my uncle called for my dad and wanted to know why he stopped attending meetings, he then asked me what hall im attending.
first i told him my dad could only answer why he does what he does and then i told him i had difficulty with alot of teachings that are curious.
after talking for awhile i asked him why if the magazines are a tool for bible understanding then why is it that so many take it as bible truth?
I didnt get to finish my post. What he did was what obedient JWs do. His head started to hurt and he got scared. Those questions cast doubt and he got afraid.
My point is... if it casts doubt but is the truth, then whats more important living in the bubble or truth?
my uncle called for my dad and wanted to know why he stopped attending meetings, he then asked me what hall im attending.
first i told him my dad could only answer why he does what he does and then i told him i had difficulty with alot of teachings that are curious.
after talking for awhile i asked him why if the magazines are a tool for bible understanding then why is it that so many take it as bible truth?
I doubt his gears are turning.
thought i should say hello to everyone .
i've been browsing the jwd for more than a month now, and i'm finding it to be an amazing source of info.
i stumbled upon this site because i was looking for info about the wts money collection policies (aka.
Welcome Aboard. I have been inactive since November. I did go to a handful of meetings between December and January and the Memorial. It feels good to talk among friends who have expereinced the same beatings. I am not saying that everything I learned was trash...but the way I was treated was like trash.
I have also learned a lot about things here that I was not suppose to know about I guess. I spoke to my younger baptized sister about the UN thing and when I came home today there was a message on my answering machine, she said that she thought it might be a hoax but she would look into it further. When I called her back, she said "never mind...I found it on the UN site". She said she was going to put it in her bookbag and do her own research. But she also mentioned something else pretty interesting.
Apparently in her hall a brother received an email from another brother who received it from another brother etc. etc. etc. Basically a letter that is going around the hall stating that an unidentifed group has made a suggestion to the UN to ban religion. My sister wrote a letter to the UN to check out its validity. I told her not to hold her breath. Its like trying to call the President and have him call you back. (Not in a million years unless your name is Dick Cheny) Anyway, I laughed and told her "wouldnt it be funny if the unidentied organization was the Watchtower (a.k.a some other name) trying to force their prophecy?" She gotta laugh too.
Anyway, welcome.
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how well do you know your candy bars?
only one guess per person, per half hour .
DOH!!!....I'm sorry. Apparently I have trouble following directions. I just saw all that candy and went crazy. I dont know how to remove my previous post.
2004 district conventions of jehovah's witnesses
this summer jehovah's witnesses will host 211 conventions in 63 cities in the contiguous united states.
the public is invited to attend any of these three-day events, which will feature free bible-based presentations under the theme "walk with god.
Hey guys...didn't you read. God is going to be there and we get to take a walk with him.
someone close to you left the jws either on their own or were dfed or daed?.
i believe that at least in my family the fact that more have left than have stayed in (in both the ex-marriage and the with my siblings) that the ex and my mother have some sort of mission to prove they are right.
i know my mother had doubts about her relationship with god (as defined by the wts).
My Brother in Law left a couple of years ago I was just sad. My heart felt broken. I think this is because I was indoctrinated with the belief that he was going to die in the big A. I did not want him to die. I love him and my sister dearly. Both are good people.
I never shunned my sister or my Brother in law. But his leaving caused a huge riff in their relationship. He was in the truth for 15 years and now he was not. The elders would talk to my sister and tell her how it is now her responsibilty to care for her children's spiritual needs. "Their blood in on her hands now" She was no longer invited to places in fear that her husband would be there. Friends whispered behind her back. Some even badgered her children about what was going on. Next...she leaves the truth. I continued to be their only friend. Everyone else in the congregation gave them a hard time but I still continued to go to my meetings. However, the more the friends were treating my sister harshly the more I started to listen to my sister rather than the friends. I began doing some research myself. And now I am at a crossroad and I understand more than ever where my brotehr in law was coming from. The friends of course treat me as bad.
Now I am a classic fence sitter. The WTS has been a part of my life since 1987. Its hard for me to take everything I believed to be true for so long to be a hoax. I am at a crossroad myself and am not sure what I am going to do in the end. But I love this site and found that there are so many who were/are just like me. I finally found a forum that I can express my thoughts/fears/concerns etc. without being pre-judged. Although I still hide behind my alias for fear of persecution.
So in answer to your question...Other.
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how well do you know your candy bars?
only one guess per person, per half hour .
Ok...I think I got this one.
Almond Joy....Mounds....Butterfingers.....Caramello....Twix.....Rollo....M&Ms....Snickers.....Milky Way...PayDay. The last one might be a Zagnut...but I am not sure. I dont remember PayDay having a white center.
so, who's going to the convention this year?
are you going to attend all of it?
the last year i went to the convention, i only went for one day.
I am still debating whether or not I should go this year. I would like to see what kind of new publication they are offering. I might just go for one day or a half a day. Its hard with a baby.
Since a lot has been going on about the UN and what not...I was hoping to see if they would address that issue. I thought about making copies of the UN letter and just laying them around the colosium. Maybe then they would make an announcement. Sometimes when a problem occurs during the conventions a special annoucement is put together. Maybe put a stack on the literature counter.
For example, last summer me and about 1000 other witnesses got to the center an hour early so that we could have a good seat. (It's hard with an infant to climb up and down 100 stairs to the nosebleed section). So when the doors opened, guess what...all the good seats were taken up to the nosebleed. They were saved with a magazine by the volunteers of the convention. Plus, people were shoving each other. So each day they had to keep announcing people not to shove or save seats.
So each day everyone would walk super fast to a seat and hope that you did not accidentally bump someone. Someone had accidentally pushed me which caused me to barely touch another woman. I aplogized that I touched her and she just snuffed at me. I felt like blowing her a raspberry.
You want to really see how much love they have among themselves...stand at the doors before they open and watch the hoards of people trample over and past all those with canes and walkers.
littletoe, signing in here with an excuse for postponing his dallasfest report (all hours, return visits, and literature shall be duly reported).
i'd give the whole thing, but we're all kinda busy partying here, and a little distracted.... i'll get back with that later (probably after i finally get home and the subject has died!).
rather, i'd like to give a shout out for a couple of birthdays:.
Happy...Happy Birthday. We here on 'Earth' are happy you were born.
Dont forget to get your b-day spanking from the misses.
how many times did you hear that before you were baptized?
i got a little tired of it when someone called me and said that.
this was the first sign of the control thing.
Wow....so I wasn't the only one.
My younger sister got baptized about 2 years ago. She told me that she was going to start being more proactive and make a list of all those she did not see at the meeting and call them to encourage them.
I advised her against it. I told her that if it was common knowledge that someone was going through a difficult time, dont ask them what they need. Just figure out what they need and give it to them. If someone missed a meeting because they were just plain tired or wanted to go on a picnic, it is none of our business. We dont need to be calling up someone everytime they are not there. There is this thing called LIFE. Unless you have a very close, personal relationship with a sister or brother, you might be inclined to call them.
Eyedrevil makes and excellent point...
Especially when you consider that IF they had an honest interest in you as a person, maybe they could frame their interest in you in a different context than "meeting attendance" or "field service."
I never felt like anyone was interested in me as a person. I was never invited to lunch or to go shopping, picnics, bowling, movies, cards, etc. It was always that we were to make friends in service and the content of our friendship was soley based on service related things. Then we all went our lonely separate ways. Year after year as I lost most of my friends and family to gain my 100 fold I found myself more and more alone.
