this is just an obsevation from me...ok i dont mean to annoy anyone but is it true or just me?.
i feel that ones raised in the truth are so much better of than us who came in from the world.
i say that because they have family who are witnesses too.
your, you're
their, they're, there
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Sad thing is, it will only get worse as time goes on. With all of the texting shorthand that people use, before long, no one will remember how to correctly spell anything.
this is just an obsevation from me...ok i dont mean to annoy anyone but is it true or just me?.
i feel that ones raised in the truth are so much better of than us who came in from the world.
i say that because they have family who are witnesses too.
your not the only one who's had it rough ok!!
It annoys me when the word "your" is used when really the word is "you're."
I don't mean to annoy anyone else but isn't that annoying?
my daughter was researching self-defense techniques and came across this e-mail sent from a victim to his mugger:.
"this is an excellent self defense story no book or paypal required.. .
to the guy who tried to mug me in downtown savannah night before last.
Here's another one, posted on Craigslist:
To the guy in my closet, you don't have AIDS
First off I want to relieve your fears that you probably don't or at least I hope you don't have AIDS.
When I came home 3 days ago I heard what was obviously mediocre sex going on in my bedroom. Since I quickly made the deduction that someone had probably not broken into my apartment for some quick copulation I figured I had just caught my wife cheating on me which I had long suspected. Your ofish grunts were so loud that I actually had to reopen the door and slam it again for you two to hear me. I stood in the entry for a while as I heard you both scramble before calling out that I was home.
When I walked into the bedroom my wife had some excuse about having a headache and when asked about the nighty she was wearing she said it was the most comfortable thing she could find. Oh...and btw, I don't know how many affairs that you participate in but a word of advice is that when you hide in the closest from an angry husbands you shouldn't leave a few toes hanging out from under the door. At this point I am in a bit of a predicament.... I could have the typical masculine response and open the door and beat the piss out of you but then you might file charges and quite frankly I just don't really care enough. Not to mention I don't know how big you are and I couldn't think of anything much worse than finding your wife cheating on you and then get pummeled by her new lover. It entered my mind to have some marathon sex and make you stand and watch the whole thing but seeing how she is a dirty whore the idea grossed me out a little. I came pretty close to just hanging out and masterbating but I am glad I went the direction I did.
So in liue of those options I thought of the funniest thing I could do for my own personal amusement. I sat her down on the bed and looked deeply in her eyes and told her that I had been diagnosed with early stages of AIDS. Recently I have had a series of colds and went to the doctor who told me it was probably just a string of bad luck and it was going around a little bit. The whole thing took about 2 hours and involved a lot of yelling, accusing and crying.
I felt like I hadn't punished you quite enough, even though I fully acknowledge that it really isn't your fault at all, so I told her that the illness was making me tired so I needed to lay down. I could hear her on the phone making an appointment with the doctor and I could hear you rustling around in the closest. You did a great job holding still seeing how you probably aren't used to standing in a 3'x4' closest for hours and hours on end but if I hadn't already known you were there you would have been caught for sure.
After about another hour of laying in bed thinking of what I was going to do I felt sorry for you to be mixed up in this crazy thing so I said I was going to go fill the prescriptions the doctor gave me and left the apartment so you could leave. I hope that you weren't too uncomfortable in there and actually felt a little guilty about it later.
Anyways, I put this in missed connections because I actually wouldn't mind taking you out and buying you a drink. After all that is some funny stuff to laugh about and you are saving me thousands in alimony since my wife cheated and the least I can do is repay you for a $4.00 beer.
Again no hard feelings and best of luck!
BTW, you might still want to get your self tested since my wife is a dirty whore.
the other day i was at a drive-thru when i saw a couple of young dubs eating inside by themselves with no chaperone.
they then left in separate vehicles.
it reminded me that when i was dating my jw wife it was her idea to take separate vehicles to avoid arousing suspicions.
Drive in separate cars when going to the same place? Are you kidding me? I remember when pioneering that occasionally the only people who would show up would be myself and a young pioneer sister. We never thought it was necessary to take separate cars. We were poor pioneers, we couldn't afford the gas for one car much less two. What we usually did was the old "driving miss daisy" thing, where one of us would sit in the front seat and the other in the back. That way just in case some Witness saw us out in "service" they wouldn't be offended or get the wrong idea.
time to spicy up this joint wid sum conspiracy, been too boring around here... here u go.... http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=page.view&pageid=105764.
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Everybody should just remember that during the compaign there was a Republican president in office, along with a Republican administration. That means the Attorney General was a Republican, the head of the FBI was a Republican, the head of the CIA was a Republican, the head of the NSA was a Republican, (also the Governor of Hawaii was a Republican) the head of any and all investigative bodies in this country were headed up by Republicans. And yet that Republican headed government determined that in fact Barack Obama was in fact qualified, constitutionally, to run for the presidency. Not to mention the 5 conservatives on the Supreme Court declined to intervene in the matter in any way. If there was any basis at all for these claims, someone high up in the Bush administration, or in the courts would have made it very clear last year before our 44th president was sworn in.
sometime last year, around september or october, i was apparently disfellowshipped.
i say "apparently" because i never heard the announcement.
i faded years ago and haven't been to a meeting in years.
Yes Snakes, I was df'd in absentia. The thing is, the last congo I attended was in another state. I moved to Missouri a few years back which is where my mom lives. The congo from which I was df'd is a congo that I have never even attended. It's my mom's congo.
It was my ex-wife who was determined to get me df'd. She got engaged to another man and wanted to be "scripturally free" to remarry and needed me to be the bad guy. She broke her marriage vow, the whole "for as long as we both shall live" vow, and took off because I stopped believing in what the Watchtower taught but she wanted me to be the one to commit "porneia" so she could claim to be "scripturally free" to remarry. When she couldn't make that happen she went another route and apparently got me df'd for apostasy. She said that once I was df'd she wouldn't need proof that she was "scripturally free" to remarry, or at least not as much proof. Something about being able to use e-mails I had sent to her to somehow prove to her elders that she was free to remarry. That is how she stayed in contact with me the past few years, by e-mail. Hoping that I would tell her what she wanted to hear. I would e-mail her back and try to show to her that she was in a cult and that I was the only one telling her the truth. Not her pioneer mother or elder father. But she never listened. When I heard I was df'd I figured it must have been her who got it done so she could play the victim and keep her good reputation as the "innocent" mate.
Anyway, it doesn't much matter to me whether or not I am df'd or not, I recognized a long time ago that the Watchtower Society has no fellowship with God so being df'd from them has no significance to me at all. But I can't help but wonder why in the world would they reverse a df'ing when the guy that they kicked out and then unkicked out (that's me) is someone they have never even met and, who never even objected to being df'd and never asked to be let back in.
sometime last year, around september or october, i was apparently disfellowshipped.
i say "apparently" because i never heard the announcement.
i faded years ago and haven't been to a meeting in years.
villabolo,
You're right, rescind is the word they used.
sometime last year, around september or october, i was apparently disfellowshipped.
i say "apparently" because i never heard the announcement.
i faded years ago and haven't been to a meeting in years.
Sometime last year, around September or October, I was apparently disfellowshipped. I say "apparently" because I never heard the announcement. I faded years ago and haven't been to a meeting in years. The only reason that I heard about the dfing is because my mom told me about it. No big deal to me, I could care less one way or the other. However, on Friday my mom calls me and tells me that on Thursday at the meeting they announced that my disfellowshipping had been "resended." That was the word they used. My mom was surprised to hear that. I asked her if she was sure that was the word they used "resended." She said she was sure.
So I guess I am wondering if the Watchtower Society has changed the whole disfellowshipping thing. Anybody ever heard of a disfellowshipping being "resended?" Maybe they're trying to increase their numbers and this is the latest way to do it, by undisfellowshipping people.
It really doesn't make sense because I wasn't aware that I was disfellowshipped in the first place and I didn't appeal it, and I certainly didn't do anything to get reinstated, so what the heck is going on?
what a waste of living being "in the truth" was!
sometimes i see persons suggesting that the witness religion isn't all so wrong.
actually they suggest that they themselves are the issue.
It taught me I can be brainwashed.
Knowing you can be brainwashed is actually a good thing. It helps in the real world to know when you are being lied to or manipulated. It makes a person much more suspicious of what others do and say. But most people lie and are full of crap so being able to recognize it right away is quite helpful.
okay maybe i'm a little slow but i'm finally beginning to understand how all the "new light" is tied together.
this has all been prompted for me by my reading of the 1914 chapter in "crisis of conscience".
see, the door to heaven which was previously closed in 1935 has been reopened.
Here is what I find reprehensible.
Prior to 1935 it was believed that all Witnesses ("Bible Students" as they were then known) were going to go to heaven, correct? There was only the one class of Christians all with the heavenly hope. Then in 1935 the teaching changed into 2 hopes, 1 heavenly, 1 earthly. Further it was taught that everyone who came into association with the Organization after 1935 was generally going to live on earth, not in heaven. Now in 2008 the 1935 change has effectively been removed. So, wouldn't that mean that, if nothing changed in 1935, that all Witnesses would go to heaven?
Either 1935 was right or it was wrong, and if it was wrong then it would seem that their former teaching, that of one class of Christians all going to heaven, would still be in effect. Am I missing something here?
So why is it that they don't teach that all Witnesses are anointed and go to heaven? They want to uncouple themselves from the failed 1935 teaching but they don't want to go all the way and recognize that the whole 2 classes of Christians teaching is wrong as well. They are too tied in with the idea of 144,000 being a literal number of persons going to heaven. Thus, they say that the 1935 cut-off may have been wrong.
Well if it was then what caused so many Witnesses, back in 1935 and 1936, to suddenly start believing that they were going to live on earth rather than in heaven? If the Watchtower didn't have the right to tell people that they weren't going to heaven and they told them that anyway wouldn't that be something like what is described at Matthew 23:13- "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in."
Pretty serious situation the Watchtower Society finds themselves in if they are behaving like Pharisees.
