they make a huge deal over how the co is coming and we have to show appreciation for his visit.
did the co ever do anything special for you during his visit?
I just enjoy their well-speaking abilities. Love motivational speakers as a whole!
The last we had in the Spanish congregation was sooooooo boring. I was very vocal about this and people that liked him didn't appreciate me telling them that he was the most boring CO I'd ever encountered in my whole JW life. Some got really frustrated with me on this issue. I just loved being the one to tell the truth about it; many knew it but wouldn't dare say a thing.
DY
http://quiz.ivillage.co.uk/uk_relationships/tests/happy.htm
my results
free and happy .
Free and happy
You really have got happiness down to a fine art. You've got a brilliant approach to life.
At the core of your approach is the understanding that if you're not happy, then it's down to you to sort it out. There are things you can do about it - changing the way you think, feel or the way you handle your problems. You have the confidence and self-belief never to simply accept misery as a way of life.
You believe in yourself and your ability to get through things. You're not smug, but at peace with the real you.
It could be, of course, that you aren't 100 per cent sorted in all areas of your life - work, play and love - and that's natural. Or it could be that you lack some happiness skills, such as goal setting or managing your emotions.
I agree with what I got in this quiz.
DY
you know, i never thought that i could meet someone so much like me.
but i did and right here at jwd, we only live a couple thousand miles from each other but i feel driven to relocate.
not tomarrow or anything sudden but the thought of someone who you know deep inside is you're perfect match is so far away, what else is there to do ?.
Lots of good luck wishes to you.
DY
specifically ohio university.
how can you be against college and recruit new members there?
http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/~jwitness/.
I've known of this recruiting campaign for some time now. It happens at just about any big university campus.
It's a nice and easy way pioneers use to count their time.
DY
while i think it's perfectly okay, i do wonder what motivates jws to post here and especially to also express views critical of ex-jws.
is it the freudian notion of "projection": the jw who denounces something in others that he or she is also guilty of?
hence, if a jw clearly denounces an apostate's faults, it must mean the jw is really against apostasy when it might be something he or she struggles with.
The JWs who consider themselves in 'good standing' only post here in order to count it as 'time in service'.
Little do they know that if the WBTS got wind of them reading, let alone posting, on a website such as this one they'd at the very least be reproved for having association with 'apostates'.
DY
great advice received from a close jw relative who we visited last week.
she said that husbands are the head of the family, and if the wife doesn't support him in serving jehovah then he should give her a good smack across the mouth, thats what she deserves.
if only adam had given eve a good smack across the mouth when she proposed eating the fruit, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now!
I believe you!
Not long ago there is this elder that told my husband, right in front of me!, that he should exercise his headship and force me to do the spiritual things I was supposed to do (go to meetings and service regularly) and that I would thank him later for having saved my life. What a crock of bs!
With a smirk on my face I told this elder very nicely that as long as we recide in the land of the free force doesn't work in my home. You all should've seen the look that elder shot back at me. It was priceless.
As much as I love my hubby, if he tried forcing me to do this boring/pointless stuff I'd leave his butt so fast it'd make his head spin!
DY
glad i found this board and hope to have some interesting discussions.
i'll post my story later today, but in the meantime; i'm a single parent with 2 kids, was a jw for 26 years in total (born one, left at 17 years, went back at 21), became inactive 4 years ago and disassociated myself 4 weeks ago!.
my experience with the bible org.
Welcome to the board!
I know there are many boards for support in Spanish for ex-JWs and people on their way out such as myself.
Welcome again!
DY
since i stopped going to meetings about six months ago i have been getting happier and happier and don't know why.
i don't know who god is anymore, or if there is an afterlife.
i don't have as many friends as i used to, though i am starting to build new ones.
I venture a guess that the reason why you're feeling good is because you're now...
1- In control of your own destiny.
2- Not attending a place 5 times per week where they subliminally feed you that nothing and no one is good enough, therefore, you must give more, more, more!
3- No longer concerned with only having friends for as long as you're a JW; even then those friends would look down on you if you're not doing exactly what the WBTS says.
4-Being true to yourself.
DY
my husband was originally scheduled for a conference in new orleans in october, but that was cancelled due to katrina.
they are talking about moving it to miami.
i had been to new orleans a few times and was familar with it, but i don't know a thing about miami.
3 hours North. Charlotte County. Greetings!
DY
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i don't know what to answer to my own question.... i guess that i still believe in a paradise earth where humans could live forever.
I still believe there is no life after death.
DY
