Posts by moreconfusedthanever

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Whole families leaving the Org has increased

by pomo6780 in

i have noticed in the uk a few families i used to know while in the borg have exited together.

some include former elders and ministerial servants.

i observed on social media pages that the kids have 'worldly' boyfriends and girlfriends and they look so much happier than they did in the org.

Creeeeepy Sanderson

by oppostate in

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creepy sanderson.

moreconfusedthanever

Actually I also do not find it creepy. I find it lovely that a man of "his standing" is actually giving the little boy the time of day.

Growing up we had all the COs/DOs and their wives come for free services from my mother in our home and yet if I said hi to them at the assemblies and conventions they would ignore me and walk away. Too important to waste time on children.

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WT property confiscated in Russia...

by mikeflood in

russian court seizes $15mn worth of assets from banned jehovah’s witnesses ‘extremists’.

published time: 9 dec, 2017 02:44.

moreconfusedthanever

Good thing they are not singling out the JWs so they can't say it's persecution as predicted.

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What's destroying Watchtower!

by UnshackleTheChains in

for me, beyond any shadow of a doubt, it's the extreme shunning policy.. at a recent sunday meeting, i listened to a complete brainwashed sister saying how important it was that we stick to the shunning policy even if it is a close relative.. i just thought.

wtf.

there is a big difference between the brainwashed and the awoken class!.

moreconfusedthanever

It is easy to make comments like that sister until she finds herself at the shunned end of the situation. They think you need to be evil to get disfellowshiped when in reality you can get disfellowshiped quite easily for nothing serious at all.

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"Worldly" boyfriend has never met my JW family, and might never will.

by BL_Poet in

public service announcement: i am not going to write a whole backstory on myself, i just simply want to get to the point.. i have been disfellowshipped now for almost 3 years, for i had a baby out of wedlock, not by my current boyfriend, but by a guy i was dating at the time- don't judge me ;) lol- my current boyfriend and i have been dating for a year now.

i've met his family-only his parents, and his cousins family, of whom i knew before i met him, thus how i met him through a bbq- at the time, he knew i was a single mom, and didn't know too much of my backstory.

as you can imagine, i had to tell him about how my babies father and i didn't work out, due to his wandering eye, and how i had little to no support due to being disfellowshipped, or as the "world" knows it by- disassociated- from my religion.

moreconfusedthanever

Not an easy situation. Part of me would be telling me to take my boyfriend to my parents house and knock on the door. Let your partner see first hand what would happen.

I would most certainly be upfront and open with his family about your upbringing and show them from the watchtower articles why and how you find yourself in this situation.

The internet is a wonderful source of information and there are plenty of stories matching yours that they could see for themselves that you are a victim.

Good luck.

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Attendents sit at the best seats

by Quarterback in

well it's been awhile since i got angry and wanted to post on here again.

last week's watchtower about the subject of love had something to say about the hard working attendants.

it seems that they are choosing to sit in the best seats at the convention.

moreconfusedthanever

Wow! The level of control is crazy.

In our congregation we have a family with a son in a wheelchair. Only one of his family members were allowed to sit in the infirm area with him. So mum sat with him and his dad sat with the rest of the family elsewhere.

A friend of mine was constantly asked to move because she didn't look infirm so she took to walking around with a walking stick. She has a government issued disabled parking pass but was not allowed to park in the disabled parks without a Watchtower issued pass.

Just the entire process of attending convention creates such anxiety it's just not worth the effort.

They don't tell everyone you can stay home in your armchair and watch the entire thing on you tube.

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Counting time calling on inactive ones?

by stillin in

had a couple of witnesses stop by yesterday to say the usual "we miss you, missed you at the meeting, just checking in on you, etc.

" i've always liked this guy so we spoke for a few minutes.

my wife said that they could count their time since i am inactive.

moreconfusedthanever

Pioneers are allowed to count time visiting the inactive. In the 80s they could do so only if they got permission from the elders.

I got a visit from two sisters in our congregation. First time they had ever been at my house and we have been in the same house 18 years. They didn't stay long. I think they just needed the extra half hour for their time sheet.

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Chapter 49 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower slave

by new boy in

jw
friends

chapter 49. cool aid anyone?.

this was of course great news for my wife.

all the talk in the congregation about who had caused our spit up was now over.

moreconfusedthanever

They never admit openly that you can be disfellowshiped just for no longer believing everything. My own mother believes 100% that if you get disfellowshiped, you must have done something really bad. Yet the ARC and other Royal Commissions the world over have proved that child abuse is apparently not a sin deserving of disfellowshiping.

Why would Jehovah, if he in fact exists, have chosen this lot to be his people? The mind boggles.

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Congregation picnic time

by Jayk in

i've never been completely shunned because i've never been baptized.

my father side has always talked to me and included me in family events.

but my mom's side is in denial of shunning me.

moreconfusedthanever

I can't think of any good reason to go to a congregation get together where everyone is being fake and judgemental.

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So my PIMO Younger Brother Tried To Kill Himself Today

by pale.emperor in

we all know that this cult will drive those trying to leave to desperate measures, and today by brother was very nearly one of those statistics.

he slashed his thigh with a kitchen knife and was bleeding out until he called the police.. i got a call on my way home from work from a police officer, coincidentally it was one of my old friends from school who's now a cop.

he told me my brother is in hospital after an attempted suicide and has lost some blood but will be ok. but i should get to the hospital as he's asking for me.

moreconfusedthanever

Great stuff.