i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".
of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.
i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".
Always loved Amazing Grace, and although not hymns (lol) loved some of the songs from Jesus Christ Superstar and strangely the theme song and music from Vicar of Dibley I found myself humming along to. The kingdom melodies were like dry, stale bread in comparison.
How ironic, I thought, this so-called worldly/babs the great music was more stirring emotionally than their crappy songs of praise to the "only true God."
first off, i certainly agree the jw's are a cult.
but i'm sensitive to black-and-white thinking now.. so, where do they rank on the scale?
think of a cultish religion scale from 0-10.. consider the likes of unitarian universalism vs baptist vs amish vs charles manson.. where do you think jw's fall on the scale?.
before they just go ahead and file chapter 7 or 11?
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not long after learning ttatt, my hubby and i decided it would be best for us to fade.
his entire family is in, but not in the same cong.
we made it to the region convention and one sunday meeting after that.
I salute you. I started my fade with missing every other meeting and got down to sunday public talk then stopped.
Took them ages to realize I probably wasn't coming back.
Now I could not imagine sitting through that fuckery...oops ... huhmm... I mean fakery.
I think there is a danger with a really slow fade to become accustomed to it...even addicted to the double life thing. Then you become a perpetual fader and I didn't want that.
Good for you for drawing your line.
i recently started working at a goodwill here in wisconsin, and i've never encountered more witnesses ever in my life.
every time i go to work, i see at least two or three people that i used to go to the kingdom hall with getting suits, dresses, etc.
some of them say hi, but some of them i just ignore, or they ignore me.
Maybe they've been listening to Macklemore's song Thriftshop.
I'm gonna pop some tags
Only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I'm a hunting, looking for a come up
this is fucking awesome
yes, last week the number of bethel layoffs was confirmed from 90 to 125. .
and those going in thinking they may be there for some time have been told.
that they may be there for two months rather than 3 years depending on .
They act like a business but without any of the laws that are in place to protect employees of a business.
They enjoy the best of both worlds, religion and hard-nosed business.
before they just go ahead and file chapter 7 or 11?
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yes, last week the number of bethel layoffs was confirmed from 90 to 125. .
and those going in thinking they may be there for some time have been told.
that they may be there for two months rather than 3 years depending on .
I must say, I have wondered if the Aus branch would have a serious reshuffle of the higher-ups after the ARC debacle. It wasn't a good look for the Society, particularly Toole and Spinks they really came off as arrogant assholes. But then again, arrogant assholes are usually rewarded with more responsibility in Jehovah's organization.
With the Sydney real estate market being what it is, they could make some serious money selling the Australia branch and surrounding land off to a developer or an investor.
matthew 15:30. great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them.. whether the above story has any foundation of truth cannot be demonstrated.
and while certain people claim to have had their mobility restored in our times, the fact remains that its a very hit and miss affair.
this is a good time to be alive.
Indeed. Oh, Jehovah's witness heal thy lame self -with TTATT!
today i remembered one of my disillusionment episodes, when i was going from rejection to rejection, and i was discovering the wide gap between spewing beautiful words and actually translating them into actions.. a few years ago, in my darkest hours of depression, it occurred to me to send the following sms to one of my closest friends in the congregation.
i truly believed in her friendship and thought i could count on her.
it was one of the very rare moments in which i was ready to put myself completely out there and pour my heart out to someone.
The reality is JWs are incapable of helping themselves let alone another.
They are not the happy, loving, caring organization they claim to be, and their teachings produce cold, callous, robots. It is painful and shocking when their true nature is revealed to you but it is far better to know what you can and can't expect from these people.
Take care and be kind to yourself tempest, your reaction to this is normal and reasonable.
It's them that have the cold hearts.
If you need to see a professional do so.
