has anyone ever thought about going to a meeting just for the hell of it?
i mean maybe while out of town, putting on a nice suit.
sitting in the front row, even answering a question.
After running into a JW this weekend (and being ignored), we decided that my not-ever-JW fiancé would go to my old congregation's public talk, get love bombed and then I'd arrive shortly after and he'd say something to the effect of "Have you met my fiancée?"
Not that he needs it proved, but it would show the marked contrast between how a person gets treated.
(I doubt we'll do it, way too many other fun things I can think to do on a Sunday...)
vitta's thread above got me wondering.
how many here still believed the "witnesses" to have the truth until they came to sites like this?
how many actually came here to defend the jw's and ended up leaving?
I disassociated myself because I felt bad at the way I was treated, but still believed I was leaving the "truth" and out of favour with God. I also fully expected to die at Armageddon and never see my "worldly" parents at their resurrection (they'd passed in 2001 and I lived for how I "might" have seen them again if they were deemed in line to be resurrected...no guarantees of course). About 2 weeks after I left "providence" connected me with a link that opened my eyes. For about 2 months I devoured everything I could about all the things "wrong" with the WTS and basically decided that it was all bunk.
That was when I *really* left.
letter read tonight.
said that the "watchtower bible and tract society of canada" will change its letterheads and signature to "christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses".
jez
I wonder if changing this name change will have any effect on Quotes' site and use of "Watchtower" name/logo and that legal mess....
so i've mentioned i'm engaged and may or may not have mentioned that i'm emigrating to the us from canada.
waiting in the immigration process, in a word, sucks.
add to that the we got shafted by a lawyer who didn't do what he was supposed to, so we lost 6 months of processing time not having our application in.
Ceriserose,congratulations to the both of you. Where are you going to be living in the US?
Washington State, just north of Vancouver WA/Portland OR.
i'm thinking of moving to the states too. keep us posted on your sucess
When we get final approval I'll be screaming it from the rooftops! You'll probably hear it.
Eh? The US is sorta wacky at the moment...why come here (from Canada!)? Too cold up there?
No, I live in the most temperate area of the country. Barely get winter. But we had to pick one place or the other and with my parents both being gone and no friends here left (JWs won't talk to me, go figure), I am more in need of a "change" than my sweetie is. And the US has been wacky most of my life. As has Canada. At least I'll be in the wacky with my honey. hehe
so i've mentioned i'm engaged and may or may not have mentioned that i'm emigrating to the us from canada.
waiting in the immigration process, in a word, sucks.
add to that the we got shafted by a lawyer who didn't do what he was supposed to, so we lost 6 months of processing time not having our application in.
So I've mentioned I'm engaged and may or may not have mentioned that I'm emigrating to the US from Canada. Waiting in the immigration process, in a word, sucks. Add to that the we got shafted by a lawyer who didn't do what he was supposed to, so we lost 6 months of processing time not having our application in. Average start to finish is 8 months or so, so you can imagine how upsetting losing that time was.
In February we started the process ourselves without the lawyer. We've been watching it closely and expected that sometime in the next two weeks we should start *hoping* that our case was coming up soon for first level approval (the part that takes the longest and is the most "unknown"). Much to our surprise, we both had emails this morning telling us we're approved and on to the next stage. !!! It's averaging them 90 days and we got through in 49!!! We're very excited because the next stages are more "active" ones for us.
So we don't have too much longer to go, even though it feels like forever still. But I'm happy happy and full of sugar (eeep!) so just had to share!
ok this one is 2 fold..... tonight i was chatting to my ex on the internet and despite 5 years elapsing, he wants to go out for a beer.
he was a creep at the time we split, good looking and all the rest, but prone to violent outbursts and had this knack of making me think i didn't need any other friends (i gradually dropped them all) whilst all the time becoming more controlling........it messed up my head at the time.
(like a dumb twat i even gave him all my visa cards as he said he'd be better at managing "our" money) apparently he is now a changed person, and i am too, no longer as gullible as i once was.
In Canada you can marry same sex partner.... Viva le Canada!!! So my boyfriend will officially become my husband in 2 weeks :)
Congrats by the way! I hope you'll both continue to be very happy together.
ok this one is 2 fold..... tonight i was chatting to my ex on the internet and despite 5 years elapsing, he wants to go out for a beer.
he was a creep at the time we split, good looking and all the rest, but prone to violent outbursts and had this knack of making me think i didn't need any other friends (i gradually dropped them all) whilst all the time becoming more controlling........it messed up my head at the time.
(like a dumb twat i even gave him all my visa cards as he said he'd be better at managing "our" money) apparently he is now a changed person, and i am too, no longer as gullible as i once was.
Your husband???? What do you mean by that?
Homosexual marriage is legal in Canada.
a 14 year old jw girl in vernon, british columbia, canada needs a blood transfusion.
the watchtower society lawyers.
both parents are jw.
Very good point CeriseRose
I cannot take credit, my fiancé caught that one right off on reading this thread with me. He's disgusted by this bs.
a 14 year old jw girl in vernon, british columbia, canada needs a blood transfusion.
the watchtower society lawyers.
both parents are jw.
It was on the Vancouver news this morning.
I only saw the last few minutes of that and missed the lawyer. I'm probably glad as it would have made me angry.
He said that this is about the right to decide what to do with you body. He said it could very well be a moral issue or something other than religious. That she has a right to decide. She is trying to change her status as an 'adult'.
I wonder if those statements would still stand if she decided to become sexually active and go on birth control. I bet you that she wouldn't have the right to decide what to do with her body then.
(edit: 14 is the age of consent in this province with some age-restrictions on the partner...)
i need this kind of information for a debate i'm having.
i think there was a thread about this before but i just can't find it.
thanks guys!
And isn't 25 a bit young to be appointed an elder?
I knew two such men...from two vastly different backgrounds. They were both honest, down-to-earth people who were really focused on doing all they could to help people (not necessarily promote the publishing, but real people).
In both cases they were regular pioneers, helped to support their family (including one of them helping to raise his younger sister because his single-parent Mom had a mental illness), and both were named elders by 25/26. One went on to be trained in circuit work in his early 30s.
I'm not saying that in areas where it's tons of family that nepotism doesn't happen. But that there are cases of people being appointed at younger ages. To my knowledge, both of those men are still elders.
