Some Confusion - What is this site in regards to JW? (page 5)

cofty

Welcome, enjoy a good sleep and come back often, you will find much to surprise, inform, comfort, amuse and anger you in about equal measure

Green Jade

Hello,

I have about 10 to 20 minutes before I head to bed, and my cognitive abilities are hindered.

English is my primary language, the only one I speak well. I am curious about your comment, so I must ask VampireDCLXV a question. Why do you think English is not my primary language?

Lozhasleft thank you for words and observations. Yes I do think I will be content to visit here. I miss my friends and companions that have known me for many years, but I have to find my way. They have to decide if they can still be my friends. So far ...not so good.

JWS it is good to hear that someone else has gone through or felt similar feeling as myself. Today, I have no issues concerning the truth, and it is what it is. I understand that Elders, MS, Pioneers, and etc are imperfect humans. I'm unsure about where I fit or not fit.

Doubtfully Yours, thank you for your greeting.

Cyber Jesus, thank you for condensed comment and recommendation.

Outlaw, thank you for the brief comic relief. Is that a muppet ready to blow us to bits? LOL

Darth Plaugeis, as you say speak your mind. Honesty is always the best policy but tact is many times required to make some of our comments palatable.

Jookbeard - Hello. Computer Savvy - In relations to the computer, practical understanding; shrewdness or intelligence; common sense. I do know how to type between 60 to 90 words a minute, but I do not know how to maneuver through this site. I don't do "chat rooms" "facebook" "twitter" and anything else that is group related. The last time I participated in a computer group activity was ICQ 7 years ago for about 1 week. So when I say Computer Savvy it also incompasses maneuvering through the internet and this forum.

Now that I have made all the necessary greetings. This is how I feel today. Worried. Sad. Alone. Helpless. I currently do not go to Jehovah in prayer. I do not believe he will listen to the prayer of someone who does not go the meetings. I have tried to. Last year I attended a meeting in a different city so that no one would know me. Obviously, I am well too rememberable. I think people mean well when they ask "so where have you been and what congregation are you attending? Ohhhh I'm so busy with work I have to attend meetings whenenver I can in the city where I am in or some other comments equally inane. Then usually no other question and ppl start to backing away...must be a bad smell in the air....or just me. Some take pictures to send to their buddies. Guess who I saw here?. Its very stressful going to any meeting. And then at the Sunday meeting the visiting brother comes up to present his well rehearsed talk. I am very critical of the brother's address, presentation, content, and research. I don't feel that sense of being sharpened but rather of being a school marm. Instead of the feeling of brotherly love from the congregation I feel tired and ready to get out before anymore questions are asked. It does not help that my dress is too tight and my heels to high. Even I know that my dress should have been toned down. So that is how I feel today.

White Dove

Welcome, Green Jade!

There is such a variety of posters here that you'll most likely find something that resonates with you and captures your interest.

Just ignore the ones that get pissy and laugh with the ones who like to joke with you.

Nathan Natas was just joking. He didn't mean anything bad by his post.

Your reaction to his post made it look like you didn't get English language humor.

You took offense when none was meant. Sorry about that. You'll get used to the humor here.

WELCOME!

Lady Lee

3 classes of posters!!! just 3?

I've been here since the dawn of time - at least that is how it feels sometimes.

1: devout fanatical JW's who come on preaching & firing off bible quotes all over the place

2: persons who have long left the religion & are here to try to help the above see " the truth" for what it is

3: persons trapped in the religion & whilst they know its not the truth, cannot risk leaving because of the threat of having their family shun them

OK how about

4: People who were JWs almost forever, left eons ago, who have been here forever - not to help the unconscious class wake up, but to hopefully help the recently conscious class recover their senses

Yup I'm #4

Definitely #4.

And ignore that OUTLAW character. He will have you falling off your chair and rolling on the floor laughing so hard you won't be able to read the monitor through your tears.

Actually there are a lot of posters here who left a long time ago and are just now beginning to look into what they do believe and the questions they have so you ARE in the right place.

White Dove

Yup, I know the feeling. I fought to stay in but in the end, there was just nothing to stay for.

You sound like a very smart person who wants to really think instead of being told what to think.

I felt like a boat lost at sea, anchorless.

It was horrible at first, then a couple of months later it got better.

Green Jade

Thank you for your greeting coffee_black and cofty.

Thank you for your comments Lady Lee and White Dove.

White Dove I do get humor like the muppet but sarcasm directed at me can wound. I am not emotionally stong but nor am I fragile like glass. I want to laugh and cry about this subject. But Sarcasm can be harsh, bitter, derision, sneering and cutting. No one pays me enough to inflict me with those wounds. So unless someone can pay me each time they wound me, I would rather not. If you want me to get the humor laugh with me instead of at me and LOL ROFL helps.

So how did I get to this website? Actually I was trying to find a JW social website. I thought I could talk to people like me and that understood how I felt. First you have to have the song number from a particular meeting and so on. Well, I would have no idea. Obviously, someone like me was what they did not want. I did get into a dating website (just for laughs)...scary. It was definately not sanctioned. This website was very scary. The conversations were all over the place. I didn't find conversations like: how do I raise children as Witnesses but not fully get involved? Should I pretend to be a good Witness or make a decision concerning my path? Is it possible to get the light back? and many other questions I have. So thought....would people tell me what this site mean to them and how it relates to JW. And I got some feedback.

Green Jade

hello fact finder thank you for the welcome.

yknot

Dang...... I am late but still want to say:

I think you will find this forum is just the type of place you were looking for!

Generally as others have said anything JW can and is discussed along with other topics of interest!!

Loads of great people!!!!

Hugs

Some Confusion - What is this site in regards to JW?

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cofty

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Green Jade

White Dove

Lady Lee

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Green Jade

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