Posts by sowhatnow

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What is this latest letter from the GB about?

by stuckinarut2 in

we have been told this week that all in the elder and ms body will be read a letter from the gb about "make this the greatest month of activity ever"..... has anyone else had such a letter read out in their cong / servant body?.

i presume it will be all about "recommending strongly/insisting" that all these men should pioneer for the month?.

sowhatnow

so the requirement to do this work of the organization, pioneer,

over steps the command to love your husband wife and children, honor your father and mother. it eliminates the requirement to

care for your family , teach your children valuable life skills, get to have a close relationship with them, know them help them with school spend time with your mate,

and other family members,or close friends. no one has time for much of anything outside this treadmill people are on. its no wonder no one has any freinds.

the taking up of everyones time outside of the days necessities, has led to disaster. people dont even know what thier own kids are up to.

how does anyone not see that?

work what is good [not required by men] toward ALL , especially those related to us in the faith.

yea not a single elder or atually anyone in the hall i left,

knows where i live, let alone anything about me.

they will come by not to see whats wrong and help, but to see why im not at the meeting. were all just assignments.

they dont have time to really care, they have enough burdens, they cant care, they would use thier emotions, and conscience, and thats a barrier for dicipline.

and maintain the standing they have to live up to for the society.

those in new york dont have the burden of families and jobs, its easy for them to say!

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Scientists Can Now Cut HIV Out of Human DNA

by Dis-Member in

hiv is a sneaky virus.

its mo involves integrating its own genes into your dna, so that even as antiretrovirals hold everything in check, hiv lurks quietly inside your cells.

now scientists have found a way to edit the virus straight out of the human genomea potential cure for even latent infections.. genome editing is powerful technique that has really come into its own lately, thanks to a remarkable dna-cutting protein that easily and precisely cuts out a particular dna sequence.

sowhatnow

whats amazing is that while people have the talents for this science, they still wont use thier brains

to get rid of the objects we use for transportation, ie automobiles, that are

explosives on wheels lol..

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I had a lovely weekend, how about everyone else??

by quellycatface in

jw
friends

there is life outside the organisation, which i have the pleasure to have experienced, since december.

i went to a lovely church wedding saturday, followed by a reception.

hic!!.

sowhatnow

well thanks.

I dont know how to find people who i may have known in the past that may have left as well.

i had attended 7 congregations in my lifetime , yea 7. and not a single sister went out of her way to accept my freindship.

Id drive to sisters homes, to help when they were ill, cleaned for them, picked up their kids, ect, and

never got an invite or a phone call. one time my daughter ran away when she was 16 and not a single person on my congragation called me.

she was missing for a week. even my husband came home from work and did not ask if she was found! his own child.

my mom who is a hard core jw cant figure out why i dont have tons of freinds , she knows how her freinds think im ' so sweet'and giving

ect ect, becausue its to all of them who i send thinking of you cards to, and little gifts, they are all older and some are shut ins,

so i try to make them feel better by searching on line for free pretty music to make mixed cds for them.

but soon they will all be dead, they are all in thier 80scant exsist off that forever. even when my kids were small, i couldnt seem to get any jw children to give them the time of day.

i dont get it. I think its becasue we did not have a fancy house, we lived in a mobile home and did not own a house then. predudace.

now my kids are adults, and i wish i could find out who after all these years felt like me about these teachings, and wondered what was wrong .

of course im depressed, one big reason is my husband pays no attention to me and hadsnt slept with me in two years , i even sleep alone now.

not that mind that its nice having the whole bed,

but sex , i really really miss, its not like im unatractive to him, im only 5'4 and 120 pounds, and pretty healthy for a 52 yr old.

its his drinking.

he cant do anything. and doesnt care.

I have no one to talk to about what i am probably going to have to go through, if my mom decides to make a big deal out of my fading.

shes 72 my dad is 74, and they depend on me sometimes. its stressful.

i have a bad left foot that im trying to get figured out, and lower back that needs attention ,

if my husband had any affection for me hed give me a back rub.

so for now, that keeps me from getting a job , if I could even get one with no skills at all and no job ever.

I dont know how to search the web for x jws in my area. then maybe i can find them on facebook IF knew who they were.

so for now i just wait like i have my whole life , for what i have no idea, i guess death.

I only live for my 12 yr old grandaughter to see me twice a month.

i think im an outlier or something, or a geek or something, i dont know anyone who likes what i do. im an oddball i guess. i have the mac

and everyone else is on windows, lol. my son who is 25 and i have a very close relationship hes unique too, hes now in teneseee.

he says mom, we dont belong here ,

were in the wrong country! lol maybe we are!

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Dating

by d in

as a ex jw i am cyncial to dating perhaps because i did not do much dating as a jw.

do any of you still feel this way?

i am not against dating but i am still that dating and getting yourself emontionallt attached is sort of a way of being in chains..

sowhatnow

i know this is an old post but if things havent imporved for you be glad your not me , a

52 yr old woman who wishes she could have left her husband 15 years ago, who cheated on me three years ago, and wanted forgiveness .

which a 'good jw' does right?

wish i could find a date and get the heck out of this relationship. never would have went

back but there was no way for me to support myself long enough to meet anyone.

so here i am in a loveless marraige

wishing i could have actually fallen in love with someone who actually loved me.

ill most likely never know that feeling.

if your under the age of 30 there is still time.

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Need a Game Plan

by bafh in

i'm not sure what is going on at the convention, but i just got a desperate call from a friend wanting me to attend sunday's morning session.

last weekend, my mom invited me too.instead of saying something like, "i'm sorry, but i have no intention of going back," and having them completely freak out - i agreed to go to the sunday morning session.

any recommendations?

sowhatnow

you might want to go to a dive of a resturaunt saturday night, and eat a giant uncrispy salad with room temperature chicken

if your lucky youll get diarreah and have to stay home.

if not make sure you get any new releases, so that years from now when they go out of print youll have a copy to barter with.

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does anyone have the 7/15/2013 study wt?

by sowhatnow in

i watched this video this morning and in it, the person refered to the july 15 wt but does not say what lesson or page.

showing in the video where it says that 'jesus arrival to appoint the faithful slave over his belongings did not occour in 1919'.. on the jw.org website i downladed this issue and cant find where this is stated , i do not have that issue.. if someone can watch the video , its almost at the end, tell me id your issue says that.

if it is not at the jw.org website, and the statement is in the print issue then why would that be?

sowhatnow

im just going by what the video says which was posted in may

have you this issue? if no one does ill have to wait till i get up to my moms and get hers for a look.

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I had a lovely weekend, how about everyone else??

by quellycatface in

jw
friends

there is life outside the organisation, which i have the pleasure to have experienced, since december.

i went to a lovely church wedding saturday, followed by a reception.

hic!!.

sowhatnow

I spent the day doing housework like i do everyday. beautiful sunny day, and no place to go.

tell me how some of you found new friends, I have been a jw for 45 years since i was 5 yrs old. as an adult no matter how hard i tried i could never get any

association, I nor my family, has been invited to a meal or to do anything, from a fellow jw in over 35 years.

so i am not loosing any freinds in the jw org by leaving, however, how do we make friends if we dont work a paying job ?

ive been a stay at home mom for 32 years. doing service and meetings bla bla. so i have no freinds. jw org thanks for nothing.

my husband of 35 years works all week, and drinks on the weekends and does not give me the time of day.

he spends more time waxing his cars.

almost divorced him, but had no job, and no place to go.

im home all the time. most of my family are jws and older, and not in PA.

i have looked in my area for some volunteeringand there is nothing. Im 52 and simply bored to death.

all my creativity and desires rotting away and no way to use them.

i spend time taking photos of flowers and birds my two cats, and making flower arrangements for my table out of wildflowers. and i just joined facebook

and already its boring.

pretty pathetic huh? I have no idea how to find anyone to talk to .

any advice ?

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does anyone have the 7/15/2013 study wt?

by sowhatnow in

i watched this video this morning and in it, the person refered to the july 15 wt but does not say what lesson or page.

showing in the video where it says that 'jesus arrival to appoint the faithful slave over his belongings did not occour in 1919'.. on the jw.org website i downladed this issue and cant find where this is stated , i do not have that issue.. if someone can watch the video , its almost at the end, tell me id your issue says that.

if it is not at the jw.org website, and the statement is in the print issue then why would that be?

sowhatnow

i watched this video this morning and in it, the person refered to the july 15 wt but does not say what lesson or page

showing in the video where it says that 'jesus arrival to appoint the faithful slave over his belongings did not occour in 1919'.

on the jw.org website i downladed this issue and cant find where this is stated , i do not have that issue.

if someone can watch the video , its almost at the end, tell me id your issue says that.

if it is not at the jw.org website, and the statement is in the print issue then why would that be?

thanks

i tried to post the link but cannot figure out how to do it , so try to search it the title is 3 the watchtowers biggest lie

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so when exactly did babylon the great fall?

by Crazyguy in

in another thread a sister is being told that babylon the great fell in 1918 but all growing up i was taught that babylon the great was about to be destroyed by the un.

so what am i missionng here or are they caught in a blatant contradiction?

or was i hearing it wrong?.

sowhatnow

From what i understand in my own reading, it fell when jerusalem was destoyed after jesus died.

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Been over this one before? By the voice behind him, John of Patmos directed to write...

by kepler in

someone in my family many years back was pursued very intensely by jws in her neighborhood to become one of the pack.

two or three jws would meet with her each week and they would discuss the bible, with which she was well versed, and also some of their supplementary commentary material of a high ratio of drag to lift.

she became more and more enthusiastic about the bible, but did notice significant discrepancies between the text and the study material.

sowhatnow

I can say i have never heard of someone placing the jws congregations in the same light as those biblical congregations.

i think the subject rarely came up in my lifetime. although i do recall studying in a book stud y something about it but I was young and probably fell asleep.

however from a simple observation id say theses 7 congregations were simply literal congregations, and

the revlelation ch 2 commentary at bible gateway is always a place to start. I do think though that there were real angels that were members of those and some of the people looked up to them.

from my own personal research, Im gleaning that revelation has been completed and has nothing to do with us today. you might find it interesting and enjoyable to read the book misquoting jesus - the story behind who changed the bible and why. by bart erhman.

as its is, im glad revelation is all symbolic, I have enough stress in my life right now trying to undo the damage to my brain from this

organization Ive been part of for 45 years.