you guessed it.... .
http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=201304&output=html&pub=g&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.
cedars.
Lois , I'm so glad you are happy & free and the JWs didn't get all your life.
Same goes for you Besunny. They will never apologize.
I don't think that JWS even know what abuse is, the lines are so blurry. I remember seeing parents hit their children, really hard. Remember how love was synonymous with discipline? These kids grew up & are now married with kids, it's a continuing cycle.
you don't even have to read between the lines, they say it straight out on their website.
" in many countries, more and more people obtain information online.".
who'd a thunk it .
Hey Sulla, ex JW here, I met my atheist (now husband) in the mid 90's
Back in 95 i told him about the prediction of Armageddon in this generation that saw 1914, and he said rhetorically " so what happens when it doesn't happen........(no reply from me, cause even though i was out i couldnt comprehend the Borg being so wrong ) .......I'll tell ya, they're just gonna change the rules....hahahahaha ha"
at the time I remember thinking you don't understand witnesses, now, I think he understood better than I knew
ok ,so this is my story , this jw girl came on vacation in my country as a friend of my girl-cousin who is not a jw but were classmates at uni .
my cousin introduced her to me but she didnt tell me that she was a jw from the very first moment we flirt each other.we went on beach ,on bars ,cafes etc and she acted so wordly ,in fact i thought she could be a good one night stand with her behaviour .never saw anything weird about her that could lead me to question something, with the peak in the club where we danced together while hugging very passionatly .
i tried to kiss her that night but she kept her distance , i didnt notice any bad on that.anyway, next day we flirt again at the the beach and at night too .
This is a sad story, sad for you. No good can come of this,
It sounds like she is a long long way from being free of the JW, she may not even want to be.
Look after yourself and move on
part 1 here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/243954/1/my-story-part-1-by-88jm.
part 2. so my parents married in 1980 and my older brother was born 2 years later in 1982. by this time, my grandparents had moved into the house next door to my parents.
my dad was still working for yorkshire water and was in a very well paid position by the time i was born in 1988. between these years, my mum had also had a miscarriage, though this is rarely mentioned in our house these days, but i'm sure it must still affect her.. there aren't many notable events that i can recall from before i was 4 years old, though i was later to learn that my dad was having an affair at this time.
Thanks for writing your story, I'm looking forward to part 3...
so i started a reply on the topic of "what's your status?
" and it made me think about my df hearing (sorry i can't remember the exact term for what happened).. so i was fading, living in a different country, working & making rare appearances at my kingdom hall.
i was flat sharing with a sister though.
another note to you truJW, im still laughing.........if there was a prize for "best DF/DA" you'd win
so i started a reply on the topic of "what's your status?
" and it made me think about my df hearing (sorry i can't remember the exact term for what happened).. so i was fading, living in a different country, working & making rare appearances at my kingdom hall.
i was flat sharing with a sister though.
a note to truJW...... you are now my JW hero, you are making me laugh so hard
so i started a reply on the topic of "what's your status?
" and it made me think about my df hearing (sorry i can't remember the exact term for what happened).. so i was fading, living in a different country, working & making rare appearances at my kingdom hall.
i was flat sharing with a sister though.
FLIPPER, DAZED & everyone else......I'm reading your stories......trying to process it, but it is insane, what we went through!
THIS is what it means to be in a CULT, this is misuse of power and wrecking peoples lives.
so i started a reply on the topic of "what's your status?
" and it made me think about my df hearing (sorry i can't remember the exact term for what happened).. so i was fading, living in a different country, working & making rare appearances at my kingdom hall.
i was flat sharing with a sister though.
Im still figuring out how to use this wesite, but rudered, its not a foolish question at all.
I still dont really understand why I did it this way, but I think it was a combination of the black/white in/out thinking of the JWs combined with the immaturity of someone in their teens/20s.
I was really unhappy as a witness, but I still thought it was the truth, therefore not being a witness was my failure. I figured out this course of action as the only one available to me, but if I had had anyone to talk to i may have done things differently.
I had never heard of someone who just didnt believe, growing up you never do. Anyone who left, or was kicked out, you always heard dodgy stories whispered about them later...... I remember hearing that those who left were "worse"than wordly people.
I was quite self destructive for years after this, probably fulfilling everything witnesses think about DF'd ones.
Now with maturity I see how young I was, uneducated and isolated from any thought processes except witness defined ones...I literally did not know how to think.
They would sure get a different response from me now, and i just love hearing how some of you used the hearing as a chance to express yourselves.
so i started a reply on the topic of "what's your status?
" and it made me think about my df hearing (sorry i can't remember the exact term for what happened).. so i was fading, living in a different country, working & making rare appearances at my kingdom hall.
i was flat sharing with a sister though.
So I started a reply on the topic of "what's your status? " And it made me think about my DF hearing (sorry I can't remember the exact term for what happened).
So I was fading, living in a different country, working & making rare appearances at my Kingdom Hall. I was flat sharing with a sister though. It was obvious that I was weak & people were encouraging me, but I knew I wanted out.
I went out with a worldly guy & we all know where that leads.... Then as a good witness does I immediately rang the elders & told them.
this is where it gets weird, 3 men come to your house & sit in front of you ( I am female & was 20 at time). They go through everything in great detail, step by step!!! I was asked all kinds of personal stuff which was completely unnecessary because I rang them & told them I had committed fornication. Why the need to pour over the details?
Why 3 middle aged men interviewing 1 young woman?
Why no sister present?
They asked me if I was sorry, I said no.
After dissecting my sex life for what felt like hours but probably wasnt, one elder looked at me and said, "I can't help but notice your skirt" we looked at each other....???
Now when they came in they placed 3 dining chairs in a semi circle in front of the couch and told me to sit on the couch (which was lower) so they were all looming over me & I was on the couch where my skirt had no choice but to rise up to the knees.
Anyway, this guy continued to talk about my skirt for 10 minutes, other skirts/sisters & what they mean to him...,.before one of the other elders changed the subject (probably cringing on the inside, I don't know?).
Now I'm older/wiser I know this is creepy.
Did anyone else have strange things happen?
i am technically inactive.
i was just curious if there are many people on the inside.
are there any within bethel itself?
I think I'm going to start a new topic on this, maybe others had weird things happen too
