can i ask your views on taking children out on the ministry?
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do you have any experiences you can share of things you as a child/your children/grandchildren have witnessed on the ministry that they shouldn't have?.
Thanks guys. My daughter was extremely lonely until I left the cult because I wouldn't allow her to play in the street with worldly kids or go to school friends houses. I feel bad about it now when I look back.
She hated the ministry. Don't think I knew 1 kid that wanted to be out and we had near 20 in the hall
can i ask your views on taking children out on the ministry?
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do you have any experiences you can share of things you as a child/your children/grandchildren have witnessed on the ministry that they shouldn't have?.
Can I ask your views on taking children out on the ministry?
Do you think it's ok/wrong and why?
Do you have any experiences you can share of things you as a child/your children/grandchildren have witnessed on the ministry that they shouldn't have?
its sunday am and i suggest we go for a drive.
why i do not know as we have no conversation no banter at all.. so we did and had coffee.
while we were doing so and looking at the scenery i realized she was humming wt songs to herself.
I know how you feel zeb my marriage was similar in that other than wt stuff we had nothing to talk about and my ex wasn't the kind of person you could have banter with. It was very hard. Maybe you could talk to her about finding a hobby you could both do together
its been a minute since posting, have been trying to put this cult in my review mirror and just live life.
but you know this beast rears it's evil head.
my wife found my crisis of conscience book and out came the horns plus i guess what she is hearing at the meetings isn't helping either.
When we were told to prepare go bags it was in case of natural disasters like floods or hurricanes. Armageddon wasn't mentioned at all but straight after the meeting everyone was excited and saying Armageddon must be coming.
Even though I'm no longer a jw my family still have go bags for emergencies.
Are the society getting the jws hyped up about them now saying they're for Armageddon?
anyone else see ths?
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jehovah-s-witnesses-ordered-jury-pay-34m-abuse-survivor-n914146.
There certainly paying out the money in court cases at the moment. Nice to see jdubs donations are being well used 🤔
stan's recent post about the apostasy movie reminded me that i had watched it last month, so i thought i'd write a review.
please note this will probably contain some spoilers so if you care about that sort of thing hold off on reading this.. first i want to say that this is probably one of the most if not the most accurate and reasonable cinematic portrayals of jws.
however here is a list of little inaccuracies: an outdated view that preaching to all the world can 'make' the end come, jesus briefly portrayed with long hair, judicial reinstatement meetings being called "guidance meetings", a normal weekly public talk being introduced as "the first in a series of talks he's prepared for us", applause at the end of a local needs part, and a jw saying of god "you need to earn his love, it's conditional" ( i know this is basically true in practice but they'd rarely say it out loud).
Listening to the talk about Alex after she died made me feel ill that I believed that rubbish once. It all sounds so stupid once you've been away from it for a while, you can see the brainwashing in the elders talk about shunning. I enjoyed the film overall though
i just wanted to share with you the thoughts that i've had lately.. my plan was to get a job, become independent and then leaving the org throughout this year 2018. i'm going to achieve the first step in a matter of weeks, the second one soon afterwards but maybe i will wait a little longer for the last one.. one year ago a friend of mine was reinstated.
we weren't very close friends back then, although we got along well.
but, since no many jws in my town want to hang out with him (because of his being a former disfellowshipped), we started to talk and go out more often and in a matter of half a year we've become very close friends, like brothers.
All I'm going to say is do what makes YOU happy!!
today's london times reports on the july ruling of the eu court that forces the organisation country to comply with data protection.. the action originated in finland but the ruling will affect every eu country.
the cult tried unsuccessfully to argue that the notes taken by jws in the door-to-door work were personal and not accessed by the congregation.
the court ruled that they are acting under the auspices of the congregation and therefore they must comply with data-protection laws.. keeping lists of do-not-calls also falls under this ruling.. why does the cult always feel that it is above the law?.
I know quite a few brothers and sisters who lost their call books over the years and these could have fallen into anyone's hands.
Also, calls are regularly passed on to other publishers and elders, etc. (I.e. sisters handing over male route calls or studies to a brother).
just when you think you've heard it all:.
'look at all these stores and businesses offering price matching!
they're desperate for funds.
Yeah about 5 years ago there was a lot of rain and a river nearby burst its banks and flooded a few houses, some of which were jws and for weeks jws from my hall which hasn't been affected were saying "we're going to see a lot more of this since we're living in the last days, I hope everyone has their go bags ready".
There hasn't been another flood since and everyone's food and water in their go bags went out of date.
i was commenting on another thread about how local kh attendance is down.
memorial attendance was also way down and the circuit assembly had hundreds less people than what is typical.
my jw family has even mentioned it.
I think doubter just likes to argue or think the opposite to everyone else.
