i went into my mother's office to leave her a small note to say that we love and miss her and would love to get together.
i found this on her desk.
this is jehovah's witnesses.
Oh Bravo! for your final email to your sisters. Well done! I liked all of it!
It is very hard what you have done but you and your family do deserve love and respect from normal people. Sorry that love and respect won't be from your immediate family.
It is their loss.
Hugs of comfort.
i went into my mother's office to leave her a small note to say that we love and miss her and would love to get together.
i found this on her desk.
this is jehovah's witnesses.
What now? I am so sorry your birth mother is putting you through such emotional pain. Heartless.
Has she ever seemed a bit radical or non-conformist to you? Does she not get along with her "worldly relatives"?
If you get along with the worldly ones, I would show them the letter you showed us. That letter is shockingly horrible. That letter is evidence what a controlling, manipulative religion your mother has joined... Unless she is the one that is manipulative and is trying to control you to punish you and get you to come back.
Narcissists, if they feel they have lost face, got disrespected, will turn on that person who they feel is responsible. Did your mom feel like she lost status at the Kingdom Hall among the congregation(s), when you quit coming?
If your mom was always a kind and gentle soul and wrote her last Will ignoring you, then she is a 100% blinders on full in JW..org zombie.
Whether she is an angry narcissist or a full on WT zombie, what she did is hateful.
Your little children don't need to be around either one of those types even though it is their grandmother. Respect runs both ways. Bad behavior never should be rewarded.
this is the first of a multi-part article that tells my story, and how ajwrb got started.. https://www.openmindsfoundation.org/saving-thousand-lives-year-reform-watchtowers-policy-blood-transfusions-part-one/.
Excellent article, Lee Elder.
Would you mind sending me a PM and in that PM giving me a safe email address for you, so I may ask you a question?
Thank you!
even as a jw i was fascinated with hypnosis and seeing people like derren brown putting people under almost instantly.
in the last 2/3 years when i was a jw but beginning to wake up from the bullshit i read up on hypnosis, watched a few youtube demos and explanations etc.
but never actually studied it seriously until about a year ago.
Hi PaleEmperor, I received your PM BUT I cannot answer any. I haven't been able to answer any PM's for 6 months. I can read but not answer back. Sorry.
I have an important question to ask you but I need an email address from you to ask it.
I hope you don't mind but this is the only way I am allowed at this time...
even as a jw i was fascinated with hypnosis and seeing people like derren brown putting people under almost instantly.
in the last 2/3 years when i was a jw but beginning to wake up from the bullshit i read up on hypnosis, watched a few youtube demos and explanations etc.
but never actually studied it seriously until about a year ago.
Pale I would like to ask you an important question but in private. I can read PM's sent to me but I cannot send any PM's back from this site, so, would you be so kind as to PM me here with a safe email address of yours, so that I might converse privately with you?
Thanking you in advance.
i wanted to relay an example that i heard about translating difficulties.
take the 5 word phrase.
"i didn't eat your sandwich".
David_Jay and everyone else in Nature's Path. Please stay safe!
Big hugs of concern for all!
the dub at my door ___________________i’d rather have a root canal than agree to a sit down with an active jehovah’s witness.i’m an ex-jw.
for good reason.
fool me once....i’m an activist and an author of a book or two exposing and vilifying the destructive jw cult organization.yet i agreed.
This was interesting to read about your return visit and how you set a predetermined trap for him.
To help him in his reasoning, you got him off of what he thinks he knows (automatic robotic answer learned through high controlled meetings) to start to think outside the box.
Brilliant!
PS I have no idea who would give you a thumbs down. If I could give you a thumbs up, I would. Looking forward to reading about your next RV with this fellow, and hopeful for him, that he does return.
i never thought i would see that in the us, a "free speech rally" (which has distanced itself from and organizers have nothing at all to do with the right, republicans or extremism) is being counter protested by thousands in boston today, the counter protests being organized by a coalition of black supremacists and sjw's.. on the other hand, google is building a database of speech that doesn't align with the left-wing political values.. i'm not sure what youngsters are thinking these days, but free speech used to be the cornerstone of american civilizations only a few decades ago.
the only way to drown out "bad" free speech is more free speech..
@hothabanero: Can you summarize the Professor at the University of Toronto's video? I only have time to watch 10 minutes. He sounded very sincere. He was trying to make some sound points. Can you tell us what those are please?
Thank you.
the first thing i saw when i went in was the two video screens having the watchtower singers chorus doing a number.
the sound wasn't up enough to make out the song, but the video was grotesque.
the singers were swaying to the music, all independent of each other, no discipline, actually sloppy-looking.
@stuckinarut2: In hind site, looking back at what was happening at KHalls I attended and visited as husband gave talks all around is that maybe 1/2 or less are real Believers. Possibly only 1/4. (It is all debatable, yes, of course). I think there are more people sitting at the KHalls that would leave in a New York minute if they could leave without losing loved ones and friends and or inheritance.
No one who is staying in for the above reasons is going to jeopardize their loved ones, friends or inheritance by doing eye rolls during any part of a WT/JW..org meeting. They will nod their heads and act like they need to. They will clap at conventions. They will say the meetings are great. They will say the convention is the best one ever. They will say and do what they need to do. They are caught in a trap. WT/JW..org knows this. Ultimately, WT/JW..org wants people to sacrifice their life and money... to them.
It is hard to hear about how this religion has changed so drastically in just a few years. What hypocrites they all are! Penecostal "up beat" music? Swaying and clapping? Sounds like WT/JW..org is going the way of American mega churches... to rake in the money from poor innocents that are not educated to question anyone or anything. They are just mere slaves, doing what their human master thinks up and tells them to do. Disgusting on GB/WT/JW..org's part.
chapter 18. my privilege of service.
it was moved there in the spring of 1969 from the basement of the 124. why is it that people like to put laundries in basements?
the 119 was the newest of all the society’s properties.
new boy, This has been a hard read but also a very important one. You were subjected to a slave labor camp. I can't help but think WT/JW..org puts you into a Stockholm Syndrome situation. Your family, friends and congregation think, wow, so-in-so made it to Bethel! But no one really tells you what happens there. Once you are there they tell you to write home about your field service or the weather, but never talk about The Home. You experience the abuse first hand and told to keep your mouth shut. All of this strict, structured, Bethel life, must give people PTSD.
Thank you for defying WT/JW..org rules and telling us about how life really was at Bethell.
