okay, i just think its kind of funny, but it's also pretty telling as well.
all of my wife's family are pretty deep into the "truth", but they don't mind speaking up either.. here's some of their (not my) comments:.
saturday was waayyyyy to long.
Ha! Billy the-ex-Bethelite, you are funny! Yes I remember fifteen years ago the assemblies announcing we'd rounded the magical corner. Everyone gushing at lunch how we were now in the Great Trib. It seemed strange how everyone was smiling and beside themselves with excitement about imminent torture.
gorgia
i have recently been thinking about this as it was a big life changing decision.
only now do i realize it wasnt about doctrine.. the reason was because i wasnt happy and didnt respect the elders and the congregation was made up of unhappy people.. i was always being lectured for being happy.
when i had a study that came to the meeting i thought thats a good thing, and i was happy.
new hope & happiness,
Well done on being so brave and genuine. And jwfacts has great advice for you - just incase some jw's try to guilt you into 'coming back to the meetings' you will be fortified with knowledge about how warped and wrong their beliefs actually are, and you will be able to firmly decline!
And yes, now you have more time to be happy. I wish you plenty of happy time.
gorgia
next year the watchtower society will be forced by world events (i.e.
no armageddon yet) to confront a full century of christ's presence.
with nothing to show for it!.
Thank you Terry. This is excellent.
gorgia
comments you will not hear at the 06-09-2013 wt study (april 15, 2013, pages 7-11)(read bible).
4. what does it mean to read the bible in an undertone?.
1:6) how, then, are we to understand jesus words about this generation?
Thank you Blondie.
gorgia
after lurking for 7 and half years (is that a record?!
) its time for me to say hello.. so who am i, and whats my story?.
im a born in jw, with all my siblings, mother, wife and children in.
Welcome wizzstick,
Thanks so much for sharing your story. I remember as a child of JW's in Australia hearing constantly from the platform about the 1914 generation and how the big A wasn't far off.
I am so happy you used that clever brain of yours and escaped.
gorgia
leaving the witnesses was for me a result of asking myself distubing questions, which infomed me " mike its not what you think, its how you think" and as a result iam what was a dub but is a dub no more .so here i am hete today !!.
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Welcome new hope!!! You are very brave. Isn't it wonderful to think 'how' you like?
gorgia
matthew 6:14-15new revised standard version (nrsv).
14 for if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly father will also forgive you; 15 but if you do not forgive others, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.. .
at least on a superficial interpersonal level the above scripture requires the victim to forgive the offender in order to be forgiven in turn.
Terry,
I remember this knotty little requirement really had me worried when I was a child growing up in JW land. My little brother would really upset me, (he made it his full-time job) & my parents would always say I had to forgive him or else J wouldn't forgive me. I'd lay awake at night trying to think of ways I could trick him into believing I'd forgiven the annoying brat, because otherwise, I'd be crushed by a giant hail-stone in the Big A.
gorgia x
he stayed inside and kept going about his business like they weren't even there.
i engaged them on the verandah hut politely explained that they'd caught us at a bad time as we were doing a big cleanup of the house.
the elders had even bought a pack of chocolate cookies around, so they were expecting to be invited in and offered coffee.
Julia,
Well done to you and your husband!
gorgia x
when i got home today from work my wife showed me a 5 page letter from our oldest son.
he basically said he does not what anything to do with us because of all the wrong things we did as parents to him and his brother.
he blames us for not being there for him and we are toxic parents.
TotallyADD
From not being able to talk to my mother about ANYTHING concerning teenage troubles, to running away into a terrible marriage so I could have some 'freedom' - now, in my thirties, I can finally talk to my mother about the cult, and that it is indeed a cult, and that she and my father brought me and my brothers up in a cult. And how she was brought up in a cult.
Its taken about ten years since my mother left to where she can only recently understand it was a cult. I felt such anger toward her and my father a few years ago. About a year ago my mother apologized for bringing me up according to the ridiculous rules of the JDubs. Rules I could never get right as a teenager, and as such caused much distress in our household.
That apology was a profound happening in my life - I will always remember it and it helped my anger enormously. I still feel flashes of it every now and then, but now my mother and I can actually talk. I think she isn't scared now to think, scared to talk, worried who might hear and tattle on her. Your apology to your son was a wonderfully humble act - he just needs time, as much time as it takes.
gorgia x
.....after 8 years of us being disfellowshipped.
the made contact through my aunt who is still 'in' - as in she has faded but is not disfellowshipped and will pop to a meeting now and again - she does this for my grans' sake.. the contact was from my aunt and uncle (he's an elder) these were the 2 witnesses used against me in my judicial case.
they contacted my aunt and said to forward the message onto us.
Yes, well done LouBelle.
You are a strong (and pretty!!) lady. My mother and I have had similar experiences. They all know not to darken my doorstep - but when they need money regarding my grandmother, I'm sure they'll try and get back in contact somehow.
Thank you for posting this experience, it shows me there are other people putting up with this total hypocrisy within their 'family' as well.
x gorgia
