Posts by KateWild

15

Boyfriend and dating news - Any advice

by KateWild in

so i started dating on the internet in june and have met some nice guys.

i have put in a few recent posts that i have a boyfriend and wanted to give an update.

things haven't worked out sadly.. i was seeing him for a couple of months we were having fun and then things tailed off after christmas.

KateWild

Caedes,

Believe you me there are the real confident ones too. I do know the genuine ones tend to have nerves.

Kate xx

15

Boyfriend and dating news - Any advice

by KateWild in

so i started dating on the internet in june and have met some nice guys.

i have put in a few recent posts that i have a boyfriend and wanted to give an update.

things haven't worked out sadly.. i was seeing him for a couple of months we were having fun and then things tailed off after christmas.

KateWild

So I started dating on the internet in June and have met some nice guys. I have put in a few recent posts that I have a boyfriend and wanted to give an update. Things haven't worked out sadly.

I was seeing him for a couple of months we were having fun and then things tailed off after Christmas. Not to worry I have a date with a doctor tonight a meal and perhaps the cinema if we hit it off.

I have found internet dating quite fun. It takes up my time and I get human contact in the evenings and weekends. I don't know if I am doing it wrong or it just takes time to meet the right match.

Many times I will strike up the conversation, and other times I will respond to a guy who strikes up the conversation. I sometimes ask them to meet up and sometimes wait for them to ask. I never discuss my JW past on the internet I wait until I meet them in person and usually that doesn't bother them. As I have had second dates from most guys.

I have found a lot of creeps also, and I tend to have a laugh and wind them up, but not too much.

I have also made a few mistakes and been open with guys when I should have found out more about them. So this current boyfriend is not what I am looking for and I am moving on.

Let me know what you think. Feel free to ask personal questions in the interests of other single xJWs wanting to date too who can learn from my mistakes. Give any advice you like.

Thanks Kate xx

35

New BOE letter: Re: Survey on Use of Printed Publications

by pixel in

to all bodies of elders in the united states branch territory re: survey on use of printed publications .

dear brothers: .

the branch office is working on arrangements for the 2015 regional conventions.

KateWild

Hahaha money saving for child abuse lawsuits and property investments. WT a charity.....is it heck!!!!

Kate xx

11

Help with an entrenched family memeber

by budbayview in

jw
friends

wanted to send this to my "active" sister in hopes of awakening her, comments welcome.

she thinks i am a heathen apostate.... losing my religion.

preface.

KateWild

It's nice that you have got your thoughts on paper, as a fellow xJW I can understand your position and can empathise with how you feel.

But if this is to reach your active JW fleshly sister it's not really going to wake her up to WT indoctrination. You are tearing apart the Bible in effect. You really need to understand what she doubts from WT or what she struggles with and then go from there.

There are many policies of WT that have woken JWs due to having personal experience. For example I was DF'd for exposing domestic violence. My kids witnessed this and experienced the mishandling of domestic violence within WT. They were faced with a DF'd mother and a violent father who was in good standing.

The DFing policy was the way in to teach them TTATT, and wake them up. They are both mentally awake and safe from WT clutches.

Kate xx

12

Waking someone up using WT Article on "Doubts"?

by cappytan in

has anyone had success in using this article to convince their family member or spouse that critical research of what the society presents is important to build faith?.

this article has this passage that jumped out at me:.

of course, not all doubt is bad.

KateWild

How many non-jws realize that when the WTS uses "Christian(s)" that the WTS only means jws? Since we have non-jws who read this may not get the point right away or see the pattern. - Blondie

Exactly! Really good point, it called loaded language, and it's part of information control, which is part of the BITE model. (behaviour,information, thought, emotion). Four ways the cult controls it's members.

Kate xx

52

Why I like Jehovah's Witnesses

by undercover witness in

i keep reading that jehovah's witnesses are in effect monsters.

i keep reading that they kinda leave chaos and distrust in their wake.

so i simply wondered if anyone had anything nice to say about them?.

KateWild

Welcome Undercover witness,

I have just read through your posting history. I doubt you're SFPW, but I do know a little bit more about you and your beliefs. You seem very nice from all the posts I have read and seem clued up on what JWs believe and how closely related their experience is to LDS.

When you have time I would love to know what was the final straw for you and your wife, and how did you exit LDS?

Thanks for the fun though lol xx

Kate xx

52

Why I like Jehovah's Witnesses

by undercover witness in

i keep reading that jehovah's witnesses are in effect monsters.

i keep reading that they kinda leave chaos and distrust in their wake.

so i simply wondered if anyone had anything nice to say about them?.

KateWild

Hello undercover witness,

How are you today? I think I know you by a different name and you sent me a wonderful PM when I was struggling.

Are you SFPW?

If you're not I would like you to know that I am enjoying this thread, a lot of posters have risen to the bait lol. Thanks for the entertainment.

Kate xx

52

Why I like Jehovah's Witnesses

by undercover witness in

i keep reading that jehovah's witnesses are in effect monsters.

i keep reading that they kinda leave chaos and distrust in their wake.

so i simply wondered if anyone had anything nice to say about them?.

KateWild

I think for the most part JWs are nice people. Some are power driven and not so nice, driven by the WT.

You seem to have got a lot of information about their beliefs from WT publications, but it's clear you haven't done any independent research.

I think this is a satirical post. No one is that confident with such little knowledge to be so bold. Plus you haven't posted again.

I personally don't think you're for real.

Kate xx

12

Waking someone up using WT Article on "Doubts"?

by cappytan in

has anyone had success in using this article to convince their family member or spouse that critical research of what the society presents is important to build faith?.

this article has this passage that jumped out at me:.

of course, not all doubt is bad.

KateWild

Cappytan,

This is the problem with a cult. There are levels of information control they employ in the WT. Some information is for the public, some for rank and file and some for elders and so on.

This is rank and file information. WT want all JWs to think that critical thinking is a must and that they all do it, but the elders condemn anyone who criticises the WT or GB. So all JWs know you can have critical thinking as long as you agree with the WT and GB always as they are always right.

This doesn't sit well with many and they develop cognitive dissonance, they wake up and leave WT eventually.

I have woken up family members. Our family experience was awful and waking them up to TTATT was easy as they new the wrong that we were experiencing.

Kate xx

10

Recorded argument with elders trying to DF someone

by Jay Elle in

this video may have been posted here before but it is new to me.

the lingo seems very very famillar with the bullying that the elders give us all.

they want their pound of flesh...but call it loving and theocratic.

KateWild

I am in the UK it didn't work for me either. Kate xx