thought you'd might like to know but i'm officially out.
it feels great all the hurt, guilt, fear and paranoia questioning, doubts, etc etc are finally gone and it tastes and feels good what a relief.
no more pain and sorrow, only jubilation along with a sense of being finally at peace with myself.
Yes!!!!! I was JUBILANT when they announced that I was no longer a Jehovahs Witness!! Yesss!!! I can LIVE and nobody is keeping track of meeting attendance and HOURS and if Im late or what my HOUSE looks like at the book study....no more spending ALL MY DAMN TIME with that CULT!!! And my kids can join school activities and we can have FRIENDS!!!
YAYYYYYYYY!!!!
What Trevor said WOOT WOOT!!!
any of you who believe in satan or demons, have you had experiences with them?.
have you ever seen satan?.
Why be afraid of something the bible tells us is being "allowed to exist" by God and will supposedly be squashed anyway? Its like what my cat does with geckos. They watch them. They play with them. They chase them and let them run around and then BAM! Dead gecko.
People are easily convinced of things and then their fears become self fulfilling prophecies.
since the jehovah witness baptism is more or less worded like a contract, when someone disassociates does that mean the baptism is considered voided?.
If baptism is a contract, then if you disassociate you didnt void the contract, you BREACHED it, according to them, and they or GOD...dont have to uphold their part of the bargain any more. You didnt stick to the rules, so they dont have to let you into Paradise, nor do they have to treat you like a human being.
When you buy a car, you sign a contract, if you stop paying because you dont like the color of it any more, you are still on the hook for it.
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"better fare hard with good men, than to feast it with bad.".
thomas paine.
I agree. I would rather starve than have the "spiritual feast" spread out by self serving men who have poisoned it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33221072/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/page/2/.
sylvia.
I think its only fitting that it be shown that she has slaves in her ancestry. Only because of the full circle element of Obama becoming president. There were so many things when he was elected that were significant to that...like him being from Illinois like Lincoln was who freed the slaves. And now we have these incredibly wonderful colorful people as our first family! I absolutely adore the Obamas. This country was built and founded on the backs of slaves including the White House itself and the more that is brought out and the more people are educated about our heritage, I believe the less ignorance and idiocy there will continue to be. Im hopeful anyway.
I get pissed off when people talk about keeping immigrants out of this country. The ENTIRE COUNTRY is immigrants and offspring of immigrants except for the native americans, who in my opinion, are still being treated like crap here.
There is a great thing out there now where you can send in your DNA samples and they will tell you where your heritage is from. I think knowing that would HUMBLE a lot of loud mouths out there. Might definitely SURPRISE a lot of em to find out grandma was "passing". :)
my daughter has a shirt that has a skull on it.
she wore it to school.
afterall it is halloween and skulls are the in thing.
The skull on things is very vogue and pretty unscary these days in its application. Its in pink, or with flowers in its mouth, or smiling and saying something silly...teenage girls love wearing skulls on purses shirts jewelry...how scary can a cross be when its in sparklies on your cellphone cover?
So NOT an issue. Thank Avril Lavigne
from a little bird... .
interesting portions highlighted.
notes from annual meeting (oct 3, 2009) .
Jehovah is going to destroy the planet and every nonJW on it imminently...and the biggest news of the YEAR is the fucking song book????
a couple of weeks ago, an ex-bethelite(10 years) by the name of mel smith was disfellowshipped.
i understand that he still lives in ny are and has a mortgage company.
evidently, he was hurt while serving at the farm and watchtower did some horrible things to him.
cheerios thats
IN CON THEEEVABLE
i'm a newbie as far as delving into information other than wt based, and have only just started posting on this board...so maybe the following thought will be old hat to some of you, not a concern or perhaps something you occasionally think about.
but, are you scared to watch the news?
purely for the fact of seeing things go on in the world that would prompt you to think about your jw upbringing?
There have always been wars, always been earthquakes, hurricanes, famines, droughts, starving people, economic problems...ALWAYS. The only difference is now we hear and see about these things instantly as they occur worldwide. I doubt that people who lived during the depression as my parents did, who were in world wars I and II as my parents and grandparents were, or who lost the entire families during the Black Plague, would agree that we are living in WORSE times now than THOSE were.
The Watchtower Society exists solely on fear....make you FEAR outsiders, FEAR the news FEAR God, FEAR the end, FEAR that you arent worthy, FEAR you arent doing enough, FEAR that God will leave you, FEAR FEAR FEAR.
And they are damn good at it. What better way to make a kidnap victim stay and be silent than to instill FEAR into them of dire consequences that will happen to them and their family members, if they dare leave?
The only thing you have to fear is fear itself. God never gave the self righteous egotists that run the WTS, ANY prophetic information or abilities. Every day that goes by we are "closer" to whatever is going to happen in the future. Kinda no way around that is there? Hugs
taken from a yahoo group.
the irony in this was too amazing to pass up.. ------------------.
several encounters with individuals who told me i better get on the ball.
The Bible only says no man shall know the day and the hour...but the WTS knows the week, the month and the year (but Jehovah keeps changing it according to them to save more people)...so I guess THEY are above the Son as well. But we already knew that as they are the mediator to the earthly hopers.
