My husband and I have had a long week worrying we would lose our niece, and yes the blood issue was very much part of the problem. It is new to us to actually have the blood issue affect our family, but it really makes you think. We would have immediately given her blood, but she and husband are still JWs. It looks as of today she has a chance of surviving because they pinpointed the infection, which now has her body fighting the infection. She had a lot of blood loss due to emergency surgery, (new baby) but the Drs didnt have a clue what was interferring with her recovery until the finally found an unrelated infection. We have a family that is a mixture of active, inactive, faders and DFd so this has been a week where at least some of us are still in communication. We love her and wish her a speedy recovery.
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Week of worry
by gma-tired2 inmy husband and i have had a long week worrying we would lose our niece, and yes the blood issue was very much part of the problem.
it is new to us to actually have the blood issue affect our family, but it really makes you think.
we would have immediately given her blood, but she and husband are still jws.
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7 million Jehovah's Witnesses wasting 10 hours every month
by Terry inwhat if.... what if jehovah's witnesses spent their 70 million hours on something better than cartoon theology distribution?.
would this world be better served by:.
1.feeding the hungry?.
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My sister said last night she is skipping service today to work in her yard. I'm sure she will enjoy her weekend more.
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Another story of JW's and child abuse
by Black Man ini've really been getting into these life stories of ex jw's.
it just confirms i was right in getting out of the cult like the plague it is.
here's a link to another powerful story about ex-jw stephanie hammond.
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Black Man Thank You for youe posts they keep us realizing why we no longwe can be JWs. Keep your posts coming
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Finally ready
by independenthinker inok so i havent posted on here in over a year, i think i posted like a few times, then disappeared.. has anyone else like just shut it out?
like i joined here as soon as i found out, then after a month or two i just didnt want to think about it; i had my final exams, elders creeping about, my mom got crazier, i was starting college, other kinda issues, which made me just blot everything i learnt about my religion out.
well he hurt me too, oh i would give all my blood to you.
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Good job keep it up you have talent
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exJW Psychology 102--How to Ask a Question When Questions Aren't Allowed
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite innow that enough time has passed and i've moved away, i think i'm overdue to share some of the stories from my fade.
i've mentioned some of this before, but i think it deserves its own thread.. we all would like to be able to freely ask questions about jw beliefs and get our family and friends to really think about certain questions.
however, when you're a baptized jw, you really can't ask any good questions or you'll get the "apostate" label slapped on you!
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Trujw I believe how you and your wife were treated. I watched elders in action in 1988 and was so shocked and disappointed. I have only attended a handful of meetings since that experience. It wasn't even my problem they were attacking my early 20's son because his marriage wasn't working.
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I just informed the parents about me and the TTATT... heart wrenching
by sosoconfused inwell first i want to thank everyone here for the good points etc... i have received over the last few months.
you guys have really been helpful!.
so the other day my mother wrote me a 3 page letter telling me how she was so scared for me because she could tell my love for the truth was gone etc.. so i decided i wanted to totally rip the band-aid off and get this matter over and done with.
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It is hard to accept that all the things we were taught and believed for over 60 years were lies. Let her think on these things for a while. Maybe she will soften her stance even if she doesn't leave the org. Your dad has doubts that he has never faced.
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I have said it before
by mouthy inthis time i mean it.. thanks for all the ones that love me .
i am getting off the site after all these years.. anghard & simon .
but of late.
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Hello Mouthy Granny Grace. Glad to have you back. Missed you Gma-tired2
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I think my wife is going to open the can of worms...
by sosoconfused inso over the last 5 - 7 months as some may know i have resigned as an elder and just came to a cold stop going to the meetings.
brothers call i wont answer the phone.
if they come by i just wont answer the door.
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Interesting reaction. The last few meeting my husband attended he didn't want me there as he knew I would explode. Little did the congregation know he was testing their reaction to him. They failed the test.
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600 people up and left the DC after the 'apostate' talk?
by Julia Orwell inan 'apostate' inactive jw in america i know on facebook went to the dc and said fully 600 people left between the end of the apostate talk and the lunch break.
have any of you who also went to the dc seen something like this happen?
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If they were confident about their teachings, and the brothers and sisters strong faith there would be no worry about listening to apostates. Their faith should be to strong to be shaken if it was the "TRUTH".
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Should all elders be painted with the same brush?
by Socrateswannabe inan hour or two ago, i was reading a topic on this forum that welcomed new elders to jwn.
there was some criticism aimed at the op and i understand that elders shouldn't be singled out as special.
one poster said he/she hates all elders.
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i am writing this as a woman who was around males who I knew before and after they became Elders. Most of the ones I knew were very loving kind men before they were Elders as to the idea of putting on a new personality I watched this happen before my very eyes. I saw many change so dramatically from the kind loving person,to the totally company man, I saw others become company men when at KH but still loving when one on one, others who I know were living a totally double life. I have watched many of these men over a time period of 65 Years. I have watched a cousin who was so fun loving who now is a company man who rejects his own children. I have friends who no longer comfortable when we call, we limit the calls. What breaks my heart and made me back away from being a JW was watching my friends change and not to be more loving persons but men I no longer recoqnized. Some of these men I have known from infancy, others I met and loved were friends of my husband when we married 47 years ago. Do I hate them NO but I now have to protecr myself from some of these men. I hate that they still have the power to hurt those I love only because of the change in personallity.I hope this makes a little sense but fear it is a jumble because my mind is being jumbled from my thoughts of all Elders I have known, what they were like before the position and what happened after the TITLE. I don't hate any of them but afraid of the new personalities.