Posts by out4good4

Your wife, along with this "brother" is totally disrespecting and circumventing your authority,boundary, and space. They have, in effect dismissed you as the boys father.

If it were me, I'd show up after one of their weekend meetings and demand to meet with the whole body of elders and point blank them on what is going on and ask if they would tolerate such disrespect in their own home.

Play the headship card.

Barring that, I would withdraw my "ble$$ings" and start proceedings for kicking her ass to the curb for disrespecting me in such a way. If she and the brothers want to go there, I'd make damn sure they would be holding the bag for paying for it.

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memorial campaing experience

by antes8080 in

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so a friend from work had a get togather to watch ncaa basketball this pass weekend and i went on saturday morning as we wer watching the game some one rings the doorbell and my friend gos to the door he is there maybe a minute or so, he walks back into the room and screams outloud !!!

"yes i got invited" and starts laughing as other see what he was talking about .

someone sais " i hate those door knockers".

out4good4

I was wondering why my wife is always making it a point to give me a personal invitation to that wastefest.......as if I didn't see that stack of litter-ature lying on the bar.

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Devouring the Forbidden Fruit - Higher Education

by cappytan in

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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.

out4good4

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........

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Those JW pins and Jewelry

by AudeSapere in

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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.

out4good4

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.

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What did you become after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses?

by Garrett in

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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.

out4good4

I went to school and didn't stop til I had a Masters Degree. During that time, I went on to building a career and a life I could enjoy and be proud of instead of wasting it spreading pulp fiction around.

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JWs and the making of many books

by Magnum in

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.

out4good4

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!!!

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Unevenly yoked - it does work!!!

by quellycatface in

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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.

out4good4

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.

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Kissing hanks rear....

by _Morpheus in

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.

out4good4

I remember posting a link to this video on an anti-JW board on belief.net. The post was removed by a board administrator who was a JW apologist who'd weasled their way into being assigned a moderator. Her excuse was that the video contained too much profanity.

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Is the preaching work, no longer the number 1 priority?

by ToesUp in

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?.

out4good4

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.