Thank you for sharing your story with us.
Quick question: There are some interesting stories on this Board about Melitta. Care to give us your impression of her?
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i was born and raised in southern california, with a brief stint with parents as need-greaters in central america.
my parents accepted a study in the d2d work, i believe my father was interested in the revolutionary aspect of the religion, and my mom said she wanted to learn the bible.
they were baptized in 1937 i think, and attended the one and only los angeles kh at the time.
Thank you for sharing your story with us.
Quick question: There are some interesting stories on this Board about Melitta. Care to give us your impression of her?
born in the early 50’s in london england to non jw parents and when i was young we moved to adelaide south australia and there my brother was born .
i contracted tb on the ship over and was treated in hospital for months with a antibiotic which is banned for humans here now .
my father would tell me tearfully over the years how horrible it was for me and them .even then ,dad was told by doctors i may have nerve and brain damage from the treatment and an unstable temperament.. .
Wozza... Words are failing me. I read. I care and I am so sorry.
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. born in 1952 second oldest of the family of nine children.
as you see, my family was thoroughly catholic.
dad was in the army.. were you a born in or a convert?.
Thank you for sharing a little of your life with us Maeve. You are a survivor of many trials and tribulations. So glad you made it. I really appreciate your contributions on this Board. You are a lively, beautiful (google her name and picture) fantastic person who is very smart, capable and humble.
PS I would really like to know what happened to that WT company man who said this to you:
"Listen... If you know who the Faithful and Discreet slave is and there is a problem... You know who the problem is". Ohhhh. i would have loved some Elder / Servant say that to me... only decades ago. That would have been the straw that broke the camels back.
So glad you and most of the people on this Board have voted with our feet and left.
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. racially a very mixed family.
we just looked like average white, working class brits.
dad was in the marine commandos in ww2.
I enjoyed your story. Thank you for letting us in on the real Punk.
tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i was born in the mid-1970s in the midwest part of the u.s. my parents were about to enter gilead when i arrived.
my father converted to jw in his late 20s/early 30s.
he was raised a catholic, but became an atheist/agnostic.
Ditto... Ditto...Wow!
Thank you for sharing.
my father died a couple of months ago.
he'd been ill for some time and had many health scares and heart troubles over the years but always managed to keep on going.
then one time he didn't.. i'm glad i got to know him again and spend some more time with him after so many years missed because of the wts but those years will always be lost forever.
So sorry to hear of the loss of both of your parents. The good, loving one gone and the living one, a determined (non)Christian / Governing Body worshipper.
Please accept my heart felt condolences to you and your family.
PS: To have a corrupt, business corporation that veils itself as a Christian Charity organization tell it's members that if their family member is smart enough to wake up to WT's lies... then they must be shunned at all cost is inhuman and insane. Any thinking person should be proud to know someone who got out of WT's clutches. Thankfully, most of us on this site have done that. Thank you again Simon for this site. It has been such a help for me as well as many others.
yesterday in watchtower documents there was published "flawed decrees conceal criminals.
barbara anderson examined the rnwt revision of lev.5:1 and revealed the wtb&ts to be deceptive as to applying it to congregation members being required to "tattle" on their brothers to expose sin.
she shows that is just not so as lev.5:1 has nothing to do with tattling.
@DATA-DOG, Please private message me with your email address.
going through a box of old records in my garage i came across this 45 by the great crowd.
it was given to me in the early 70's when i was living in crestline, ca.
i had no way of playing it because i haven't had a turntable in years so i googled it and found this link.
@DNCall... Off Topic but... Did you play at my wedding???
Please private message me with an email address. I can read my PM's but cannot answer them.
you start listening to music deemed "unsuitable for christians".
you pretend to knock on the doors.
you explain a jw teaching to someone and realize how ridiculous it sounds.
You have a title of publisher but realize that THEY are the publisher and you are their unpaid salesman.
Weird and not fair.
the petition is now going on 537 signatures.. today the newspaper "diário de notícias", the leading non-tabloid newspaper in the country, gave the story front page coverage and a full page to the article inside.. here are the links to the pictures of the pages:.
front page:.
page 6 and article: .
@Ruby456... How are you doing??? How long have you too not been able to start threads or send private messages? I too, have asked Simon if he woud fix whatever it is that he has to fix so that I can post new topics and send PM's. I have not been able to do that since May 2017. I have not been able to give thumbs up either. What about you???
If you are truly leaving, I will miss you and your posts.
If I might ask, is part of the reason you are leaving is because you cannot start threads or send PM's?
PS I won't be responding to any comment you might make to me Ruby for a few hours because it is after 2AM here on the Pacific Coast and I am trying to get sleepy but drank too much Costco coffee today. :)