a year ago, i would've never attended.
what a difference a little time makes, huh?
Rather than 'apostafest', those gatherings should be called "people that threw the baby out with the bath water fest".
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The stories I've read about in this forum... talk about decadence and going off the deep end!!!!? Count me out of those scenes!
DY
holy crap it's hotter than hell out there!!
i know, i know, i had bitched back in early may cause it was snowing outside, but this is crazy!
right now, it's 30 celcius, or 86 fairenheit outside.
Southwest Florida: 95F degrees, heat index with humidity factor 105F degrees!!!
FEELING HOT, HOT, HOT!!!
DY
a year ago, i would've never attended.
what a difference a little time makes, huh?
By what I've e-heard here in the Forum, I gather a lot of promiscuity and excessive drinking goes on at those apostafests. Therefore, I don't think I'll ever be attending one as I really dislike that life style.
Really, really, really dislike drunks!
DY
i know very few people who have been successfully married where 1 spouse is a witness and the other is not.
i know there are a few examples on this board.. a couple that i know irl have split after nearly 25 years of marriage because of the stupid shunning shit.
one of their 3 children got df'd 6 months ago and that is when everything fell apart apparently.
Unbeliever,
"your mom" told you about another person and their relationship troubles. I guess there's a lot of information you might be missing.
In most instances, the WBTS has nothing to do with a couple's problems, but rather their own doing is bringing the problems about.
The WBTS encourages to keep the union if the other party is not a JW. However, there are things that only the people in the relationship know about which caused the break up.
It's easy to blame the religion, though.
DY
i made an interesting find last evening.
i stumbled across a site purporting to be a jehovah's witness reform movement.
while it sees value in jehovah's witnesses, its primary purpose is to reform the governing body.
There's definitely a reformation movement within the JWs, whether they like it or not it will happen sooner rather than later, because all the die-hards are literally dying off and the new generation of JWs is more educationally/technologically/humanly inclined.
I'm somewhat excited! I see some changes already:
More young people choosing to further their education past high school, which in turn will broaden their minds and help disipate the cultish 'JWs against the world' mentality.
It's just awesome!
DY
is it possible that just about everything we say about the jw's on this forum is true, but on the other hand they would be the only true religion that god approves, even though they are imperfect and make errors?
I now believe that God has many 'people', belonging to many different religions and many different walks of life.
There's good and bad people everywhere!!!
DY
with grace and style tiger defeats monty and alle and takes the cup.. great golf with a wire-to-wire win for tiger.
hope you golf lovers got to see it and enjoyed it as much as i did!.
jeff
I was so happy to hear this!
I'm not much into golf, but Tiger is defenitely my guy! What a great sportsman he's turned out to be!
May he become the greatest in all the record books!
DY
a few days ago i had the privilege of being invited to a regular pioneer's birthday party.
i met her a couple of weeks ago, and even though she knows i am inactive and have serious doubts, we hit it off on a social level.
so that's why i was invited... .
I know quite a few JWs that in a hush-hush manner celebrate their own as well as their kids' birthdays on a yearly basis.
Be very quite, though! Mom WBTS doesn't approve!!!
DY
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there are volumes of wt writings, artist renderings and other material that make it very clear that the wt is eagerly anticipating the mass destruction of governmental, religious and commercial systems, their buildings, along with the billions of people that adhere to them.. combine the wt doctrine with the emotional oppression and enmity created by the divisive, nonconformist practices of the wt and you have the makings of terrorist motivations.. if a jw or group of jws were to ever go ballistic and act out in a massively destructive attack in society, do you think the wt doctrine would be held liable on the world scene?
The WT doctrine teaches its followers to "wait on Jah" and he'll straighten out matters in due time.
DY
jw children have typically a very hard time growing up because of having to be so different from other kids they can't celebrate christmas, easter, birthdays or national holidays can't associate with "worldly" kids because that can ruin good habits, and as teenagers have to suppress sexual urges at the time when they are at their most intense.
they are constantly under pressure and living in a jw environment that's not particularly loving, understanding, or supportive they will probaly tell them: if you feeling down do some more field work to cheer up.
no wonder why so many leave.
I had no friends in the regular school system growing up. I never did any extracurricular activities.
I would've loved to have been on a sports team, or to have learned to play a musical instrument and be in the school band.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! We had the time so occupied in meetings, field service, preparing for meetings, assemblies, and those silly JW get-togethers filled with silly biblical games and other non-interesting stuff.
When a holiday came around we would either not be sent to school, or be sent to school only to spend most of the day at the school library or the principal's office during the celebrations. IT WAS AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!
I swear it constitutes emotional abuse on a child. I feel so sorry for the kids of JWs. They're missing so very much!!!
DY
