the membership rule is simple, you join the organisation for life and undertake to serve for life.. my o.p is based on the poet robert burns who talked about the gift to " see ourselfs as others see us".
i think maybe the hardest thing for me to leave, the jehovers witness " organisation" was to accept how my family and friends will now "see" me.. so my questions are how difficult was it to leave:-.
a) knowing the reaction of friends and family?.
I have gotten to the stage were I don't care what or if they think of me.
And yes, it was worth it.
Now if I see them, I don't feel the need to either greet or grovel or to run and hide, I just go about my day not owing those SOBs anything.
I paid my price for leaving and I'm done and I'm free!
what were *your favorite *books in the organization?.
out of all of those books, i liked "mankind's search for god.
" however, it appears to me that this book is incredibly obscure and no one recalls studying it during the old book study format.
ok this is story1.annointed bro moves into a house and rents room from a lady.
2.he is currently serving as elder.3.there happens to be a disfellowsipped brother also living in house.4.
the annointed elder decides to help him to return to jehovah.5 the other elders find out and decide to remove him as elder because he is living and helping a df person and the annointed bro cannot move out because he does not have enough money.
Oo, that's harsh.
An older brother I knew was deleted as an elder for not kicking his disfellowshipped son to the curb -they didn't disfellowship him though.
what were *your favorite *books in the organization?.
out of all of those books, i liked "mankind's search for god.
" however, it appears to me that this book is incredibly obscure and no one recalls studying it during the old book study format.
I remember reading some old copy of a Commentary on the Letter of James book and really liking it as well.
Then other brothers and sisters started telling not to read it because the brother that wrote it was disfellowshipped for apostasy.
That only made me like it even more.lol.
what were *your favorite *books in the organization?.
out of all of those books, i liked "mankind's search for god.
" however, it appears to me that this book is incredibly obscure and no one recalls studying it during the old book study format.
I really loved the Everything is Awesome book..... oh wait, hang on a minute that was a song from the Leggo movie.
Sorry, my bad.
i've been fading for about 9 months.
the elders know exactly why.
i received a phone call a couple of days ago.
here is another jackson's misleading answer, from the transcript of august 14 :.
25 q. do you accept corporal punishment?
29 a. not not personally, no, and not as an organisation 30 we don't encourage it.
Jackson was talking out of his ass for most if not all of that interview.
Speaking anecdotally (if that counts) every hall I have ever attended and also working in mothers and babies at assemblies I have witnessed the spanking of children, regularly.
Every born-in I have ever known has admitted to also being spanked as a child.
It happens. We all know it happens. The GB knows it happens.
at our recent rc i was advised by a sister who was an attendant that they have been advised not to be able to give brothers directions as this should be dealt with by the brothers.
apparently at the pre-convention attendants meeting, the sisters were asked to stay behind.
this was when they were given the news that the brothers should deal with brothers.
You're welcome Miss Lisa.
You always make me think, so thank YOU.
Games we shall call: How to survive the RC without fantasizing about blowing your brains out, oh this takes me back!!
Try this. Roll up tiny bits of torn up paper and see how many you can place on the head of the person in front of you before they shake their head. It helps if they have big hair.
at our recent rc i was advised by a sister who was an attendant that they have been advised not to be able to give brothers directions as this should be dealt with by the brothers.
apparently at the pre-convention attendants meeting, the sisters were asked to stay behind.
this was when they were given the news that the brothers should deal with brothers.
NY44M - the sisters wearing a t-shirt that shows a map of the convention grounds would solve that problem.
