Posts by Xanthippe

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Why didn't I leave back then???

by silentbuddha in

sunday my old bethel roommate came up to visit me.

he left a couple years ago and he wanted to catch up and reminisce.. while we sat back remembering crazy things we saw take place at bethel he reminded me of a creepy instance with bro.

swingell.. it was a saturday morning and we decided to actually go get breakfast.

Xanthippe

But Orphancrow isn't this one of the guys who decided my sister and sister in law couldn't have IVF and would remain childless? My mother would have to stay with my dad because she couldn't have a scriptural divorce. The seventeen-year-old boy in my old congregation had to die after a car crash because he couldn't have blood.

Wasn't that demented old man part of the group that sat around a table and decided those things? I think I would have laughed, cried and left. Perhaps the op writer was too shocked and just laughed like a lot of young people do when shocked.

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Do You Ever Wish That Hillary Was President?

by minimus in

jw
friends

hillary is very supportive of doing whatever it takes to undermine trump.

would you be happy if she were your president?.

Xanthippe

Hello from a country outside the US. There's a big world out here.

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The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD

by Still Totally ADD in

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friends

this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.

thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.

we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.

Xanthippe

I'm crying for you, such wonderful new. So happy for you!

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Encouraging the nasty angels of our nature

by Lee Elder in

i see stories like this one, and think we are losing our way as a nation.

reverting to tribalism and racism.

i wonder if its always been there lurking beneath the surface, and it just took someone to encourage it a bit.. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/woman-berates-man-viral-rant-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-06-26t08%3a30%3a04&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbcnn.

Xanthippe

Obama justified racial violence and tried to bias criminal cases. He was definitely more articulate, charismatic and a great orator (more like a cult leader than Trump, for all the accusations of the opposite). But when it came to policy he made things worse.

I don't live in the US and you may be right as you live closer than me but can I have the proof please?

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Drop Off in Mentioning 1914

by steve2 in

videos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.

paranoia rules supreme!.

curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.

Xanthippe

Xanthippe you could then have asked then why did the J.W`s/ G.B.
keep promoting dates going back to the late 1800`s well into the end of the 20th Century

I didn't try to reason with him Smiddy because,

1) That's old light. Imperfect men. The FDS are not inspired only spirit directed you know, blah blah blah

2) I was resting after amniocentesis. My brother (an elder) only phoned after shunning me for years because he'd heard a rumour I was pregnant. WTS rumour mill still goes on after your leave!

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Drop Off in Mentioning 1914

by steve2 in

videos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.

paranoia rules supreme!.

curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.

Xanthippe

I challenged my brother about the 1914 generation in 1994. He got angry and said we're not serving Jehovah to any date. So I think that's the tactic now, make people feel guilty if they even wonder why it hasn't come yet. If you start to question it you obviously don't love God and you're a bad person.

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Who helps the most - POMO or PIMO

by Ray Frankz in

i was recentely talking to my girl who is also awaken about if there were any chance of the org to lose at least its power and authority since i believe to expect a destruction of the org is unreal i came to the conclusion that the best way to help jws is by means of the pimos.. if we take the own jw logic (the world is bad but we need to live among them in order to bring them to our side) i think that if a good part of the people who left when found ttatt stayed in they we could have much more awaken people today.

when you are out it gets extremely hard to gain the trust of any jehovah's witness to begin with.

every totalitarian government had to fight rebels among them.. im not being numb to the causes of anyone who decided to leave.

Xanthippe

Totally depends on the type of family you have. If it is a loving, close family you might have a chance of getting them out by remaining PIMO for a while and taking it slowly. Some families are mentally healthy apart from the kids being raised in a cult, so as they become adults you might get them out. Just don't try for too long.

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Are we losing our way a bit at JWN?

by nicolaou in

firstly, i want to be crystal clear how grateful i am for jwn.

it's been my place of support for over seventeen years and it's the first online space i direct anyone to if they are taking steps out of the cult.

i am not bashing jwn - i love this place and appreciate the hard work and expense simon puts in to keep it going.

Xanthippe

What's wrong with just ignoring a thread or individual you don't like? Sometimes people start expressing ideas and I think he or she is a total turd. Sometimes it's depressing so I go live in the real world for a while.

If they're a turd it's their problem, I'm glad I don't have to live with them. This is how I deal with people in my real life so why worry about people online I can't even see. They're probably some ten ton git with BO who has a sad life.

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JWs made me hate school

by StephaneLaliberte in

yesterday, i had an epiphany.

i realized that the jw religion made my experience in school awful and i hated school because of this.. yesterday, my kids had an activity where the whole school was out at the park, playing baseball, soccer, other pic-nic games and even swimming pools.

during the day, i had conversations with the teachers and saw the kids out, playing having fun.

Xanthippe

Yes, I hated school too, but then who wouldn't hate having to sit outside religious assembly and sit on your own in another classroom while they had the Christmas party! My daughter loved school but I didn't have to do anything special just let her join in! She made friends, they came for tea, birthday parties and sleepovers. It's not rocket science!

Now she has two degrees and a great job. She loves learning. Bloody cult, I was still afraid of school when I had to go up and see her teachers, but she loved them. Result for her and me!

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Life seemed so simple when we ...

by eyeuse2badub in

is it me or do you share my thoughts about life seeming so simple when were--------------kids and when we were----------------die-hard jw’s?.

as a kid we trusted our parents explicitly.

their word was truth and we believed everything they said.

Xanthippe

Is it me or do you share my thoughts about life seeming so simple when were--------------kids and when we were----------------die-hard jw’s?

I agree, this is the reason religions still exist because we now have answers about reality but some people prefer the simple life, let others control your life, tell you how it is. Be a child and you don't have to think or worry about anything. Jesus is quoted as saying just that.