Another belated Happy Anniversary to the Smiddy's.
Congratulations to you both.
Hugs
hi friends one and all i just thought i would let you know it`s our 57th wedding anniversary today .
and we are setting off this morning for 3 nights in eden nsw i think it has more to offer than the one in genesis.. with a bit { or a lot } of luck we will make our fortune .
have a good day everybody.
Another belated Happy Anniversary to the Smiddy's.
Congratulations to you both.
Hugs
my boyfriend, who is a disfellowshipped jehova's witness, asks me to study the bible for 3 months or he won't marry me (i'm a muslim woman).
he loves me and really wants to marry me but he is doing a passive blackmailing: if i don't study for 3 months, 1 time per week, in my home country, and without him, there will be no marriage... as a muslim, i believe the bible is god's word so i look at the bible from time to time and would be happy to study with him.
but the fact that he is kind of saying "study the bible or bye bye no marriage" is really hurtful.
MuslimWoman: Your (sorry) boyfriend is a loser. In his congregation he will gain status that HE "brought" a Muslim woman into what they call "the truth" (trademark/lie) of his religion. Very, very few, as you know, Muslims convert to a Christian religion. You are playing with fire. As you know it is against your religion to become a convert outside of the Muslim community. You will lose your status as you know it, to become his bragging point... that is one reason he is being unreasonable.
Haven't you asked yourself, why he hasn't found himself a nice woman in his own religion? Those who know him, obviously do not want him enough to bend to whatever he thinks they must do to have the dubious honor of being his wife.
Run. Run. Run now while you have the chance. He is showing signs of having a manipulate personality, already. He is not showing kindness or any understanding.
How has he shown you that he cares for you? Even loves you? Would you marry a man that did not love you?
You want to come to America? Once you are here, then what? Will you bring all of your family over for a visit or for eventual immigration or will you be stranded by yourself, looking to your husband as your only means of love, help and support? You cannot work and make money right away. Does he make enough or will he call you a burden and worse?
You do not know him. Your emotions and hormones and maybe watching too much American TV is what is giving you excitement at all the possibilities that can unfold for you. But what if that is all an illusion?
Why do you think he is that one "Mr Wonderful" for you?
How old are you? Are you educated? What were your goals growing up? How do you view your future? If you are honest with yourself, would you endure whatever good or bad will come with marrying this man? Do you believe at your age that this is your one and only chance to get to the USA only through this man?
good evening , .
i feel like i am going crazy - it’s so hard not being able to talk to the ones i love about how i really feel - meaning the “ truth “ is a big lie and a big waste of time.
it’s so weird - i can’t talk to my wife , or kids about how i really feel and it’s causing me probalms that i recognize.
You are still at home, head of the house (per WT rules). Use it to your advantage.
Teach your children science and logic. Plan trips to natural history museums. Los Angeles has one full of dinosaurs. LaBrea Tar Pits too. There is one in Alberta, Canada also. (Don't know where you live).
Get them interested in astronomy. How many light years planets are away from earth. Tell them the people who have computed the answers have studied for years in their field.
Earth sciences, the study of tree rings, geology and studying rocks and learning how they were made and the forces behind that from events that happened thousands of years ago. Mexico and New Mexico have wonderous caves full of exotic formations and crystals. Can you look at available videos of volcanoes and caves and anything of special interest to them and you watch them all together?
Physics is fun. Help them learn.
You can teach them science and math while cooking and baking (and eating the results) while all together in the kitchen.
Make your precious time with your children something enjoyable, that they will treasure in their future when they think of you.
Win your family through love and kindness.
Be gentle with them. You picked their mother. You both picked the same religion. They picked neither. They are stuck in the middle.
Hugs. We all know this is hard for you. Please keep posting and venting.
does anyone know where i can get a pdf version of this book?
i’ve always wanted a physical copy but those seem really hard to come by, and if you look online they’re super expensive.
thank you.. -jules.
Just like there are over eager members of JW..Borg in medical personnel at hospitals and doctors offices, snopping through files to "catch" erring ones having or had abortions, STD's and or blood transfusions... There are also over eager Jdubs in the library system, systematically getting rid of any reading material that might shine a true light on their precious (rotten to the core) religion.
My 2 cents. Do NOT take it to the library.
not being a witness has been a plus for my sex life.
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what about you!
A story I heard from a reliable source.
Both virgins. Wedding night. Nothing happens. He yells at her to shut up and go to sleep. That he is tired. Not even one kiss. She cried herself to sleep.
Very early the next morning, she overheard a phone call her new husband was making. She over heard him say... You know I am not interested in women no matter what they look like. You know I like young males. The person he was speaking to said: You know you have to poke her or else she might leave.
So with no kissing, no anything, he poked her from behind... thus she became a JDub wife and felt she had no choice but to stay.
i've been out almost 2 years now and consider myself wide awake to watchtower propaganda and well on my way to recovery from the mental abuse we've all experienced.. one thing that just will not go is that i constantly think of jwism and watchtower and get myself all annoyed at their lies and blatant twisting of facts in their broadcasts and magazines.
it's so bad that it's the first thing i think of when i wake up, then i have these mental arguments in my head proving the jw teachings false and then getting annoyed because no jw will listen even if you tried to tell them.
i call this constant thinking and mental reasoning and mental arguing "mindchatter".
@Humbled, Maeve: I have read your PM to me BUT I CANNOT answer PM's.
Please leave an email or even snail mail address where we can catch up.
Hugs
Sorry for being OT.
i've been out almost 2 years now and consider myself wide awake to watchtower propaganda and well on my way to recovery from the mental abuse we've all experienced.. one thing that just will not go is that i constantly think of jwism and watchtower and get myself all annoyed at their lies and blatant twisting of facts in their broadcasts and magazines.
it's so bad that it's the first thing i think of when i wake up, then i have these mental arguments in my head proving the jw teachings false and then getting annoyed because no jw will listen even if you tried to tell them.
i call this constant thinking and mental reasoning and mental arguing "mindchatter".
@Humbled!!! Maeve!!! So GOOD to see you again! I emailed you through your daughter because I was concerned from not seeing you post anymore. So glad to hear from you again.
I can read PM's but am on restrictions i guess. Haven't been able to post PM's since last May 2017.
Please PM me and send me an email address so I might keep in touch.
PS A couple of years ago you named baby chicks after some of us. What happened to them? Did they live long happy egg laying lives before they entered the stew pot? How is your husband??? How are you???
do you think the gb are watching the live report??
will they learn from all this?
are they scared shitless as the reality of social media delivers one bitch-slap of truth after another?
Now, the MSU women Rowers have come forward with their alligations against him. He was their doctor from 1998 to 2016. Eighteen (18) years.
Some in authority at MSU continued for years to cover up abuse so as not to tarnish the "good" name of their school, also they wanted to keep their job and paychecks coming without any care for their students welfare.
WT / JW..org does the exact same thing! Trying to preserve the "good" name of their manmade up religion because they like living at their lakeside estate, and never worry about "working" in the real world. They have no regard for anyone but themselves!
Shameful!!!
the new "pillowgate" video exposed a loophole in the witnesses´s thinking, showing how dangerous and stupid legalism is.. this loophole is sure to destroy many people´s lives.. 1) they said that two men masturbating at the same time in front of each other does not constitute "porneia".. 2) "porneia" is the only biblical reason for divorce.. 3) from 1) we can also get two women masturbating in front of each other, or a man and a woman masturbating in front of each other, does not constitute "porneia".4) most people would consider masturbating at the same time with another person to be cheating, and a logical reason for divorce.. so this will lead to many witnesses going to the elders and being told that they cannot divorce this person who clearly cheated on them.
then, if this person (the "innocent mate") divorces and marries someone else, then that person would be the one possibly disfellowshipped!the implications of the loophole are so stupid and so damaging!i predict another flip-flop.
"considering things more closely, this is "porneia"... or doubling down on it ("sorry but that is what the biblical limits are") or just fading away into those things that only 1% of jw´s know it´s a rule....
This is a GREAT video for all the many Spanish speaking people. Yes WT / JW..org. Share your ridiculous man made up rules with the world.
Thank you @ILoveTTATT2 for starting this video at... "When 2 brothers are together and one is sitting on the others lap with his arm around the other..."??????? "and they are rubbing each others genitals..."???
Is this not TMI too much information? Why don't they spend time explaining to new Beth hell lites about the dishonesty and stealing that goes on from nosey and sticky fingered fellow JW Tru Believer Beth hell lites? That is a real problem.
is this true?
is this really true?!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.
@Jahalapeno. Thank you for sharing a very sad ordeal and letting us understand how someone else's spoken and written rules can impact another so horribly.
So glad you woke up from these hypercritical TV evangelists.
GB member "Tight Pants Tony" Morris protests so much, it makes me think that he was either:
Caught too many times staring at young men with a weird smile or look in his eye, that brothers have gone to him in the spirit of Matt 18 to speak to him first to tell him to quit looking at their butts or muscles or genital area or or or. Guys are handsome. It is normal to smile at something pleasant but Tony seems like he can't get enough at looking at all the hundreds of men that surround him each day. So if he can't look, no one else can either.
Or, his wondering eye has been noted too many times by other GB members and they are questioning HIS sexuality so to "red herring" them, he constantly rants about homosexuals and tight pants, since we all know only homosexuals wear tight pants. Right? Certainly, old, fat Tony, can never fit into anything but his big boy suits with his chin(s) still overlaping his collar.
Looking at his age, weight and puffiness, I don't think his wife is getting anything... if she ever has in the past 20 years.
Is Tony Tight Pants sexually frustrated? I would say, yes.
Is he the one that proposed this Welcome to Bethel video talking to young men and women about their own private functions and thoughts? Enslaving them to work for free is not enough for these slave drivers? They have to micromanage how they sleep and if they wake up with a wet dream it is their fault??? Tony and this new introduction to Beth hell video is disgusting.
@Bobby. This Pillow talk OP was placed in the jokes and humor section. Like Orphan Crow said..."Is your funny bone broke?". Or, are you one of those sanitized JW's I see in the videos, the ones who look like they not only left their brains at the door but also their manhood. Why would you allow someone else to manage everything you did 24/7? Why?
Rant over. Sorry.