also, i would like to know how many jws or exjews gho bowling now?
we bowled all the time before.
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We used to go bowling and also rollerskating every Sunday nite as Dubs. It seems to be the two activities the society thinks are harmless to JWs. NOt sure why.. I love the rollerskating even though I wasn't very good !!!
The last time we went bowling was about 8 years ago for my husband's work's Christmas party..A few of my kids birthday parties were bowling parties.. They were popular when kids were ages 8- 10.. at least around in our area.
j.r. brown said about half the df's go back.
i know some who went back and promptly faded, some who went back and were "bt" jws (barely there), a few who went back and quickly got df'd again usually before they even got privileges back.. but the one that takes the cake (in my opinion) is the former po of my parent's congregation who had been giving dc parts for years getting disfellowshipped a couple of months after giving the rousing talk, "abhor what is wicked, cling to what is good.
" only after his reinstatement did i discover that was his third df.
In our congregation a young brother was DF'd.. not sure what for. His parents were staunch JWs. This young ex-brother married a girl who not a witness and his mother preached to her and had a bible study with her and his young wife eventually became a baptised JW as well.. This young brother , I think mostly because of his new wife believing.. gradually became re-instated as a good standing JW.. They were nice people we hung out with a few times as young couples.. I wonder if they have stayed JWs.
remember when we used to go on the ministry, whenever we found someone who would actually listen we would say "i had a good call.
" did you ever have a good call?
slim
A good call was when the brother leading the field service group said it was time for coffee break. Best call of the morning!!!!
i want to see the lake house so badly!!!!!!!!!!!
im not really sure i understand how keanu reeves and sandy bullock write letters to eachother back and forth between two different years.
i suppose i can understand how keanu writes sandy letters for the future, but i dont get how she can write them back to him and he receives them.
I definitely want to see it..but I think I will wait until it comes out on DVD. Stories about time and how future and present intersect are always interesting..Plus I like Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves..
check out this pdf.
in perticular, the customer list.
steve
It would be hard for even the most diehard Dub to refute that the Watchtower society is connected to the UN based on that article Steve posted..How do they explain their actions to the faithful followers?? If they even dare question,, or risk facing a JC..
i was wondering if anyone here could remember their last tug of fear in their stomach after they left the watchtower society, concerning armageddon coming where you may have had a moments regret or fear of not being a jw, and so you wouldnt be "saved".
you know, the stupid conditioning we as jw children received growing up as jw kids.
i realize this may seem like kind of a weird question, but i remember my moment, and going through that experience it was very a freeing feeling once i came through it on the other end.. i was visiting a church in about the 1984 time frame.
Sometimes when I would still get a pang of fear that Armageddon might really come , but I was more worried that my kids would die rather than myself..I still sometimes had a fear that maybe the Dubs really had it right.. It wasn't until I found this site a few years ago, and started finding out about the many lying deceiful teachings and activities of the borg( like the UN involvement) that I knew I had made the right decision leaving the cult of the JWS. I knew they had no knowledge of God or Christ at all and were not at all spirit directed.
uh oh.
the june 6, 2006 boe porn letter is up on the web at reexamine.org.
it is in a jpg format right now.. i wonder how it got up there...
Forget that it is "degrading", child porn is ILLEGAL. If it becomes known to the BoE that somebody in the cong is in possesion of that s**t that f****r should be handed over to the cops without a moment's notice.
Those were exactly my thoughts too. Doesn't that in fact make their policy of handling someone viewing child porn questionable.. if not illegal?? I know they don't think with a full load of bricks to begin with.. but they don't realize that that policy becoming public knowledge could be harmful for their organtiztion.. ?? With all the press lately on Dateline and other newmagazine shows about men viewing child porn.. I am surprised they are not at least smart enough to take more action with the offender rather than "discussing" it among the elders and society how to handle it. Of course.. they always feel they are and deserve to be "above men's law".
i've been out for a few years, but my wife is still an active jw.
the other day i was using the fax and found some notes someone had sent her from their co's visit.
she said she didn't mind if i looked at them.
A brother in our hall years ago, started studying with a co-worker who lost her brother in a car accident.She was so depressed over her death she was taken in by the promise of the resurrection in the new system..Her husband was very opposed to her attending meetings, but it seemed to make her feel like she was closer to her brother , as she would see him again one day..Even then , though I was an active door-to-door preaching Dub, I felt sorry for her getting involved with the org in this way..I felt like she was ruining her life.(Funny though I still kept going for another 5 years before I escaped).
this seemed like a likely place to introduce myself.
i live in oregon and was disfellowshipped a couple of years ago.
i never went back to meetings and i don't intend to go back.
Hi Keeli.. welcome to the forum!!!
i see the excitement and thrill when a jw gets nailed for pedophilia.
i'm happy when any of these creeps get caught.
but i just don't think that this is what will bring down the organization.
I don't think it will be the demise of the Watchtower org.. but maybe it will make those who have some doubts think a little more as to whether this really is God's organization. I know my JW relatives were tsk-tsking and shaking their heads over the Catholic church scandel and said how it proved they were false religion.. Wonder what they will say now...
