newly single, very busy, athletic, insubmissive, childless, inactive with no plans of returning to jw faith female tech nerd on the west coast of the US.
yrs2long
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Romance status
by Crystal injust curious as to who is single and who is not on this board.i have been with my boyfriend going on 3 years now.
we just moved in together in feb.for the most part we get along great but he has some weird habits.he also thinks i spend too much time on this site(which i do...but heck i finally belong!!
)so its hard to relate to him on the subject.he thinks i should just forget about it.sometimes i think i might be better off with someone who has more or less been where i have.
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THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS THING SOMEBODY TOLD YOU
by minimus inwhat's the most outrageous thing that you were personally told ,while in the organization??
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After years of abuse and many dramatic committee sessions and shortly after my desperate-to-become-an-elder husband had left, I came across an extensive psychological evaluation that basically said my husband utilized regression and projection as tools, had a lie scale of 70% according to MMPI, exhibited a lot of behavior that was in the pathological range and didn't have a clue as to what he was about. Thinking this information might help the elders to see what I was dealing with according to professionals (I couldn't put names to it all but I knew he was crazy), I cornered the PO in the back of the hall and asked him if he would read the report to gain additional understanding of my marital problems.
The elder glanced around then asked me,
"Sister ****, did your husband give you permission to show me that?"
Now what the hell did he think, I'd barely discovered it myself from my husband's usually locked-tight office just before he'd left. He wouldn't even glance at the material. They'd often said in committee that they were unable to do anything because my husband denied everything or sometimes said I was the one who hit him and that it was my word against his and yet the PO wouldn't even hazard a glance.
That was the last straw for me. I checked out.
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Newsweek Letter Writer Silenced
by silentlambs inthe following email was sent to me today, if anyone would like to send and encouraging comment to loris i will be glad to forward it to her.
all she did was tell the truth and now she is facing sanction in the congregation.
so according to wt pr you are not sanctioned if you go to the police but you are sanctioned if you talk about it.
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Good for you, Loris! You have disconnected from the matrix and are beginning to see what the organization is all about. It's too bad that interested persons and most dubs will never be able to get a true glimpse of the true picture.
The society is more vested in protecting its own image rather than in helping any victims. I can attest to this as an abused wife who wrote many letters to the society, my circuit overseer and anyone else who would listen. The only responses I received in return were admonitions to wait on Jehovah to reveal matters and clear them up and to not bring reproach on Jehovah's organization by calling the police on my abusive JW husband.
The org has an image to maintain and it will fight ruthlessly with anyone within who it perceives as a threat to that image.
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Top Ten Comments You Shouldn't Say At The Meeting
by NeonMadman inthis was forwarded to me today.
i thought it was moderately funny...
the top ten comments you don't want to say at the meeting.
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I took some time during my personal study to look up the secular quote given and noticed the quote was taken out of context and that, contrary to the explanation given by the society, the author was expressing a profound and immutable belief in evolution.
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They do too go beyond what is written...
by Marilyn intdogg started this on another thread.
his comments were:.
i wish i had that quote when i was told i had to wear a tie and suit to meeting, when i played chess, when i bought star wars figures, when i had to do at least 5 hrs of service a month, make a comment at every meeting, not wear top-sider shoes, never see a rated r movie, wear a no-blood bracelet, highlight all the answers in my watchtower, not play organised sports, not salute the flag,....anyone want to take over?......
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You can't join the YMCA for the use of their fitness equipment and pools yet you can join as a UN NGO to use their library.
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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #10
by ozziepost ina little late this weekend, but your poster has been sharing the truth about 'the troof' with a crowd of eager seekers of truth in the mountains of new south wales.
addressing the gathering were posters zaqen, amos, ozziepost, mrs ozzie and prisca.
what a fine witness was given!
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The headship arrangement. During my wedding, the elder giving the talk waxed on about headship and submission to the point that my brother's worldly girlfriend walked out.
Later, following her example, I became known for walking out of the hall or sitting in the restroom or avoiding the bookstudy altogether whenever that arrangement was to be discussed.
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Any Scary Flying Stories Out There?
by Englishman inher ladyship and i are musing on the idea of having a weeks break in late october, so we now have to decide where we will spend it.. it will probably be madeira again.
it's clean, warm, the people are pro-british and the island is stunningly beautiful.
we love the levada walks, the food is delish and cheap, a 3 course meal for 2 with wine is less than 20 pounds.
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No thanks, E, I prefer jogging for cardiac conditioning.
I will be looking at the international news more intently though around October.
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Nekked women
by teejay ini started to call this thread "porno" or something like that -- to get attention -- but since i don't know exactly what porno is, i thought i'd get down to the nitty gritty with the title.. here's the deal: i like looking at pics and/or live video or, if i'm lucky (or out of town) real live females who have no clothes on.
it's not something i do all the time, but when the mood strikes.... okay.
now, before i go any fu'tha, let me 'splain something.... i'm the type of guy that likes natural thangs.
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Alas, if there was only a way to get the guys with those healthy leering qualities to exhibit them on the first date.
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Is This A MINI-SCANDAL In Kentucky?
by AngryXJW inearlier today, i spoke on the telephone with a jw who will sometimes listen to "anti" info, but typically regurgitates the typical "party-line" responses.__________ .
however, today, the situation was reversed.
it seems that this jw was "slightly stumbled" at the da held in louisville, kentucky back in late june.________.
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Angry,
If my beloved sister were to stumble even ever so slightly at the idea of an elder doing the california roll at a stop sign I would do my utmost to work that fact into her consciousness on a daily basis. It's a chip but I'd use it to my advantage until such time that I could get her to see all of the other evidence about the watchtower.
Keep up the good work.
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The Bible: It does'nt make sense
by Leander inas i was exercising this morning i was thinking about my decision to step down as a ministerial servant and also to stop attending religious functions of any kind.
i've often felt that jws were somewhat flawed in their interpertation of the scriptures, but this morning it kind of hit me all at once that no 2 religions are going to have the exact same beliefs even though both religions might be using the same translation of the bible.
this disturbing fact raises quite a few thought provoking questions:.
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If I could only remember which boxes hold my bible I could quote that scripture that tells of the man who cuts down a tree, creates a house from some of the wood, makes a little fire with which to warm himself and then with the rest carves out an idol from same piece of wood and prostrating before it, says 'oh my god, deliver me!" I would love to append that scripture to say 'and with still another piece of that wood, he fashions a little book called the bible and tells it 'show me the way to god and everlasting life.
Everlasting life is supposed to be a free, undeserved gift and yet if humans ever somehow got the clues within the bible right why shouldn't we feel as we'd earned it outright? Where is the gift?
How can god start with quality stock, which fails, then demand the same standards from the slipshod crap that's left? What kind of justice or love is that?