hello all, thanks for all the warm welcomes this weekend.
there was some interest in my origins story so here goes.. i am a born in, never baptised.
my parents were immigrants who knew no one in a new town in a new country when they got love bombed into the cult.
River Song
Welcome to this much better place. I am so very happy you are able to look back on a horribly distorted life through the eyes of an escaped survivor and comment with such clarity.
I know you are speaking absolute truth because I was once the same deluded elder your dad was and an living with the guilt and anger of what I have done to my childrens lives inside that ridiculous cult..
This is a good place to recover at your own pace and plan for the future of those you love.
Welcome
the wt society is fond of using the tilt-up method of construction where a network of rebar is made on the ground, concrete poured on it and allowed to cure, then the whole thing is tilted up and voila' you've got yourself a massive big-ass wall ready made.
these walls for several stories-high buildings are indeed massive and weighty so you need a heavy-duty crane to raise into position.. i just heard from an eye-witness ldc volunteer that while there a few weeks ago they had an enormous accident.
the crane tilted and crashed, the only one hurt was its operator.
So this is a building site for a palace for Gods very own representatives - the delusional guys directed by and watched over by myriads of angels,
Wouldn't it be brazenly blasphemous to even insinuate the need for worldly insurance?
Remember that Jabooba was thwarted years ago by chariots with iron wheels - maybe modern construction cranes are beyond his abilities to control as well?
New light - god always needs money and is no good with machinery.
british columbia, canada.
jehovah's witness grandparents ordered to keep faith to themselves.
a pair of devout jehovah's witnesses have been ordered by a b.c.
OrphanCrow-
Thank you for posting this.
I can imagine how hesitant judges would be to facilitate the indoctrination methods of destructive cults like
the JWs as they see the results showing up in their courtrooms - example this very case.
A conflict-free safe environment for this child required restricting relatives trained and willing to search out and exploit the vulnerable.
Make disciples = search and exploit
what is a cult and what is a religion?
its open to debate.
who has the authority to say for certain what is a cult and what is a religion?
Richard-
Why the Watchtower style semantics?
Jesus was supposed to have said "...by their fruits you will recognize them."
Watchtowers rotting fruits are broken families, the deceptions of ever-changing lies (new light) and the predictable secrecy of a hierarchy were the huge sums of money disappear on the way up and the work-loads of donations and "preaching" are done by the ignorant masses at the bottom.
All this under the tax-free guise of being a charity with no significant charitable works demonstrated - ever.
All done in imitation of the Mormons and Seventh Day Adventists et al. at the same point in American history.
Poop, dung, dodo, feces, droppings, scat, guano... so many many words for what is ultimately just crap.
legality[edit].
in june 1987, the united states court of appeals for the 9th circuit upheld the witnesses' right to shun those who fail to live by the group's standards and doctrines, upholding the ruling of a lower court, finding that "shunning is a practice engaged in by jehovah's witnesses pursuant to their interpretation of canonical text, and we are not free to reinterpret that text ... the defendants are entitled to the free exercise of their religious beliefs ... the members of the church [she] decided to abandon have concluded that they no longer want to associate with her.
we hold that they are free to make that choice."[99][100].
Anyone (or group) is free to shun anyone (or group) as they wish.
As long as you remain a member of a group that practices religiously mandated shunning - you are obliged to accept your cults ecclesiastic authority to both shun and to be shunned in accordance with the dogma you yourself support as a member.
The mistake JWs make is not quietly quitting the cult in advance of the cults judicial actions requiring the members participation in such distasteful acts. You join the Nazi party - you are obligated to act like a Nazi.
A judicial committee cannot be formed in respect to a former member. And you are legally free to quit any religion at any time you chose.
Stop making targets of yourselves - quit the f-----g cult now. Make a written record of the date to show the hounders when they finally track you down - they have no authority over you unless you grant it to them.
any takers?
we can pick a date and pull the plug?
lol .
Dissociate vs. Dissasociation
Dissociate is a term referring to separating oneself from psychologic trauma and abuse. The connotation of
mentally leaving, disconnect, sever, cut off, separate, divorcing oneself from trauma and anguish..
It is a synonym for disassociate - no longer enjoying the company of, or being associated as an underling of an organization or bussiness.
Watchtower is accustomed to letters of disassociation, when really we wish to dissociate in spirit as well as body.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/11/15/audit_of_charities_encounters_resistance.html.
interesting canadian information on popular charities.
regarding the "cushion" factor that mentions how many years these charities could continue to function without a single donation remember that the wt brranches download all proceeds directly to new york.. classic cult conduct in handling donated fundswith minimal transparency.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/11/15/audit_of_charities_encounters_resistance.html
Interesting Canadian information on popular charities.
Regarding the "cushion" factor that mentions how many years these charities could continue to function without a single donation remember that the WT Brranches download all proceeds directly to New York.
Classic cult conduct in handling donated fundswith minimal transparency
one of the elders schools i attended, we dealt with a person who touched a girls breast and covered it up and kept it secret until it was revealed through a source.
the instructor first laid the ground work for a guilt trip.
he read this scripture;.
Stillin -
Yeah, that happened a lot in my life, and it wasn't unclean it was GREAT. Lovely ladies, soft kisses and
they shared their beautiful breasts with a very appreciative guy - only these perverts could twist such joy and
generosity into something filthy...weirdos.
wtb&ts has invested $40,000,000 in november 2007 in a hedge fund located in the cayman islands, a tax haven.
the document is from the official website : securities and exchange commission:.
http://www.sec.gov/archives/edgar/vprr/07/9999999997-07-048801 .
Tax Free havens specialize in Captive Insurance Companies- Watchtower is certain to be doing this scam.
They have millions of dollars so they self-insure with a company that they themselves own .
They tell the poor slobs at the kingdumb hall that they need to pay for insurance every year, so tens of thousands of congregations pay millions of dollars year after year and the Watchtower gives the impression they are forwarding the premiums to an insurance company nobody has ever heard of.
In fact the yearly millions go straight into one of their own bank accounts which appears to be an insurance company with only one "customer" - themselves.
The advantage of off-shore is secrecy. Give some of your cult friends a credit card based on the off-shore account and no-one in another country will ever know as the paper work all goes back to the off-shore phony bank.
i've been lurking on the board for almost a year now and i think i'm ready to come out of hiding (although, i'm so nervous as i type this).
i'm not ready to share everything about my story, but the basics are that i'm a born-in, elder's kid, baptized as a teenager because i was tired of hearing people ask me "all your friends are baptized, when are you going to get baptized?
", married an unbeliever (was df, but came back shortly after) and we have two kids.
Welcome Welcome young lady -
How wonderful to see another bright young mind freed and casting itself on the wondrous, expanding waters of modern knowledge.
You go girl!
