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shunning in spotlight .
wendy y. lawton .
Why don't I proof read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could I have made less sense!!!
What I was TRYING to say was......
Do you think that Jehovah's Witness hear about all these suicides.
Do you think it has an effect on how they treat non j.w.'s?
Sorry about all the mistakes in my last post....I type too fast!
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shunning in spotlight .
wendy y. lawton .
So true Path, so true!!!
Do you think the alot of j.w.'s here stories like this??? I wonder how much this happens and how many j.w.'s here about the whole story.
My father took his life about 5 years ago. My sister-in-law's twin brother took his life a few months ago. Since then, my j.w. siblins have been sending me more emails and have been kinder to me on the phone. I wonder if they fear that the stress of being out of the borg will get to me or someone else that they shun. I'm not having dinner with my j.w. family, but they are seem to have this secret communication with me by email! I always found it very hard to shun someone when I was a j.w. I couldn't do it and wouldn't do it.
Thanks for the info messenger! Tink =;o)
i was just wondering....how many of you have actually met each other?
i'm new here.
what i mean is, are there regular reunions where one can go and meet other ex-jw's face to face?
Hey Myself!!!
How are ya!!! How's sis doing too!!!!
I love this site!!! I've met, let's see, I've met and also ran into 7 people here! It's really nice to run into people that you hadn't seen in years, or actually met someone that you've met on the boards. About 2 years ago I went to a small apostate vest in Kansas. It was great! Tink =;o)
the thread on cutting back the number of weekly meetings to two got me thinking:.
do you think the jw organization will continue to hold district conventions for very long?.
i wonder, how many people *really* feel upbuilt after attending a dc?
Well, I guess that answers my question on field service!!! I don't see how they can feel safe this going door to door this day and time. I'd be scared I'd call upon a crazy person or something, ya know. Anyway, I always thought it was rude to call on somebody at their home without an invitation. Tink =;o)
my cousins daughter was over visiting me this year and she pointed out something that i never would have thought.
she noticed how quiet i was around my family and asked if it was because they were jw`s.
i thought about it and i said yes it was!.
Well I guess my final point in this matter is, I'm 40 years old and this is my one and only life. I may go to heaven, I may go to hell, at this point, I'll admit that I'm totally fuc*ed up when it comes to religion. BUT....I DO KNOW that I have *this* life and I'm gonna live it! AND I'm gonna live it the way I want to. I mean, my family would be fuc*ed up if they were j.w.'s or not, so I handle it with that frame of mind. I love my family, and I'm I guess I'm just doing the best I can with it. It was warm and sunny today. I got out and mowed the yard. It was my first time doing that this year. While mowing, I was thinking about how much happier I am living here. It was a good move on our part. =:o)
Lov'in them from afar!!! Tink =;o)
my cousins daughter was over visiting me this year and she pointed out something that i never would have thought.
she noticed how quiet i was around my family and asked if it was because they were jw`s.
i thought about it and i said yes it was!.
Beans, I also think that, our family is disfuntional in others too. If you take any family, it has it's problems. You put all the j.w. crap and that just compounds it. The more family members, the more bullshit. Our parents are dead now, but we're all left to defend ourselves. Some of my j.w. siblins don't live the j.w. life, but they still believe it and it's almost like a disloyalty to my decessed mother if they talk negative about the *truth*. They all live in such a small world.
I love them, but I love them from afar. Tink =:o)
got the shit test results back from the doc.
it said "test result within normal limits".
sooooo, i guess nothing bad.. tr.
T.R., I bet you had a scare!!!!
I'm sorry darlin. Glad you're back to your mean ol self! =;o) Tink
my cousins daughter was over visiting me this year and she pointed out something that i never would have thought.
she noticed how quiet i was around my family and asked if it was because they were jw`s.
i thought about it and i said yes it was!.
lv4fer, I know EXACTLY how you feel! Sometimes I want to scream with they carry on with the j.w. lingo. We have nothing and I mean nothing in common, other than the fact that we are blood related. They are so out there! My j.w. sister divorced her fornicating j.w. husband and turned around one week later and married another j.w. man. I use to get drunk her her and her ex. Now she's pioneering. My other j.w. sister is married to j.w. LOSER and my uncle is in his care. My uncle is in poor health and needs constant care. They had been dragging this poor old man to the meetings. He was having panic attacks and they had to rush him to the hospital. Long story short. The whole situation revolving around anything having to do with the j.w.'s is pitiful. I have to take my med's and bite my tounge....kid you not.
Do you ever wonder why you even bother with them? Do you ever think that you are just gonna call it quits with all of them and walk away from it all. I moved.....moved far away....it's all at a healthy, lengthy distant....at arms length, you might say.
I will tell you this, I have found my family in friends. I have found my new family....not that I don't love my blood related family, but I have a circle of friends that fall into the real definition of what the word *family* really means. You know what I mean? Anyone else done the same? Tink =;o)
even as apostate dubs plan their next apostofest, world leaders speak of the very real possibility of an event so dreaded that they are evoking the image of the biblical armageddon.
in the wake of the anglo-american policy revision of recklessly targeting various nations with the threat of a first-strike nuclear attack, it appears that iraq has been singled out as the first on the hit list.
in response to the increasing drum beat of war against the poster boy of evil, "sodom" hussian, the jordanian king has warned that an attack upon iraq may unleash uncontrollable destructive forces.
No wonder I have nightmares. That's all I've heard, my whole entire fucking LIFE......the end is coming....the end is coming! It doesn't matter what we say or what we do, none of us really know what's going to happen or why it's going to happen until it happens. I say, sit back and roll with the flow! Tink =;o)
Enough with gloom and DOOM.....take a toke and chill!
my cousins daughter was over visiting me this year and she pointed out something that i never would have thought.
she noticed how quiet i was around my family and asked if it was because they were jw`s.
i thought about it and i said yes it was!.
Great advice here!
I don't play into their shunning anymore. I approach my j.w. as I would anyone. I speak, I'm loving. Weather they shun me or not, I'm not playing into it anymore. It gives them a sense of power and importance that they seem to be lacking. I love my family and I know they miss me.
My uncle was in the hospital recently. I stayed with him one night. In the process, I was in contact with j.w. family. They were kind, but brief and to the point with me. I know the only reason that I have any contact at all with them, is because I help care for my uncle. *a family matter*. I'm sure that after my uncle passes away, there will really be no more reason for me to be in contact with my j.w. family. Regardless, I will contiune to be kind and show love to them. You never know, maybe one of these days, one of them will see the light and leave the org.!!! I'm sure they are thinking that one of these days, I'll come back to the *truth*. That's NOT going to happen! It's fucked up and I feel sorry for them! Tink =;o)
