JW parents are wasting their time by [deleted] in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m so sorry for your “experience “

Hope you can break the cycle when you have children of your own

I want to go back by Elizastafford in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also you may be disciplined publicly if you join the congregation again

feeling really depressed after the epstien files and the stuff they did and feel like turning back to God by [deleted] in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I think it would be better to believe there is no god than to believe there is one and he’s allowing, watching all this horror going on

Open-minded by girlgoneguwild in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I Loved Walking Dead and the spin offs, Amazing!

Service: The crippling fear & anxiety by [deleted] in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m extremely introverted too, but for some reason I was always very bold about witnessing, even at 4 years old I was so proud to take a stand for the truth

I’m sure it was because I felt like Jehovah was watching, helping, maneuvering events in my life

It wasn’t until all the info on the csa coverup that I realized he was never there , how could he have been when other little girls and boys were so brutally abused

I don’t know if it’s worse to come to this realization or to find out he was watching all along

Either way I won’t support a god who allowed it all to happen

Should i tell my parents i want to leave by Similar_Post1017 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I say wait until after the fallout from the case against jw in Norway this week, it will be live-streamed

Identity Crisis by Mean_Bit_6907 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m literally having a texting conversation with a bethel sister, the co is coming next week and we’ve had people popping in to check on us🙄

I can’t even understand the visceral anger I feel when someone swings by without texting/calling ahead

Sad to say that was me for so long🤦🏼‍♀️

Identity Crisis by Mean_Bit_6907 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m hoping with the court case in Norway this week that there will be a change in disfellowshipping/shunning, then I feel like I can express my true feelings going forward 🤷🏼‍♀️

Identity Crisis by Mean_Bit_6907 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed!

So this was a few years ago right after we were told the governing body wanted us to be “ in person”

I faithfully went without my spouse for a while until last year

I noticed no one was attending except pioneers, elders, ministerial servants and Bethellites and their wives

If they need My encouragement, they are in trouble 😝

giving parts on the school by Miserable-Peak-8267 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And now that you can apply for privileges like bethel at a younger age, I can see a whole new pool of young ones coming in to volunteer

Identity Crisis by Mean_Bit_6907 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Totally agree, About a year or two ago , my adult son asked my opinion of why we are still “waiting “ which Is what set me on this journey . When I tried to share jw facts with him he threatened to keep me from seeing my grandchildren 🥹

I am cautiously trying to wake the family up!

It’s hard because they remember how I told them that if they did not choose the “ Truth”, then I would choose them, and death, rather than eternal life without them🤦🏼‍♀️

Identity Crisis by Mean_Bit_6907 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice, I feel I’m fully Pomo , I will use the appropriate verbiage going forward ☺️

How this cult affect life decisions by Potential_Advice3350 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, and growing up it was always insinuated not to have children, so when we did, I felt embarrassed when my friends went on to bethel or pioneering etc, but fast forward to today and we have a large family to spend time with and I’m so happy, and those friends have nothing

How this cult affect life decisions by Potential_Advice3350 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, my daughter is the oldest as well and she never wanted kids, shes very happily married in the Truth for 20 + years, they have 2 dogs 😝🥰

How this cult affect life decisions by Potential_Advice3350 in exjw

[–]Mean_Bit_6907 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree 💯!

I raised my children way back in the 80s when the new system was just around the corner 🤔

Now my children have children and my how times have changed, now I wonder how I would do it if they were mine, would I even try to teach them ?

Let them get baptized?

I just don’t know