here's the template of questions to use ready to copy / paste and complete.
feel free to add suggestions for additional questions and to nominate people you'd like to read about (but not no one is obliged to do one).
also, add your own story too!.
Will write mine in a couple of days. It's very encouraging, not to mention comforting, even when you're out for over ten years, to read all these stories and personal experiences.
Last couple of years I've really thought I had put it all behind me, but I can tell by the emotions that pop up reading other people's stories that it's still a wound. Not really open anymore, but still not completely healed. So thanks to all of you who wrote your stories and posted them!
it was a pleasure to interview our own katewild about her experiences and her recent audio recording with the elders.
the link is below:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_uwfkdfmdq.
Great interview Sam and Eric, well done! Hadn't had the chance to listen to the recording earlier, but this way, with the interview around it, it was a complete story. And it's an insane story... Like RipvW also said, it's maddening how they dare to treat you. Listening to gossip, telling you that you have to get your life in order, and then making YOU responsible for the behaviour and gossip of other people... that's crazy! These guys are mental, really!
Really hope the situation with your son will change for the better soon.
my mother had a wild hair one day and decided to study with the jw's.
so after being a catholic for my first 12 years we were now apostates............ though neither she nor i realized it at the time.. i think what appealed to my mother was that the two sisters she studied with were very 'refined' they were also nicely dressed and very 'clean'.
i had no idea what the hell she was talking about.
Interesting story, looking forward to part 2!
http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/help-community/suicide-prevented-sky-tower/.
posted 21 nov 13. actual event.... 5 jan 13. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10857849.
perhaps this is why is does not appear in the news headlines.... http://www.jw.org/en/news/.
JW.org: "Jehovah’s Witnesses genuinely care about people, especially about those who are distressed. Throughout the world they use the Scriptures to share hope and comfort, assuring people that God truly cares."
Yeah right.. But we couldn't care less about our DF'd or DA'd ex-members who were our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children, grandmothers, grandfathers, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. No, those evil people are nothing but liars, so we dispose of them and don't even say a simple 'hello' when we pass them by. And we call this an 'act of love'. See how gentle we are?
Makes me sick to my stomach and wanting to vomit!
By the way, did anyone notice that the 'favicon' of JW.org resembles the favicon of JWN very much? Even there they got rid of the Watchtower!
# 3 newbie post.
first of all, the newbies have set a record here!.
have you ever seen a 4pg post where 21 new members reply!
Welcome to all newbies!
I think JWN is the prophesied Great Crowd... it must be, look at the growth!
Lovely face, Sam! I've put my pic in the members section. No way that I'll put it in public and blow my cover (sneaking and spying JW-family members all over the internet... no thanks, I won't give 'm anything anymore!)
Here's the thread, post #39. Cheers!
maybe its just me , i`m just curious as to how many people on this site are from australia as i am .
how many from germany , italy , zambia , etc.
etc.. do two or three "countries " seem to dominate the threads ?
I'm Dutch and live currently in Spain... to make things easier
it appears that comet ison has not survived its journey past the sun.... its a pity, it would have been a wonderful sight next week if it had made it.
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4.6 billions years wasn't a bad innings..
It's still there... at least part of it: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/29/us/ison-comet/index.html?iref=allsearch
Happy Birthday to both of you . So nice of your family, these are the people to cherish!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/9458000/man-70-jailed-for-historic-sex-abuse.
man, 70, jailed for historic sex abuse james greenland last updated 13:00 29/11/2013.
share a nelson man has been jailed for six years for historical sex offences against his young stepdaughter.the victim spoke in the nelson district court at the sentencing of stephen robert carter, 70, this week.. she described the deep psychological trauma she had lived with as an adult as a result of his controlling and manipulative sexual abuse in the family home.. she explained the difficulty of living under a "burden of secrecy", unable to tell anyone about what carter did to her because of the effect it would have on his high standing within the nelson jehovah's witness congregation.. carter had admitted seven charges, including representative charges of rape, sodomy, inducing a girl under 12 to do an indecent act, permitting a girl under 12 to do an indecent act on another male, and counts of committing an indecency with an animal, and being party to an indecency with an animal.. the court heard that carter converted to christianity about three years after ceasing the sexual abuse, which he initiated under the false pretence of sexual education when his stepdaughter was 10 and 11.. in one of the first instances of "grooming", carter showed the victim his semen under a microscope, the court heard.
The more these stories float to the surface, the better it is.
