hi to everyone on here, my name is kim, i have been on here anonymously for about 6 months now giving our family's story.
if any of you haven't read my daughter gojira's post about the latest, here's the updates.
the witch hunt is on..... http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/246388/3/the-time-is-near-for-my-families-crucification.
SOrry to hear about your mom. Siblings put a lot of pressure on the parents. How JWs have put family members in such a rug a war is so sad. They cannot even own that they break up families. Keep strong the life knowing TTATT is so much more rewarding, and remember all us here understand and will happily listen to your family experiences
My tablet changed tug a war to rug a war.
i have a sister-in-law that has hurt me deeply with her jw attitudes and decisions.
she does not shun me or her brother but shuns one of our children.
i am suffering from depression taking anti depressants to cope and i have fibromagiya with intensifies with stress.
I did it. I had a hard time confronting her because I don't like hurting others, but the result of her action she had done deep damage to one of my children. She cried, denied she did it, then when I gave her info on her actionsnshe has now lost all memory, I assured her, her brother me, and our children rmembered and have had to live with the fallout for the last 18 years. If she had not chose to shun her nephew and led her grandmother to do same I would not havw confronted her. Her first action contributed to my child being so hurt and changed his life so dramatically that he would not have put himself in a position to be df'd. She handle this by typically running to the Elders. If they show up on our doorstep hubby says she will be hearing from him and he will have nothing nice or kind to say.. BTW he listened to everything I said to her and how it was said.
on friday the 1st of march, i went to my cousins 21st birthday celebration - she has never been a jw.
my other cousins (twins) were introduced by my mother to the faith over 20 years ago (they are now 38) and got baptised when they were about 19. they both weren't that "strong" in the faith and married "worldly partners" and stopped going to meetings.. they knew i had left and i presumed they knew i was disfellowshipped for apostacy.. at the party the one twin came over to me and we chatted about life etc and she says "oh carl is going to start studying" - i looked at her a little odd and asked what it was as he already had a financial degree.
"no silly, he is going to study the truth" my face must have been a picture and in a very high voiced squeaked why would he ever consider that, he is an intellecutal guy....... she continued about how the people had changed and were so much better than when we were younger.
My JW family keeps saying how much things have changed and is a more loving enviroment but looking at actions such as how it is still as hard a$$ as it ever was and more
i ask this because the wt always bangs on about if you trust in jehovah and make that leap into pioneering, you will always be provided for.
at the time i joined the cult, a friend was continuous aux.
pioneering.
My son and guess who kept having to help. His inactive parents who lived in another state, money, car to pioneer.
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if i had to pick only one, it would have to be butterscotch square.
just lois.
Butterscotch squares two votes me and hubby. Can't be found on east coast
what is considered as a requirement for them now-a-days to turn in their time as a "publisher?
" among born-in, how young were you?
my parents became jws when i was 9 yrs old.
I was 5 and both of my children was 5 as most of my born in friends
dear friends:.
forty-five years ago i was out in service with an elder, and we came upon a house where the owners kindly received us.
this was not so unusual as the family was jehovah's witnesses.
Sending prayers your way Mike. My husband has also been battling cancer its hard battle but don't give up. wishing you better health.
glibness/superficial charmgrandiose sense of self-worthpathological lyingconning/manipulativelack of remorse or guiltshallow affect (genuine emotion is short-lived and egocentric)callousness; lack of empathyfailure to accept responsibility for own actionsthe hare psychopathy checklist-revised by robert d. hare, 1991. multi-health systems, 908 niagara falls blvd, north tonawanda, new york, usa, 14120-2060. psycopaths do not feel empathy but learn to imitate those who do.
psychopaths don't even understand charity.. .
i was thinking today how much psycopathy is reflected in the governing body leadership and especially manifested in policy.. jehovah's witnesses are not led by people devoted to charity, benevolence, outreach or social provision for those less fortunate which.
Quick to the point answer YES!!!!!
i know of two couples who left the congregation i faded from, they two have never received a shepherding call, i was usually the one who came by with food or offered to help clean their homes.
most of you are beyond this like i am, this goes to the new members arriving here who might think the "friends" are coming to check up on them.
the elders in my former hall were too much into drinking and eating, average body weight was 265lbs with pumpkin shaped bodies.
3 years and 9 months just before a move across country no one from our last cong. knows where we disappeared to. He was a former elder who was always kind and loving but I suspect it is why he is a Former Elder.
i know some here have said they pretty much hated the elders.
did you personally feel the elders were abusive men?.
I had never put myself under a elders power but in 1988, my son married into a unbelivably sick family who thoughtx they ruled . I was shocked to see the elders in action, they actually set out to prove this family right and our family wrong. They did not want true facts they had their mind made up, because this other familys head had been an elder at one time but notnat the moment. To the Elders shock this mild quiet family, Mine, turned out to come out fighting for justice. Sadly I learned there is no Justice within JWs. I had the PO and the Co lie directly to me and iwill never let anyone get away with this again. Their lying was the last straw for my hubby and I because we realized at that moment they are just men and. some very mentally sick men. One Elder even told my son ho could not drive the 100 miles to try to work out things with his wife. VERY SICK MEN AND A VERY SICK RELIGION!!!!!!!!
And people wonder why I have so much anger toward the org. The same reason it is time to let a certain SIL what responsibilty she holds in destroying her brothers family spiritual life. Second thought Maybe I should thank her.
