Posts by gypsywildone

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New Contract

by Yerusalyim in

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i just re-enlisted in the army today.

i now have an indefinite contract...i'm officially a career military hack.. salute.

i am an american soldier.

Favorite childhood TV shows

by Nosferatu in

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now, i'm not referring to sesame street, mr. rogers, or any of the educational kids' shows.

i'm talking about the ones for pure entertainment, cartoons and such.

however, i can't really classify this as purely cartoons since some of you might have watched things like hr pufnstuf.. i grew up in the 1980s, when the magic of saturday morning cartoons existed.

I was a good kid because I was raised by Bible Principles

by Nosferatu in

sometimes when i go visit my mother, she mentions that i was a good kid because i was raised by bible principles.

i was crying for absolutely no reason at all.

around 11:30, i felt completely ill. i went up to my teacher and told him i was going to see the nurse.

I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten in a fraction of the trouble that I did if my mother hadn't gotten into that sick cult when I was 13 & I began asserting my personhood & refusing to become a jw. I can truthfully say I did not learn one useful thing in a kingdom hall, except how NOT to live life or parent children.

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I was a good kid because I was raised by Bible Principles

by Nosferatu in

sometimes when i go visit my mother, she mentions that i was a good kid because i was raised by bible principles.

i was crying for absolutely no reason at all.

around 11:30, i felt completely ill. i went up to my teacher and told him i was going to see the nurse.

gypsywildone

(((Nos)))

So sorry you went through all that abuse.

big hugs buddy! Gypsy

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I knew I couldnt avoid them forever... Hi there, new here

by Butterfliez in

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whew*....i finally registered, and guess what?!

it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be lol.

i've been lurking here, quietly and observing the board for about 2 years now.

gypsywildone

Wednesday,

I have been wondering this also, & thinking of her. I hope things turned out with a minimum of damage for her.

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I knew I couldnt avoid them forever... Hi there, new here

by Butterfliez in

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whew*....i finally registered, and guess what?!

it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be lol.

i've been lurking here, quietly and observing the board for about 2 years now.

gypsywildone

Well, thanks Just2laws, but at least I was a very opinionated 13 year old when my old lady got into this garbage cult. I knew from the git go it was total bs & just bided my time. No way was I gonna be railroaded into it, no how, no way. But the waiting was hell!

I saw and heard alot. There is no whitewashing this dangerous cult. It taught my mother how to alternately treat my dad like he was missing something or to try to bully him into the jws. His tactic to get by was to work more and more & avoid her jw psychosis. He ended up splitting, couldn't take it anymore, & I didn't blame him a bit! I saw a lot of paranoia, fakery, hypocracy, & shameful beating of kids in the backs of kingdom halls. How anyone could defend jws is beyond me.

I am sorry about your brother, I guess he couldn't see any other way out. The jw life is one of utter dispair for a teenager. Their very personhood is denyed them! Their familie's love is conditional. Parental "love" is based on pleasing an unpleasable cult. We need to make these young people realize there IS real life out there, there is another way, & there is a lot of help. I myself would take in any teenager in this situation that I ever would hear of!

There is no way to whitewash it. It is what it is. Personally, I don't give a damn about "good intentions". I don't care what they think they are doing. They are blind, & something must be broken inside them to treat families this way. Good intentions paved the way to hell!

I do wish that some Child Protective agency would have removed me from there so that I could have lived my life as a normal, happy teenager & out from under the eyes of jw spies that were constantly ratting on me & complaining about me for imaginary nonsense.

How very sad that your brother couldn't know it was all only temporary & he had his whole life ahead of him to contribute to humanity & be happy! I bet there are lots more feeling like him out there right now :(

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I knew I couldnt avoid them forever... Hi there, new here

by Butterfliez in

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whew*....i finally registered, and guess what?!

it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be lol.

i've been lurking here, quietly and observing the board for about 2 years now.

gypsywildone

I wish when I was a teenager, there would have been some child protective service or government agency that would have removed me from my "home". I wish someone would have saved me from the superstitious, restrictive, clannish jws. I wish somehow I could have been removed from having to hear all about their nightmarish visions of gloom & doom & their angry god. I wish I never had to hear about their "persecution" crapola & hate for "the world". I wish, instead of running around like Henny Penny saying "the sky is falling", my mother would have encouraged education & reality.

Hey, at least I got to finish high school & didn't end up sitting next to some geek I hardly knew one too many times & find myself engaged at a young age! I also got thrown out as soon as I turned 18 for wanting nothing to do with that cult & being "a bad witness". I did end up putting myself through school, with the aid of grants & guaranteed student loans.

You can too. Education is your best friend! The jws raise women to be subservient to men & try to keep them ignorant. If you do your best in school & take a look at your life, set goals & dreams for yourself, you can do anything you want with your life! Sounds like you are well on your way :)

Keep in touch with us, most of us have been there & lived through it, only to come out the wiser for it. Living well IS the best revenge. You will get through this & live a wonderful life, while they are still running on the watchtower treadmil.

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WITNESS WORLD IS CLOSING DOWN

by DevonMcBride in

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this was posted on ww today.

do you think the apostate infiltration had anything to do with it?.

in the name of christian unity and peace, we regret to inform you that the management of ww has decided to close the ?park?

gypsywildone

Lol@Steph

And they beat Blondie's prediction of 6 months.

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Possible Anti - Apostates here on JWD.

by link in

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this is obviously in response to the thread "possible apostates here on jwd" started by flying high now.

it was clearly not intended to be taken seriously but it does reflect another possibility that should be considered seriously and that is that there are anti-apostates on this board.. i do not consider myself to be a particularly paranoid person but i have seen signs of things that do not seem quite right to me.

so what do i mean and how would an anti-apostate operate here?

gypsywildone

HC, since you were at least civil & not insulting, I will answer you. I am gently, but most assuredly nudging my sister out of her jw haze. However, she is married to the son of an elder, & he is what I worry about. Did you read the first post in this thread? No one is objecting to the truth about the lie.

Is there a site anyone could suggest that has info on witchtower without the insulting fights, etc. where I dare send her that if HE saw the posts, it might just ease him out also? She was not raised this way, & I warned her when she was a teenager & my mother was dragging her in. I feel she knows there is real life out here, but is very under his thumb. He is still very head tripped by them. I'm sure a couple more dubbies are nothing to you, but they mean alot to me. I'm sure most would rather exercise their freedom than worry about a couple more jws, but not me.

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Possible Anti - Apostates here on JWD.

by link in

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this is obviously in response to the thread "possible apostates here on jwd" started by flying high now.

it was clearly not intended to be taken seriously but it does reflect another possibility that should be considered seriously and that is that there are anti-apostates on this board.. i do not consider myself to be a particularly paranoid person but i have seen signs of things that do not seem quite right to me.

so what do i mean and how would an anti-apostate operate here?

gypsywildone

I have wondered if some people don't consider the effect their posts could have on jws looking around here. The stuff you mention would scare them back to the borg in a heart beat! This site has the potential to help a lot of people, & has helped a lot of people.

I'm not suggesting censorship or anything like that, but for everyone to police themselves & consider what the site has the potential for. It has the potential to be a refuge after a day's work, an understanding place when someone has problems with a jw family member or life in general.