Posts by Moster

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Please Pray for me. Struggling very hard with an issue.

by GodsWill1 in

i’ve been struggling to end a long-term relationship of 12 years that needs to end.

i came to the truth after i met him, and we never married.

i want to get married, but this man i’m with in not for me.

Moster

I was in a relationship with an alcoholic for 8 years. It does not get better on it's own. Many black outs and hitting, punching and screaming were endured. It is the booze not demons. Unless you consider the phase "demon rum" in which case you now know where the phrase comes from. My ex eventually went to AA and got clean, after we broke up - only to go back to the booze and then eventually drunk themselves into an early grave, at age 50.

There is no magic fix, you cant pray the addiction away. YOU need to get away and leave the problem with the addict.

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New to the truth

by MatthewHewey in

jw
friends

i have been meeting with member's of the kingdom hall, and i have attended a few times now on sundays.

i'd like to discuss experiences with this group since i'm new.

so far, i love it.

Moster

run boy run!!!!!

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Apparently Jehovah`s Witnesses have no scruples about " LYING" to their GOD Jehovah

by smiddy3 in

i thought it was bad enough that jw`s put in weekly reports of fs hours every month in the d2d work when in fact the average publisher would never mention this "good news of the kingdom" to the householder .. more often than not it would be something like some mundane thing about what they have observed about the householders property whether they have kids ,what a lovely garden they have before being cut off by the householder with i`m not interested knowing jw`s are trying to convert them/sell them the watchtower and closing the door.. yet the jw goes away happily putting in a report telling jehovah they have spent so much time in the fs witnessing about him and the kingdom of christ jesus...... cart witnessing is even a worse lie ,why ?

because jw`s make no attempt to witness to anybody they expect people to come to them to be witnessed to which of course never happens .

they spend hours upon hours a month telling jehovah by their fs reports they hand in how much they have witnessed for him ,when in fact they have done nothing of the sort .. they chit chat among themselves witnessing to nobody for hours on end and then lie in their fs report they have been witnessing for jehovah ?.

Moster

Do the publishers themselves have to pay for the carts? If so, what is the going rate?

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Would You Go To A Memorial Service For A JW )if you were no longer attending the KH)?

by minimus in

jw
friends

some of my old jw friends are sickly and getting on in age.

so far, i’ve only gone to my mother’s memorial and have avoided the kingdom hall altogether.... your thoughts please?.

Moster

yes.

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Older JW: not happy

by Gorbatchov in

jw
friends

this week i visited my sick father in law.. then an old elder from my far away congregation came in for coffee.

did not see him in 15 years.. nice chat.

had a lot to say, is alone, his sick wife disabled and away from home.. he told me: "living alone is so hard.

Moster

neverendingjourney breaks my heart reading this. Selfish loving brothers.

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Older JW: not happy

by Gorbatchov in

jw
friends

this week i visited my sick father in law.. then an old elder from my far away congregation came in for coffee.

did not see him in 15 years.. nice chat.

had a lot to say, is alone, his sick wife disabled and away from home.. he told me: "living alone is so hard.

Moster

My dad is in a retirement home - he is 88. He mentioned to me how no one ever comes to visit him, and that it made him feel sad. I told him people were just busy and that he could phone people as well. But that is a fact - old and forgotten. Where are your loving brothers and sisters now? Only ones who ever came to visit were also aged. They have passed on and so now no one comes. He still goes to every meeting and in FS every week. But they still seem to have forgotten him.

He for the first time, told me he wasn't going to go to the convention this summer. Will be the first one he has missed since 1954. Says it is just too hard on him now to go and be away from home, stay in a hotel, get himself ready etc. not to mention sitting down in bleachers for 3 days. I tried to hide my excitement about it. He did ask me how he could watch or listen from his room though. I told him I wasn't sure if he could do that. Anyone know if that is possible? I would rather he didn't, but if it makes him happy.

As many have said best to leave them PIMI than disrupt what is left of their world. He hardly has anything now, not sure what he would do if he actually had his eyes opened and he left.

Sigh.

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Manmade rules

by Jrjw in

i was talking to someone a few years ago and he said in his congregation they have a rail of white shirts prepared in the cloakroom for if a speaker doesn't have a white shirt on.

it was a rule in their hall that all brothers in the platform must wear white shirts when going talks and if the speaker won't comply when asked to change into the shirt they provide an elder in the congregation will do the talk instead.

i have never known any other halls do it so it must be a rule the elders have made up without gb input.

Moster

Dad wears purple shirts all the time

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Brotherly love in action..

by Jrjw in

i'm so upset and angry at the same time.

i move in less than 2 weeks and was supposed to be getting help off "brothers" to move and one of them was driving the van and now the elders have had a meeting and told the brothers they can't help coz i'm separated from my (abusive) jw husband and with moving it puts the chances of reconciliation (of which there was zero chance) even further away.

where are these stupid rules that they come up with.