hello to everyone :) i wanted to introduce myself as a newbie.
i was raised in and i am currently on active status due to most of my family being very much in, but i am so ready to be done and have felt that way for quite some time.
internally i know this is not the right religion without a doubt.
Welcome here, a hiding place from the wind! I too saw and experienced the lack of love in the KHall, glad you found this place.
I too was introduced to the cult at an early age, and remember birthdays and Christmas, I am happy to have faded away from the constraints and loveless place and introduce my kids to birthdays and Christmas after they have missed out for a number of years.
my first glimpse into the horror and beauty that lurk uneasily in the human heart came in the mid 1980s.
i was born in 1987 at a time when my natal town- a population of 2 000 000 was in the midst of one the most brutal civil war in the history of the continent.. thinking back, i am amazed that wars terrifying images have since taken on a somewhat muted quality.
it requires sustained effort to recall the dread, the pangs of hunger, the crackle of gunfire that once made my heart pound.
Interesting read, but like you jgnat I couldn't help thinking I was reading someone else's story!
having to sit through this at the meeting just now.. blatantly saying to obey without question: "will you be as determined to comply with god's guidance as jeremiah was?
", "...accepting the guidance given through the faithful slave class is for your lasting good.".
this is so painful to sit through :(.
So sorry for you, I've just finished a nice pizza from the local Italian restaurant and am now in the bath relaxing. Not sure Jeremiah would approve but it works for me
the programme is at 10.30 gmt and is a channel 4 dispatches special about child abuse in a religious community.
i think this is concerned with a case within the jewish religious community here.. i think we all in the u.k, and anyone else who can access it, should watch it , and then perhaps many of us can e-mail the programmes makers and highlight the jw problem.
the jewish religious community is probably only about twice the size of the u.k jw's, about 266, 000 identified as jewish in a religious sense in the 2001 census.
I'm watching it, similarities to my experience, interesting stuff.
hi guys & girls.. though you can sit back down in your seats now, sorry but not a jw, never have been & never will be, am a totally happy with athiest life, lol.. started lurking here about a year ago, started dating a jw woman didn't i, i here the face palms, lol.
lucky for me i found this site while trying to find out more about the jw's very early on & knew exactly how this was prob going to end.
but i thought what the hell lets see where it goes.
Welcome AMO, that was a close call! It's sad your ex has her mind being controlled as it is.
what is the most valuable thing your mother taught you?.
as an aside was she a witness or not at the time?.
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Amelia, it's taken me almost as long to realise I am loveable, don't give up hope in that.
My mother taught me that the cult she is in is more important to her than I am.
hi there, as was suggested to me, i'm starting this thread to say hi to everyone.. my awakening began recently, after the new light on the 'slave'.
i felt it didn't add up and went to check and found out ttatt.
for a while i tried to find evidence of whether the wt might still be god's organization, i needn't say i couldn't.. i had already resigned as a ministerial servant and a pioneer, had already had several issues with the elders and did not put up with their nonsense for a long.
Welcome here, keep finding out these things for yourself.
the programme is at 10.30 gmt and is a channel 4 dispatches special about child abuse in a religious community.
i think this is concerned with a case within the jewish religious community here.. i think we all in the u.k, and anyone else who can access it, should watch it , and then perhaps many of us can e-mail the programmes makers and highlight the jw problem.
the jewish religious community is probably only about twice the size of the u.k jw's, about 266, 000 identified as jewish in a religious sense in the 2001 census.
Thanks for the 'heads up', I shall look out for it
or so says the person who left this comment on jwsurvey.org.... what just amazes me is how people can pass judgement on others, make vast sweeping statements and make out that they know best.
this isnt just based on this page, but other pages ive read on this website.
while youre at it why not just say all black people are criminals, all asians are rapists and all white people molest their children.
"From what I know JWs are told to question everything and not blindly believe what they are told."
And this is one of the reasons why I left, I thought I had researched everything, turns out I had only been researching their own propaganda, believing that the quotes given in their literature were correct and not taken out of context. How wrong I was.
i would like to have your opinions on what i should do about a situation please.. i have recently discovered that a 'brother' in the congregation (which i no longer attend) is a child molester.
i've seen documentation from his psychiatrist dated a few years ago, stating that he doesn't feel that this person is likely to offend again.
the 'brother' has said to the elders at some point that he has it under control but cannot be 100% sure it won't happen again.
Another vote for Sir82's advice, the police will have a department capable of dealing with this, in the UK its the child protection unit.
