Posts by Dolce Vita

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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!

by rip van winkle in

this is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .

:" the sparlockian voice".

yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.

Dolce Vita

You are correct Rip, I did assume how you and everyone felt. Sorry, about that.

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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!

by rip van winkle in

this is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .

:" the sparlockian voice".

yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.

Glad to be here but first I would like to apologize for saying everyone was angry. That statement was going against all that I believe in but hey I am only human and I know that is a good thing vs the horrible sinner theory. No, I don't want to start Round 2, just would like to give a different point of view.

Let me make this clear -- I am not speaking for AAWA or as you call it BBXB, I am just an ex jw, my experience comes from living it, as you all have.

What I can tell you is my experience and when I left, there were no groups -- none -- no internet -- no meet ups -- no social media -- nothing expect jw's, "worldly people" who had no clue and a few ex jw that were too freaked out to talk to one another, well except me I tried to talk to them. The process of me being free from their control, on many different levels, took years because I had to figure it out on my own. So on a personal level I see the importance of these groups in the recovery process because of that. It will take time for a any ex jw group to work out the kinks that wants to go on a more public course as AAWA is trying to do. We all have the commonality of being ex jw but sometimes it stops there. All ex jw everywhere, in any group, are in various stages of recovery, it is a highly charged place to be even in low key groups. Since I now come from an eastern point of view about life, I found I was attacked by either Atheists or Christians for my beliefs, even when I have stated this is what I have come to know in all of the groups when I first found these internet ex jw groups. I still kept putting my stuff out there for others to read because - first, I knew I was not the only one who felt this way and second, because of its non judgemental nature. So, in my opinion most groups fail in being a helping hand in recovery -- most are very judgemental under the surface. My goal is to be there for ones who are in need of recovering for being an ex jw and at times have no clue what their path will be. There is a group of us out here in the ex jw community that want to be part of healing for ex jw, either new or at whatever phase they are in. Trust me it would be much better in a lot of ways not to give a damn and focus only on my life and forget all this about my past, but that is not me. I can not leave them behind, I know deeply what that means. I can assure you I am not blindly following AAWA as I did when I was a jw. Please, to accuse me of that is pretty offensive, you have to admit. They are on a learning curve, mistakes will be made and learned from. I am willing to stick by them and let them work through the mistakes for this reason -- others and myself are able to reach out to those who need a helping hand to recover more than any other group I have belonged to in the last few years. It is a totally safe place, no hurtful criticism to any persons is allowed, it is a postive support group. It is closed group so you would have no way of seeing it.

I know you are all against AAWA, that is fine, just wanted to give another side to what you feel you know. I was around with Cedar's incedient and it was upsetting and I was sorry he chose to leave or felt he had to leave -- things like that happen in life when you get strong personalities involved. It is part of life and I don't know if Cedar's saw this but we want to see him come back, things can be worked out with patiences and time... I have voiced my concerns in a kind way if something doesn't feel right. I have learned this in my experiences in life -- it is much better to look for the positive and make changes from that view point than from a negative stance, not that I have that down 100% as you can see from my first post. Well, that is my story and I am sticking to it... Peace out

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The Sparlockian Voice is racist!!!

by rip van winkle in

this is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .

:" the sparlockian voice".

yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.

Dolce Vita

Just curious about all the criticism. Where the hell it is coming from? The majority of you sound so angry in this thread. Also, curious what any of you are doing to try to make a change with the issues AAWA is trying to address? Such as letting others know of practices of JW's and offering support groups lead by therapists? If so I would really like to know about them. From what I have read some of the things blamed on AAWA are other Facebook groups. Aren't any of you angry at what the WBTS did to you and your families? I know I am royally pissed. Anger can be one of the first motivators to make changes for somthing better which can be a way to work though the pain. Sounds to me there might be some misplaced anger going on here. Just my 2 cents.