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  Why were 'LARGE GATHERINGS' bad?????????? when they sounded so good.

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  my hubby and i were discussing this point the other day and having a giggle as we remembered the stress it caused some elders.. we got to thinking that there must have been some really good parties going on that we were not invited to because we never witnessed anything shocking or resembling debauchery.

  we began to feel left out because the elders often did talks warning us about the dangers associated with 'large' gatherings, and they sounded like much more fun than the ones we had been too.. i mean, we went to parties where the elder organised bible characters celebrity heads, question and answer games based on bible events, no alcohol, and finishing up by 10pm.......(then we would go back to my place and have a good time).

  we were invited to a 'large' group that met in someones house every sunday afternoon for 'kingdom melodies" sing-a-longs, but that was one large gathering we were never tempted to go to.. the elders' talks indicated that some people were having more fun than us.

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  What aspect of freedom from the borg do you love the most??????????

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  we all had personal reasons for becoming jws and we have all left for just as many different reasons.. but i'm really interested in what types of freedom people have found and are enjoying since fleeing from the wts cult.. for me the greatest sense of freedom has been in the way i live my life with my family.

  now we are able to 'be free' (in reality we were always free, we just didn't know it because we empowered men and they controlled us) with our time and energy.

  we associate with a variety of different people, we sleep in, we garden, we just do nothing, we read books that have nothing to do with the wts, we relax on tues. and thurs.

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  my son's birthday celebrated

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just a short post to say that i feel really happy today.

  my 19 yo son has had his birthday acknowledged and celebrated today for the first time in 13 years.. and it feels good for me as his mother to remind him every year, on the day he came into the world, that i consider from that day on, the best days of my life.

  i cried as i wrote his card, thinking of all the wasted time in the borg, but now is the time to move on and start enjoying freedom.. so i just wanted to share this with people who i'm sure understand and share in the joy.. cheers,.

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  KELPIE.................I NEED YOUR PHONE NUMBER.

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  hey kim, the number you sent me with your message this week must be wrong because i keep getting the same couple, and it's not you or your man.. please check the number you gave me and send it to me again.. i look forward to catching up.. cheers,.

  bliss.

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  Does anyone know of an elder that actually helped a sexual abuse survivor?

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are soooooooo many victims (although i prefer to use the word: survivor) of sexual abuse coming out of the borg and telling their horrible stories, including my own family.

  i have read stories that made me feel either angry, frustrated, revolted, furious.............but they all made me feel sad.. in every story it seems that the wts, elders and jws in general have let the child and/or family down.

  from my own personal experience i can say that the elders in the congregation where my child was abused didn't do anything to protect other kids, and certainly didn't show love and support for my child or our family.

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  Do you think JW men treat women worst than 'other' men in power?

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  i ask this question because we often hear about jw men (bros., elders, servants, co's etc.

  ) treating sisters as lower and weaker beings than themselves.. but i wonder if it's not just a male-dominant world problem.

  i didn't grow up as a jw so every male i met for 30 years was not a jw.

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  Did you leave the Borg 'in search of truth' or 'freedom from rules'?

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  2. friends

  this question is not to offend anyone, it's just that i have noticed people have many different reasons for leaving the borg and i thought it would be interesting to find out why some of you left.. for example:some leave because they want to be free to smoke, drink, gamble, fornicate, grow beards, celebrate xmas, take blood and drugs, etc.some leave because they never believed and now are old enough to do as they want.some leave because they have seen that they can be happy living life free from any religious organization, yet still feel safe in god's love.some have been hurt by the borg and have taken their wounds away to lick them, waiting to see justice.some have trusted the borg with their lives, time and money...........only to discover recently that there has been lies, cover-ups and hypocracy in the borg.

  now they have left but need to belong to another organization to feel happy.. i left the borg because i found out about the cover-ups and lies.

  my family was abused by it, my child was sexually abused and i was df'ed.

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  What do the children think?

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  after my child was sexually abused i found myself wondering, not only about how to help my child cope with the actual crime committed, but also how would i deal with the organization, the pedo, the other congregation members etc, and how would the way i dealt with it all affect my child (victim) and the other siblings?.

  the borg expected me to leave it all to the elders (only the 2 that knew about the crime) and the rest to jehovah.

  ok, but then i got df for trying to protect other children in the congo because the 2 elders weren't.

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  why wedding anniversaries and not birthdays?

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  has anyone else ever wondered.

  ta, bliss

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  Pedophile Paradise in Canberra, Australia?

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this news article in the canberra times shows that there is a real problem when the legal system is too soft on these criminals.

  we should be able to know if these creeps are in our community, but what if they're in our community because they are safer there than in other states?

  shouldn't children be protected the same way, no matter where they live?