well, i told my wife over the weekend i was going to go back school to finish my degree.
she is 100% supportive of it!
apparently she doesn't think higher education is so evil either.. since my former major was computer programming and that was in the late 1990's, i was told i'd have to retake a bunch of classes since times have changed.
ou can do pretty much anything related to education as long as you don't promote education to the congregation. I was an elder going to graduate school. I never told anyone and if anyone asked I simply said that my employer required me to go to school
Ahh.......the self-deprecation required to remain in good standing as a JW rears its ugly head again........
i'm not surprised but i must admit to a little eye roll.... looking at some photos on my brother's facebook page, i stumbled on a picture of our mother.
it took a few cycles thru the photos before i realized that mom has a jw pin on her top.. not surprising, but wanted to share.. we have not spoken in a long time.
for a while she was calling me every couple of weeks from her cell phone in the morning.
When those buttons first came out, one of my in-laws made a big show of coming over to my home and giving one to my wife.
The look on my face must have said it all as that button haven't moved past her jewelry box.
hey guys,.
so, since my leaving i have been doing so much research on so many topics that it's been extremely enlightening.
not only have i learned a lot about the organization and what motivates it, but i have also learned a lot about the bible, god and most importantly, myself.. currently, i'm not quite sure where i stand, but i'm having some real issues with the bible and god.
ecc 12:12 - "to the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion [to them] is wearisome to the flesh.".
i just never could keep up with all the jw reading material.
as a zealous jw, it was my desire to read every word published by the org, but i just couldn't do it.
The problems and dumbing down of the flock by inundating them with all that reading material is now further compounded by their encouragement to now print the magazines at home and study them.
What a collosal waste of bandwidth and ink!!!
just wanted to share with my friends, old and new, i got married to an "unbeliever" 11 years ago.. at the weekend we had our marriage blessed in our local parish church with a little party after.. my husband always supported my religious convictions until i disassociated myself in december 2013.. don't deprive yourself of love just because of the jw's.
life is too short.. god bless.
xxxx.
I remember sitting at an assembly with my wife and listening to a demo about a woman giving her experience about her beginning to fall for a man that was showing her a little attention. I remember her saying that after thinking about it, she came to her senses pretty quick.
I couldn't help thinking, as I was looking at her overweight body, pushing 40 and not particularly attractive character, that she'd better get ready to be alone for the rest of her life if that was to be her attitude.
Even the older single "brotha's" in the halls, from my perception, were waiting for that young tight body sister to graduate.
....and she was far from it.
i havent seen this posted in a while and i think its really well done, so i share here now:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdp7pkecjvq.
i have been observing a pattern in recent wtbs publications and events.
is the importance of the preaching activity no longer the number 1 priority?
are not billions of lives still at stake?.
I have been associated with JW-dom through my wife for the full 30 years of our marriage. In all that time, as much as her and her family cling to whatever the organization says, none, to my knowledge, has NEVER brought a study they've started all the way to baptism.
And the studies the few of them do engage in are complete mental cases typically looking for secondary support systems they can move on to.
This organization is to the point where it is running on inertia so its no surprise, now, that it would appear to be all about caring for and amassing material assets.
at least i have this forum.
is there a shorthand for referring to this website?
saying jehovahs-witness.com seems like a long winded way..
Yes.....
They don't want you to go to school and develop the very skills they're ready to use you for.
out of the blue my wife started to ask me about my feeling about the borg.
i told her i didn't want to talk about it...she persisted.
she already knows how i feel, i told her that my biggest beef is that they use mind control, and yep she went in to how i was an apostate and how she doesn't want to be married to an apostate.
Whenever my wife starts attacking me in cult mode, I just ask her is she practicing the fruitages of the spirit.
That usually shuts her up quick.
just got back from a cruise and dubs were walking around the boat faithfully wearing their jw.bore pins smdh.
than at cozumel i saw these lovely sisters.
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the right one probably have very nice tits.
Oh my!!!!!
