Welcome today, I kinow exactly how you feel. ! have three daughters that chose the WT over their father and this has been going on for thirty years.
Hang in there and hope for better things to come. Glad you are here.
Woody.
i've been visiting this forum everyday, reading and waiting patiently for approval to post.
i've never been a jw.
my husband and daughter are.
Welcome today, I kinow exactly how you feel. ! have three daughters that chose the WT over their father and this has been going on for thirty years.
Hang in there and hope for better things to come. Glad you are here.
Woody.
and they are now in 1st place in the n.l.
west with a 6-1 record !
and the hated l.a. dodgers are in last place !
Toronto Blue Jays
Woody
i'm trying to compare some statistics and figures on this to share later in the thread to see if more long-time witnesses are exiting- or are newer witnesses exiting after a shorter period of time.
and - are more people exiting in the last 10 to 15 years than before.
so your answers would be helpful in looking into this .
40 years in out in 1980
Woody
transcript of judicial committee meeting of dale & bette baker.. http://www.jehovahswitnessbooks.com/2010/03/judicial-committee-meeting-of-dale.html.
bangalore.
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I enjoyed the read, and I must say I agree with your thinking that all honest hearted Christians will be saved according to their devotion and
conduct especially those showing compassion to their fellow man. This is what started me thinking as I was in business, in home maintenance
and had many senior widow clients. These people were precious, they had a love for the savior and were kind hearted. I often thought , How
could a loving god destroy these precious people because they did not wear the title Jehovahs' Witnesses. This was the beginning of the end for
me.
Woody
my mother had the jehovahs witnesses round the other day , she said a nice man said "i see you are a do not call,and wondered if you would like the witnesses to start calling on you again " my mum replied "do you know a man called"joe bloggs" he said yes i have heard of him ("joe bloggs is my childs abuser ,an ex dub and "truth"lover" my mum said "well he raped my grandaughter, and do you know that none of his family or his wife who are all in your religion ever apologised to my grandaughter and have supported him instead despite the fact that they know he is a child molester " he said "oh i am so sorry , i am new to the area " i bet he wished the ground could have swallowed him up !.
I am on the do not call list and have been since 1980. I wish they would take me off as I have much I would like to tell them.
Woody
again...please do not request a pdf scan these are interbranch copies not the same ones sent to the congregations.
jwf.. january 21, 2010 .
to all bodies of elders .
I notice in the letter they say it could bring reproach on the congregation, not on the organisation. Is this how they further themselves from the congregation?
Woody
i was born into "the truth" back in 1964. i made the big mistake of getting baptised when i was about 14 or so, purely to please my father as i saw how proud he was when my brothers were baptised....didn't work.. we moved to a new congregation when i was about 8, he introduced all my brothers to the congregation by name, a short bio of thier endearing qualities and how proud he was of them, when he introduced me it was "and this is our black sheep of the family, steve".. i remember living in fear at the fast approaching 1975....actually, living in terror is probably a more apt desciption.
all of you will full well know how it was instilled into us at every meeting and assembly how we are living in the last days.. as a 15 year old, a brother dobbed me in for kissing a worldly girl at school.
went through the marked process, judicial committy, disfellowshipped and the shunning which continues to this day by what's left of my family.
For me it has been 30 years (1980) I lived through the 1975 era and when nothing happened I was no longer worried. Life since has been real good for me.
i won't be going if i can help it, but id like a heads up about it, just to be forewarned.
It has been 30 yrs. since I was in a kindom hall so I guess the answer is no. Never even went for my parents funerals.
i always felt like i was not a "spiritual" person because i loathed going in field service.
i'm not even sure why i loathed it.
i am very outgoing and can talk to anyone, anytime, about anything.
I hated every minute of it . I suppose that is why I never had any success at it. Now as I look back that is a good thing.
Woody22
not as naughty more refined and friendlier.