Ok, I gotta "adjust my thinking" about my whole JW motto thing.
It goes something like this now:
"The beatings will continue until morale improves. Also, give us your money! All of it! We are God's Mouthpiece, do you hear us? We need money, ALL of it! Take Sophie's ice cream money, take Caleb's toy money, and shove it into the contribution box, NOW! All of it! Obey us, or DIE! And as always, Agape from our loving Shepherds, The Governing Body."
as most of you know i have been shunned by my family for 2 years because of a photo posted on facebook of me kissing another girl at a party.
the matter was not dealt with fairly but it is over now and i am 100% certain that jdub org is a cult.
but i miss my family so much.
Ask yourself this: Do you really want to expose your future children, to this level of toxic behaviour? I sure as hell didn't, and I haven't.
If you look at your post carefully, what you are truly missing is your pre-Cult family. THAT is what you are missing, not the cult-indoctrinated, heavily dysfunctional family. Sorry to say, you are NEVER going to have that family back again, they are gone, unless they all somehow wake up and leave simultaneously. You are missing a memory. I miss my parents as well. Guess what? There's nothing I can do about it because they all passed away before I was 30. Gone. They live now in my memories, and I tell my son about them and it makes me smile.
The cult family will not accept you as you are now, will be demeaning, judgmental, and belittling of every little thing you do, say, wear, and go. Do you REALLY want that level of craptacular back into your life?
If you grow up more and marry and have children, THEN you can start to have a normal family life on your own, as you see fit, with no WT Cult crap to have to contend with. And if you did allow your parents to see your children, it should always be 100% supervised so that they don't try to indoctrinate them and turn them against you. Think I'm kidding? Search this forum, you'll see it over, and over, and over again.
Trust me on this; the sooner you learn to protect yourself against these types of cults and in particular toxic behaviour (shunning, emotional blackmail, manipulation), the better off you will be. You're enjoying life, there is no enjoyment in the JW cult.
JW's: A psuedo-religious CULT posing as a Christian religion that is in fact a front for a publishing and real estate empire.
Motto: "The beatings will continue, until morale improves."
Charity: The sheep donate funds to take care of the shepherd, instead of the shepherd tending the flock. Feel the love!
the last 2 tuesdays one of my fellow workers would step out for 2 hours.
tonight he came back with a wt book in spanish .
i worked with his this man year and never knew he was a jw.. i went into how the wt lied to the mexician gov't just to own the land of the kh's .
warning!
long post ahead!.
i didn't know what to expect but i was really excited to be invited to accompany my daughter and her closest friends to a large (300+) party held at a famous hot spot.
What I want to know is, did you get it on with the guitar player and model? I mean, you went into the trailer, and THEN what happened? lol!!!!!
So you are (At least) 60, and your daughter isn't a JW? Did you get out before she was born, or did you all escape together while she was young, so that's why she doesn't even want JW's brought up? Just curious.
well, my sister-in-law and her husband, special pioneers for only a couple of years, just got their letter.. her comment was along the lines of, "they're having to do this because they forgave all those kingdom hall loans a few years ago and the brothers aren't donating anymore.".
when my wife told me, i laughed so hard i farted.
;).
Ha!!! So a bunch of free-loading MOOCHERS, are now PISSED because they've been kicked out of the big house, where they were used to living "high off the hog", and now have to come out into the workforce with the rest of us pee-ons and scrape out a living? Well, boo-freakin' hoo!!! Oh, how the Mighty have fallen!!! At least these people have a house and cars apparently, which 200% more than what 99% of the Bethelites and Special Pioneers have. (most have zilch!) Can you imagine the "sighing and moaning" that these freeloaders are going to be doing back at the home congregations? I pity the Flock that is stuck with these holier-than-thou types. Imagine, they'll come back and look down with disdain at the very Flock they've been living off of for 6+ years. The freakin' balls. So glad I no longer have to deal with these tools.
"Too bad, too bad."
"Go forth, be warm, and well fed."
"Let the man who does not work, not eat."
"Jehovah provides."
"Rely on Jehovah."
well, my sister-in-law and her husband, special pioneers for only a couple of years, just got their letter.. her comment was along the lines of, "they're having to do this because they forgave all those kingdom hall loans a few years ago and the brothers aren't donating anymore.".
when my wife told me, i laughed so hard i farted.
;).
The most interesting part of this post; how the lay-off is spun to make it out that it's the Rank-n-File's FAULT that the Bethelittes and Special Pioneers are being sent packing, instead of management (Governing Body).
Incredible, incredible GAL I would say. YHWH provided manna from Heaven to help the Israelites wandering for 40 years in the hot desert, but somehow the current mouthpiece (GB), can't even provide the minimal stipend and insurance for the Special Pioneers (even after the huge money grab & fleecing this year), so ohhhh well, it must be because the rank-n-file are greedy and ungrateful, and aren't donating enough $$$$ ?? Is that about right? Well let me tell you Bethelites and Special Pioneers; F*ck ALL of you, if that's how you feel!!! You all are about to find out what it's like out here in the REAL world when you've been denied an education to get a well-paying job by the very leaders you idolized, and now have to work to make ends meet. Good luck scrounging around trying to find something "extra" to even shove into the contribution box at the KH, you ungrateful fools!
I can't believe it......I'm stunned, how much do you want to bet, that the unofficial "word" that's been put out by the Governing Body at WT HQ, is that it's the ungrateful R & F's fault that hese layoffs are occurring, and of no fault of the Governing Body due to their own incompetence. These greedy charlatans at the top just can't stoop any lower!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i09wzqof4zi.
ha!
that is supposed to make people go back?!
At 33:53, the woman uses the term "double life" when referring to her time spent with friends at work, etc.
I have NEVER in my life heard that term used by an active JW. In fact, I've only ever heard that term used on these EX-JW forums. I find it amazing, that such terminology would not only find it's way back to JW's, but actually IN a JW broadcast. Talk about having an effect! I wonder, who's going to slip up on the stage or in a video, and use the term "Borg" for the first time? When it happens, you'll just KNOW that person is an Apostate or was an ex-JW that got sucked back in.
don't forget to post your reported assembly and convention attendance and baptisms and whether they are higher or lower than customary (if you know).. here's some detail passed to me of the last circuit assembly held at surrey (uk) assembly hall.. attendance 922 baptisms 3 (half circuit).
thought she was gonna take a pic of me on the sneak.
im df'd...been df'd for over 19 years already.
so she probably would have gotten away with it without anyone knowing.....except that her flash was on.
