it was too late to get there on time lol.
then he would suggest going to the afternoon meeting intead and i would say i didnt like that congregation...you go hahahahaha, funny thing is he never liked going to the meetings by himself!!!
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cobaltcupcake
When ex-hubby gave a talk in a somewhat distant congregation I'd suggest that we duck out after the talk saying "we have to get back." Sometimes he'd bite. I always hated the stress of eating lunch with strangers. Nowadays I'd love it. Shows how much ambient stress I was under between the bad marriage and the bad religion.
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breaking up is hard to do
by fresh prince of ohio inbackground: i joined the jws when i was 21, left about 11 years ago.. up until recently, i had never been in a relationship that went longer than a few months.
and that was just one.. i've been with my current for the past 3.5 years.
she's, just, okay.. i've never felt like, oh, i love her so much.
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cobaltcupcake
You've been given a lot of advice. I'll just say I wish you well and hope you find the love you deserve.
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An apostate goes public
by Borges ini mentioned in a thread some weeks ago ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/244078/1/first-public-talk-as-an-apostate ), that i was invited to give a talk at a symposium about cults.
this will take place at the first weekend in may.. i'm going to talk about the difficulties you have to face when leaving the jw.
yesterday i've got an another invitation to speak to a senior year class in a middle school.
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cobaltcupcake
Awesome!
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Flash Backs
by hopelesslystained inhow do you deal with them?
from experiencing falsely based family accusations.
commitee meetings (old term).
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cobaltcupcake
Oh gosh, I still wake up in the morning expecting my ex-husband to be on the other side of the bed. For about 2 seconds. We were married for 27 years, been apart for 9 years now. I'm very, very happy that he's not there, so it makes me wonder why I'm still in that mental rut. Maybe there hasn't been enough new input to push the old memories out of my subconcious.
And I have dreams where I'm still married to him and still doing the Dub stuff. Of course, I also dream about my father who has been dead for 12 years. He's being his abusive, nasty self, and sometimes I scream at him. It was a complicated relationship.
My advice is not to let it bother you. Your mind will work it out.
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What should replace religion ?
by Finkelstein inhere is an interesting speech by daniel dennett.
i thought it was a balanced and honest talk,.
bringing out both sides of this purposed plausible suggestion.
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