Posts by findingmyself

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FlyingHighNow Birthday Celebration***

by horrible life in

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friends

happy birthday flyinghighnow !!!!!!!!

i hope you have a wonderful day.

keep flying!!

hi i ready your rept to treamtments of ubm`s and i had a similary experience my family treats me badly on any occassion they can and when i was still trying to be a jw i went to speak with the elders about it i haven`t been df`ed or even reproved so i was still and active witness they told me that my "decision" is the cause of all of my troubles.

what exactly do they expect for you to do disapproval isn`t exactly jw grounds fir divorce..

findingmyself

I live my life the best way I know how. I just wish that my thick skulled jw family members would understand that Your mate doesn`t make you bad association. my ubm is way better asscociation than my own alcholic father and crazed jw mother.

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Why on earth do they need all those books?

by Lady Lee in

yes i know the standard answer - they want to sell books but hang on a minute.. .

something that has always bothered me is that the average jw is incapable of explaining some of the most basic teachings without a wt book in hand.

after all those years, all that time, all those meetings, why is it so hard to understand and teach to someone else?

findingmyself

I just asked because we took a family trip ther about 7 yrs ago the one and new york and canada.

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to jgnat

by findingmyself in

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hi i ready your rept to treamtments of ubm`s and i had a similary experience my family treats me badly on any occassion they can and when i was still trying to be a jw i went to speak with the elders about it i haven`t been df`ed or even reproved so i was still and active witness they told me that my "decision" is the cause of all of my troubles.

what exactly do they expect for you to do disapproval isn`t exactly jw grounds fir divorce..

findingmyself

hi I ready your rept to treamtments of ubm`s and I had a similary experience my family treats me badly on any occassion they can and when I was still trying to be a jw i went to speak with the elders about it I haven`t been df`ed or even reproved so I was still and Active witness they told me that my "decision" is the cause of all of my troubles. What exactly do they expect for you to do disapproval isn`t exactly jw grounds fir divorce.

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Why on earth do they need all those books?

by Lady Lee in

yes i know the standard answer - they want to sell books but hang on a minute.. .

something that has always bothered me is that the average jw is incapable of explaining some of the most basic teachings without a wt book in hand.

after all those years, all that time, all those meetings, why is it so hard to understand and teach to someone else?

findingmyself

Has anyone here ever been to teh wbts and seen where they make these books?

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Life Sucks!!!!

by Tez in

aaaaaagggghhhhh!!!

thats how i feel at the mo!!!

why is it that no matter how hard you try life still sh**s on you!!!!!

findingmyself

Sometimes I say the same thing. I feel like I have been dealt the wrong hand. I have been thinking that the jw religion just isn`t the one for me I havent attended a meeting in over a year. The thing that bothers me the most is the way I am treated by my family like the stupid one the one that didn`t suceed. to me I did everything right I didn`t have sex until marriage, I planned my pregnany down I married the right man. I have everything that I could possibly dream of but yet I have been shunned by my family and put down when I have they have to be around me. Unless I can find a way to get over the way I am treated I feel like true happiness is far away.

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???????

by findingmyself in

why is it that jw`s discourage you to search online for things dealing with jw`s?

if you are firm in your beliefs and you know you have the truth why be so afraid of that you will stumble upon some kind of "apostate" literature?

does anyone know exactly why jw`s shun there freinds and family for being dfed?

findingmyself

Why is it that jw`s discourage you to search online for things dealing with jw`s? If you are firm in your beliefs and you know you have the truth why be so afraid of that you will stumble upon some kind of "apostate" literature? Does anyone know exactly why jw`s shun there freinds and family for being dfed?

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did this ever happen to you?

by joanne_ in

just wondering if this happened to any of you.

did you ever go to the service group and be assigned to the different car groups.....and then....the sister that is assigned to go with you...decline and say...'i am just going by myself today and do my return vistits by myself'..... damn, i should have complained about that one!

it was very rude!

findingmyself

In my old congregation it wan`t like that it wasn`t big enough to have cliques. We only have 3 elders and they sent in 2 from bethel, that made 5 and the then one of the ones from bethel slept woth one of the daughter of one of the orginal elders so both of the aren`t elders anymore. We don`t have anything but 4 pioneers either. We also only had 1 ms until my dad go DFed so I think they will probably appoint someone really quick or send in some replacements.

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treatment of jw's w/ubm's

by carla in

how are jw's treated by the cong when they have a ubm?

on one hand they could hold them up as how wonderful they are for suffering such persecution but on the other hand wouldn't they be looked down upon because they couldn't even get their own spouse 'in'?

if you can't even get your own spouse to believe how well could you do in service?

findingmyself

I never tried to get my husband to join the jw religion so I guess that makes me a bad witness. We were high school sweethearts we`ve been together for 6 yrs and married for 4yrs. He`s only attended 2 meetings one when we were in high school and 1 since we`ve been married the only person that has been rude to him is my jw mother. She really hates the fact that hes in the navy and that I can`t have a neutral political view if my husband is in the military. I haven`t attended a meeting in a while. Its not because my husband and I have a divided household and he`d rather me not go when I attended all of the meetings it was never a problem he would schedule a guys nite in for playing video games or watching a sporting event. But I seen one case that disturbed me I moved away from my hometown and I met this sister who had a ubm that was in the military and we hit it off. Well she was the type that liked to stay involved in the congregation with the youth . She wanted to have a tea party and the elders told her if her husband was gonna be at home it wouldn`t be a good idea and she was so hurt. Her kids were really looking forward to it and she had to call the whole thing off. Why would jw`s think that it would be easy for a jw wife to get her ubm to join the wbts or even attend the meetings if they treat them like ex-cons? Better than ex-cons if that ex-con studys or get baptized. My jw mother woudn`t allow my brother to visit me because of my husband he has no criminal record and is the nicest person I`ve ever met but its a ex-con who actually got out of jail a couple mothns before she started studying. she wasn`t even a jw my brother spent weekends with a known ex-drug pusher and not only her, another person in that congregations husband had been in prison for a number of crimes including attempted murder my 16 yr old brother was spending the nite over there with him a month after he got baptized. These events have caused me to seriously reevaluate my life. I was raised in this religiou since I was 4. But I have so many questions that I should know the answer to and so there are just so many things that I think are wrong.