i just got this from an active jw friend who i have not seen in 3 years and rarely talk too via e-mail.
keep in mind i was never dunked and left almost 7 years ago.
the elders went and saw my df'd sister last week after 10+ years.
her response
You know the circumstances that prevent me from talking to your sister.
my response
Again I don't speak for my sister. If you want your question answered then you will have to ask her. I was never baptized.She is really starting to bore me.
i just got this from an active jw friend who i have not seen in 3 years and rarely talk too via e-mail.
keep in mind i was never dunked and left almost 7 years ago.
the elders went and saw my df'd sister last week after 10+ years.
Gumby my first instinct was to come here and post the e-mail.
Never fear I could not resist writing back. I wrote:
I can't speak for my sister. I am real interested in hearing about these rumors......details???I'll post her response.
i just got this from an active jw friend who i have not seen in 3 years and rarely talk too via e-mail.
keep in mind i was never dunked and left almost 7 years ago.
the elders went and saw my df'd sister last week after 10+ years.
I'll just ignore it. It just caught me off guard. If she had wrote this a year ago I would have had a field day with her but I decided some time ago to stop playing games with the witnesses when they cross my path.
i just got this from an active jw friend who i have not seen in 3 years and rarely talk too via e-mail.
keep in mind i was never dunked and left almost 7 years ago.
the elders went and saw my df'd sister last week after 10+ years.
I just got this from an active jw friend who I have not seen in 3 years and rarely talk too via e-mail. Keep in mind I was never dunked and left almost 7 years ago. The elders went and saw my DF'd sister last week after 10+ years. It's just a little weird to me like a fishing expedition. The person asking about my sister barely knows her so she should not be asking about her. The elders should have 0 interest in me but my sister was once one of them. She has no interest what so ever in going back and told them that. Am I being paranoid? I feel inclined to ignore it but knowing her she will just e-mail me again.
I've heard some rumors that you have turned apostate. Is it true? Does your sister share the same view? I hope not. Please respond when you get this. Sincerely, XXXX
this is probaly one of my biggest problems i dealt with growing up in the jw crap.. it's no fun growing up alone.. i am sorry, but i hated my parents (probaly from the time i was 13), i know that is mean and a terrible thing to say, but that's how i felt.
i had no respect for them growing up in the borg.
they taught me nothing about ................. having a relationship/dating.
As a teenager I use to lay awake at night and wonder how my mom could be so damn stupid to fall for the jw bullshit. I would get mad at my unbelieving dad for not putting his foot down sooner. What's even more pathetic is that I had not even been born yet. I was pissed at my dad for not preventing something before I was even born. By the time he did it was too late. She was a full blown jw and wanted me and my siblings to be. Then my parents got divorced. What misery.
In one ear I had my mom shoving that shit down my throat and in my other I had my dad telling me it was a cult and to NEVER get baptized. By 12 years of age my dad had educated us on the history of the WT. My mom new he was telling us the history and she would try and undo the "damage". Then she would cry all the time and tell us how come dad had so much influence over us. So much pressure.
I'm am absolutely amazed that we turned out half way sane. I have absolutely no respect for my jw mom. She has no relationship what so ever with my sister (DF'd and shuns her) and a very limited one with my brothers and I.
You know she has a new daughter. One of her studies got baptized a few years ago and they do everything to together. Her kids call my mom grandma. I hope she enjoys it. My dad has swore never to remarry. To bad. Sometimes I wish I could replace dear old mummy.
last meeting i ever went to was a memorial, 6 years ago.
i remember it well, and it wasn't even my own hall.
it was so boring.
It was in early 1996 a Thursday night meeting I believe. I had told myself that was the last meeting I would ever attend. Apart from a wedding and funeral I have not stepped foot in the KH since.
i'm inactive since many years.
the last time i went in the field service was in 1996 or 1997. i'm inactive on and off since 1991. didn't go in the field service since 1997. attended maybe 40 meetings in the last 6 years.
what would happen if i decided to go back to the hall for good, and i would tell the elders i don't want you to visit me, or question me on the last 10 years or so.
You would think they would give you an old fashion love bombing.
Elders want to stick their nose in your business no matter how long you have been gone. They have to know you have been blowing them off since 1991. Yes they would want an explanation for what you have been up too the last few years. I don't see them letting you have the honor of FS right away.
1) Bible study
2) groveling
3) more groveling
4) commenting at meetings
5) more groveling
6) then maybe the honor of FS and giving talks
(inspired from caspian's thread) i hope the stories help rebel.
i was just wondering if any of you would like to share the details of your jc meeting.. i remember mine so well.
i was about 22 years old when i went to a jw relative of mine and broke my silence about sexual abuse i suffered as a child.. at this point i was involved in some normal young adult behavior (sex, drugs & rock n' roll) but because of my religious upbringing i was going crazy over it all.. well somebody took the liberty of telling the elders i wanted to talk to them about my devious behavior that i never admitted to anybody.
Damn rem there is no way you could talk your way out of that one. Your full name and commentary is there for everybody to see. I bet the elders just loved the former MS bit.
has anyone ever put up a for sale sign outside the kingdom hall.............or any other funny things......
At my old KH somebody put a big Santa poster on the door. They put stickies on the back of it to hold it up. One of the MS ripped it off and wanted to call the police. The PO said not to bother since there was no damage and the person who did it would love for them to call the police over something so petty. See not ALL elders are stupid.
there's an open invitation to all who would like to attend the annual convention in the mountains of pennsylvania for xjw's!
it books rather quickly and will be held on october 17-19th, fri.- sun.
there are accomodations on the grounds of the blue mountain christian retreat and they are very inexpensive.
It is merely a gathering of xjw's who love Jesus more than the watchtower.
Well that excludes me. I don't have love for either of them.
You know how rumors go. Do you confirm or deny?