Comments on: Sick of it! http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Internet based resources for current and former Jehovah's Witnesses Tue, 22 May 2012 20:20:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Faith http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it/comment-page-1#comment-989 Faith Tue, 15 May 2012 01:45:28 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1135#comment-989 This is hard to read without tears and I can only imagine what your young life was like. I do admire you for telling your story, and so thankful that you were finally helped and received counseling. I know how everything is hidden behind those closed doors in that organization, and after all these years it only gets worse. You are a survivor and an inspiration to others who have dealt with emotional problems in that so called "only true religion". I pray that you keep your head held high and continue to heal. I wish you much happiness in your life now.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('989','Faith'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> This is hard to read without tears and I can only imagine what your young life was like. I do admire you for telling your story, and so thankful that you were finally helped and received counseling. I know how everything is hidden behind those closed doors in that organization, and after all these years it only gets worse. You are a survivor and an inspiration to others who have dealt with emotional problems in that so called “only true religion”. I pray that you keep your head held high and continue to heal. I wish you much happiness in your life now.
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]]> By: Anne Marie http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it/comment-page-1#comment-909 Anne Marie Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:32:09 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1135#comment-909 No one can understand the sheer terror and fear of being at the mercy of a deranged parent who is also a religious zealot; one who believes that any "imperfection" on your part is clear indication that they need to "do a better job of beating you." I am SO, SO very sorry for the horror that you endured, and that those who should have helped you did not...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('909','Anne Marie'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> No one can understand the sheer terror and fear of being at the mercy of a deranged parent who is also a religious zealot; one who believes that any “imperfection” on your part is clear indication that they need to “do a better job of beating you.”

I am SO, SO very sorry for the horror that you endured, and that those who should have helped you did not…

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]]> By: Heather http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it/comment-page-1#comment-883 Heather Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:45:02 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1135#comment-883 I too was raised a JW, my father left when my mother became baptised, the Elders encouraged his departure as he was not a Witness. My step father was a good man and an Elder. The brainwashing my mother endured caused her to have many nearvous breakdowns, and still to this day is highly medicated. I try to live a "normal" life, but the haunts of their Chicken Little philosophy still plague me. I know that Jesus died for my sins, and my salvation is secure thru his sacrafice. I do not need to knock on doors, attend 3 meetings a week, not give my husband a Valentine's Day card, or never visit another church. Whatever our dear lord has in store for us will be revealed. Pagan's, Christians, Muslims, Catholics, and all. God loves us all. Not just the JW's. Honey, I am sorry you had to go thru what you did. God will set his own vengenance on those that hurt you. Keep far away from their twisted ideas. Go with your heart. Love, a true sister in spirit.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('883','Heather'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> I too was raised a JW, my father left when my mother became baptised, the Elders encouraged his departure as he was not a Witness. My step father was a good man and an Elder. The brainwashing my mother endured caused her to have many nearvous breakdowns, and still to this day is highly medicated. I try to live a “normal” life, but the haunts of their Chicken Little philosophy still plague me. I know that Jesus died for my sins, and my salvation is secure thru his sacrafice. I do not need to knock on doors, attend 3 meetings a week, not give my husband a Valentine’s Day card, or never visit another church. Whatever our dear lord has in store for us will be revealed. Pagan’s, Christians, Muslims, Catholics, and all. God loves us all. Not just the JW’s. Honey, I am sorry you had to go thru what you did. God will set his own vengenance on those that hurt you. Keep far away from their twisted ideas. Go with your heart. Love, a true sister in spirit.
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]]> By: Editor http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it/comment-page-1#comment-713 Editor Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:25:53 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1135#comment-713 Mrs. Sixx, That's the whole article. And yes, it stops before she got home. Her comment that "Armageddon broke out when we got home..." indicated quite clearly that her troubles with her parents, especially her father, escalated to even greater levels. I leave it to her to tell her own story, and I hope that someday she does write a follow-up to this article, but I will tell you that she was so desperate that she eventually left home for good and received care and counseling under state protection. Read the article again and imagine yourself as a well-developed 15-year old being punished the way her "Christian elder" father did her. I am the father of three daughters and I was reluctant to even lay a hand on them, but would never have put them through what her father forced her to experience. "Armageddon" was an excellent description of what she faced when she left the police station.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('713','Editor'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Mrs. Sixx,
That’s the whole article. And yes, it stops before she got home. Her comment that “Armageddon broke out when we got home…” indicated quite clearly that her troubles with her parents, especially her father, escalated to even greater levels.

I leave it to her to tell her own story, and I hope that someday she does write a follow-up to this article, but I will tell you that she was so desperate that she eventually left home for good and received care and counseling under state protection.

Read the article again and imagine yourself as a well-developed 15-year old being punished the way her “Christian elder” father did her. I am the father of three daughters and I was reluctant to even lay a hand on them, but would never have put them through what her father forced her to experience.

“Armageddon” was an excellent description of what she faced when she left the police station.

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]]> By: Mrs. Sixx http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it/comment-page-1#comment-712 Mrs. Sixx Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:52:51 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1135#comment-712 Where is the rest of the article. It stops before she gets home -- is there a second part somewhere?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('712','Mrs. Sixx'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Where is the rest of the article. It stops before she gets home — is there a second part somewhere?
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]]> By: "A Survivor" http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it/comment-page-1#comment-539 "A Survivor" Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:32:54 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1135#comment-539 Thank you Jozz, for your concern and sympathy. I do know how the brothers and sisters volunteer THEIR time and money to knock on doors. The Governing Body are the ones that I feel are living large on the fruits of loyal SERVANTS labor. As for twisted thinking, my mother was told by her elders she was to forgive my father of incest up to seventy-seven times, as Jesus would have done. It wasn't until I left the house was I able to recieve help. The elders were told by the Governing Body to seal all documentation and evidence of my father's crimes, and not to read it. It wasn't until a "worldly" counselor saw how desperate I was did I recieve the help I needed.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('539','\"A Survivor\"'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Thank you Jozz, for your concern and sympathy. I do know how the brothers and sisters volunteer THEIR time and money to knock on doors. The Governing Body are the ones that I feel are living large on the fruits of loyal SERVANTS labor. As for twisted thinking, my mother was told by her elders she was to forgive my father of incest up to seventy-seven times, as Jesus would have done. It wasn’t until I left the house was I able to recieve help. The elders were told by the Governing Body to seal all documentation and evidence of my father’s crimes, and not to read it. It wasn’t until a “worldly” counselor saw how desperate I was did I recieve the help I needed.
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]]> By: jozz http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it/comment-page-1#comment-538 jozz Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:50:01 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1135#comment-538 to miss survivor, i sympathized with your experience. And i don't have anything against what you feel. But i hope you don't generalized the whole organizations of JW. If your father passed through the discipline of the congregation, for sure, with Jehovah, it won't. Elders do not tolerate such acts as God won't too. The society work for God's kingdom and not to earn money. You know how the brothers and sisters work as volunteers. They never work to earn for their own pocket. YOU KNOW THAT. I believe that such experience could torture you and twist you're thinking. I pray you could recover better rather than recover even badly with the knowledge of this system of things.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('538','jozz'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> to miss survivor,
i sympathized with your experience. And i don’t have anything against what you feel. But i hope you don’t generalized the whole organizations of JW. If your father passed through the discipline of the congregation, for sure, with Jehovah, it won’t. Elders do not tolerate such acts as God won’t too. The society work for God’s kingdom and not to earn money. You know how the brothers and sisters work as volunteers. They never work to earn for their own pocket. YOU KNOW THAT. I believe that such experience could torture you and twist you’re thinking. I pray you could recover better rather than recover even badly with the knowledge of this system of things.
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]]> By: "A Survivor" http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it/comment-page-1#comment-479 "A Survivor" Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:40:37 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1135#comment-479 Shannon, I have several things to say in response. First, what I have learned is that the world, our individual reality, is as we make it. Everything happens for a reason, and we have the choice to either be beaten down by negative experiences that have happened to us, or we can grow from them and become a stronger, more evolved person. The word pagan by definition means a person who does not believe in your god. When "Christianity" swept through, any villager or peasant that did not "convert" was then labeled a pagan. Demons and witchcraft really had nothing to do with it then, that connotation with the word came later. I agree that most people do not know the true meanings and symbolism behind many of the holidays. The "Christian" leaders of the day combined their own view points with beliefs and rituals of the "pagans" in order for the new religion to be more palatable to them. Christmas for example. Many do not realize that the death and rebirth of the Son refers to the death and rebirth of the Sun during the winter equinox, an important time of the year to the "pagans". That is why Jesus Christ was given such an incongruous birthday. It's all a matter of viewpoint. Maybe to the pagans, Jesus was a false god. I don't blame Jehovah. He is just one god out of the many available for people to choose from. I don't blame anybody. Well, maybe I blame the "Governing Body", who sit in Bethel like the "wizard" in Oz. The Watchtower Bible and Track Society is a CORPORATION that exploits the human need for a connection with a higher power, the need for answers to life’s mysteries, and the need for a place to belong. All for the purpose of lining their pockets. In the process they have created, and then in turn, protected pedophiles. Created by the rules and regulations, protected by the rules and regulations.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('479','\"A Survivor\"'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Shannon,
I have several things to say in response. First, what I have learned is that the world, our individual reality, is as we make it. Everything happens for a reason, and we have the choice to either be beaten down by negative experiences that have happened to us, or we can grow from them and become a stronger, more evolved person.
The word pagan by definition means a person who does not believe in your god. When “Christianity” swept through, any villager or peasant that did not “convert” was then labeled a pagan. Demons and witchcraft really had nothing to do with it then, that connotation with the word came later.
I agree that most people do not know the true meanings and symbolism behind many of the holidays. The “Christian” leaders of the day combined their own view points with beliefs and rituals of the “pagans” in order for the new religion to be more palatable to them. Christmas for example. Many do not realize that the death and rebirth of the Son refers to the death and rebirth of the Sun during the winter equinox, an important time of the year to the “pagans”. That is why Jesus Christ was given such an incongruous birthday. It’s all a matter of viewpoint. Maybe to the pagans, Jesus was a false god.
I don’t blame Jehovah. He is just one god out of the many available for people to choose from. I don’t blame anybody. Well, maybe I blame the “Governing Body”, who sit in Bethel like the “wizard” in Oz. The Watchtower Bible and Track Society is a CORPORATION that exploits the human need for a connection with a higher power, the need for answers to life’s mysteries, and the need for a place to belong. All for the purpose of lining their pockets. In the process they have created, and then in turn, protected pedophiles. Created by the rules and regulations, protected by the rules and regulations.
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]]> By: shannon tett-davis http://ex-jw.com/sick-of-it/comment-page-1#comment-478 shannon tett-davis Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:57:52 +0000 http://ex-jw.com/?p=1135#comment-478 You know that's really sad. Unfortunately. Jehovah's Witnesses are imperfect humans. So whether or not your parents were J.W's or not, they were most likely going to be abusive. I wasn't born a J.W., but I didn't have a strict upbringing. I had t.v.'s and cable and friends who were wordly. My mom still listened to music, even hip-hop as long as it had no cussing or vulgar language. They drank occasionally. My mom is now a baptised publisher and my dad is an elder. Some parents no matter what religion they're in, can take religion too far. Jehovah's Witnesses as a whole, compared to other religions, are the kindest, unpredjudice, very thorough with bible teachings. All they are trying to do is what Jesus did, and what Jehovah asks of us. I'm just now going back to the Kingdom Hall. I have 6 tattoos and a peircing. What I learned is that being in the world was hell. Peoples beliefs in Heaven and Hell are so backwards and contradicting its crazy. I've been raped, decieved, stolen from, lied to. And to see the things going on in the world that the bible and Jehovah's witnesses teach is unreal. It's happening. And sweetie as much as I love Enigma and Enya and music like that. Some things really are pagan and demonic or more. & unfortunately, some traditions and Holidays and things as such, are actually pagan and lead back to worshiping false gods. Like Thanksgiving. Even if I didn't believe in the truth, I'm part Native American. Why in the hell do people celebrate a holiday that represents genocide and lies? Native Americans were killed and raped and their land taken from them! Christmas, no one even thinks about Jesus on that day. HE didn't even celebrate his birthday! Witnesses aren't the only ones that know this, it's a scientific fact. I'm sorry your parents were sick and cruel. But don't blame Jehovah.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('478','shannon tett-davis'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> You know that’s really sad. Unfortunately. Jehovah’s Witnesses are imperfect humans. So whether or not your parents were J.W’s or not, they were most likely going to be abusive. I wasn’t born a J.W., but I didn’t have a strict upbringing. I had t.v.’s and cable and friends who were wordly. My mom still listened to music, even hip-hop as long as it had no cussing or vulgar language. They drank occasionally. My mom is now a baptised publisher and my dad is an elder. Some parents no matter what religion they’re in, can take religion too far. Jehovah’s Witnesses as a whole, compared to other religions, are the kindest, unpredjudice, very thorough with bible teachings. All they are trying to do is what Jesus did, and what Jehovah asks of us. I’m just now going back to the Kingdom Hall. I have 6 tattoos and a peircing. What I learned is that being in the world was hell. Peoples beliefs in Heaven and Hell are so backwards and contradicting its crazy. I’ve been raped, decieved, stolen from, lied to. And to see the things going on in the world that the bible and Jehovah’s witnesses teach is unreal. It’s happening. And sweetie as much as I love Enigma and Enya and music like that. Some things really are pagan and demonic or more. & unfortunately, some traditions and Holidays and things as such, are actually pagan and lead back to worshiping false gods. Like Thanksgiving. Even if I didn’t believe in the truth, I’m part Native American. Why in the hell do people celebrate a holiday that represents genocide and lies? Native Americans were killed and raped and their land taken from them! Christmas, no one even thinks about Jesus on that day. HE didn’t even celebrate his birthday! Witnesses aren’t the only ones that know this, it’s a scientific fact. I’m sorry your parents were sick and cruel. But don’t blame Jehovah.
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