by RunningMan 18 Replies latest jw friends
I agree. Life is better now than ever! Things I do to "buy out the opportune time":
Lovin' Life!
Andi
It's all about "feeling free"..
Anytime is a good opportune time to:
feel "FREE, FREE, FREE"
free to sit in the hot tub on a lazy, hot .. Thursday night..... RELAX.
Free to think and dream and play and sing... la la la...
Special K
I can relate to everything being stated here! When I was married, and ex and I talked about how "someday" we would travel, and own a Jaguar and see good for all our hard work! Well she went back to the Borg after the divorce, and her boyfriend went to prison! I ...own a custom Jaguar and travel an average of three and a half months a year! (Just finishing up nine weeks here in Michigan). There is no way I would ever go back to that vomit after having a taste of freedom away from the WatchTower slavers! Maverick
While corresponding with a nice young Mormon gentleman recently, who'd always had questions about the JWs that he couldn't get straight answers to from the Borg, he asked about the time spent studying the Bible. He tried to impress me with his 3 hours a week of personal Bible study. So I gave him a rundown of what my life was like when I was in the Borg...here's a copy and paste of what I wrote:
"Monday evenings: Family study. We would study the Watchtower magazine article which was to be covered at the following Sunday's meeting (The WT magazine is always piublished with 2-3 articles which are in a numbered paragraph - question & answer format; a new article is studied each week) Fam. study usually lasted about an hour and a half.
Tuesday evenings: Bookstudy meeting. Smaller, less formal meeting (like small home groups, for our BAC lurker friends) held at homes; but still quite structured. Again, Q&A format, done from a WTS publication, using a pre- assigned portion of material from said publication. The book would be studied over a period of weeks until it had been covered from beginning to end. Meeting lasted one hour.
Wednesday night: preparation for Thursday night's meeting, which was...
Thursday night meeting: Theocratic Ministry School for the first 45 minutes. This was where we learned how to present the publications; we also learned very valauble (no sarcasm here) public speaking skills. Seriously, people pay hundreds of dollars to get the public speaking skills that I received free of charge; well, monetarily at least. Then the second portion of the meeting (another 45 minutes) was study from a leaflet called "Our Kingdom Ministry". You can click here for a link to see scaned copies of this publication. It wasn't a large leaflet, mind you; published once a month and the elders managed to drag four 45-minute meetings out of it. And sometimes there was a month with five thursdays in it....you get the idea. KILLER.
Friday night: FREE!!!!!!!! LOL Seriously, Friday nights were my own. No Borg responsibilities on Fridays. I loooooooved Fridays.
Saturday morning: Field service (otherwise known as door-to-door work). Everybody had to do it; and it wasn't a two-year thing that you got out of after a while. It was an ongoing thing. Horrible. The absolute worst part of being a Dub.
Sunday morning: The big one. First, a one-hour talk by an elder, either from our own congregation or visiting from a neighbouring congregation. Second, the one-hour aforementioned Watchtower study, again in Q&A format."
Needless to say, I won. LOL Not that it was really a competition, but you know what I mean.
Tinkerbell,
you are soooo baaad. Honestly you spend time with opposite sex-unchaperoned! I suppose there is unbridled frolicking and cavorting. Next thing you know you'll be text messaging. You sinner!
Deb
RunningMan,
Well I hope your happy now! You have chosen the "weak and beggerly things".
You have made materalism your main goal in life, and have willfully forsaken spiritual intrests in favor of your own.
I think your a selfish bastard who will either burn in hell or die eternally. Either way, your selfish arse is grass and Jehovah's gonna mow it! When Armageddon strikes........I don't want to hear your winny arse saying..." I wish I hadn't left the Organisation, I wish I hadn't left the Organisation". It will be to late, and the door will be shut and you'll be a poundin away trying to get in! ..........but your a bastard, and you won't be able to. You really need help my friend and in a hurry. I still love ya though and wish you the best.
Good luck in your selfish journey
Gumby
Gumby
you are soooo baaad. Honestly you spend time with opposite sex-unchaperoned! I suppose there is unbridled frolicking and cavorting. Next thing you know you'll be text messaging. You sinner!
LMOA!!! good one deb!!!! :P
RunningMan plays in chess tournaments? Nice, so do I, in Arizona. I also loved your recount of the assembly this year.
IJWTS that "buying out the opportune time" is one very strange phrase.
