well then its time for you to have an attack of ibs, and retreat to the ladies room, lol sit on the toilet and read in peace,lol
sowhatnow
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To all my fellow sufferers at this "special" meeting today
by purrpurr inhow are we all faring?
are we learning anything?
how are we coping?
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Alone
by Deleteandrestart insince i woke up one year ago , i've been doing a somewhat controlled fade , the experience i've had has been a very solitary one , i don't mean by not seeing anyone i know because i know hundreds in several congregations and i was an elder .
but just coming to terms with the fact that this was no longer the solution to life's problems, that i'd wasted so much time, that as i sat in the kh and heard everyone comment, my heart was no longer in it , i no longer fitted in ..... i felt that they were in the congregation all under the spell or some form of hypnosis from the wtbts,.
it was like for the first time in my experience at the kh , that i was the only one to see what was actually going on , the indoctrination, the guilt tripping, i could see it all as clear as day , and yet i had as it where a metal gag over my mouth, i couldn't speak to anyone about it for fear of them turning me into the spiritual police.
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sowhatnow
oh boy, do your watchtowers look like rainbows, lol, with highligting all over them and side margin notes with explanation points, lol. it got so i couldnt stay for the wt anymore.
im sure there are lots of us that sat in a khall basically being nothing more than a chair warmer.
it sucks i know. when i was going to meetings still, I wanted to just jump up and either scream or run out the door. many times i left after the talk, stopped going to the service meets way sooner. I have always had allergies, and lots of time or me was spent in the back. then id leave early. so allergies was my reason for leaving in thier opinion. [one person with perfume on too close to me, and id be a mess] it got to the point many many years ago, that to be in a car group was impossible, id do nothing but blow my nose, so my 'service went first', lol. i was once asked to do letter writting, i said sure, i did it for a couple times, and stopped. but they assumed I was doing that. no one was worried about me.
If may i ask, why are you still going? wife, family? is there a way you can claim to be going to another hall for a while ? where i live id go to two different congs, my moms and the one i went to , everyone knew that i used to go to my moms hall , so when was not at meeting they all assumed i was at my moms cong, especially sundays, since id go over my moms house for the day, after the meeting. no one knew if i went or not. if any one would say 'oh i havent seen you in a while, id say oh i was going to my moms, or i was going down to so -n- so's hall, or i was sick and 'listening in' on the phone, so i always had an excuse. they just werent concerned. and Im sure they viewed me as having ' personal and health' probems, 4 years earlier i went through a seperation and moved away for a time. barely anyone even noticed i left for 4 months! lol, hows that for 'sheparding'. right now im divorced and living alone, no girlfriend to talk to about the grief of my divorce or my sons up coming wedding or anything . no cousins or siblings to talk to that are my age. I sure cant talk to my adult kids about my personal issues. plus my son is in another state.
what sucks is I litterally have no one but this forum to vent to and thats not helping he way i need.and i never knew sites ike this were even around until just when i joined. so maybe your feeling that same frustration. as far as fading, gee,
you might want to develope allergies... or have Ibs, lol, visit that bathroom a lot, [ibs is stress related ] people will wonder what your problem is, lol. then leave early due to IBS, then start to stay home to 'listen in' or not... perhaps you can speed up your exit.
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Mid Week Meeting. The book of Job....what does this teach me about Jehovah
by tor1500 inis it me or are you having a hard time commenting on what does this week's bible reading teach me about jehovah & what points from this week's bible study reading can i use in the field ministry ?
i'm having a hard time commenting because what does job show about jehovah....well, # 1 he allowed job's suffering, but he didn't let satan take his life.
# 2 what scripture could one use in the field ministry regarding the book of job...talking to a householder, see if you don't behave, god's gonna get you....or allow satan to get you.
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sowhatnow
why would anyone want to be reminded of such a horrible story at thier door? there is nothing joyful about ruminating jobs plight in life.
there is nothing positive from the book. [and apparently real fire breathing dragons lived then, lol]
to me all its telling us is that no matter how good we think we have it, at the drop of a hat, it can all be taken away, and there is nothing we can do about it. fire, floods, explosions, sudden death, loss of a job, disease, violence ect. we have no control.
and so this is how ancient man has attempted to explain why seemingly good people have horrible things happen to them.
blame a evil demon god.
Job was unaware of a devil. he thought it was god. he never knew why he went through that.
thing is , everything innocent suffered, animals and jobs children, to prove a point that god already knew, lol.
stupid .
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Evolution is a Fact #36 - Mass Extinctions
by cofty in250 million years ago a plume of molten basalt gushed up from the earth's core.
it erupted in an area now known as the siberian traps - back then it was part of the supercontinent pangaea.
a curtain of lava a mile high and hundreds of miles long lit up the sky.
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A New Words With Friends Player Just Told Me That She Was a Jehovah's Witness And That's Why She's So Smart!
by minimus ini saw she went under the handle of lovejahforever.....she said she is very smart and had cleaning jobs and was going in the ministry this morning.. when she told me she looked forward to beating me (she won the first game) she sid she was smart because she's a jehovah's witness.
my response was we will see how smart she is.. what next?
any suggestions??
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A New Words With Friends Player Just Told Me That She Was a Jehovah's Witness And That's Why She's So Smart!
by minimus ini saw she went under the handle of lovejahforever.....she said she is very smart and had cleaning jobs and was going in the ministry this morning.. when she told me she looked forward to beating me (she won the first game) she sid she was smart because she's a jehovah's witness.
my response was we will see how smart she is.. what next?
any suggestions??
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sowhatnow
lol, wow, cant be because she just happens to enjoy and be good at word games.
oh no, we cant be good at anything without giving the credit to an imaginary being you know,lol
what a statement for an adult to say, Id expect that from a 5 year old.
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Why are witnesses all so highly stressed?
by stuckinarut2 inwitnesses are so anxious, stressed, highly strung..... so much for ones who are supposed to be "the happiest people"..... thoughts?.
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sowhatnow
Because they are convinced in their minds that someone is watching and critiquing every move they make, or dont make, every thought they have, and now know , based on one of the latest study issues, that even their friends are going to turn them in ot the elders if they stray in any perceived direction, from the wt way. they have a burden on thier back. yet say its a light load? lol
they walk a tightrope. they live an impossible life. theyre on a treadmill, life goes nowhere for them.
then they have to sit and hear stuff like
'well god only wants the best of what you as a person can do, we dont compare you to others"
oh really? um, if were ALL supposed to be the same, think the same , why is that not a cult?
its like solitary confinement to the mind.
if we cannot have individual thinking, were not individuals. were wt clones. and as a clone, we have no feelings.
wake up please.
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A Watchtower double standard: Rejection and the silent treatment.
by ScenicViewer ina recent watchtower study article shows how bad it is to be rejected over religious beliefs when olga revealed that her husband was not speaking to her because she is a jehovah's witness.. 9 in south america, olga proved loyal to god by showing respect for her husband even under trying circumstances.
for years, he expressed annoyance at her for being one of jehovah’s witnesses.
he abused her emotionally, insulted her, refused to speak to her, and threatened to take the children and leave her.
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sowhatnow
cant find that article on the orgs site, feb study edition? however I was appalled at the line of four photos where the woman rats on her friend and turns her into the elders for looking at something on her tablet.
the article entitled, learn from loyal servants of god.
really really sick. i like how the photos on another page show the mom taking the boys in sevice while the father goes golfing.
showing respect? lol,
um, why is the father not taking the boys golfing? hes the head of the household.
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Watchtower set for its biggest pay day, ever.
by pleaseresearch inif this is true, and we will have to wait and see.
prince could give everything to the watchtower.
so that's his $300 million fortune.
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sowhatnow
he died without a will?! why would he do that?, surely his close freinds would have advised him to have one, its common sense when you have what he had.
why would he give any to wt, its not like he 'gave up a music career to become a pioneer' lol
if the wt were to get any, it be in my opinion in poor taste, becase they knew of his WT disapproved 'lifestyle'.
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New Watchtower Propaganda and hate speech destroying families (Feb 2016 WT)
by Daniel1555 inthe following is a paragraph from the new february study watchtower article "learn from jehovah's loyal servants.".
7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.
for example, a sister named anne [1] received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.
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sowhatnow
wow, your kidding, Im going to look at the jworg for that article.
you know you have to wonder whos writting these articles.............
well if you do get any conversation, just ask them, what would jesus do? lol
gee, where does god say to disrespect thier parents?
geeze dont they have anything good to say in those magazines anyore?
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