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Hello all, I've been reading posts on this forum for a while now. I find many of the stories so sad, and troubling on so many levels. I don't know what I hope to get from this post but here goes. I...
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Hello there and welcome :-) My brother asks no questions about the faith; he does not seem to find it odd that his wife talks about demons all around her. It doesn't seem to bother him in the least...
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Thanks for the reply, Sam. I think you're right that my SIL would slam the door on us seeing the kids. Like I said, there is something very hard in her, buried in all that niceness.
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Very common Sobriquet. They have a very hard inner core. Very intolerant. Very spiritually institutionalized.
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Welcome Sobriquet! Your story is so familiar. None of the JW kids I knew who had one parent in and one parent out ended up sticking with it when they grew up. The non JW parents always seemed to he go...
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Hi and Thank you, Marked & Figuring, for the wise words. Richard Dawkins has written that children are psychologically primed for religion. The Jesuits had a famous saying: "Give us a child until...
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She is a mother and mothers have a backbone of steel when it comes to protecting their kids from real or imagined dangerous things. I wouldn't decide too quickly that she has a hard inner core, but...
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Janet, I was merely describing the collective mindset at work in the Borg. My wife is extremely protective of our children but not in the same rigid way as my mother was so stern with us as kids....
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Hello Marked & JanetsD. Both very good responses. Thanks for the time you've spent with me here. I especially like the observation that "sometimes overreacting gives them more power". I do realize...
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Sobriquet, like all of us, I sympathise with your concern for your family’s contact with JWs. Your brother seems tolerant and reasonable and accepts the right of his wife to pursue her religious...
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And by the way, I agree that the Jesuitical principle of getting the child’s mind skewed towards the religious sect, is strongly practised by JWs, to the extent that I would call it emotional abuse.
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Hello Half-b, Thank you for the insightful response. I actually do think he's unaware of the dangers to his son, and to his family should he decide to dig in. His wife has been pushing him to become a...
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Sobriquet, like your brother and your neighbour’s perception of JWs, externally they are ordinary people living a squeaky clean moral life with which they pride themselves as being a “witness” to...
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This could be an absolutely fascinating discussion if only it weren't for the devastating effects on the lives involved. That makes it horrific. Here are a few things that you might not know about...
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Hello Half-B and Cee Cee. I'm so grateful for the understanding of the JWs that you offer. There are so many sad stories on these boards. I have a hard time imagining family abandoning family, in this...
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Shortly after I posted my remarks I made a stop at the local Wal-Mart, where a JW friend of my deceased JW mother works at scheduling employees. The Tech clerk in the store's computer area this ever...
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