Posts by Thursday

I was married to a active-but-not-super-fanatical JW, and I was not a believer but baptised and didn't do research as I was pretty good at doing what I was told, I was just miserable. I eventually started researching, including reading CoC etc and online, verified what I had always thought about the religion, expressed some views delicately to my husband, and he knew I had the CoC book even though I hid it.

He refused to talk about it, I stopped going to meetings, he would just say I was sick for months and no one really bothered me as I was not close to anyone in the congregation anyway, I kept my distance always and never made close friends.

Although he never seemed very devout, he would still refuse to talk about anything related to the religion that wasn't study for the meetings, and was very upset when I posted my DA letter (I did it more as a symbolic thing, not because I had to, and I wanted to make sure I didn't get home visits by elders). While I was at home he would look over my shoulder when I was on the computer to make sure I wasn't looking at apostate sites and wasn't chatting to my work friends about him. He wouldn't let my worldly work friends in the house, and if they dropped me off from work, or picked me up (I didn't have a car and car pooled sometimes) we had to talk outside and he refused to meet them.

We weren't close anyway, not sure there was ever love there (I married young dutifully to get some independence from my parents), so eventually after our problems escalated and he refused to go to counselling with me or on his own to try and talk about our different beliefs and how we could make it work together, I left him.

It was too hard for me to try and make it work if he wouldn't also try and make it work from his side. He didn't want the divorce, and made the property settlement as difficult as he could (we had a house that we both owned). But he didn't want to be with me either as an 'apostate'. So I feel that I had no choice but to leave, and all things considered since, it was by far the best decision I could have made for myself.

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Jwfacts tv appearance

by sparrowdown in

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shout out to jwfacts.. just saw the drum.

excellent job !

!.

Thursday

Thank you Paul

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Royal Commission Live Hearing Now

by LostinJapan in

wednesday 5 , day 7 live hearing.

case study 29, july 2015, sydney.

Thursday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y

The incredibly slow murder...

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Day 4 Looks to Be Live at Any Moment - Link...and Upcoming Witness List!

by LostGeneration in

https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.

anyone know who this monty baker is?

i'm sure this guy will be able to tell the rc how things work behind the scenes without all the evasiveness, being that he is an "apostate".

Thursday

I need popcorn. Watching in my lunch break. This makes me so happy to see her squirm.

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SAD news about OOMPA......

by redredrose in

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our friend, oompa, has passed away.

just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.

it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.

Thursday

RIP oompa, I started lurking on this forum 6 years ago, joined 4 years ago but haven't been on in the last 2/3 ish.

He is missed.

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Royal Commission into Child Abuse - Australia

by biometrics in

saw this in the paper today:.

the jehovah's witnesses church in australia is the latest religious group to come to the attention of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.. the child sex abuse royal commission will hold a public hearing into controversial christian group the jehovah's witnesses, next month.. the inquiry, to be held in sydney, will hear from people who were allegedly sexually abused within the jehovah's witnesses church in australia.. it will examine how the jehovah's witnesses church and its company, the watchtower bible and tract society of australia, responded to claims of child sexual abuse within the organisation.. a victorian inquiry into how churches handle child sex abuse claims has previously taken submissions from former jehovah's witnesses who alleged instances of paedophilia, sexual assault, blackmail and death threats.. the organisation has 64,000 active "disciples" in australia but has also been described as a cult.. jehovah's witnesses believe their church is the one true religion and all others are wrong.

they are among a number of religious groups which have been examined by the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse including the catholics, anglicans, australian christian churches and the salvation army.. the jehovah's witnesses australian headquarters has been contacted for comment about the inquiry which is scheduled to begin on july 27.. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nsw/jehovahs-witnesses-to-appear-before-sex-abuse-royal-commission-20150622-ghue73.html.

Thursday

http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/636f01a5-50db-4b59-a35e-a24ae07fb0ad/case-study-29,-july-2015,-sydney.aspx

Not sure if the link has been shared already to the transcripts and the exhibits including witness statements. The transcripts are a fantastic read, they're hanging the JW witnesses out to dry. I am so happy this is finally happening.

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A short description of yourself

by acolytes in

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bro dan ....recently started a thread about sending in our photos.. is not the fruit inside the shell more important?.

who are you?...........................i dont have the guts to start!!.

acolytes.

Thursday

Too young for it all but just the right age for it to happen. Happy with myself, my life and the fantastic people who are in it. Hopeful that the future will be kind to me and I will raise a happy, kind family with a loving partner.

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Test Yourself. How much are you a JW ....

by sleepingbeauty in

are you a jw or if you were one do you still have any jw traits left?

take this quiz to see... .

http://www.thebentinel.com/jw-quiz.php.

Thursday

7% - You are 7% Jehovah's Witness!You have what Jehovah's Witnesses call a "rebellious spirit" and a "bad attitude". Even if you became a Witness, you would be a bad one. You'd probably talk to disfellowshipped people instead of shunning them like you're supposed to. You wouldn't blindly agree to every new teaching of the Watchtower. The only friends you would have at the Kingdom Hall would be the teenagers that think you're cool, and the other "rebels". The Kingdom Hall is not in the cards for you.

Win for me!

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Anyone Know the title...

by feenx in

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of a book that came out recently that was a woman's comedic memoir of growing up as a jw.

i remember the cover clearly, it was a picture of a little girl standing under an umbrella, with sun and green grass, and the umbrella was shielding her from armageddon with dark bldg's behind her and people running.

it was either last year or earlier this year that it came out.. any help is much appreciated .

Thursday

It's an excellent book, I read it yesterday. A lot of things to relate to, I married young as well, although not for quite the same reasons, they were still nowhere near the right ones and my ex-husband became controlling and did not care about how I felt or what I did while I was with him, only that I looked like a good jw wife and we were seen out in service and thought of as being spiritual.