Hugs to you, Ken...he was lucky to have you as his best friend, no doubt. Be kind to yourself and love whoever you meet each day, including yourself.
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Anyone Else Feeling Forced to Go to the Memorial?
by PaintedToeNail ini refuse to go to any meetings, assemblies, conventions, special talks or the like...however, i get coerced into going to the memorial every year.
because it keeps the peace at home with hubby and also makes my parents, who live elsewhere, have hope that i will come to my senses and become an active witness again.
there is no chance in hell of that happening, but it prevents the ties to my family from being severed.
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Yet the jws see those who only attend the memorial as "weak" ones who are either to be pitied or studied with.
I had more peace in my family when I stopped attending the memorial, it was like a final decision so they quit bugging me to go to meetings too. No more jw jabber!
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Told my JW friend it's a cult
by Xanthippe inso i said i would write about the 2014 convention program that you guys kindly posted here, to the jw friend who contacted me out of the blue after over 20 years since we d'ad.
sorry if you find this repetitive if you have already read my story.
this friend does not know anything about how my family shun me and i thought it is relevant in the light of the convention symposium talk about putting family in second place.
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Xan, so well done! I'm saving this in hopes I'll be able to use it in the future. Thank you.
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Doctor affirms the fact that JW religion was a massive strain on my life
by confusedandalone init has been over a year since i offically stopped caring about and going to jw meetings.
prioor to this time i had tons of responsibility that drained every once of time i had.
like any father i had family matters to attend to.
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Confusedandalone - I think you need a better name, you are neither Confused nor Alone!
I can also attest to the intense jw stress level and its negative effect on my health. With no more insane pressures to run yourself ragged for people who could care less about you, and after the ingrained fear of missing meetings subsides, life starts over at a whole new wonderful place.
(((hugs))) to you and best wishes for your continued good health!
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Critique of Mar 2014 Awake on Creation by Alan Feuerbacher
by jwfacts inalan feuerbacher has written a tremendous critique of the march 2014 awake!, which contains a grossly dishonest discussion on creation.
the pdf file can be downloaded from awake_march_2014_creation_critique.pdf.
it highlights watchtower use of poor and contradictory reasoning..
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Downloaded and saved this to finish reading tonight....thanks for the post, jwfacts!
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Twisted Society -
by sammielee24 inone percenter convicted of raping infant child dodges jail because he 'will not fare well'the huffington post | by ashley almanposted: 03/30/2014 10:45 pm edt updated: 03/31/2014 12:59 pm edt a delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state superior court judge ruled he "will not fare well" in prison.. in her decision, judge jan jurden suggested robert h. richards iv would benefit more from treatment.
richards, who was charged with fourth-degree rape in 2009, is an unemployed heir living off his trust fund.
the light sentence has only became public as the result of a subsequent lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, which charges that he penetrated his daughter with his fingers while masturbating, and subsequently assaulted his son as well.. richards is the great grandson of du pont family patriarch irenee du pont, a chemical baron.. according to the lawsuit filed by richards' ex-wife, he admitted to assaulting his infant son in addition to his daughter between 2005 and 2007. richards was initially indicted on two counts of second-degree child rape, felonies that translate to a 10-year mandatory jail sentence per count.
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Wasblind sums it up pretty well. Disgusting enough that fathers rape their children, but just as disgusting is the GetOutOfJailFree card that big money buys.
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2 J dubs at my door this morning .
by smiddy inmy wife and i are presently interstate house sitting for a freind , and this morning 2 jw`s called unexpectedly of course .
after their introducing themselves.
they offered the invitation to the memmorial which i rejected , then let him present his spiel , nothing has changed by the way .. i had them their for about an hour , i`m on holidays nothing better to do this morning except keep them away from other doors .and of course they were prepared to stay.
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Smiddy, that was great!
My boss at a previous job used to do that whenever the jws came to his door...he loved to keep them at his house as long as possible so they would leave the neighbors alone. It was like sport to him! Then he would come to work and tell me, "I talked to some of your people..." lol
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Selective memories and disfellowshipping
by Really?! ini've been out around 20 years (da'd), but recently i've really started to struggle with certain aspects of relating to family members who are still in, as well as my own thoughts and feelings about my upbringing and my personal views about god/life the universe.
i have an older sibling and my mum who are still in.
we are a small family and my dear grandmother, who was not in, passed away around a year ago.
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Welcome, Really - I have the same frustration with an adult child so I understand the glazed eyes and the wall. Mostly I just try to make the occasional rational comment from a place of emotional sincerity and hope it sticks for future pondering. LisaRose said it well!
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What Watchtower Belief/View Never Sat Right With You?
by minimus inbut their views on blood are just plain weird!
meat has blood in it even if it's bled.
still eating meat means consuming blood.
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And how did I leave out shunning? Shunning is reprehensible.
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What Watchtower Belief/View Never Sat Right With You?
by minimus inbut their views on blood are just plain weird!
meat has blood in it even if it's bled.
still eating meat means consuming blood.
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The generation thing never made sense. The woman who studied with me told me (many times), if there's anything you don't understand, just wait...it will be made clear later. I was stoopid enuf to swallow that, but it never really felt right.
Never could swallow that most of the people on earth would be wiped out because they weren't baptized jws. What???
The blood issue...hemophiliacs...and watching elders eat rare bloody steaks. Huh??? and ewwww, gross.
Child abuse being hidden.