by stillajwexelder 59 Replies latest jw friends
EvilForce .. "if you want to call me evil so be it".
I don't want to call you evil .. just said you picked a strange name for yourself. If your present religious beliefs are based on the bible, you have to admit, EvilForce is about as strange as it gets.
AFIN,
If you don't wish to shared your definition of 'living outside of Jehovah's arrangement' that's OK by me.
Is there something in perticular you'd like to talk about?
steve
Steve ... I mentioned a few posts ago that anything further on that topic would be redundant ... that's why I didn't respond again.
At the moment, there is nothing in particular I care to discuss, but thanks for asking.
No.
JWs have taken what was once the early Christian's opportunity to gather together,( tell experiences, give an upbuilding discourse, eat, and actually enjoy fellowship in love) into a boring rudimentary procedure void of any upbuilding stimuli.
As a whole, they're full of negative speak and 'buzzwords'. Now, there are those who are quite interesting (ie normal) about.The thing I noticed most, when everyone leaves out of the KH, they seem to cheer up and come back to life. When everyone is inside the KH, it appears they lose their liveliness and become almost as if dead. They are extremely afraid of what others think of them, to their own detriment. Because of this, JW's behave in an 'expected' manner so you really never know who they might truly be.
The 'expected' manner is to be a bore void of any thought.
Am I wrong to feel.......................?
Your values are your own. Your feelings are the result of your values. Your feelings cannot be wrong unless your values are wrong.
Ask yourself why you value and you answer the question of why you feel.
Nobody can tell you how to feel.
Stilla:
Totally understandable
AFIN:
EvilForce .. to have such profound thoughts on the subject of religious beliefs, you sure picked a strange name for yourself :)
Don't go judging a book by it's cover, now
i keep hearing about all these apostafests. jeepers, we need to get some going up here in canada!
HEY!!!! What have I been doing for the last 15 years? But having gatherings in Canada.....!!!
AFIN> My heart goes out to you dear boy!/girl? You sound like I felt after they kicked me out ( because I dont believe Jesus came invisably in 1914) I loved being a JW!!!! I thought I had the truth & was serving the Creator. I have said many times before on this board so forgive me old posters, but I must repeat to AFIN My husband would beat me, even ending up with a fractured skull-because I would spout what I learned at the KH----I gave up on my Mum & Dad because they said the WT was a cult. I made 10 people JW,s Yes I made them.... !! I pressured them into coming to the KH & studying their books because I thought I was giving them LIFE everlasting..... But AFTER!!! Yes AFTER I nearly killed myself when they gave me the left foot of fellowship & took my kids & grandkids as hostages. I found out that there was folks out in that place THEY call THE WORLD who are loving -caring-& loved me UNconditionally- EVEN with the weird Ideas I believed -No birthdays,no Christmas, no voting, etc:etc: & You know what ??????? I found out the LOVE didnt fail. The Wt friend & family was told to hate me. & do. But I now feel it would be fitting to send a THANK- You card to the Elders that kicked me out- They set me free! form a love? with strings attached ( a robot) But I have to tell you the did come bacl afte many years to reinstate me 0 they erred in kicking me out- I was a mouthpeice a Book seller, a fool. !
Hang in there AFIN !!!! Just Pray for the real truth---- Which is Not by works lest any should boast (((((HUG)))))) Grace/Mouthy. Granny
Man, we are just normal people..
You are surrounded by clones. Anything looks colourful from that perspectve
bttp
Stilla,
I wasn't allowed intellectual thoughts nor concepts by the "thought police" of JWdom. If I had thoughts then that means I had questions, and when I actually bothered to question, my parents would set me "straight", and later of some elders, I was ridiculed.
It's taken YEARS to learn to think in gray tones. Now I live mostly in gray tones with a lot of color thrown in!
I enjoy your posts very much.
BTW, Happy BD tomorrow!
Hugs
Brenda
