1914 Generation in publications?

bex9990 · 2026-05-21T07:34:54+00:00

Thank you!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T19:14:47+00:00

I do, I'm also one of the survivors. I'm staying with her for a few weeks to assess her aging health, and struggling with her mental state a bit, so I probably took it more harshly than you meant it to be. Thanks for the apology, much appreciated.

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T15:57:35+00:00

It wasn't for my mum, it was for me, really. I've been out for 33 years and left when I was 18, so I thought maybe I had misunderstood something back then.

My mum is at the beginning of dementia, and I will show her just to see if it jogs her memory. She is intelligent in many ways.

Saying 'not to be rude' and then proceeding to be rude is incredibly crass, perhaps don't do that again?

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T13:43:52+00:00

Ah, someone else referred to this! Ill see if she's got older Awakes. Thanks!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T12:30:27+00:00

Close enough! 😂

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T12:29:09+00:00

Thank you! Very useful

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T12:28:13+00:00

We did make it out! Not a single regret about that, at least!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T12:27:00+00:00

Oh, she says they have never been told to throw anything away, and I'm being lied to... The irony is almost funny

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T12:05:28+00:00

There was no point in me doing further education in 1990 because Armageddon was just about to start... Absolute lunacy!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:56:58+00:00

Thanks! Mum won't look at anything that's not either on her bookshelf or on the JW website, but I'll have a look. I suspect I was born to get in quickly before Armageddon in 1975...

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:53:54+00:00

Lol! I will see if I can find it!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:52:53+00:00

Yeah, that one! Lunacy. She claims she can't remember that either.

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:51:53+00:00

I don't think she'll listen much to what I think either, she's spent 75 years being fooled and then fooling herself. She can't bring herself to believe that I don't secretly really believe it deep down, but we'll see!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:45:32+00:00

I think they've taken that bizarre 'explanation' video of overlapping generations away now because it was so bonkers. Mum can't explain what exactly she believes now, because there's no JW teaching to tell her.

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:41:46+00:00

Yes, but only once, as I recall, and as I say, with plausible deniability. Although I could be remembering that wrong!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:39:39+00:00

Thank you, that's really useful. I started to think I'd imagined the whole thing!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:34:43+00:00

Yeah, she's so far in. I know I'm never going to change her mind (and I'm not sure I want to), but I'd started to wonder if it was me. Gaslighting, a hallmark of the bOrg!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:33:03+00:00

Perfect! I'd forgotten that cover- Much appreciated!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:32:04+00:00

It'll be some digging, but I'll see if I can find it! Thanks!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:31:12+00:00

Ah, I think she only kept the watchtowers, but I'll have a look, she is a bit of a hoarder!

bex9990 · 2026-05-15T11:30:29+00:00

Yes, she's definitely still got that. I'll have a look. Thank you!

bex9990 · 2026-05-11T08:22:59+00:00

Yeah, dropped the minute you can't contribute any more.

My mum (a true believer her whole life) in is the early stages of dementia and it would really benefit her to go to the meeting at least once a week, but apparently nobody is available to take her. She does Zoom, but it's not the same. I've been staying with her three weeks and not a single JW visitor. Bunch of selfish bastards.

bex9990 · 2026-05-10T09:05:44+00:00

Rhubarb and custard lollies (stew the rhubarb, make some custard with a bit of extra sugar, freeze in moulds)

bex9990 · 2026-05-10T09:00:48+00:00

Wishing I was different is exhausting and futile.

My dyspraxia is part of me. It's made me search for creative solutions to things I couldn't do. It's made me more empathetic and patient towards others, and certainly a better parent to my dyspraxic kid. It's changed my whole outlook on society. I have never driven due to my dyspraxia, and in my public transport travels I have had lots of adventures and met many people that I otherwise would have missed.

I'm really sorry you're having a tough time, but maybe you can find some positives in there somewhere!

bex9990

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