im giving up guys.
i've reached the end of my patience and now i finally refuse to waste any more time on part-time witnesses.
i've text all of my active jw family members and told them to delete my number from their phone and never contact me again.
I just read this quote this morning:
GIVE THE GIFT OF ABSENCE TO THOSE WHO DO NOT APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENCE
Sadly, that even applies to family members.
If they don't want to benefit from your company, it is their loss.
Warmest love from all of us mate!
there is no holy spirit.
i lead a double life.
i post on apostate web sites, swear like a sailor, covertly subvert the watchtower religion and do many other things i'd rather not mention.
During my fade, I spent years at the meeting on apostate sites like this while operating the sound equipment...
somehow god's spirit never knew....
just curious how we all think.. what prompted or influenced your choice of username for this forum?.
there are some really amazing names, and it would be great to hear the stories behind them.... mine was nothing fancy.
i just felt "stuck in a rut too" along with so many others.
Keep them coming please.
As misfit says, this is a great way to get to know one another. Kind of like "an interchange of encouragement" (sorry, couldn't resist)
i was just thinking that most witnesses can not approach a controversial topic without turning it into an attack of the person who raises that topic.. as we all awaken to ttatt (the truth about the truth), they simply can't discuss the actual facts or issues we discover without turning it into an attack of us as "apostates" with all the negative connotations that word entails.... how truly narrow minded and sad!
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they would rather attack the person than the topic..
Great replies!
how did they ever get away with that and how does it go down now, in today's society?.
its fucking mental.
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haha! fedupjw!
Love it!
i realize that prayer is a really personal thing, but representing a group in prayer has become so full of cliche's that i just want to vomit sometimes.
co week almost every prayer has the phrase "special week of activity" in it.. then there's "please look after the sick and afflicted.".
not so much anymore, "please bless this food and the hands that prepared it.".
The prayers that sounded like they were teaching Jehovah something. As if he didn't already know whatever they were saying. "Jehovah, we learned tonight about the point of....and then we were instructed on ..... and we then learned about...."
Or
The prayers that were simply a review (or preview) of the entire meeting! I would stand there thinking "Yer yer...I JUST heard all of that, you don't need to give us (and god) another summary of the exact same stuff!"
saw this on the exjw reddit forum - very thought provoking.. "when your own thoughts are forbidden, when your questions are not allowed and our doubts are punished, when contacts with friendships outside of the organisation are censored, we are being abused, for the ends never justify the means.. when our heart aches knowing we have made friendships and secret attachments that will be forever forbidden if we leave, we are in danger.. when we consider staying in a group because we cannot bear the loss, disappointment and sorrow our leaving will cause for ourselves and those we have come to love, we are in a cult .... when family and friends are used as a weapon in order to force us to stay in an organisation, something has gone terribly wrong".. deborah layton.
seductive poison: a jonestown survivor's story of life and death in the people's temple.. .
Great thread and quote!
we all need to earn a living.... so just curious, what is the worst type of work or job you have ever had to do?.
Yup @stan! The ideal pioneer job hey?
I think we have all done our time as windows cleaners....
we all need to earn a living.... so just curious, what is the worst type of work or job you have ever had to do?.
Damn that's messy @wake!
Glad that is behind you now.
we all need to earn a living.... so just curious, what is the worst type of work or job you have ever had to do?.
Haha! @ wake. At least your 2 year old hugs you back and shows you love.... better than some postal items.
