maybe i was just curious to hear what they were going to discuss.
i went to the two day circuit assembly.
for those who wonder, its theme was taken from psalms 37:3 it's theme trust in jehovah and do good.
Maybe you should search yourself for what you really miss...
* Perhaps a group of people with a like cause
* A feeling of belonging
* Some sort of organized religion..
make sure you can't get that feeling from somewhere else before you automatically try to find it again in the borg
did you find that people , either in the congregation, or in general always tended to try to tell you what you should be doing?
were you always given counsel by the brothers or sisters to "help' you?
how did you react when certain ones were always ready to tell you what you should do?
nope... people were always so uneasy around my family, my mom being the insane partaking apostate and all.. they mostly just looked uncomfortable and shifted from foot to foot when forced to speak to any one of us.
cults and the narcissistic personality disorder .
excerpted from the following site:
http://samvak.tripod.com/journal45.html
Whew! Your post brought back some vivid memories... I noticed the source of your material.. ol' sam vaknin's site is the first forum I belonged to, even though he is a self described narscisst, his stuff really really helped me get away from my narcississt mother, it was my first step to getting better...he has some good stuff to say. Thanks for sharing!
i want to thank all those that helped and encouraged me in my hard times!..hubby passed away from his cancer this morning.
i am so sad my heart is broken.
we decided to go ahead and have a memorial for him this weekend at the kingdom hall he went to.
I am so sorry for your loss, and I hope that our hearfelt wishes and condolences help you find a measure of peace in this dreadful time.
i had a very emotionally draining conversation over the phone with my mother yesterday.
she is not a jw, she is a international bible student (russelite).
i have not got into such a deep conversation with her since i have been out of the borg.
This is off topic.. but what an interesting post!!! Wow! I never knew that there was still an active russelite religion and their teachings sound...well... different! Hmm! I have some research to do!
I hope you find a way of dealing with this, I have no advice but to keep doing what your doing and vent here when you get upset!
((((hugs))))
ok the weirdest thing just happened to my coworker and i. we went to go pickup our breakfast from accross the street.
when we got back to our building we walked over to the elevators and as we turned the corner we saw someone get into the elevator before it closed.
we didnt see the person exactly but we saw their leg or whatever passthrough before the door closed.
I agree with pleasuredome, to dismiss something we don't understand is ignorant... there are many things in this world we have no idea about yet....
many of us pioneered.
some here pioneered as "vacation", "temporary", "auxillary", "regular" or even "special" roles.
nearly everyone was expected to pioneer, if you were to stay in the good graces of the congregation.
I was happy pioneering, but I was also one of those fanatical, gleam in their eye cult like followers who was trying to "redeem" myself for having a secret boyfriend at school. My mom made me quit school when she found out, and I started pioneering, I was a zombie... studying all the time, made every meeting, had a part almost every week, went out in field service every single day... hmmm. I THOUGHT I was happy... maybe I was just to busy to notice.....
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well, it's just another post-dumb-scans-from-wt-literature/caption/amusing comments thread.
to get the ball rolling is this image from the 1986 publication, true peace and security: how can you find it?.
you know what is really creepy Nathan? Is that I know your article was a joke, but it reads so real, that I can't believe I used to listen to that crap and take it to heart and actually follow their indiotic counsel!
ok ok i stole this from a site syn introduced me to, didn't know this black hole even existed, so blame the springbok...hehehehe.
http://quizilla.com/users/emryswolf/quizzes/what%20is%20your%20animal%20personality%3f.
hehehehe it's no gremlin, but er...close enough!.
Badger
I guess I'm am pretty grumpy!
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you dont need to be dissfelowshiped to be shunned ( why & how ).
what caused you to be shunned from within your congregation,even though you were not disfellowshipped ,.
where in the scriptures does it mention this particular type of remedy,does the creator sanction this type of treatment,were you suicidal when this happened ,did you receive support from anyone ,how did you handle it.. can you offer advice to people going through this at the moment.. agarpe love
My whole family was shunned, my mom was being investigated for apostasy because she started partaking. Even my grandma who didn't even live with us. I was a regular auxilary pioneer and my dad was a ministeral servant. We walk in the hall and NO ONE would speak to us. When we sat down people closer than two rows away would move their books. It was awful. Of course my mom being the crazy person she is decided we were being persucuted. So she made us sit in the front row, not bow our heads to the prayers and not sing. Needless to say the whole congregation would stare at us. My dad was removed from position for "not controlling his family". My mom and I would meet for field service every single day anyway. No one would speak to us. We would just meet and then go back home. What a weird time. She was eventually disfellowshipped. But it was later recended.... another story for another topic. Sorry for rambling.
