12 years for me and before i actually became a member, i looked at this site (jwd) for a few months..
Since 3/08/03, first as "nowisee", then as "creativespirit", now as "GreenGirl8".
I kept forgetting my password.
I am contemplating coming back again in yet another persona: "nowiseemore"!! lol
Of course I remember you (and your questions) and mouthy from the beginning. But I don't come here too often anymore, just checking in every once in a while to see what interesting is happening.
so recently, several over-righteous ones in the cong were discussing "how amazing it felt when they got baptised".
statements like "how awesome did it feel as you got raised back out of the water?!".
or the classic "i felt so close to jehovah as i came out of the pool"!.
I was barely 11 years old. How could I be serious about anything.
i certainly wouldn't.
and if the elders wanted to have a meeting with me, i would respectfully decline.
if the elders wanted to deal with you, would you talk with them?.
This is either a joke or a trick question, right?
given the recent holiday, i can't help but reflect that this has been a very good year and my life is pretty damn good.
there was a lot of hard work, but i get a sense that i am finally reaping the benefits of years of effort.. what do you have to be thankful for and has 2014 been a good year?.
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Many things.
Definitely thankful that I escaped from the WTS and my first marriage - If I hadn't I really don't think I would have survived.
Thankful that I have everything that I need in terms of food and shelter.
Thankful that I have work that I love.
Thankful that my elderly mother and aunt are still here after being in and out of the hospital all year, and they are currently doing well.
Most of all thankful for my wonderful husband, who loves me no matter what, and I love him too with all my heart.
ive been to an eerily accurate psychic who got so many things right.
i dont believe in god but i definitely believe in a spirit world.
if you have been to a psychic who has been accurate have you ever asked about the future of jws?
I used to post here many years ago. I came to look for Lady Lee and was dismayed to fomd that she is no longer posting here. Does anyone know how I can reach her?
ive been to an eerily accurate psychic who got so many things right.
i dont believe in god but i definitely believe in a spirit world.
if you have been to a psychic who has been accurate have you ever asked about the future of jws?
Yup, been to many.
After JWs I went to a spiritualist after some arm-twisting from friends. I was given various bits of info, but also was told that my grandmother (who was named -not a common name) was looking out for me and saying the "Lord's Prayer" for me.
Some year later I owned and managed a metaphysical bookstore, knew many psychics. I had some unusual readings which were specifically accurate about some people in my life (i.e. named names). Nevertheless, after running psychic fairs for a number of years I came to believe that it was mostly a sham and mostly done for $.
Still, there were things told to me that were so specific that they were not easily explained, and so the ability to "read" remains a question mark.
it's been 12 years since i first read ray franz's books and the scales came off my eyes.
by that time i was in my forties.. since 2002 i went back to school and have worked with 3 very professional organizations.
but my biological clock is ticking away and while my peers are looking forward to retirement, i am only beginning.
I have been out since 1976 (right after 1975).
Denied a college education, it really was too late as my life had taken another trajectory. I fell in love with the President of the company for which I worked. Married at the time, he said, "this is all wrong, you have got to get out of your marriage and your religion."
This man, who was not emotionally stable, gave me the impetus and the catalyst to get out. Within 6 months I was out and within a year divorced.
I was always artistic, could have had a major artistic career, but alas, it is what it is.
The affair was doomed; I spent many years working in corporate which I hated and meeting men and women through personal ads.
These many years later I am married to my wonderful second husband (who once studied for the Catholic priesthood), and I have a very successful and active shop on Etsy.
Life is interesting. And it is very short. It is about the journey. Make the most of it. It could always have been better. It could always have been worse.
(also known as garage sale, yard sale).
i couldn't help but notice that there was a large stack of watchtowers and awakes piled high on the kitchen table.
under a catholic icon picture.
(also known as garage sale, yard sale)
I couldn't help but notice that there was a large stack of Watchtowers and Awakes piled high on the kitchen table. Under a Catholic icon picture. Person had obviously been very sick and had lots of religious books of all sorts around the house.
I could imagine this person being subjected to return visits ad nauseum as he/she was most likely housebound and hungering for company, answers, etc.
No evidence that they were ever disdovered...
hi, i am also a practicing jehovah's witness and very proud of it,to say the very-very least..!
i am a middle-aged man with many decades of being a witness of jehovah god in england.. this important letter is personally to you, just as many of the bible's 88 letters are to be taken personal by you the reader.
i am writing to you to urge you to take stock of your life, think what your future holds for you.
(Sorry I haven't read every word of this thread.)
Uh,
88 books of the Bible?
This kind of reminds me of the day on The View when xJW Sherry Shepherd insisted that Christianity was the first religion in human history.
Of C
Of COURSE I believed!
I would live on earth in about an acre of land, in some (dead) rich person's architecturally designed house. With my now former Bethelite XHusband. For vacations I would ride on the back of the shark from NY to England.
