when you encounter a jw who doesnt know you, do you tell them you are an ex?
or pretend otherwise?.
last night we were understaffed at work so had to call in an agency worker, i had to leave her in charge of 4 adults with autism while i did the rounds on call, every so often i called back to make sure she was coping ok. we got on well, chatted away and then at about 5am she starts witnessing to me...i end up coming home with 5 magazines..lol, she "placed" them with me.. i didnt want to tell her i was an exjw as it would have ruined the working relationship and made her feel uncomfortable.
Information intake has to be bare essential, sentences have to be structured and minimal, quoting a Scripture and trying to explain its meaning would cause an incident, we would soon know if she was trying to witness to em.
SOJ
Is Jehovah going to destroy these poor autistic people at Armageddon because they have no ability to grasp the truth tenets of your faith?
your leadership is a bit dodgy.
for starters, theyre all so close to deaths door that he has repeatedly asked them to stop loitering and just ring the bell.
theyre so old and wizened that they have a hearse on 24-hour standby.
LOL @ SYN
I love reading your stuff. You forgot to get in a budgie-mention, though!!
i see alot of references on this site regarding "lurkers" and "spies".
i have been thinking a bit on this topic and came up with a question.
do you think the governments or other religious organizations plant moles or spies among the jw's?.
I don't think the Govts are that worried about Christian religions
While you are technically right, the JWs may have fooled the governments into categorizing them as Christian, in actuality the JWs are about as anti-Christian a religion as you could get!
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i love my family.
but i've been stressed and depressed because of them.
and i just need to gain some understanding.. being raised in a jw family laid alot of pressure and guilt on me.
My family did the same thing to me (except they didn't hit me.)
When I wanted to move out as an adult my mother took to her bed crying & my father called me up and said I was as cold as ice and cared about nobody but myself. So I stayed G - U - I - L - T
When I finally left it was the best thing that had happened to me.
Get a book called "Toxic Parents". It is AWESOME and helped me a lot. I can't remember the author but if you go to Amazon.com and search for that title you will find it.
Also, to help you get past the "OMG what if they are right Armageddon is coming and I'm displeasing JHVH" phase, start reading and educating yourself about this so-called religion. Have you read "Crisis of Conscience" by Ray Franz, a former GB member?
At www.freeminds.org there are tons of good books.... like "30 years a Watchtower Slave" among other goodies. Get your hands on a couple of those (have them sent to your significant others' house so you don't set them off again.)
You need to GET OUT as soon as possibly can.
BY THE WAY I'm from NYC, born and raised, and it's NOT filthy and disgusting (LOL) and I've never been raped!
Hugs, V
i've been thinking about esmerelda's post about her daughter being the flower girl of a jws wedding and not knowing about it.
then someone else posted about how they didn't know when their daughter got married.
(can't remember who...) it got me thinking...
Invite them over to look at the whole wedding album over coffee.
posted on wed, apr.
'toy gun' mishap blinds teen .
by peyton d. woodson
. A frog's life is just as important as your own
Is a cockroach's life just as important too?
i just phoned my daughter who is 23 years old, and she is graduating from college in toronto this june.
i thought because there were some great flight offers that i would be spontaneous and be there for her graduation and just do a mother daughter thing of celebrating.
well i just phoned her, to tell her that i would like to be there, and she hits me with the bombshell that my parents will be there and staying with her.
You are under no obligation to assist them in shunning you.
Go and have a wonderful time.
are you happy to have been a jw?
is there a constructive side in it all for you?
or do you wish you had never seen their culty smiles?.
I think you'll find that most people who were born 'n raised in the troof will tell you it was not a positive experience. My school years were just awful, I was such a pariah in school and because my mother wasn't theo enough and my father completely and utterly antisocial I wasn't popular at the KH either.
I grew up to be an adult with virtually no social skills and a naivete that got me in lots of trouble. I turned down scholarships and started working at 17. I got a guilt-complex and self-esteem issues that sometimes plague me to this day, even with therapy. Part of my decision to remain childless was that even tho I had 'left,' for a long time I felt I'd left the troof and was going to be destroyed at the Big A any time now. Soon. Right around the corner.
Naah, I can't think of a single positive thing. Nope, not one. Except maybe I know lots of Bible stuff, that comes in handy sometimes, and helps me answer the odd Jeopardy question now and then.
how have the publications changed over the years, in your opinion?
do you feel that they are more "politically correct" now than in the past?
what about writing style?
I picked up a set of WatchLiar and Snooze! magazines last week from street workers and read through them for the first time in many years. I must agree with everyone else's comments.... there's much more DO MORE, YOU'RE NOT DOING ENOUGH type stuff in them. I notice the guilt machine is turned up a couple of notches.
One thing is the same, though: they continue to overuse the word 'hence.'
australia and the usa are great friends.
our people have a similar history, culture and optimistic view of life.
our world view is generally very different though, america being the self appointed policeman of the world and us being a piddling little nation floating free in the southern ocean.
G
I wasn't trying to pick on Unclebruce... I actually agreed with him on most of what he said. I didn't see the daily news article about the two front teeth but that would have upset me even more.
I can even see that certain fanatics might think of the twin towers as phallic symbols... that's just the problem, they don't give a hoot about human life.
Again, this is all in the name of religion. Those "pilots that didn't want to learn how to land the plane" were thinking of 72 virgins and screaming Allah's name as they sent 3000 lives into oblivion and ruined countless tens of thousands more.
I live and work in Manhattan... live in Gramercy Park and work above Grand Central. You?
I think what's more disconcerting is that the US has admitted they don't know what the hell to do with a nation of angry muslims . These people don't seem to want the freedom and western life style imposed on them . They truly believe that the so called christian world is their enemy and will more than likely continue to find ways to try and subvert the attempts to build a kinder and gentler Iraq. I don't think they did this solely over the twin towers but because they think they are doing the world a favor and that's even more scarey.Amen to that, Heathen.
