i've been disfellowshipped for about 2 years now and i was wondering whats it like to be reinstated ?
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when i was reinstated, it made me so sick to my gut...I only did it to talk to
my siblings....I had to call it quits...I couldn't handle it.
My stepdad, their dad, molested me......and we had to play like the perfect family.
I only lasted a couple months!
i am a former active poster here, former elder, former bethelite and pretty much known by people on the xjw boards since the mid 90's.
gawd that makes me sound old.. i notice that a great deal of uproar is being made by allegations of a hide in the closet alleged bethelite.
to counter the damage caused by this claim, i am happy to address any questions people may have about bethel, protocol, etc.. i was at the canada branch for 11 years, worked in multiple areas including the legal department, service desk and writing dept.
*waves at uzzah!*
sorry.....double post.
I bet they get an insurance card from "Miracle Wheat Insurance Company".....
well, the new semester has just started.
as some of you know, i'm a college professor.
i was in my large lecture course yesterday (a couple hundred students).
i hope u reported this to ur administration....and documented this!
I wouldn't just let this go!
funeral pickets to be met by 'angels'startclickprintexcludeendclickprintexcludehttp://www.cnn.com/2011/us/01/11/arizona.funeral.westboro/index.html by the cnn wire staff
january 11, 2011 9:04 a.m. esttucson, arizona (cnn) -- tucson just isn't that kind of town, says christin gilmer.. gilmer is referring to the actions of westboro baptist church of topeka, kansas, which has made its name protesting the funerals of people who died of aids, gay people, soldiers and even coretta scott king.. but when the church announced its intention to picket the funeral of a 9-year-old girl -- one of six people who died saturday during the attempted assassination of u.s. rep. gabrielle giffords -- gilmer and others put their feet down.. tucson is a "caring, loving, peaceful community," according to gilmer, who said two of the six people killed were friends.. "for something like this to happen in tucson was a really big shock to us all," she said.
"our nightmare happened when we saw westboro baptist church was going to picket the funerals.
this is in our local paper... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KS_CONGRESSWOMAN_SHOT_PICKETING_MOOL-?SITE=KMIZTV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
By BILL DRAPER Associated Press Advertisement KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
-- A leader of a Kansas church known for picketing the funerals of fallen servicemen and blaming their deaths on the country's tolerance of homosexuality said Wednesday that the group has decided not to protest at funerals for victims of the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage. Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church told The Associated Press that the church pulled back its plan to picket the Thursday funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green in Tucson after radio stations in Canada and Arizona agreed to give Phelps-Roper airtime. Later Wednesday, the church also agreed to not protest the funeral for U.S. District Judge John Roll or other victims in exchange for airtime on a nationally syndicated radio show.
Green, Roll and four others were killed in the Saturday shooting rampage targeting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. More than a dozen other people were wounded. Phelps-Roper said instead of going to Arizona this week, members will go to New York for an interview on the conservative Mike Gallagher Show on Monday. Dean Blundell, a talk show host for Toronto radio station 102.1 The Edge, said he interviewed Phelps-Roper live on air on Tuesday and that another interview was planned for Thursday. Steve Sanchez, who has a talk show on the Christian radio station KXXT-AM in Phoenix, is hosting her for half an hour Saturday. Both hosts said the interviews were part of a deal in which the Topeka-Kan.-based church agreed to skip Green's funeral. "This is ultimatum time," Phelps-Roper told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "The only reason anyone steps up to make a deal is they have a motive.
We got two things for kicking this to the side, stepping aside from that funeral." Blundell said he has a longstanding agreement with Phelps-Roper that he'll give her radio time if she stays out of Canada. He said she has been on his show dozens of times. "If everybody on this planet knew who she was, 10 out of 10 would say she's crazy," Blundell told the AP. "Even crazy people would know she's not right in the head." He said he hosts a rock 'n' roll hybrid show that addresses "a little bit of everything." He said he's not worried about giving the Westboro church a stage to promote its message. "That 9-year-old girl didn't do anything wrong," Blundell said. "For a person like that to use this as a way to spew religious propaganda, it is sickening to me." Sanchez said Phelps-Roper has been on his show one other time, but that she hung up on him after about nine minutes. "My whole goal was to make sure that little girl is put to rest without those nutburgers doing what they do," Sanchez said.
"I gave her (Phelps-Rogers) a whole set of ground rules and she agreed. I'll take the bullet for 30 minutes." Numerous states have passed laws to restrict protests at funerals after members of the Westboro church picketed the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Arizona legislation banning such protests passed unanimously Tuesday and is modeled on an Ohio law that was upheld by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The four-paragraph Arizona measure makes it a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail to picket or conduct other protest activities within 300 feet of a funeral or burial service - about the length of a football field.
The prohibition applies from one hour before the event to one hour after. Phelps-Rogers said her church has received death threats and that someone has attacked its website, but that nothing will stop members from protesting. "I'm saying I pity the fool who tries to do one thing to us," she said. "I'm supposed to cower or apologize? No. I'm not about to do that. All I can say to any rebel who wants to come forth and threaten us with bodily harm, don't do it. And for God's sake, don't say it out loud."
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simon.
as most people seem to have worked out the private discussion and support part of the forum is not private beyond requiring a username.. today nugget and cantleave are having printouts of their posts in this section being used in evidence at their jc.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/204436/1/nugget-and-cantleave-are-no-longer-jehovahs-witnesses.
my suggestion is, if its possible, to create an invite-only section of the board for truly private support.. .
lady lee,
when we had a chat here back in 06, it wasn't connected with jwn...it was gabbly
and seemed to work good! but then i wasn't there all the time!
as far as jws...and their requirements to post in the private...
nothing is private there, even if u post something on another private webiste!
worse than the borg or big brother!
do you know how many of these threads there are?? LOL!!
knoxville/galesburg IL
moberly, MO
i should have posted this earlier for assistance.
i left jw two months ago and since then my life has almost been a lifetime movie.
long story short, my soon to be ex-wife believes i am full of the world, satan, etc etc.
Somewhere there is a copy of the brochure the jw's use in these type of cases.
Not sure if it's at freedminds.org or jwfacts.
from the christmas at bethel many years ago..... my sis wants to see it!.
thanks!.
from the christmas at bethel many years ago....
My sis wants to see it!
thanks!
well, its been a while since i last posted just need to get something off my chest.
everything seems to be coming down on me all at once like rain.
next month i'll be 18 years old(yay!
I trying to get ahold of a friend of mine, that is ur age, and going thru this!
