i am in deep shite!.
haven't been to a meeting for a year.
rumours are rampant in canada as my family is 'prominent'.. p.o.
I've been there. I told my mother that I would not discuss the situation and to leave my children alone; that's when the shunning began in all seriousness. Sometimes you just can't fade, you just have to take a stand. I hope everything turns out the way you wish.
YOU are the head of your household NOT your dad
Yup!
i'm going to start this topic, i know some of us know people who have left before we did, and have lost touch.
so i'll go first, i am looking for jennifer n. of lancaster/palmdale ca area, she had a son and i use to hang out with margie.
My best friend from when I was young, Linda Galka. Her last name was Gapin the last time we were in contact.
i wanted to say thank you to the wbts for enforcing a 'no-contact' rule on all those that have left the organization.. only by experiencing first-hand my former best-friends treating me like a complete stranger (see 'garbage') for standing up for my own beliefs was i finally able to tell the society 'good-bye' forever and not feel guilty about it.. i know this was not the wbts's intention from the alienation practice.
it's intention was to make me feel guilty and lonely enough to come back to them.
however, it has backfired on them and finally given me my freedom.. thank you, society, for lacking kindness and understanding.
Welcome and amen. My family made the break so much easier by complete shunning. But they'll never be allowed to figure that out.
weird.
after the letter was read, many clapped.
i don't know how to interpret that.. .
So where are they getting their serious spiritual food? Sounds like they've gone to fast food that no one will ever remember "eating." Of course no one will ever look at it that way.
i am absolutely thrilled to find this site!
i just took the red pill of reality and all i can saw is wow!
i had no idea the borg was so hypocritical and twisted.
Hey Sebasitan! Loved your post. It starts my day off with a chuckle and a smile. Welcome! Keep us posted on your extricating yourself from both closets.
Emma
just read in the april 2008 awake on page 5 under "what is the sign" : "the events that jesus mentioned--wars, earthquakes pestilences, food shortages---would not be new in themselves.
they have been happening since early in human history.
the difference would be that they would all occur in one time period.
I guess it still amazes me that Witnesses work to fail.
If only they could see that this is what they're doing. It all goes back to them having to accept the gb/wts as speaking for god; after you get them believing that, you can sell them anything.
much has been commented here on how jw's rely on an ever-changing membership for keeping their 'the sky is falling, the world is ending' doctrine fresh.. recently it was posted that fully 2/3 of born-in jw's leave at some point, and i thought you might like to see how this works in practice.. so lets take sam and i and our extended families - we were both born and brought up jw's.
start with me.
mum and dad were converted in the 1950's.
My family is a bit smaller but
'60 - grandma, mom, me and two sisters
'70's and '80's, me mom, two sisters+husbands, my husband, four kids=11
90's I woke up and left, my four kids came with me, ex-husband out but still thinks it's the truff
My two sisters and one bil are left, no kids. Sweet! Three left.
I hadn't looked at it this way before!
i seem to recall that soon after you first started posting here you introduced a friend who also started posting - i can't find the original thread (hope i am not confusing you with someone else) what happened with her?
and also your friend who was going to have the abortion?
what did she do in the end?.
bttt
this kind-of goes with the thread "why not use mass-media".
i got this email forwarded to me by a relative.
i guess it could have been photoshopped.... wow, someone actually advertised the memorial on a billboard.
Now all they have to do is advertise a social hour with food after the "ceremony" and they might actually get someone to fall for it.
although this is my first post under the name journey edge, i have been a member of the board for a few years now.
i just needed to change my identity to avoid being traced.
i left the truth a number of years ago after 20 years in the faith.
What if I break up a family and take the kids from their dad with no good reason?
Sounds like you have good reason. He is emotionally abusive and manipulative. Of course he wants you to think it's your fault! Think of those children; do you want them growing up believeing that this is how to have a proper marriage and family life? Do you want your daughters believing that this is how they should be treated? Is this how you want your sons to model how they will treat a wife? I'm not trying to be harsh but to ask the same questions I ws asked.
