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  Help! Is The Memorial Tonight??

  by redskymedic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you'd think i'd know, but is the memorial tonight?

  my son (he's 12) usually goes with my jw mom on the weekend, but she asked to get him today since he's out of school on easter break.

  grr, i am thinking now she's doing this for the memorial.

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  Not sure if I made a wrong move

  by redskymedic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i posted here a bit a while back.

  quick background- df-ed when i was 21 (10 yrs ago), left the jw's as a single mom with a 3 yr old son.

  jw mom helped me raise him for the first few years, so my departure was a sticky family mess.

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  Opinions on Age of Baptismal Candidates

  by redskymedic in

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  2. friends

  i am sure i am not the only one that thinks it's ridiculous that they allow pre-teens and young teens to get baptized.

  i know now that i did not have a full understanding of the implications of baptism.

  i did it primarily because that's what was expected.

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  Would You Even Bother?

  by redskymedic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, my jw mother passed on word to the local cong.

  that i was df-ed, had just moved into the area and could use that yearly 'shepherding' phone call to see if anything has changed.

  i was not home at the time, my husband took the call.

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  JW reaction to the UN coverup

  by redskymedic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  so, if you handed a jw a copy of the un report on the wtbs involvement, how do they react?

  are they able to explain this away?

  just curious.. red

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  Letting myself get frustrated

  by redskymedic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the only jw i still have contact with is my mother, mainly due to the fact that she is close with my 12-yr old son.

  she is single (divorced actually), cleans for a living, if that's what you can call it and has no other children.

  while she doesn't shun me per se, she certainly isn't overly friendly and keeps most of our communication limited to grandkid info.

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  Do 'They' Have Their Own Forums?

  by redskymedic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wondering if they have their own site and forums.

  i haven't gone looking myself, obviously.

  i didn't know if this type of setting was a big no-no.

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  Reverse Shunning

  by redskymedic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm thinking of telling my mother i can't talk to her anymore sine i don't agree with how she is conducting her life.

  occasionally, i'll meet up with her and my jw aunt (they work together) with both kids in the car.

  my aunt will come over to check out my baby but completely pretend that i'm not even there.

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  Go Figure

  by redskymedic in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, after browsing through this website and then taking the search for the real 'truth' about the wts into my own hands, i decided to confront my jw mother.

  i stuck with the date-changing (1914, 1975, 2000) and asked what the explanation was since i have been gone for over 10 years now.

  she was quiet for a minute, then told me there was an explanation but she would have to look it up.

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  Playing Dumb

  by redskymedic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had this bizarre urge the other day to walk into a kh (i am df-d by the way) and play dumb .

  not tell anyone that i ever had any affiliation with the witnesses and lead them all on.

  oh, to see the looks on the faces of some when they came to find out they were associating with a df-ed person (gasp).

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