@problemaddict: follow the link in my earlier posting in this thread. It takes you to the person who posted this screenshot on Facebook. I've already asked for a link to the original posting in the original JW-facebook group, but to no avail unfortunately.
Bruja-del-Sol
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Governing Body Running Scarred and 12-13-14 "Might Be the End"?
by RottenRiley inthis went bad, i hit click before i could post my thoughts about the fear factor going through our crazy kingdom hall.
the title of this thread was aimed at asking why the governing body is becoming so afraid and demanding the elders and rank and file to put their trust in the dukes of the kingdom hall.
(pslams 146:3).. .
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Governing Body Running Scarred and 12-13-14 "Might Be the End"?
by RottenRiley inthis went bad, i hit click before i could post my thoughts about the fear factor going through our crazy kingdom hall.
the title of this thread was aimed at asking why the governing body is becoming so afraid and demanding the elders and rank and file to put their trust in the dukes of the kingdom hall.
(pslams 146:3).. .
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Bruja-del-Sol
12-13-14 doesn't make sense when you're from Europe where we write '13-12-14' for December 13th.
What does bother me is the absolute obedience the GB is claiming. It makes me worry about what things they might do and Jonestown keeps coming up in my mind (and apparantly more people, even JW's, seem to think in this direction according to this facebookpost <= click).
Never before did I have a feeling of physical danger in regard of the WTS, but this claim of obedience is really creepy and I'm concerned for my family that they will follow blindly...
As much as I don't like my family, I don't want them to get hurt because of 8 idiots suffering of megalomania! -
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greetings all
by zebagain ini, zeb had a gremlin in my computer i had to re-enter this site i am now ..zebagain.. just letting you all know.. peace..
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Haha, a resurrection on JWN Welcome back Zeb Next time be more careful with those Gremlins... keep them away from water!
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Laughter is a good medicinehere are some!
by abiather inthere were 3 good arguments that jesus was black:.
1. he called everyone brother.
2. he liked gospel.
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LOL very funny
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Rental car companies and their gas policy.
by jam ini rented a car with a 1/2 tank of gas and i returned it with 3/4 tank.
of gas,no reimbursement that's their policy.
ok the next guy comes.
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Bruja-del-Sol
It's the same policy here in Spain. Rent a car around Málaga airport and you'll get a car filled with 1/8 tank of gas (IMO that's empty) and you're supposed to bring it back with an equal amount. Which is of course nearly impossible, so people will usually return their cars with more gas in it. And you'll have to pay extra if there's less gas in the tank...
Years ago you used to get a full tank and had to return it full, but it's a lot more profitable for them to give you a nearly empty tank. It's a piece of cake to get the extra amount (paid by the customers) out of the tank and store it or put it in another car. $$$
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Bruja-del-Sol
Welcome back Qcf! How was your vacation? Done or seen anything special? Pics?
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hello!
by gamergirl inglad to be a new member and find others with similarities of background.
some background info on me: my dad became jw when i was young, so i spent maybe a third of my life in the religion.
although i respect everyone's beliefs, i personally knew many genuinely selfless people in my congregation, but the way i was raised, now that i am an adult i am realizing was very sheltered and unrealistic.
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Bruja-del-Sol
Welcome GG, nice to meet you!
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Circuit Oversneer Says. . .
by piztjw in"do you realize how much of a privelge it is to enjoy the visit of the circuit overseer?
they are appointed by the governing body who in turn are apointed by jesus and holy spirit.
so you have a great privilege when we visit your congregation, because it is the same thing as having jesus visit you.
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Makes me think of Harry Potter's Professor Gilderoy Lockhart in the second movie, the Chamber of Secrets:
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Should I reconnect with my Bible students? What do you think?
by KateWild ini reprted 5 studies the month i was df'd.
more than a year has passed since i have seen any of my students.
i got on so well with many of them, we became friends.. did i do the right thing?
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Bruja-del-Sol
My best friends are a couple of which the man was very interested in religion over 20 years ago. I was always trying to tell him about the JW-religion and he even came with me to the KH. His wife (well, not actually married, but they're together for nearly fourty years) came along and didn't like it one bit. After the visit to that one meeting she refused to talk about it ever again. After a couple of years our contact was gone. The man wasn't really interested in becoming a JW and my ex-husband didn't like them very much to spend time with. So it ended.
But six months after I got DF'd I phoned them, out of the blue. Just to ask how they were and I told them what had happened (divorce, DF'd) and ever since we've been friends. And they are my only REAL friends, the ones I can count on always, even now I'm living in Spain.
Funny thing is that I totally forgot that your way of 'finding new friends' by contacting your old studies is exactly what gave me my dearest friends!
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Consequences of the cult? FEAR and PASSIVITY - anything else?
by BluePill2 independing how long you where a member or if you where a born in, the watchtower leaves certain marks or traces in your mind that you only notice after leaving them for good.. i think this is similar to a big river, with a high level of water that covers the hidden rocks and cliffs.
once you start lowering the water level, all these rocks come to the surface and suddenly that river is difficult to navigate.. like that river, our minds are flooded with false hope for the future, a naive expectation to have jehovah sort things out for you and lots of fake, conditional love and warmth.
all these things hide the fact that the same organization also put some heavy rocks into your mind called fear and passivity.
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BluePill2 said:
My girlfriend says that she observes in me traits that foreigners show if they are in a unknown country, only that we have them towards EVERYBODY. The whole planet is foreign to a Witness.
I can relate to that. It's exactly what I've told my husband lately about how I feel. Now we're living in Spain, trying to learn the language and the local customs, we know we will always be 'foreigners', no matter how hard we try. We're not the same as people who were born here, we will never completely grasp their way of thinking, the things they've learned and seen from their culture all their lives. And that is exactly how I feel after I've left the WTS! I'm living in the world, I'm doing my utter best to behave and act like other people, I've taken up their customs like celebrating lots of things, I've married my first love who never had any religious beliefs and I'm trying to make friends whenever I can.
But after nearly 12 years of trying and giving it all I've got, even had therapy, I'm still struggling with these mental and emotional 'disabilities'. I'm still a foreigner, an outsider who tries but never seems to really get it. I'm living this life among all these people and just don't seem to fit in. Like a foreigner who speaks the language well, knows all about the food the locals like to eat, even joins them in celebrating their holidays and doing all he can to adjust to their cultural behaviour, but after decades everybody will still look at him as 'import', not genuinely 'one of them', although they will accept him, but every now and then they will shake their heads and whisper to each other 'you see, that foreign part is still there... we don't understand this person'.
And even with my husband I have such moments. I'm really f*cked up when it comes to sexuality, and no matter how hard I try, there's this part of me that doesn't know how to break loose of the ties the WTS has put in my mind. I really hate that! I'm reading Kyria Abrahams 'I'm perfect, you're doomed' right now and it's actually sort of a relief... Her story could've been mine. But it also hurts, 'cause it brings a lot of garbage back into my memory...
So yes, BluePill2, I recognize your story. I married at 18, thinking my only purpose in life would be to wait for Armageddon and in the meantime be a wife and have kids and go in Field Service. I had no goals, no ambitions, and up until today I have a hard time setting goals and working towards reaching them. I'm 45 now and longing for friends who will not abandon me or just forget about me as if I never existed (lost a couple of friends because of our emigration, a loss I didn't actually see coming, another thing to mourn)... it's a struggle sometimes.
But having all of that said, I still am A LOT happier than I was as a JW and I would never at any price trade my insecurities back for the so called 'security' of the witnesses. So to end this in a positive way: I know I will get by someday, it just takes a looooooooot of time.
