by passwordprotected 18 Replies latest jw friends
"Leave the JW's - eat better food" seems to be a recurring theme here....
We're not pioneering any more, and we have real careers so we can afford something a bit better than Kraft dinner with a smidgen of bologna on the side.
Ninja, can't you find some leftover haggis? And assert your scriptural headship and take the damn TV remote from your wife!
W
Well technically I am still 'in'.......... but this year is different then last because of more assertive 'headship restrictions'
I only do one Saturday of Fake Service and I am not 'allowed' to take the children. (most of my time comes from weekday faked service)
The other Saturdays we are out doing family fun stuff or home projects. It is nice to sleep in and lounge without being in a rush. Sundays (save one)are reserved for his congregation and occassional lunchtime fellowship followed by readying for the next weeks events.
...I am enjoying this little break too as I have no zeal for the 'kingdom message' over that of the gospel anymore...
my "being a lazy bastard" usurps my scriptual headship walty...............
I left in 1997.
Went back to school in 1999. For 10 years my weekends have been occupied mostly by homework and school related stuff--sprinkled with some fun stuff.
The bottom line is that my post-Dub weekend activities have produced something of incalculable and enduring benefit.
I have to continually coax myself out of not dwelling on the colossal waste of time I spent as a Dub doing all of the pathetic stuff they do.
Anyway, school is finished and I am looking forward to starting a new life with a new career and actually enjoying not only my weekends, but my week, as well!!!!
Peaceful and guilt free!!!!!!!!!
SEEP,SLEEP and more SLEEP :)
My weekends are wonderful. Saturday morning, my son's plays basketball, so we as a family attend that. Then I usually grocery shop on saturday afternoon and clean up my house real good. Sundays-now guilt free-are spent relaxing with the family. And cooking a good dinner to help us start out our week on the right foot!!
As JW...
Friday night...get clothes, etc ready for Sat. service.
Saturday...get up EARLY to get 5 babies (5 1/2 and under) ready for field service. Get 4 girls and 1 boy bathed, dressed, etc. in time for the group. Get to the group. Sit through the group. Get told to go home, because no one wants to work in field service with a single mom of 5 kids. Go home clean up from breakfast, feed them lunch, put them down for their naps and feel depressed. Know that the service group not only got to to do field service, but also got to go have a coffee at Tim Horton's, but YOU were not worthy, because you had too many kids.
Sunday...get up EARLY to get 5 babies ready for the meeting. Go to the meeting. Sit most of it in the Mother's room or flicking them in the head to behave through 2 hours of mind-numbing meetings. Go home (while the rest got together at each other's homes or for meals at restaurants) and try to be a good mom for the rest of the day.
As a NON JW...
Friday night...enjoy the evening. Go out to the pub and have a meal with my husband and with our kids old enough to go to the pub. Kids working, having fun with their friends, their friends at our place having fun, watching movies, going places, doing things. A few of the kids go to the church group, but it's their choice. No one is forcing them to go...they go because they like it.
Saturday...get up when ever we want. Travel, go skiing, go gambling, go visit friends, family. Get stuff done around the house. Whatever. Rembering how much these "worldly" people have gone out of their way to unconditionally help mr...simply because I was a single mom of 6 kids and needed time out and help to raise them.
Sunday...sleep in...go to our new church at 11:15 for an hour of worship with music and no dress code! Listen to a sermon about JESUS! Go home, feel refreshed, think about my family still in and wish I could help them free themselves of the ratrace of the witless life...and get ready for work on Monday.
...good god, it feels good to be normal!
Rose
As a JW:
Suffer now ... and maybe have a better life in the New System.
As a Non-JW:
Enjoy life now. Enjoy afterlife later.
