Oooh no :*( God help this little one and his family.
hugs Min.
he was born yesterday with many complications including breathing problems, possible lung underdevelpment, anemia and body temperature issues.
the poor little guy was hooked up to a breathing tube and tons of monitors.
because the hospitals couldn't handle some of the problems, they sent him and my daughter to the best hospital in boston last night.
Oooh no :*( God help this little one and his family.
hugs Min.
the great philospher wittgenstein said:.
"humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
so if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in nazi germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important".
The funny part is you saying SENSE OF HUMOR and WATCHTOWER SOCIETY in the same sentence...
Now THATS an OXYMORON
this is the 4th study article, to be studied christmas week as it happens.
title - "maintaining friendships in a loveless world".
para 2 "today, what a pleasure it is to be associated with a worldwide organization whose members follow the pattern set by first century christians.
I think this article encourages vigilanti-ism. And marking and "insider shunning" at the congregation level. I might have a problem with Sister Usedtobeapioneer and decide since she chose to go back to work and stop pioneering she is no longer spiritually strong and "left Jehovah" while another JW may see her as wonderful because she is spending more time in study with her family, or is now able to give money to hall because she is working...
I mean my point being where is the line in the sand???
when i first faded from jws, i didn't know for sure whether it was the truth or not.
being raised in it, it is not so easy to abandon the years of indoctrination.
then, one day i decided: sh*t or get off the pot.
You cant really "what if" the whole thing you know? If it were the TRUTH...you wouldnt have any doubts at all about ANY of it logically. There would be nothing that could refute ANY of it.
The situation is you cant be kinda pregnant...you cant be kinda blue eyed...either you is or you isnt.
Its not the truth. And if you have a spiritual need, continue to persue it and continue to study and ask and learn. That is your choice.
hiyas,.
i am a close friend of sacraficialloon and he requested that i come here and let you guys know what is going on.. .
last night he went to the er for some severe pain in his side.
Oh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan....thats gotta hurt!!!! Thank you so much for letting us know~~
a co-worker of mine whose, wife and daughters are jehovahs witnesses, told me about situation that his oldest daughter finds abhorrent.
he said that a close friend of his daughter was found dead in a car the other day.
she was in her early 30's and had been a lifelong jw.
These people have no hearts nor minds. If they have to go to the LITERATURE to see "how to act" in this situation...then they are no longer human beings.
Im so sorry for your loss. :*(
hello everyone, my fiance has sent me a message for everyone here in response to my first post.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/178960/1/hello-there.
this is the fiancee...first of all thank you for the welcome.
I hope she understands that any unburdening of her heart and questions she needs to ask but was a fraid to...she can bring here.
hugs
i've not used any boards for a long time because i felt i'd got what i needed from them and felt i needed to 'move on' for want of a better word.
i've just come back from staying at my j.w parents house for a few days (which was long enough) we don't usually bring the subject of 'it' up but the other night i got it all, the bile was out, they were on defensive mode, to the point of shouting, insulting me, telling me that they'll 'cut me off' if they find out i'm apostate, then laughing at me and causing me to actualy feel worthless it was unreal.
i told them i'm an atheist and tried to tell them what the 'truth' does and what it really is but i got absolutely nowhere.
I never ceases to amaze me the GALL and the SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS and the TACTLESSNESS and the total lack of LOVE JWs display. They become Jekyll and Hyde. They berate, insult, belittle, mock...what the hell IS that??? Is that behavior supposed to make us RUN back into their midst if only to make the CHIDING STOP??
Oh HELL no.
Im sorry you had to deal with that with your own parents. They probably thought because you were staying there you were cornered and would have to listen to their 'bile' and bile it is!
or not, as the case may be.
in-laws' family members were visiting from out of town so we went over for the evening.
my uncle-in-law is extremely religious.
I have visions of 1) the EXORCIST... and in her case even the split pea soup AND head spinning 360 didnt stop the priest...and 2) seeing a grown man "cry" on a stage on TV at some point going " I have SIIIIIIIIIIINNED MY LORD!!!" and wanting forgiveness and repentance and oh yeah MONEY and...
What is all that self righteousness boil down to but ego? The JWs have a HUGE frickin ego and haughtiness about them that Gaaawwwd Himself gave them ALLLLL the insight and the POWAH and the GLOOOORY in the world to preacha to the masses-ah and to save-ah all the people-ah......
amen.
Ugh..had I been you it wouldnt have been pretty. You have much more tolerance than I have.
other than possibly family members, do you care what happens to those you called "brothers and sisters"?.
The only ones I couldnt care less about are the bastards in the tower who have been sucking their living off the rank and file, threatening them into servitude to support their lazy self righteous asses.
They can all go straight to hell in a handbasket.