That is just so messed up on so many levels.
Your daughter is a very forgiving person. Her JW family should be ashamed of how they are mistreating her.
we received an invitation in the mail yesterday for my jw niece's wedding.. i am posting this just to add for any lurkers to see typical jw practices.. 1st - and perfectly understandable for anybody who is or was a jw.
i'm not invited.
:) hey, i'm really not complaining about that.
That is just so messed up on so many levels.
Your daughter is a very forgiving person. Her JW family should be ashamed of how they are mistreating her.
roll call for the benefit of newbies and lurkers.
in one sentence tell why you left the org.
not 2 sentences.
Let’s review: It’s a cult!
the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).
learn something new every day!.
twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.
feeling pressure to attend the memorial?.
as a former elder i write this response to hopefully help those genuinely feeling “guilt” before their god.
if you are a jehovah’s witness or an “ex-jw” (for example, disfellowshipped or lapsed), then i hope that this will be of help to you.
It's important for us to develop self-awareness about emotional "pressure" such as this and correctly identify the source(s) of it.
It this case, this "pressure" is the result of the indoctrinated guilt and phobias originating from the WT leadership.
These are "commands of men" that can be disregarded with complete impunity and without the slightest twinge of guilt or remorse. - Matthew 15:9
Stay away from the Kingdom Hall and enjoy your personal freedom--live your life as YOU choose and not as directed by the delusional leaders of an increasingly irrelevant cult.
all who are shunned know the adverse effects of such.
we feel it.
we know how it has changed us.
Some more relevant links:
The Pain of Exclusion (Williams) - Scientific American (Searchable in Google view, not Preview)
Pain of ostracism can be deep, long-lasting - (Williams)
hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?
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i've just started looking into it but there seems to be a lot of conflicting ideas over accuracy so i'm unsure what to think.
I only quickly scanned this thread so forgive me if anyone else has already posted it: this is a really interesting and relatively recent addition to the science of our ancestry:
today is my birthday :) in happy to be able to say that guilt free!
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Happy Birthday!🎉🎊🎂🎈🎁
i recently made the decision to stop studying with my study conductor, due to a situation i found myself in that led to a high possibility of my unbaptized publisher "rights" being taken away from me.
i have since told my study conductor i have joined a new church (to which she dropped me like a hot rock, of course).... last time i posted on here, i was progressing nicely towards baptism, and was well into it.anyhoo, i like my new church, very hillsong-esqe.
so just wondering if anyone else has stayed the course of christianity after leaving the jws, and if so - where did you go?
My JW indoctrination successfully convinced me that all OTHER religions are false. When I realized that JWs are a cult there was no religion left to want to be part of.
I'm not big on labels, but I guess you could call me "Spiritual, but not religious" (SBNR).
i came across this article in the magazine psychology today.
it is about the traits of poor leaders in the field of employment although you could easily think it had been written about the gb.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-shrink/201607/8-traits-toxic-leadership-avoid.
When I read the article, I thought the author, psychiatrist Jean Kim, M.D., was talking about Donald Trump.
It fit's him to a "T"!
watchtower article often introduce a point that has no merit with words such a "undeniably.".
for instance the watchtower 2014 august 15 page 10 says:.
"jehovah undeniably blesses the preaching work of christian women and supports them in times of trial.
It’s kind of a combination of “puffing” (in the legal sense), the common sense fallacy, making unfounded assertions and begging the question.
The WT’s use of “evidently” in their “explanation” of the “overlapping generation” teaching was what put it over the top for me.
I remember realizing it was all bullshit because they wrote “evidently” (which implies there was some evidence) but they never provided any.
It’s intellectually dishonest. They just make shit up and lie.
The example jwfacts cited in the OP smacks of bullying, manipulation and deceit when understood in light of the social dynamics of the JW religion. Seriously, who’s going to say during a WT study, or even privately to any elder, “I think it IS deniable that ‘Jehovah ... blesses the preaching work of Christian women and supports them in times of trial.’”?
No one ever.