JT, I'm sad you are leaving... I read your post with much interest. It was good you skip between lines, cause my English handicape... Love and Harmony to you and your wife
Yadira
i would just like to thank everyone for the excellent posts that have appeared here on this site.
i esp would like to thank simon for making this possible.
i sincerely believe that the "net thang" will continue to play a role in helping jw who are sincerely searching for a confirmation that all their doubts and wondering over the years was not the result of them being spiritually weak.
JT, I'm sad you are leaving... I read your post with much interest. It was good you skip between lines, cause my English handicape... Love and Harmony to you and your wife
Yadira
i turned in a request (by letter) for reinstatement last week and ive been informed that i will meeting with my original judicial committee this coming wednesday.
im very excited and happy, but at the same time i want to be careful how i conduct myself.
in the last meeting in early march, my reinstatement request was turned down.
dungbeetle, I hope someone listen! but....
Yadira
i was at the hospital all day with my best friend, mattie.
she had a biopsy on her colon this morning.
they are looking for cancer, seeing they can't seem to find anything else causing her problem.
butalbee, I'll pray a Holy Hour for cousin as well. Lilacs, I make sure my prayers are with you too.
Love,
Yadira
ok. just read the thread on the "special talk" today and how they mentioned apostates.. well, that explains why i had such a painful conversation today with my sister-in-law.
she called to let me know that she and her mother had reached a painful decision today....to abide by the shunning rule.
up until today, we had a great relationship....everything was fine.
nativenyr, let us all know how it went. I'll be thinking of you and your husband.
Yadira
introduction: much has been said about the jw judicial committee system, and all the negatives, along with some concurrent shepherding visits.
the purpose of this short series is to discuss how and why we made shepherding visits, and what those visits were like from the perspective as elders.
nothing here is designed to be self-serving, self-indulgent, or self-justifying ... it needs to be told from the vantage point of how we felt at the time, and what we thought we were accomplishing ... though blind to the hurt and harm some of this caused.. ps: future installments will eliminate the background, and be shorter.. background: our congregation was known as the armpit of the circuit because of high inactivity, high irregularity.
Amazing, I just wanted to tell you about the program for ACA. Twenty years agoI found out most of my traumas thanks to an ACA group.
My father was an alcholic and the ACA groups and their counseling help me a great deal... the only thing, one need to shop around for the right group. Thanks for sharing, as more people will know about this option. I knew you would like to get that book from sister L. I said it in my mind before you wrote it... not that I'm begining to know you..... (smile)
Yadira
after reading a number of posts it sounds like most of you have been shunned even by your immediate family members (parents, brothers, sisters)after you were df'd.. i am shunned by my sister-in-law - but she's it out of the entire family.
my uncle, brothers, mother, and father (an elder before he passed away) all continued to associate with me - we even go out to dinners together.. so here's my question - is my family the minority?
i thought that only non-family members had to shun you but family was ok as long as they don't discuss spiritual issues.
Blue, I'm happy for you that you are getting over... I'm still in pain, but I know I'll also get heal.
Let's see what is next. Love to all here,
Yadira
wow.
my first born baby will be going to college in the fall.
she will graduate high school and spokane community college this year with an aa degree.
Well done, TR! congratulations, I saw the picture, she is gorgeous.
Good fortune!
Yadira
shunning is really what the watchtower society is all about.. every religion has moral codes, doctrines, taboos, etc.. it is the deliberate psychological manipulation of people through social sanction that makes jehovah's witnesses different than any other religion.. yes, other religious people shun people but only witnesses institutionalize shunning.. it must be defeated.. joel
Hyglandyr, I'll be looking up for your thread.
Joelbear, someone will come with a solution... this forum will host it.
Yadira
after reading a number of posts it sounds like most of you have been shunned even by your immediate family members (parents, brothers, sisters)after you were df'd.. i am shunned by my sister-in-law - but she's it out of the entire family.
my uncle, brothers, mother, and father (an elder before he passed away) all continued to associate with me - we even go out to dinners together.. so here's my question - is my family the minority?
i thought that only non-family members had to shun you but family was ok as long as they don't discuss spiritual issues.
So, finally, I understand part of the reason my daughter choose to shun her sister. She can be looked as a martyr on her KH. That will get her more credit to stay on the "elite" of that KH. She is also following her conscience, but it makes me mad she could have chosen not to shun her. Hummmm! many options to chose from!
i just noticed that you're over 5,000 posts!.
of course the only thing beyond supreme one is supreme, supreme one.. maybe i should just wait until someone else joins you and larc and then we can make jokes about you all being the supremes ... i'll let you fight it out among yourselves as to who wants to be diana ross .
thanks for all you have contributed to the forum
waiting, how could that be? I just made it to #100 and I feel I'm on this board to much. Thanks for all your posts. Love,
Yadira