musky, not sure about that one...he sort of has a love-hate thing going with them. Sometimes, they drive him up a wall, other times he has this need to be around them. He feels different from them, in that he has ambitions to do well financially, they are waiting on Jehovah to provide for their every need, etc.
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Need help with my husband!
by TweetieBird inbrief background info - hubby and i were both raised in the borg.
he started having doubts years before me but kept silent.
i came across info on the internet, ordered ray franz' books, found h20 website, then this one.
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November birthdays-please sign in
by TweetieBird ini noticed that there are alot of birthdays this month, mine included.
my birthday was on the 12th.
all other scorpio's, please sign in and happy birthday!
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>>You share your birthday, November 12 with Charles Manson. So much for horoscopes.
Ooooooooh! We are so NOT alike!
Edited to add: Thanks alot LB, what are you trying to say, that we are high maintenance? If so, you're absolutely correct.
Edited by - TweetieBird on 28 November 2002 9:19:36
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November birthdays-please sign in
by TweetieBird ini noticed that there are alot of birthdays this month, mine included.
my birthday was on the 12th.
all other scorpio's, please sign in and happy birthday!
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I noticed that there are alot of birthdays this month, mine included. My birthday was on the 12th. All other scorpio's, please sign in and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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WooHoo! 10 years!
Happy Anniversary!
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Need help with my husband!
by TweetieBird inbrief background info - hubby and i were both raised in the borg.
he started having doubts years before me but kept silent.
i came across info on the internet, ordered ray franz' books, found h20 website, then this one.
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Thank you all for your words of wisdom. It helps to sometimes get things off your chest. I think that is why I'm further along in my exit from the borg than my husband, I have an outlet.
Nathan, I took your advice and ordered Hassan's book from Randy's website - seems like a good place to start. I don't know if hubby will read it but maybe I can convey points to him that might help. I have been wanting to get it anyway so you kind of pushed me to go ahead.
jgnat, i uttered the exact same words to him this morning, that "Jehovah's Witnesses are such an anti-religion."
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Need help with my husband!
by TweetieBird inbrief background info - hubby and i were both raised in the borg.
he started having doubts years before me but kept silent.
i came across info on the internet, ordered ray franz' books, found h20 website, then this one.
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Pettygrudger, I've often thought about the UU, but we are very well known in our area, just my luck, I would be spotted going in or out of another church. We are trying to stay with the fade away approach right now for the sake of the family members that are still in the borg. But, if they (the UU) have some kind of literature to read that would help, that might be an option.
I also like NathanNatas' point. My husband has some very deeply ingrained witness thinking. Often when we get into discussions, he uses WT logic on me. He has not delved into the anti-witness sites that I have, I have read so much stuff that I know that I could NEVER go back to believing all the crap.
I think part of his depression comes from not feeling connected to a group of people. But even when we are around some of our few remaining friends that are JW's, it's hard because the conversation always turns to something in the WT or a talk that some brother gave and then our gag reflexes start in on us.
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Need help with my husband!
by TweetieBird inbrief background info - hubby and i were both raised in the borg.
he started having doubts years before me but kept silent.
i came across info on the internet, ordered ray franz' books, found h20 website, then this one.
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Brief background info - Hubby and I were both raised in the borg. He started having doubts years before me but kept silent. I came across info on the internet, ordered Ray Franz' books, found H20 website, then this one. We are both considered inactive, neither one of us has been to a meeting in months, haven't been in field service in at least 2 years, probably 3. All of his family are strong witnesses, especially his mom. He doesn't read any "apostate literature" or come to sights like this.
Lately he's been kind of depressed and feels like it's because we have no spirituality in our lives. He asked me this morning when I prayed last and I said that I couldn't remember. He says that he does not feel any inner peace or happiness like he used to when he was a witness. He has gone through this before and at the time we would start going back to meetings, but after 30 minutes there he looks at me and says "I'm over this." When he's not there, he thinks that maybe he should be there, when he is there, he can't swallow the garbage anymore.
I think he's looking for some kind of connection to God, but it's very hard when you've been deceived.
Any advice?
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Was it normal to have so many meetings?
by JH inhow many meetings a week, do you think we should have had in order to be reasonable and not overdone?
maybe 30 or 40 years ago, when woman didnt work, or when life was a little easier, that all these meetings every 2 days was ok, but today with life being so stressful, and with all the time it takes commuting, is it normal to still have so many meetings.
nothing changed in the last 50 years as far as meetings go.
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Roddy,
I have no earthly idea. When I was a small child, I slept thru the sessions, as a teenager I was boy-crazy, looking through binoculars at all the cute boys, and as a married sister I was looking for my friends to socialize with when it was over. I rarely listened.
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The blood card?
by moman inhow many innocent people have died on the borg's altar of insanity with the prohibition of blood?
now they are trying to weesel out of it, no more blood cards, a de-emphasis on the whole issue of blood, the cowerdly bastards!.
this is a powerful litmus test as to their level of brain-washing, the death of hundreds or thousands & little, if any outcry.. well, i guess if you are calling yourself a sheep?.
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I would also like to know if that is true, no blood card. I was under the impression that they would be given new ones in January.
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Was it normal to have so many meetings?
by JH inhow many meetings a week, do you think we should have had in order to be reasonable and not overdone?
maybe 30 or 40 years ago, when woman didnt work, or when life was a little easier, that all these meetings every 2 days was ok, but today with life being so stressful, and with all the time it takes commuting, is it normal to still have so many meetings.
nothing changed in the last 50 years as far as meetings go.
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>>I wasn't a JW then, but didn't some of the assembly days last 12-14 hours? Can someone confirm this please?
I remember when I was a little girl, going to assemblies that started at 9:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. They would break for lunch and for dinner. I also remember going to an 8 day assembly in Kansas City in 1969. How in the hell did my mother do it with 5 kids in tow?