Victor_E
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Today I got diagnosed with PTSD... I thought only people that went to war
by cognac inand things like that got ptsd... .
anyways, my husband and i talked and i said that i can't take the anxiety of going to the meetings anymore, so either i'm not going or i'm bringing and ipod or something... he's very supportive.
he felt bad about pushing me to do it.
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My Farewell To You
by Victor_E indear fellow brothers in arms,.
the time has come for me to bid you farewell.
this monday was a day to memorialize our fallen heroes.
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What is Truth?
by Victor_E inreading a couple of threads in relation to the work im doing got me to ask the question.
what is truth?
i had a lawyer this weekend in one of my workshops that could not accept the concept of relative truth.
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personal poll-serious responses please!
by Ravyn2 ini have to go to alt sign on name....but this is important(to me anyway):.
what do you want to see as the future of mankind in your lifetime?.
tolerance?
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All the Corporation's meetings focus on the books / writers of the books
by garybuss ini have been to lots of sales meetings and sales training sessions and they are exactly like the watch tower publishing corporation's franchise book distribution division, jehovah's witnesses, meetings.. .
all the corporation's meetings focus on the books or the writers of the books.
the books are all written about the writers of the books and how all prophecy and all history relates to them.. .
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12 STEP RECOVERY OF XJWS
by Victor_E inthe twelve steps of ex jws .
step 1. we admitted we were powerless over posting and reading on xjw forums.. step 2: we came to believe that reading and posting would heal our wounds and restore us to sanity.. step 3: we made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to some higher power and or more worthy purpose.. step 4: we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of jws and other xjws.. step 5: we admitted to ourselves (sometimes) and to other posters the exact nature of our wrongs and rights according to us.. step 6: we were entirely unconsciously ready to expose our selves of these defects of character by our writing.. step 7: wiser persons who had walked ahead of us down this painful path towards healing and recovery humbled us at times.
step 8: we made a list of all the persons that harmed us and we were liberally willing to harm them.
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Why Do People Post Here
by Victor_E inall actions are tied to two forces pain and pleasure.
under these two forces are personal needs of an individual and these are as varied as the number of posters.
however all of these have the lowest common denominator of pain or pleasure.
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Haunted
by Ghost of Esmeralda inhaunted still, after all this time.
most of the time, i am able to separate who i am today from who i was five years ago.
soon, it'll be the five year anniversary of my disfellowshipping.
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Does anyone know of an elder that actually helped a sexual abuse survivor?
by BLISSISIGNORANCE inthere are soooooooo many victims (although i prefer to use the word: survivor) of sexual abuse coming out of the borg and telling their horrible stories, including my own family.
i have read stories that made me feel either angry, frustrated, revolted, furious.............but they all made me feel sad.. in every story it seems that the wts, elders and jws in general have let the child and/or family down.
from my own personal experience i can say that the elders in the congregation where my child was abused didn't do anything to protect other kids, and certainly didn't show love and support for my child or our family.
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How to Overcome Programmed Fear by JWs
by Victor_E inas jws we were programmed with rules to no end.
we even had rules for what to do when the rules we knew did not apply to new situations.
this constant diet of rules upon rules created our mental map that for many is still deeply ingrained below conscious awareness and still operating even though we are no longer jws.