Rat-Again,
Long time no smell!!! Glad to have you back, you lovable, right wing fundie you!!!
news just released in the uk on the bbc news website.
Rat-Again,
Long time no smell!!! Glad to have you back, you lovable, right wing fundie you!!!
news just released in the uk on the bbc news website.
freddo,
I read that. This is the same young lady that he supposedly drugged and raped in 2004. She sought criminal charges sometime afterwards. I read in another news article that the charges were dropped when the Cos agreed to make her a very rich girl. An incentive was the 12 other supposed rape victims lined up to be witnesses in her 2006 trial.
That article was evidently inaccurate, as the local DA decided not to pursue the case in 2006. So the Cos paid a lot of $$ for the young lady's silence thinking the case had gone away forever. I'm sure the young lady signed her silence for the $ agreement, so it will be interesting to see how this proceeds.
If anyone has a clearer understanding, please re-direct. What we know now is that there are about 40 women lined up as witnesses rather than the 12 or so in 2006. The Cos would love for this to go away; I would love for this to continue.
Now if we can get the KY governor to grow a pair and tell the judge to dress Kim Davis back in her orange jumpsuit 2015 would end with a nice little bow.
i know marriage is tough and it takes work on both parts.
we have been together for 27 years.
the last eight have been involved with this cult.
GTTM,
I feel your pain, and I'm sorry the WT cult appears to be destroying yet another family. I may not be the best person to give relationship advice; some would say that asking me for marriage/relationship advice is like asking Dr. Kervorkian for health tips.
In the past 20 plus years I have had several relationships. All of them were functional at many levels. However, I noticed issues of concern very early on in all of them - issues that if not addressed would have eventually ended the relationship. In each instance I discussed these issues with the girls. None of them improved. Oh, some did for a while, but eventually people are who they are. People don't change.
What I'm getting at is that I ended 4 relationships that were '90%' 'good' and functional because of what were relationship ending behaviors - to me - exhibited by these women. I would have rather ended them early than for them to degrade into the war of the roses. Still, ending a relationship with someone you care deeply for and that most of the relationship is good, takes an emotional toll. It takes an ever larger emotional and financial toll the longer it drags on.
No one can determine for you what is the right course, as only you know whether the 90% will stay as it is or if it will consistently degrade until it is only 10% good. Or that it levels off at 70% or 50%. You are the only one who knows what you can accept and deal with for the long term. You need to make whatever decision based on your wife staying in the cult.
Me? I've got very little patience for being with someone or some situation that is causing me pain. I would rather be by myself; but that is me.
Good luck
DJS (aka Dr. Kervorkian Relationship Guru)
this was how it was described to me yesterday by a brother who has been there for some 40 years.
"everyone is about gone; the governing body is set to leave within 2 months; the kitchen and laundry personnel are gone and i have to fend for myself now.".
"also the aggravation of 4 to 5 business men in suits with clipboards daily checking out the watchtower properties.
James,
Do you mean 12/2015? If not you have great powers.
so, it's that time of year again.
here's a few of my predictions.
) no armageddon.
Lostwun,
Once you go pagan you will never go back. I predict that DJS will again promise to try to behave himself on this site. And fail miserably. Again.
I also predict that Viv will return in all her intelligent, smart-alecky, (occasional - when she's been drinking) girl on girl glory (come back Viv, come back) and begin treating us all to what we have come to know and love - the end of OPs where the final 7 pages and 63 posts are between Viv and her opponents, with Viv having them in a head lock down on the mat, and they are having the following conversation:
Oh yes you did! Oh no I di-uhnt.
Oh yes you did! Oh no I di-uhnt.
Oh yes you did! Oh no I di-uhnt.
not all are jw's here, think about the time you could get.
i know you are checking.
don't be shy, no one will ever know.
Make me,
Yeah, those bully Homos are the worst. Especially the dykes. And it's not like anyone ever picked on Them.
Those bully homos are everwhere, not just on this site. Just last week 3 of them forced their way into my house. Two of them held me down and one of them fixed my hair. I'm still suffering from their bullying. But I do love my haircut.
Life was sooo much better when the Homos knew their place, didnt have equal rights and we could hate, mock and deride them while they were hiding in their closets. And feel superior doing so.
Don't worry bunky, your homicidal god and his homicidal son will soon take care of those bully homos. And 7.7 billion others.
I have, however, heard a rumor that Jesus Loves lipstick lesbians girl on girl (really, don't we all). Can you deal with them in the paradise bunky?
i remember going out with other jws after the memorial.. small gatherings.. picnics at some local landmark.. the feeling of closeness, camaraderie, friendship with like minded people you could trust.. haven't experienced it since i left.. really miss that..
Sowhatnow,
You did research!! I am sooo proud of you. And did you know that Norway is one of the least religious nations?
If you scroll back a few pages I posted similar data. I'm very proud!
Phaedra,
Re scrapping on your thread. Frank Ward started it.
jw girl non-jw guy.
tenuous boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.
what is more likely to strengthen a relationship?.
Thankyou,
Now That's funny!
i remember going out with other jws after the memorial.. small gatherings.. picnics at some local landmark.. the feeling of closeness, camaraderie, friendship with like minded people you could trust.. haven't experienced it since i left.. really miss that..
A,
I've never referred to any particular nation. I've stated the facts, that the more secular and atheistic a state, region or nation, the More Likely they are to be functional.
I do not understand your continued probing of something I've never stated.
i remember going out with other jws after the memorial.. small gatherings.. picnics at some local landmark.. the feeling of closeness, camaraderie, friendship with like minded people you could trust.. haven't experienced it since i left.. really miss that..
Anathasius,
The entire world is giving you examples on a routine basis, from the United Nations to PhDs who study such things to pollsters who survey such things. See above.