I am non-believer.
The WTS has proven itself to be untrustworthy and so, wisely, I am a non-believer.
tribalgirl
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Who is classed as a "Non-Believer"?
by freedomfighter inthis issue came up back in 1994 when i met my wife to be.
i was baptised and she had been brought up as a witness and had baptised witness parents.
problem was she was unbaptised.
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according to a JW , the internet is the anti-christ
by candidlynuts inyup..silliest thing i've ever heard to date.. i was out and about today this guy was an older man , walking up to people and shoving watchtowers in their hands like dive bombing witnessing.
i stuck my hand out and stopped him and just asked if he'd ever researched his own religion on the internet, that there was a lot one could learn about any religion and its history online now .
he said that the internet is quickly becoming identified as the anti christ then he ran off to shove more watchtowers in peoples hands with barely a word.
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tribalgirl
ROFLMAO
I'd like to say I've seen it all now, but I'm afraid there is probably more to come.
Too crazy for words.
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Anyone else have Jekyll/Hyde parents?
by tribalgirl inanybody else have a parent or parents that acted loving and happy at the kh, but turned into angry, abusive weirdos at home?.
my stepdad was like this.
it was so strange to see him shaking hands and smiling, laughing even, at the kh.
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tribalgirl
I see that my experience as a child was not unique.
I wonder, sometimes, how it shaped me as a person to believe that everyone had two "faces".
For a very long time I believed that it was normal to be abused at home.
Until I married and moved out of my parents' home, I thought it was normal.
For the first 6 months of my marriage, I thought my husband was just letting me get used to being maried before he became abusive.
What a revelation it was to me when I realized that he wasn't that way at all. We have been married for over 20 years and he has never once raised his hand to me or our children or called any of us bad names.
I feel very lucky to have gotten out of the "cycle" of abuse.
I hope you all were as fortunate.
(((hugs))) to all of you.
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Anyone else have Jekyll/Hyde parents?
by tribalgirl inanybody else have a parent or parents that acted loving and happy at the kh, but turned into angry, abusive weirdos at home?.
my stepdad was like this.
it was so strange to see him shaking hands and smiling, laughing even, at the kh.
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tribalgirl
Wow, sorry about unloading that little gem. I really had no intention of sharing the junk that we dealt with as kids.
Thanks for the hugs, I needed them after going back to that place. Geez.
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Anyone else have Jekyll/Hyde parents?
by tribalgirl inanybody else have a parent or parents that acted loving and happy at the kh, but turned into angry, abusive weirdos at home?.
my stepdad was like this.
it was so strange to see him shaking hands and smiling, laughing even, at the kh.
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tribalgirl
Anybody else have a parent or parents that acted loving and happy at the KH, but turned into angry, abusive weirdos at home?
My stepdad was like this. It was so strange to see him shaking hands and smiling, laughing even, at the KH. Once we got home he would always revert back to a very abusive jerk.
He even knocked my little sister down and kicked her until she passed out one time. The elders never believed my mom when she would ask them to talk to him about his temper. They also discouraged her from going to the police over it.
We all just put up with it because my mom had just left a VERY abusive marriage to my real dad who was an alcoholic. There were 7 of us kids, all girls, who felt so totally helpless and like we deserved it for some reason.
Just wondering if any one else dealt with this kind of weirdness.
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tribalgirl
Waaayyy too much going on in my childhood for me to be able to pinpoint the cause of my "dysfunction". LOL
I know that it never helped me in any way to be a witness. There was too much stress and fear involved for it to be a positive experience.
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I would have liked to be a fly in that elders car!
by ButtLight inso, the elder that dfed me, was driving by my house with a carload of sheep yesterday.
as he was driving by, he pointed at my house.
what he didnt know, was that my bf was also on the road, waiting for him to pass so he could pull in the driveway.. when the elder looked up, and recognized my bf, he dropped his hand really fast, but knew he was caught.. so, now i sit and wonder, what the hell was he saying to the herd?
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tribalgirl
Shame, shame on all of you (for making me snort iced tea through my nose onto the keyboard)!
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Did you mind if a JW worked where you worked ?
by JH inif you had the choice, when you were an active good jw, would you have prefered to work with a jw in your work place or not to have any around ?.
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tribalgirl
When I was very young (15-16), I worked with my mom cleaning houses (big suprise there, huh?), after she retired, she gave her "half" of the business to another witness woman whom I had to work with if I wanted to keep my share of the money. I did it for a short time, until I got married. Then I left the whole thing to the other woman. She was a nosey busy-body who constantly asked me personal questions about myself and others in my family. I'm sure she was just trying to feed the gossip mill at the KH.
I feel extremely lucky to be self employed now doing something that I love with noone around to bother me.
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JW's have been around since Adam and Eve???!!!
by tribalgirl ini was wondering if this was being taught in the congregations.
my sister who is still a jw told me this the other day when i said that the wtbts has only been around for a short time, relatively speaking.. my mother, who hasn't been to a meeting in years, agrees with her.
what is being taught now with regards to this, does anyone know?
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tribalgirl
All very interesting responses. Thanks everyone, for helping me out here.
I am trying to decide whether or not to even bring it up again to my sister and mom. They are still in that "blocked" stage, you know the one... where nobody can say anything remotely opposed to the WTBTS"s teachings without alarm bells going off in their brains and a wall going up immediately to block logical thought from gaining entrance. *sigh*
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JW's have been around since Adam and Eve???!!!
by tribalgirl ini was wondering if this was being taught in the congregations.
my sister who is still a jw told me this the other day when i said that the wtbts has only been around for a short time, relatively speaking.. my mother, who hasn't been to a meeting in years, agrees with her.
what is being taught now with regards to this, does anyone know?
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tribalgirl
Okay, that is just... crazy.
So, basically, you just have to take this huge leap of faith. No proof, no evidence, no backing.
I am not even sure I want to discuss this issue with her when there is no "real" answer.
I have a feeling it would end with her crying and me feeling bad for even bringing it up.
My sister is somewhat developmentally disabled. She is completely functional, but...slow.
My mom, on the other hand, is just hard-headed. Her nick-name as a child was "marblehead". It's not really funny, but once she gets an idea into her mind, it's there for good.