i have posted the full story on a fb site.
so my apologies to anyone who's already read it.
some of what i've written is what was told to me by my father.
Just a footnote: Youngest son Ben and his lady Katie, the couple closest in the earlier pic, eloped and got married in Virginia USA.
She's an American lass and there were all sorts of complications getting in the way of their getting together, both work-wise and immigration wise. So they just said bugger it - lets just do it!
Isn't that wonderful?
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one word for it.....apostate!
!.
But..but..but..it was all our own fault!
The WT explained this very clearly in its issue of July 15th, 1976 when it said:
"If anyone has been disappointed through not following this line of thought, he should now concentrate on adjusting his viewpoint, seeing that it was not the word of God that failed or deceived him and brought disappointment, but that his own understanding was based on wrong premises."
So there you go you miserable apostates. Get your heads on the carpets in supplication and beg for forgiveness!
i just realized that i was 39 years old when i joined this discussion board.
i remember the morning conversations that always brought me laughter, and i think there were only a but about 9 or 10 regulars back then!
i will now turn 57 years old in a few months.
i know that some are upset because of the time lost because of ever having been a witness.
have you moved on as an ex jw or are you stil devastated because of your past jw lige?.
Nope. It didn't change me irrevocably. It did impede my maturation however. But that's common to most cult followers. It's also common to drug addicts, so I guess it's got a lot to do with dependency.
Ultimately, once you've left, you will go through a period of realisation, then outrage, then whining, but eventually you realise that no-one said that life is fair - or equal - and you just get on with it.
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Does Cedars love the sound of his own voice?
That should pretty well tell you all you need to know.
aside from obvious things that most people agree on, like theft being wrong and the importance of family, i can't think of a single thing i agree with the jws on, nothing that's specific to their religion anyway.
do you have any?.
I agree that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
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Lord spare me from another narcissist:
my pimi (physically in, mentally in) friend believes she was marked without them telling her.
i believe her, and she has been making work for the elders.
she is a pain in their arse, and they are a pain in hers, which is great.
This is after my time. I'm curious as to what takes place.
december 4, 2017 to all congregations in britain and ireland re: changes to circuits.
Perhaps they mean that there are no longer enough COs to go round since many of them are waking up to the JW racket.
So it could be that the ratio has increased. Say initially 500 - 1, if half of the CO's have gone the ratio would be 1000 - 1.
