i really want to let go of the exjw obsession.
but i can't.
i keep coming here and other sites several times a day.i want to shout from the rooftops to my family and friends and say, "it's all a lie!
I visit and post here very often.
Sometimes for over 8 hours at a time...
I keep up, as I have a dear wife and her family that I would love to see come out.
On the other hand, I don't want to be the one that exposes the lie. I'd much rather be here to comfort them after they find out by some other means.
I don't know if that makes sense?
when i think about where i am at now in my life, in my marriage, with my kids.
why did i get involved with this cult?
i have brought out the cult personality in my wife and there no turning her back.
Maybe it's time to mention to the kids that attending the meetings is "their choice".
They may quit right after you enlighten them on this reality.
i read on a jw forum that jw's came in for disapproval if they drove either sports cars or 2-door cars.
the reasoning was that a driver couldn't easily take fellow dubbies out preaching in such a vehicle.
was that ever official policy or just local nonsense from a grumpy po?.
Before I left the JWs we had a nice Volvo.
Fast forward to last Feb, I'm out and gone from WT world.
The car was getting old so, I bought my wife a new daily driver. ( which she loves )
I have had sports cars ever since I was a teen.
Here's mine:
is it just me and my cynical nature now, but are those new songs just so "culty" or what??.
if you haven't herd them yet, go to the office website and listen and read the lyrics.....
My JW got back from the meeting tonight.
I asked her how she liked the new song.
She said it made her cry and she loved it.
this is a rant mainly in response to my wife's reaction to the stupid clam meeting last night.
bear in mind, while i am not sexist, i am also not politically correct.
.... it is no secret that the women in this organization outnumber the men.
This is a very interesting topic for me, as my wife if being guided by the GB.
I need to think this through. Should I ask her to read the opening post?
I told her I would not share anymore TTATT with her.
I answered my own question.
We have had over a week of very good days in a row.
Why spoil that...
hello people.. i'm tired and a bit sick at the moment but i can't let anyone think that this is going to go away.... i am able to tell you a few things in order to prevent any confusion in the minds of those who are thinking that nothing will come of this arc;that nothing will effect the wtbts in america and other places.. i have been there and given my testimony.
helen milroy and her assistants were there along with another group of people who are there to lend assistance if you crack up at any time during or after the hearing.
i did not crack up but can see how this happens.. security is tight and anonymity is sacred to them as they want to protect all who come forward.
truth is absolute.
there is no such thing as 2=1 or 1=2.. if one starts out with the equation 2=1, one has already failed.. truth = truth.
you cannot change whether something is truth or not.. when the organization teaches one thing as a truth (ex.
when i was a teenager, i was told by an elder that because i smiled a lot and was known for my good sense of humor, that i should come across as "more serious".
so before i was appointed a ms, while in my late teens, i transformed myself into a much more "serious" brother.. were you ever told that you needed to work on something that you knew was stoopid?.
I was working the stage at the FF assembly hall in Ca.
The edge of the stage has a raised surface.
From anywhere in the auditorium it would very difficult to see anyone's shoes.
The CO gave me the boot, because my shoes were not shiny. ( nice black suede shoes ). I was dumb and went into the audience and traded shoes with a friend that had shiny ones...
Years later, when I was trying to figure out what I doing and how to escape "privileges" first and the cult second, I remembered how to get booted off the stage. I wore slacks and a sports coat instead of a suit. ( ooops! ) They never saw me again.
hi now they are only printing one magazine a month rather than two what do people think the borg will do with all the money they will have saved rather than printing about 55 million copies of the watchtower
Either the money is funneling away to some controlling group that runs WT or they will use the money to fight the impossible to win legal battles.
That's what I think.
it was about 15 years ago.......... i was at a one day special event in woodburn or.
i was talking to lyman swingle about how the society could save some money.
it was a crazy idea ( to crazy to relate here)...............anyway he laughed and said to me.. "brother..........we have always had the money to do the things we needed to do.......and if we didn't.......we felt it was god's holy spirit telling us, it wasn't what we should be doing".......so...i said "so the money is like a barometer, no approval, no money"......he said "yea..... i guess you could say that!
When it becomes painfully obvious that Warwick is a retirement center for the WTS board of directors and upper management, it will be too late.
This has all the smell of closing shop and firing everyone without notice.
