I grew up as a JW kid and it actually made me feel good, being different from the other kids in school.
Yup, being brought up to become a social outcast can be very character building.
i find it hard to believe that adults on this forum make such a big deal about not celebrating birthdays, x-mas, easter, halloween, etc, etc, etc.
i grew up as a jw kid and it actually made me feel good, being different from the other kids in school.
we went to meetings.
I grew up as a JW kid and it actually made me feel good, being different from the other kids in school.
Yup, being brought up to become a social outcast can be very character building.
so what have you got?.
i'll start.. 1958 aboard steamship arosa star, english and german jw's bound for new york for 8 day assembly at yankee stadium.. .
Remember these assembly food trays?
40-50 years after saying "armegeddon is right around the corner" we are now making progress!!!.
gotta have a sense of humor to deal with this stuff..
" a nashville swingers club has undergone a conversion it now says that it is a church in order to win city approval, so that it can open next to a christian school.
" (associated press).
the article explains, "a church is something that cannot be defined under the u.s. constitution"..... wt lawyers explain to the court all of the time; 'you can't interfere with our internal church policies, or you will be infringing on our first amendment rights.
things that i trust more than hillary clinton:.
mexican tap water.
any email from nigeria.
LOL
hey guys n gals, sorry its been such a long time since i've posted.
lately i've been very busy balancing between my school work and cult activities.
since i've been doing pretty well "spiritually"(enough field-circus hours, attending meetings, underlining my literatrash, reading, praying and serving as the mic-master) my coordinator grabbed me to the side after a meeting and talked to me for twenty minutes straight congratulating me about how good i am doing.. then he paused for a good five seconds and got all serious.. then he proceeded to tell me that the young ones in the hall aren't doing too well.
Whatever you do, don't try the depression dodge. I did that when I was trying to fade away and my Dad prescribed 6 months vacation pioneering as the only cure!
(I did the VP for 3 months and eventually got put on restrictions for loving my neighbour a little too well)
what would be your plan or ideal reason the walls came crashing down?
I wouldn't want to bring them down. It would just set up splinter units. I'd like them to change their policies re blood and disfellowshipping, though I do believe they now regret ever putting them into place.
Get rid of the blood thing, the disfellowshipping thing and the 2-witness rule and i wouldn't have any more reason to quarrel with them. Apart from denying education, spoiling Christmas and messing up relationships generally!
heard/saw this 30-second commercial last year - they just started it up again this growing season.. pink songbook memories, anyone?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocuojb1ripq.
I found a link for Song 119 - Keep Your Eyes on the Prize.
Try this one. When Keep your eyes on the pies was first introduced back in the mid 60's, everyone in our congregation started to grin and mutter: "Snow White's" song!
what percentage would you say of all jehovah's witnesses really 100 percent follow the shunning decree to the letter just answer with a percent thank you
What about winking? Or smiling then shaking head sorrowfully? Or just a can't-speak finger up to the shunner's lips?
so what have you got?.
i'll start.. 1958 aboard steamship arosa star, english and german jw's bound for new york for 8 day assembly at yankee stadium.. .
Here's another pic I found in my Mum's effects. It's outside the old UK bethel at Craven Terrace, London.
Bottom left is Stan Reynolds who I remember as becoming a kindly CO, top right Stanley Jones who was to be imprisoned along with Harold King as I recall.