Yesterdays Child

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  JW Father Kills Self and 12-year-old Son

  by fjtoth in

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  the following story appears this morning in the south florida sun-sentinel at:.

  http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cmurdsui26aug26,1,2987431.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines.

  fort lauderdale police suspect father killed son, then self in home shooting.

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  Yesterdays Child

  I will never forget the phone call I got from south carolina 5 years ago. My sister was leaving an assembly in Florince SC when her witness boyfriend shot her in the parking lot then killed himself. It has forever changed our familys life. My mom has not been back to the hall since and ayear after my elder father died just not wanting to go on.
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  My Personal Story

  by Disheartened in

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  i joined this forum a few months back and i'm just getting around to giving my personal story.

  here goes: i was raised as a witness like many of you out there.

  my mother was in the truth lie but my father was not.

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  Yesterdays Child

  Welcome
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  Newbie Introduction-or-How to De-Program Yourself in 6,456,129 Easy Steps

  by 2escaped lifers in

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  my wife and i are new to this forum, and really, we're now new to life as well.

  or rather, life is new to us, normal life that is.

  i don't want to turn this into a novel (at least, not yet).

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  Welcome
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  return of the prodical son (daughter)

  by thebeliever in

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  i left the jw's when i was 19. it was not easy.

  my father was an elder, i had an older brother who didn't seem that "spiritual" who was just very frightened by my father.

  my father and i were especially close and no one expected me to leave.

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  WELCOME i REALLY ENJOYED THAT. iT SOUNDS SO VERY FAMILIAR
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  Kobe charged ! so sad !, will JW's use him as an example for their young ?

  by run dont walk in

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  2. friends

  anytime something went wrong in the world with an individual, they would use them as example over and over and over again.. the most common one i heard was brother a got into big trouble with __________ (insert problem here, pick any one), see this is what happens when you leave the organization.. so how many jw's will be saying ............. "did you hear what happened to kobe, big successful athlete, see he didn't have god's organization and satan got him.".

  i wonder how many jw parents especially in the la area will make their kids stop wearing number 8. he did and admit to committing adultrey.

  sexual assault, i don't think so.

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  Thats LeBron James LOL :} Terry
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  Proud of my stance!!

  by unique1 in

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  my parents invited me and my hubby to attend the convention with them this sunday and go out to dinner afterward.

  i told my dad i didn't feel like going but thanks for the invite.

  later my mom called with the same question.

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  Way to go
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  My updated profile...

  by Billygoat in

  1. jw
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  i finally decided after being here for over two years now, that i would finally get down in writing my jw history.

  i've posted it in my new profile, but since there are so many new people here i thought i'd go ahead and post it too.

  i do this to encourage you to pen your jw history.

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  Wow I loved your story My brother an elder treats his daughter the same way How sad. As a dad of a 11 year old daughter I will always be there for her no matter what. UNCOCONDITIONAL
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  Convention Report

  by Euphemism in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just got back from my convention yesterday evening.

  i'll be trying to catch up on the posts as time allows, but there is a very large volume; so if i miss any personal replies, please forgive me.. this was my first convention since i became mentally free, and it was just painful to sit through.

  i used to be one of those dubs who actually enjoyed conventions.

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  Well done. The convention began here in cleveland last week and I think my wife goes next week. I drove past last week and could only think how all looked alike. A bunch of robots getting briefed. An artical in the paper here said 35,000 expected here in the next 4 weeks. I guess after the mom in law thing I want get invited this year. OH well life is good :}
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  Today's policy on being DF'ed

  by PointBlank in

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  would someone be so kind as to catch me up on the current disfellowship policy?

  how exactly are the rank and file being instructed to treat family members who are df'ed?

  i know it changes with the wind.

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  Yesterdays Child

  Got that right . They even tried to bring that bull sh#$t into my home with my mother in law. Not her babe come back when you can talk to me
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  Let the shunning begin!

  by Cicatrix in

  1. jw
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  boy, this has just been my lucky week.

  twice in one week i was the recipient of "active shunning" by former congregation members.. scene one-the local discount food place where all the blue collar folks (and a few smart upper crust ones) buy their food.

  i'm busy grocery shopping and sister zealous comes marching down the other side of the aisle, dutifully studying the cans on said shelf.

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  You know I was dfed some twenty years ago and the elder who lives at the end of my street crosses the street to avoid me when I'm cutting the lawn. One day I was out in the yard and he and his wife were out for there afternoon walk and yelled "hello" to my then ten year old daughter (who goes to the hall with her mom ) .I stoped what I was doing ran across the street a yelled Don't you ever direspect me in front of my daughter by not speaking to me . A hello would have been fine. He looked like he was going to faint. Of couarse I heard it from my wife that night. My mom now 82 came home from the Hall 20 years ago and said they read my name off at the hall. I asked her so this means you will never talk to me huh. I will never forget what she said " No man EVER will stop me from talking to my children. She continues too today. After some forty years of going to the Hall my mom stop going some 5 years ago after my sister was killed by her jw boyfriend outside an assembly in SC My father never recovered and died the next year. My mom tells me every day she is so glad she never stop talking to me as her "ELDER" son my brother has no time for her . How sad