Posts by KateWild

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My neighbor is a return visit. Should I say something?

by Zoos in

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i stayed home sick from work the other day and noticed a car group pull up to my neighbor's house.

she's a stay-at-home mom.

i decided it was time to retrieve something from my truck to see if i could recognize the visiting sisters.

KateWild

Thanks for the update. So we see there was nothing to worry about, she just wanted rid of them. It just goes to show that converts are few and far between. Kate xx

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Look what's trending on Yahoo

by carla in

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KateWild

I can't see any stories on yahoo that are about JW child abuse. Have you got a link?

Kate xx

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How Much Pleasure Can You Tolerate?

by Greybeard in

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Going after pleasure needs to be balanced. There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing. Food gives us pleasure, but becoming gluttons changes the way we view food. So the desire to do something pleasing should be balanced. The video was more about sexual pleasure though, having multiple sexual partners is lonely, many find manogomy pleasing, sexual pleasure is a small part of a manogomous relationship.

Kate xx

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"Controlling followers based on the threat of punishment and Hell is WRONG!" (Public talk)

by stuckinarut2 in

yep...that was the topic discussed in a recent public talk!.

the speaker went on about how a "god of love, along with his organisation, would never threaten people with punishment and hell!".

talk about hypocrisy!

KateWild

so true!...I need to get out of here!-Stuck

We can help you come up with an exit plan. There are loads of different ways to make the next step, but you have to have it right in your head what you're going to do. Skip a few meetings and wind down, cold turkey and stop going all together, just miss the services meetings, etc.

Once you decide how you will stop going to meetings you need to decide how to deal with elders phonecalls, meetings and "encouragement". There are plenty of good one liners to keep them at bay and then they may just forget about you. Alternatetively you may want a JC and record it to tell them all about the things you have learned, that can be cathartic for many, but ends in D'fing or D'aing.

Kate xx

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Has anyone actually read the study wt for sun nov 2nd????!!!

by stuckinarut2 in

o m g...(yes that is a very childish reaction...but i couldn't think of a more appropriate expression!).

if you haven't yet read it...please do so..... it is so ridiculous!

so leading, so distorted, and full of "bait and switch" techniques.. "prove you have the truth"..by seeing how neutral witnesses were in war times?

KateWild

Stuck,

You are awake and you are getting to the point that the more you read to more frustrated you are with the cultish techniques used. I suggest you make a plan of how to stay in without getting so annoyed. You need to read less and miss a few meetings.

Kate xx

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He Got Reinstated . . .

by Hamahead in

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friends

feeling low today.

i haven't posted for a long time (forgotten log in details = new username) i'm in a good place with my family now and have built a life outside the religion.. today i found out a good friend has gone back and got himself reinstated to be able to have contact with his elderly mother.

that is the only reason apparently.

KateWild

It's sad so see someone get RI'd, but it's for a good reason to be with his mum. I am glad to see you will support him and be there for him, if he knows TTATT he will really hate the meetings.

Kate xx

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I am JW.ORG

by LogCon in

famous quote from wuthering heights revised.. '... i am jw.org!

it's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

so don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable...'.

KateWild

The incredible hulk cuff links at the end show that JW.ORG is agressively pushing their position. Kate xx

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The High Cost Of War

by designs in

britain is refinancing some soverign war bonds dating from the crimean war, napoleonic war and wwi, 2 $billion worth.

2 century old debt.. our president has been reluctant to begin another war when the debt of the previous two wars hangs heavy.

those of the prowar persuasion have insisted on 'boots on the ground' a move that would require 100,000s of personnel in the middle east and allocating billions in debt to cover the cost.. "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed" president eisenhower.

KateWild

Soldiers in Britain tend to come from the most derprived parts of the country and towns where finding work is almost imopossible even with qualifications. Yes war costs a lot in many ways, it costs lives and causes poverty.

Kate xx

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Just got back from trick or treating with the kids...

by cognac in

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friends

husband is completely, beside himself livid.

he's going to the elders on me.

i've havent been to a meeting in over a year.

KateWild

My daughter is grown up now, but she wore a costume to work and went to a haloween party in the evening, I think they had alcohol instead of sweets (candy) though. It's good to know that everyone can join in no matter how old they are.

I am so sorry to hear your husband put the dampers on the fun, and is going to report you. He is obviously scared the kids will die at Armaggedon. What he is proposing to do is terrible, but don't forget he thinks it is what's best for your whole family. Just try and ignore the elders but show your husband love, and that you are a good wife and mother. Very sorry this is happening, WT is a cult.

Kate xx

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Theocratic "Apostate" WarFare

by mana11 in

there are many things that can be done to make others aware.. perhaps in the following comments it would be good to have suggestions of "direct actions" that everyone can do to have an impact on the wtbts.. .

i suggest as an idea the following if you havent already done so;.

google play app's.

KateWild

more for the benefit of non-JW's who see the app and think they should install it because it's a "5-star" app with gushing reviews,-88JM

Ahh I see, I hadn't thought of that perspective. Perhaps just being simple and writing "This app is produced by a religious cult" would deter non-JWs. But if you think about it JWs place a huge amount of litterature and hardly anyone gets recruited, but some slip through the net I suppose.

Kate xx