Posts by jillbedford

I know for a fact the elders monitor all "apostate" sites from time to time. They are looking for active witnesses that have strayed and to keep up with what we are planning to do.

This is why we must always keep up with what they are doing as well.

There is always a Judas amoung us......

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Hello

by sweet tee in

this is my first forum post though i've been out here reading yours for a while.

i didn't know how to post my bio.

i became a jdub at the age of 16. i had a child out-of-wedlock who was 1 year old at the time and i was searching for answers - i wanted my son to have a future and the one the witnesses portrayed was better than anything i'd ever heard!

jillbedford

Welcome!! You are among friends!

Your story sound so much like mine I almost fell in the floor. My witness husband also had no motivation and desire to work or provide for his family. When we divourced in 1999 he decided not to pay child support or work anywhere or go to any more meetings. He did decide to start smoking....at 37. He called me a few months later asking for a ride as his car had been re-possessed.

I re-married a couple of years later to a motivated man who knows what he wants and how to get it.

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Elders disfellowship my cousin

by YellowLab in

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just a little background, my cousin is 38 and hasn't attended meetings for nearly 20 years.

then, a week later, another elder and the circuit overseer came knocking for the same reason, so she decided to go to the thursday night meeting.

then on sunday, she went for the talk, and was told she had an elder's meeting at 12:30 that afternoon.

jillbedford

So disfellowshipping the Ex and having him permantently cut off from his family so the ex-wife can marry the new boyfrined. Wow! The depth of Christian love. Incredible!

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The GB have a certain malevolence

by truthseeker in

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think of all the failed prophecies that the watchotwer propagated.

think of the lies and deceit they have fed us.

yet, they keep finding excuses as to why doctrine changes.

jillbedford

Any intelligent person is going to see the flaws.

For example, maybe 1975 was a human error, what about 80 years after 1914, still no Armageddon. The answer to this is to publish a Watchtower article on how we were wrong on the definition of a generation?

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

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Youngest Known Disfellowshipping?

by Taylor S. in

hey guys ... what the youngest known case of disfellowshipping?

and what's the story behind it if you know?.

taylors

jillbedford

McMinnville, TN

We also marry young and to first cousins.

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Elders disfellowship my cousin

by YellowLab in

jw
friends

just a little background, my cousin is 38 and hasn't attended meetings for nearly 20 years.

then, a week later, another elder and the circuit overseer came knocking for the same reason, so she decided to go to the thursday night meeting.

then on sunday, she went for the talk, and was told she had an elder's meeting at 12:30 that afternoon.

jillbedford

Dear Sweet Cindy,

If you ever need an ear to listen, I am here for you. You can e-mail me anytime at [email protected]

I wish you peace and strength. Please know that life has a way of executing it's own justice. What goes around comes around.

I started running to sort out my own issues growing up JW. I run several marathons each year. That is 26.2 miles non-stop. Lots of issues...

Please know you are not alone. You are a good person. You do not need a cult to make you feel valued and important. It is all manipulation.

With all Sincere Love and Concern,

Jill

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Fading into oblivion

by truth_about_the_truth in

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ok. how many of you here still go to the meetings, etc.?

if you do, are you in the process of or planning on fading out completely?.

what is your "fade out" plan?

jillbedford

There is a thread about fading on another sight. I was am a fader. I slowly started missing meeting. Stopped commenting. Stopped being available for meeting parts. I had a new baby. I wasn't able....

I quit going almost completely in 1994 after the "new understanding" about the generation. I remember my heart dropping to my feet. My gut had been right all along.

It is not hard. If you have family, do what you need to do to not be disfellowshipped.

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Do you know of any "apostates" or "evil slaves" that went back to JW's?

by booker-t in

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i remember years ago when i was a "devout" jw there was a co-worker of mine that spent every waking minute trying to convert jw's to born-again christianity.

i was abit afraid of him because i thought he was demon-possessed.

he had all of the old wt publications and spent many hours debating with jw elders.

jillbedford

I would thank him for all his hard work and patience with you when you knew each other in years past. You now see the light. That will start him thinking. Enough said.

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Youngest Known Disfellowshipping?

by Taylor S. in

hey guys ... what the youngest known case of disfellowshipping?

and what's the story behind it if you know?.

taylors

jillbedford

I had a friend who was disfellowshiped at 9 for smoking, then for making out with another girl.

P.S. She was re-instated later, stole my boyfrined, guess she either swung both ways or was un-decided, then had sex with him and they were both disfellowshiped.

She was baptised at 8.

She was mature at 8.