Posts by gma-tired2

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I just informed the parents about me and the TTATT... heart wrenching

by sosoconfused in

well 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.

gma-tired2

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 in

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this 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.

gma-tired2

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 in

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so 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.

gma-tired2

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 in

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an '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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gma-tired2

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 in

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an 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.

gma-tired2

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.

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From Pioneer to Professor: My Story

by laverite in

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i wanted to say hello.

i knew i was gay.

i wanted to study and learn about everything i could.

gma-tired2

I so enjoyed reading your life story. You have a beautiful family and career. I feel that JWs miss out on so many onderful people because of their prejudice agaist gays. Your children are lucky to have a father like you.

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Dat da da da: Justitia Themis Law School Graduate

by crmsicl in

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congratulations to justitia themis on all her hard work at putting herself through law school.

after being raised in the watchtower organization and having survived all of what that entails she has picked up the pieces, analyzed her strengths and has made choices to better herself and the community.. .

i am so proud of her.