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  Sharring my secrets..continues..and the end

  by kls in

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  let me say first i am not telling this for sympothy in any way, my growing up is a lot better then a lot of kids,the horror some of these defenseless babys and children have, the death penalty is to good.the reason i call these threads ..my secrets, is something you dont talk about outside those walls as i am sure other's on this sight can relate to.i am telling my story so many of you can understand why i am trying so hard and long to get my husband out of this sick cult.he is all i have known since i was fifteen.some of you have asked if my parents were jws?

  no catholics,some asked why the neighbors did nothing ,no one wanted to get their nose dirty i guess and two neighbors were cops.before i start more of my life ,please when i wright a thread about what ever ...please dont tell me i need to talk to someone or i am feeling this way because of my child hood.if any thing it has made me a strong person in many ways.i as many in simular situations are good at blocking things out and becoming callus to situations.i promised not do drag this on and here i go .all right i will shut up and get on with it.growing up i learned there are, mean drunks, nice drunks, quiet drunks,etc.lucky me mom was a mean drunk.when she did get out of her bed , for her alcohlic delivery,my sister and i would run upstairs to our room and push our beds against the door .i can't say some of the things she had done to me ,it is to hard.notice i said things done to me , i always felt my mother hated me , she always treated me cruel,punishing me for no reason or just letting me know i was worthless.finally during one of her trips out of her room to get the wonder juice delivery, she stopped to tell me how i ruined her life by becoming pregnant with me,i guess the story goes my mother was going to leave my father and one night he raped her and became pregnant with me .oh ya it was my idea to just jump in her womb.any way thats just some .more tid bits of home.living with my syco sister didnt last to long ,my other sister now almost eighteen was married and had a baby, me i was fifteen and pregnant waiting for my sixteenth b-day( pagan) to get married.well got married things were rough but alright till a cult member started to talk to my husband at work, well he told me we got sucked in , after a year or two i felt something was wrong with this so i left it but my husband was trapped.to me i have a much stronger mentality were as my husband who says he had a good childhood is very weak and gullible.next had four great kids (my life) and a husband whose life is work, the hall, and himself.now i am fortyfive all kids grown and gone but one ,he's ninteen.i am always in contact with my next oldest sister,but not with my oldest.

  my brother i see a few times a year , and mother, she was constantly put in nut houses and would get out and go soeone would put her back in .

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  sharring my secrets

  by kls in

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  you all are so special, i just finished reading the thread i posted the other day and again you all made me cry(probably girl thing) not in a bad way but in a happy way,sometimes i think i found you guys just in time.so because of your caring i would like to share my life story,no i won,t drag it on.i was raised in a home with two sisters and a brother,i was the youngest ,i am three years younger then one sister ,ten years between my other sister and twelve years younger then my brother.father was a beater,belts,boards but his favorite was his fists,i went to school with plenty of black eyes and lying were they came from.my older sister and brother were married and out of the house and very seldom visited.as kids my brother and sister were beat also so there was alot of tenson when they did visit.so with my one sister and me we take the beatings for them and hide in our rooms hoping we didn,t do any thing to irritate our parents.my mother , i swear she would blow things out of perportion just to see us get beat , i think because she was beat so offen by my dad , i would hear them in my room at night or in the day , the shit would start to fly and we just hid.my parents were both drinkers but usually it was moderate until i was about ten years old and my sister was twelve, the drinking became out of control especially for my mom,fights got more intense till it was like living in a war zone.it got to the point that my mother never left her bedroom and was drunk twentyfour hrs.

  a day, not even coming out to eat.my dad ,sister and me would do the shopping and cleaning and cooking.life was ,well for my sister and me was becoming normal .then one day coming home from school ,i see the police, my older sister and brother are there..odd, they are all crying and inform me dad killed himself and they just took his body.

  well , we have funeral moms drunk at , and all of a sudden everyone is gone to their own lives while my sister and me are stealing food to live.

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  Describe Yourself.

  by SpannerintheWorks in

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  not everyone feels comfortable revealing details of themselves on this forum, and i've never met anyone on this discussion board (but of course i hope i will one day!

  ) and i just thought that it would be fun and interesting for all of us to post a little about ourselves!.

  i'm 40, own 3 businesses, married to a jw wife (wish i wasn't) and am addicted to a certain website..., .

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  I'm going through a separation/divorce...

  by anti-absolutism in

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  i got served with papers last wednesday from my wife for a separation.

  it includes her wanting me to leave the house and is full of a lot of hooey.

  it should be interesting, but for the sake of discussion here, i was wondering if anyone has advice/experience in this area: what can i control as far as how much the kids are exposed to the witnesses?.

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  The Watchtower Society Is NOT A Cult!

  by SpannerintheWorks in

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  ok, don't get too excited, that is not what i think.

  but it is what my wife (brought up as a jw) informed me this morning, after i said that i think the wbts is a cult.

  the thing is, she has kind of "challenged" me to prove it!

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  Verses learnt by heart

  by JH in

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  going out in the field service, we always talked about the same topics, so we only had to know a few verses by heart.

  what would you say were the most important verses to know by heart in order to defend our beliefs?

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  How a child's mind works

  by Mulan in

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  princess posted this on another thread, but it looks like not many are reading it.

  i hope simon forgives me for putting it in a new thread.

  i thought it was so great to see how children think about things, if they aren't "brainwashed" from infancy.so a few weeks ago my four year old daughter was asking questions about jesus and decided she wanted to see a picture of him.

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  BRAIN-WASHING - excellent article found on the web

  by Prisca in

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  2. beliefs

  the article is rather long, and i was going to just post the link but i can't get a direct link, since it's from a message board.

  in this situation, the questioner is not merely given authority by prestige; he may also have the power to keep the tortured person in prison, to torture him, and perhaps end his life.

  [1] does the watchtower society have the power to 'keep the tortured person in prison'?.

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  Resurection of "Can any believer answer this?"

  by Chap in

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  hi all.. there was an interesting thread a while back that i have a few things to add to.

  i am new so i didn't know if anyone would see a post i would put there since the thread happened a few months ago.

  it is going to take a while to put all my thoughts on the subject.

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  A Little Game

  by JH in

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  mind game

  this is strange...can you figure it out?

  are you the 2% or 98% of the population?

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