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  MIL letter to my wife

  by AggieNostic in

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  background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .

  our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.

  my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!

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  Choices have Consequences

  by AggieNostic in

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  my wife and kids are inactive/trying to fade - see my previous posts for our story - last meeting for me was over 5 years ago.. in laws and parents active - fil and dad are elders, fil and mil are pioneers, mom just follows dad's lead.. anyway, my wonderful son is finishing up college and is engaged to be married later in 2011 to a beautiful young woman who we all love dearly and have welcomed to our family.

  ceremony to be held in a public space - no denominational identity.

  when engagement announced, my wife and i's parents reacted positively and assured their attendance.. however, phone calls a few days after the elders school over xmas advised us that they would not be attending since our son - although inactive - is baptized and his fiancee is not a jw.

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  MIL gives advice on how to "cope"

  by AggieNostic in

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  2. friends

  my wife's parents just can't stand that we haven't been to meetings since 2005. both are pioneers, retired, active fanatical jws.. anyway, today mil called the wife and after pleasantries, stated that we should really think about coming back to the meetings so we can better cope.

  my wife answered: "cope with what?

  " mil: "cope with this old system of things..." wife: "hmmm... we seem to be coping pretty well now".

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  MIL comment irritates me...

  by AggieNostic in

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  2. friends

  as some may know, my family and i no longer associate with jws - we are neither df'd nor da'd.

  we last attended about 4 years ago (seems longer...) anyway, my wife has lunch occasionally with her folks - i never get invited and rarely associate with the in laws - my fil says i have destroyed his family... so tensions are somewhat high and it's quite uncomforable whenever we are in the same room - always nice/pleasant, but very shallow relationship now.. my in-laws attended the international convention in trinidad a couple of weeks ago and while having lunch with my wife last week, my mil made the comment to her that "if we had only attended one of these international conventions, we would never had stopped attending meetings... we would have seen the unity and love among the brothers... etc...".

  this really irritates me... we were 38 and 39 years old when we stopped attending - both of us had been pioneers, me an elder... we were deep in the org... and my mil thinks that going to an international convention was the missing element in our spiritual lives?

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  Iranian theocracy a glimpse of life in JWs new system?

  by AggieNostic in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  scary similarity to comments on this board previously regarding the attitudes of jws toward df/da persons.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091230/wl_afp/iranpoliticsopposition.

  tehran (afp) hundreds of thousands of government supporters took to iran's streets on wednesday in a show of force against the opposition, with a senior cleric telling their leaders to repent or be declared enemies of god and face death.... ...without naming anyone, ayatollah ahmad alamolhoda told a tehran rally that "millions of people here are telling the heads of the sedition that since the supreme leader still keeps open the gate of repentance for you, then in a deadline that should be set by the judiciary you must repent and return to the path of the leader.".

  alamolhoda, a member of the assembly of experts which selects the supreme leader, added: "if you do not, then this people and the regime will confront you as mohareb (enemies of god).".

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  Children JW Rejection Statistics

  by AggieNostic in

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  i am wondering if my family is similar to yours... i have 2 sisters and 1 brother.

  my older sister and i were 5 and 7 years old when my parents joined.

  my other sister and brother were "born in".

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  Greetings

  by AggieNostic in

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  2. friends

  first new topic for me.. i have observed this site for about 4 years.

  haven't been to a meeting since oct 2005. definitely feel jws are a high control group that mirrors many of the definitions of a cult.. i was raised as a witness since age 5, left at age 38, now 43. happily married to a wonderful woman for 24 years, except for 1 year of separation when i was failing miserable in a search for my true self - hard to do when you were completely sucked into this religion.

  yes, i was a true believer pretty much up into my late 30s.

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  Greetings

  by AggieNostic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first new topic for me.. i have observed this site for about 4 years.

  haven't been to a meeting since oct 2005. definitely feel jws are a high control group that mirrors many of the definitions of a cult.. i was raised as a witness since age 5, left at age 38, now 43. happily married to a wonderful woman for 24 years, except for 1 year of separation when i was failing miserable in a search for my true self - hard to do when you were completely sucked into this religion.

  yes, i was a true believer pretty much up into my late 30s.

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