jehovah's witnesses are taught that they will live "forever" on paradise earth.. let's say the year is 278,486 (assuming armageddon occurred in 2003).
the millenium has passed, everyone has been resurrected, and earth has become the true paradise the jws predicted.. only one problem: you've done everything there is to do.
you've gone every place on earth there is to go.
"maybe the fastest I can do is twice the speed of sound" haha You are STOOOOOPID. Do you know that we already travel WAY faster than that.
Not if you take public transit.
For serious, how are we supposed to get around in paradise? No bikes, scooters, skateboards or cars? If we walked everywhere at that glacial pioneer pace, that would kill a lot of time.
I wonder how Jehoover will convince all the tigers and lions to become vegetarians?
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who are they?.....i'm not sure but i think simon is one of them!
ROFL!! That picture is priceless!! I wonder where the WT finds models for those photos?
were you considered a "troublemaker", a "complainer", a "fine" brother or sister?
were you always being called before the elders for one thing or another?
is your reputation the same here as it was in the congregation??
minimums- does Notperfect have a crush on you disguised as paranoid obsession?
I was labeled spiritually weak. My mom's English was limited and she was a bit tempermental, and my dad was an unbeliever. I tried to get with the WT program, but was always viewed as an outcast & misfit. I still am.
at this point in my life i don't think i could trust any religious group.
i don't even feel the need to be a part of anything like that right now, and maybe never will.. but i know of some who have joined other churches/groups since leaving the borg.. why do some join another religion and why won't some ever get involved again?.
what makes us so different?.
I wish i did believe in God or Jesus or some higher power. I can't stand AA or NA because they were too much like the WT (long boring meetings, endless books and pamphlets to study, self-righteous people giving testimonials). That's the closest I've come to joining a church/group. I'm not much of a "joiner," must be that isolationist WT mentality.
my mother told me that after i get married, she's going to give me the "family happiness" book.
i've never read the thing, but i know it's a wts publication that often gets given or mailed out to newlyweds who aren't in the troof.
what's your opinion of this "fine christian publication"?
a cook, a dishwasher, a housekeeper, a decorator, a nursemaid... "
How wonderful to view your wife as cheap labor. What a bunch of sexist pigs. I haven't read this drivel in a long time, and it still makes me angry.
I'd better sublimate my irrational female emotions and go scrub the floor.
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somebody stop me!!!!
please .
BW, you look adorable. :)
scenario: you meet a person and like this person.
all of your friends tell you to beware of the person.
do you ignore their warnings and give your all to the friendship or are you more cautious than you would have been otherwise?.
LOL @ surreptitious! :D
this is a v. timely topic.
so many people that i have contacted or emailed show the same fear as well as i do.
now that we have backed away from the wts many still want to hide.
i have contacted several people that are in fear to reveal themselves.
hi mole - It may take years to overcome the WT indoctrination, and the phobias they have implanted. It is a constant and at times painful process.
Its been helpful for me to read the threads here and learn about the abuses of the WT. Many xJws feel as you do.
i see a lot of hopelessness and cynicism now.
are you actually happier now than when you were a jehovah's witness?
Great post, OCW!
I was very depressed growing up in the troof. Now that I'm out i'm less so, and still working on "issues." I try to be in the moment and see the beauty in every moment.
did you have any unusual experiences while you were a witness?.......i was working out in service with an old brother who was as zealous as anyone i ever knew.
he would knock on the door a number of times, ring the bell, knock on the window and ring the bell again.
if he believed someone was home, he'd wear down the householder to open that door.
so THAT's why my lawn is so brown... wonder if the elder had prostate trouble?
Once, my FS partner stopped a teenage girl walking down the street to offer her the mags. The girl was polite, and while listening to the sermon, stepped backward into a pile of dog turds. We tried to tell her, "watch where you're stepping," she didn't seem to hear us. She kept moving her feet nervously, (probably wanting to run away) and smeared it all over her shoes and the side walk.
While we were talking to her, our FS group caught up with us, and one of the elderettes went right up to her and said, "You're stepping in dog poop." The girl turned red, but continued to make polite chit chat because my partner was on a roll. We finally said goodbye to her so she could go home and clean her shoes.
