i know some here have said they pretty much hated the elders.
did you personally feel the elders were abusive men?.
At this one hall, the elders were often abusive to mixed families.
Sisters with unbelieving husbands knew they would be relegated to nothingness;
last in FS group, no parts, no invites. When their husbands came to Memorials,
the elders would meet them in the dark parking lots afterwards, and ball them out!
Almost ten publishers won't talk to the elders and have to speak to each other for help,
the elders want you to give them their names! A lot of this happens at other halls as well.
posted at 02:00 pm et, 08/26/2011 diamond planet discovered by astronomersby elizabeth flock .
(swinburne university) a diamond-crystal planet five times the size of earth and with more mass than jupiter has been.
discovered in our own milky way galaxy.. an international team of astronomers led by swinburne university of technology in australia spotted the exotic planet racing.
Yeh right, guys! I think OUTLAW's "Jello Planet" will become a classic on the forum!
greatingsdagney & friends in crime!
we're around the ages of 55, .
and our kids around 30 are married and are working on these days.
Dagney wrote us: 'LA's Long Beach, this weekend(s) beach party'..."Too bad you are not here yet."
"I haven't checked your story yet. Let me know if you are heading this way...and your schedule"?
"You can announce on the forum you will be in the Fresno area... I've traveled to various places
and posted I was going and willing to meet local xJW's, and it's always been great.
Have a great time in King's Canyon! AKA Sequoia National Park, CA.
Myself, A.B. & my Partner are going two week ends later; from Sept. 5-10
We'll be in most of south-central CA, once or twice during the trip.
greatingsdagney & friends in crime!
we're around the ages of 55, .
and our kids around 30 are married and are working on these days.
Greatings Dagney & friends in crime! We're around the ages of 55,
and our kids around 30 are married and are working on these days.
We fit in best with the middle age crowd, though get along with most groups.
We're not big on aposta beach parties, but we do drink.
We continue worshiping God, and following the scriptures, yet can laugh a lot
and be easy going with other peoples choices. Arriving in San Diego, Sept. 5.
Driving along the coast looking for whale watching, and swimming sites.
Site seeing through LA, to Sequoia Park. Site seeing trough Fresno to Yosemite Park.
The exact days in between are flexible, so you guys can help plan for meet up times.
By Sept. 10 fly out of LA, Our family are in the tri-state region of, In, Oh, and Mi;
area of farms, trains, and autos. Hope to see you next week! Sincerely; A.B. & Partner
just thought i'd introduce myself.
i've been lurking for a few months and want to get in on some of the conversation.. also here's a song that's taken on a new personal meaning for me.
(i was born in to a witness family and have recently woke up to the fact that it is just a group of people following just men.
Hi thinking_1; welcome to the forum!
There's all kinds of ex-witness opinions here, so don't get discouraged from indifference.
Keep checking things out, untill you find what your looking for.
Then keep coming back to share what you know with us and to say: "Hi" now and then.
i am not a jw but one thing that they really get me on is when they call the outside world a "wicked system of things" and say it is run by the devil.
i know the world can be great and people can be wonderful but on the flip side, the bad seems to be getting worse and morals seem to be flying out the window.
i don't know, what do you guys think?
Oh yes; this world is so wicked. It just keeps going form bad to worse!
The increase of false prophets, new misleading religious teachings, more abusive cults,
religious organizations turning into sales corporations, new harlots ridding the wild beast,
pedophilia exposed in the churches, and on, and on, and on!
Yep; the Society did warn us about the world.
But they also hid from us the fact that they are a discussing thing to Jehovah!
posted at 02:00 pm et, 08/26/2011 diamond planet discovered by astronomersby elizabeth flock .
(swinburne university) a diamond-crystal planet five times the size of earth and with more mass than jupiter has been.
discovered in our own milky way galaxy.. an international team of astronomers led by swinburne university of technology in australia spotted the exotic planet racing.
Oh boy!
WT will be mining that puppy before long!
i know some here have said they pretty much hated the elders.
did you personally feel the elders were abusive men?.
Thanks' minimus !
I'll take all the compliments I can get.
LOL; even the funny ones!
Lord knows we won't get them at the hall.
well... after 32 years in portland oregon it's time to go!.
you'll all have a new friend in sedona arizona.
anyone here on the board is welcome to visit me at anytime.. i hope to be there by oct. 1. namasta.
Namasta; Keith!
Wish my family knew that last year, we were in the area.
Note to all posters; we'll be flying to southern CA, Sept. 5 to stay a week.
We'ld love to meet others, so let us know soon; okay!
Enjoy Arizona Keith, it's realy nice there.
i know some here have said they pretty much hated the elders.
did you personally feel the elders were abusive men?.
Whenever we called out the elders for behaving badly they would use the same well polished phrase combinations at five of the halls we've been to.
"What was it that we elders did to make you FEEL like that?", "Just what did we do so that you FELT that way?", "When we told you that, how did it make you FEEL?", "If you would think back, you will find that there was nothing that I or Brother _____, said that should give you that impression!"
This is all psychological manipulation, to trick the mind of a person with legitimate concerns into not trusting their own judgment! It's a breach of trust for pastors over a flock to treat them in such a way. For this sort of condition to occur in a so-called religious organization amounts to "Religious Abuse"; a growing field in counseling for former cult and religious victims.
