Tameria2001

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  Mandatory Vaccinations...are you for or against ??

  by minimus in

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  there’s now a measles outbreak.

  there is a jewish sect in new york that refuses vaccines.

  some parents do not want their children vaccinated..

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  Personally what I wished they would do, is for those coming into the country, show proof of vaccinations, and if they don't have it, put them in quarantine for however long it takes those viruses to show up or show that they are healthy, then charge them for the expenses of doing so.
  
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  My JW boyfriend broke up with me

  by DrunkinLove in

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  i am so crushed right now.

  i have been dating a witness for over a year now.

  we love each other so much.

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  DrunkinLove, It sounds like from you was saying that he was given a choice on who he would choose, and sadly he made his decision. What I am going to tell you is this, you deserve better than that. That showed he does not love you, and never has, regardless of what he told you. People say that word all the time, but they don't mean it or don't know what love really is. First and foremost, if he loved you, he would have defended you regardless of whoever was attacking you. If he loved you, he would have wanted everyone to know it, and not kept hidden your relationship.

  Take your time in grieving the loss of this relationship, and take everything from that as a learning lesson so you don't get your heart hurt again in the future. Count yourself very fortunate, because he would have eventually shown his true colors, and it would have been even worse if there were children involved. I'm assuming you two don't have any. Who knows, maybe given a few days it will sink in what he has given up, some people don't realize what a good thing they had until they throw it away. If for some reason he does come crawling back, and you decide he is the one you want, make him work hard to earn you back. No hiding your relationship, ever.
  
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  Mandatory Vaccinations...are you for or against ??

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there’s now a measles outbreak.

  there is a jewish sect in new york that refuses vaccines.

  some parents do not want their children vaccinated..

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  DesirousOfChange, Yes normally, but at the moment in my own household is a baby that is not yet at the age to be vaccinated for some of the stuff that is going around? How many others are in the same situation, that's what makes this so dangerous for them.
  
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  Mandatory Vaccinations...are you for or against ??

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there’s now a measles outbreak.

  there is a jewish sect in new york that refuses vaccines.

  some parents do not want their children vaccinated..

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  Tameria2001

  It has been proven that autism is not caused by vaccinations. The doctor who originally said that had no basis for his hypothesis, he was stripped of his medical license. There is though a link between autism and pesticides, just do a search to find out more if you are interested.
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  Mandatory Vaccinations...are you for or against ??

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  there’s now a measles outbreak.

  there is a jewish sect in new york that refuses vaccines.

  some parents do not want their children vaccinated..

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  Personally, I am one of those who believes that children should be vaccinated, but should be done under precaution. What I mean by that is this. When it was time for my children to have them, my mother gave me some good advice (she was a nurse), that being if the child has a fever, even a low-grade fever, reschedule the appointment. I followed her advice, and my children came out just fine. In fact, those very vaccinations actually saved my boys from very nasty childhood illness when they were younger. There was another family in the congregation who we would either go to each other's homes, so our boys could play with each other (ages 4 and 2 at the time). Anyways went over to their home as usual, and my boys were playing with the other boys for pretty close to an hour before their stupid mother informed me that her children had the measles and mumps. I also learned that she was too DAM LAZY to get them done, and for no other reason. Fortunately, because my boys were already vaccinated against this stuff, they never came down with anything.

  I do remember two different children who had a very severe reaction to a vaccination, also discovered that on the day those were given, they were not 100 percent well.
  
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  Notre Dame Cathedral on fire...

  by mikeflood in

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  kind sad watch such historic building on flames.

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  i hope it will restored......

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  They said on the news that the French government is going to restore it. I really hope they do, because it will be a slap in the face of whoever took glee in this.
  
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  Funny question for the DFd :D

  by nowawake14 in

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  did you go to a random kingdom hall where they didnt know you while being dfd and talked to the people anyway?.

  😃😃.

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  Not quite the same, but my husband did that while he was under reproof. He went to a different congregation, that didn't know about the situation, and deliberately broke all the rules on the things they told him that he was not allowed to do.
  
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  What woke you up?

  by HappyBlessedFree in

  1. jw
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  i’m fairly new so i don’t know everyone’s backstory.

  how did you realize the organization was false?.

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  Tameria2001

  To make more sense of what woke me up, I'll give you a very brief back story. I had a sister a year older than me that passed away when she was five and a half years of age, she passed away in April 1973. Before her death mom hated the JWs with a passion. She was familiar with them because she has a cousin who is one. Anyways using my mother's grief as an opportunity, her cousin informed her of the 1975 lie, that being that in the fall of 1975 God would usher in his system of things and put an end to this old system of things. Also, and more importantly, she would be reunited with her baby girl that had passed away, because the dead would be resurrected. But the catch was that only baptized JWs and their minor children would survive the big A.

  Going to the meetings as a kid, and even well into my teens I would suffer horrible nightmares, and they were always the same two dreams. At the time I couldn't figure out what would cause those dreams, and for the longest time I could never figure out why. The elders and my mother's explanation was that Satin was attacking me in my sleep, thus the reason for the nightmares. These were so bad that even when I closed my eyes (such as during a prayer) I would have flashes of these horrible scenes in my nightmares. They revolved around death.

  Now to the part that work me up were actually two stages, and they both involved my eldest son. He was 5 years of age when one night he woke up screaming from a horrible nightmare. At first, he didn't want to tell me about it, but I told him that if he talked about it, it would help forget about it. When he told me about his dream, I was in utter shock, because word for word it was the exact dream that I suffered as a child.

  Then a couple of months after that my son became gravely ill, so I rushed him to the ER, at first they thought he would require surgery. For the next eight hours, they wanted to observe him, and they admitted him to the hospital, and he spent a week there. So for a few hours, I was in full panic mode. I attempted to call up my local body of elders, but could never reach them, instead I talked to the wife of one of those elders, whom I thought was my friend. After telling her what was going on, her only reply was, "What do you EXPECT me to do about it?" When I heard the tone in her voice, I told her nothing and hung up the phone. I told my mother what was going on, she said she couldn't make it down (we lived about 2 hours away). Even though I later learned that she came right through my town twice when she went to visit my sister who lived 3 hours away. She didn't even bother stopping in to see us on either way through my town.

  Fortunately, my son didn't need surgery, but for the next month, we had to keep him at home so he could get better and not come into any viral issues like someone's cold or any number of other issues. He did make a full recovery. Not once did anyone from my congregation came by or call to see how we were doing. The last meeting I attended, none one bothered to ask how we were doing, but rather that I better make sure I make it to the upcoming district convention. Something that was said to me, caused something to click in my head.

  Shortly after that, I started my research on the Watchtower. I discovered many things, such as the many failed date settings, how they take the scriptures out of context, and many other things. I also figured out why I was plagued with nightmares, and that my son had the exact same dream, and it was for sure not Satin who was causing them. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, just look through all the pictures in their literature dealing with death and destruction. When it finally dawned on me that the "truth" was not the truth, I saw nothing but red, I was so pissed off, that I immediately threw away all my Watchtower literature, and wroke my dissociation letter. I did wait a couple of months before I sent it in because I didn't want to do that under the emotional state that I was in, after all once that decision was made known by the Watchtower, there was no going back.
  
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  If shunning were no longer a JW policy, how many would leave the Org?

  by HiddenPimo in

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  2. beliefs

  additionally - if this shunning rule was removed and everyone was made aware of the dirty secrets of the org.. (e.g.

  csa-arc / un membership / malawi - mexico contrast / etc.).

  would those leaving be higher?.

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  Tameria2001

  I feel that even if the Watchtower ceased today, and the JWs were no longer a religion, a large number of them would still shun their fellow humans. I've seen this with former witnesses who actually was shunning other former JWs.
  
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  Why do some JWs love seeing others get disfellowshipped?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm not sure how many in the organization is like this, but there some jws who love seeing others get disfellowshipped, and my father-in-law is one of those.

  he became a jw because he loved the idea of being the head of the household, and lording it over his family.

  as a jw he is very hypocritical, my husband would tell stories of how they would celebrate christmas until his mother-in-law called him on it.

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  I'm not sure how many in the organization is like this, but there some JWs who love seeing others get disfellowshipped, and my father-in-law is one of those. He became a JW because he loved the idea of being the head of the household, and lording it over his family. As a JW he is very hypocritical, my husband would tell stories of how they would celebrate Christmas until his mother-in-law called him on it. She was not a JW, but a witch, and I don't mean that in a bad term, but an actual witch. He nearly lost his children due to abuse, he would take cigarettes and put them out on my husband's back (when he was a baby). Now mind you he did not smoke, he just bought them to do this horrible deed. That all stopped when the same woman put a gun in his mouth and told him if he laid another finger on her grandson, she would pull the trigger, and you did not mess with this woman. To this day my husband still has the scars to prove it, but I learned this through his aunts. Eventually, my husband's grandmother paid for her grandson to learn martial arts so he could defend himself from his father.

  When my husband was around 4 his dad became a JW, and eventually, he became an elder. When this man was a ministerial servant, my husband was around 16 when this happened. His father allowed a fellow witness, a brother, who was having some finical difficulties move in with him and his family. While he was not around, this "brother" would make advances to my mother-in-law. She informed her husband that he needed to get that "brother" out of the house, but he flat out refused. Eventually, the man worked his charms on her, and they kissed, and he did touch her chest. At that moment something clicked, and she made him stop. She told her husband about it, and that she was deeply sorry for what had happened. One other thing, she only had this moment of weakness because her mother was recently murdered by her father. He shot her multiple times, right in front of her sister, and a couple of months after that her younger brother died from brain cancer.
  

  My husband said his dad called up the elders and informed them what had happened, and he actually pushed for his wife to be disfellowshipped. Then after that, my husband told me that they moved into a congregation (in the same town) that was very snooty. It was pure hell on his mother and his siblings. His mother was reinstated one year later, personally, if it were me I would have told him to F off.

  Now fast forward 12 years later, my husband has a moment of weakness that would normally be a disfellowshipping matter. Like his mother, he came clean about it with me. I was not sure how to deal with the situation and thought that the elders would help us through this issue. You all know that's what they tell everyone, and I was gullible enough at the time to believe that crap. So before going to the elders my husband and I talked about it, and we went to see them together. Before all this, I had talked to my mother, but that was a huge mistake because that was when I learned how big of gossip she is, and because of this my father-in-law found out. Now mind you, neither of these people live in the same circuit as us.

  The judicial committee talked to me about this, and since no one else in the congregation knew of the matter, and that my husband came clean right way, and I was willing to forgive him, they decided on a private reproof. As a result, two things also happened, my mother's local body of elders (in a different state) told her that if she did not stop she would find herself getting disfellowshipped. And my husband father, who was an elder by now, was pushing hard to have his son disfellowshipped. Our local body of elders told him that it was none of his concern and that he did not stop, he too would find himself in the hot seat as well. They were involved in my husband's mother's case.

  Why do some JWs love seeing others get disfellowshipped?