no, i don't have this article yet, it will appear in the sep 1, 2006 wt.
it may even be a wt study article.. in the august 15 watchtower, the box "in our next issue" has three forthcoming articles, and one of them is "when a loved one leaves jehovah".
of interest, it's not when a loved one leaves the society, it's jehovah.. will keep you posted.
This might have been mentioned already but all these references to being like Moses and seat of Moses...
Wasn't Moses like banned from going into the land flowing with milk and honey because he arrogantly forgot to say Jehovah brought water from the rock?
Wouldn't if be highly ironic if these Moses-like elders are banned from Paradise/heaven because of all these man-made rules they have made that are not of Jehovah?
just my $.02
i have been out for years now but i still tremble alittle when i run into an elder at the store or run into an elder on the street and my post question certainly applies to me as well but why do i still have fear of jw's elders?
i have been da'd for so many years but that fear still comes up.
and reading alot of the post here i still see ex-jw's and jw's faders living a pretended jw life or pretending to be happy when they are miserable in the wt.
I used to be like that..get a lil nervous feeling when I see any JW's but now I'm over it...But I did get that same feeling again recently when I subjected myself to attending the memorial I guess because I felt I was on "their turf"...but when I'm out and about and I see one, if they see me fine if not fine...I make no effort to hide or scutter away. Some (like my own auntie once) I looked right through her the same way she was looking through me as if I wasn't there. I had to come back to add...I went to the memorial to give my newly df'd dad a lil support...I know how it is being "out".
i've been a member of this fourm for quite sometime although i rarely post.
i do however, have my story posted on shauns' site http://jwfiles.com/jws-leaving/william.htm i also wrote and article for that site comparing the prophecies of 1925 and 1975. http://jwfiles.com/1925-1975.htm just a little background on me: i served as an elder in philadelphia.
i was the cong sec.
damn shame on it all!
for most of us who are going to the 'delieverance at hand' district convention we want to be low on the radar.
but wouldn't it be terrible if we missed out meeting someone else from the board while we attended the same convention?
listing what convention your going to might be to much of a give away for some people, but i really don't care.
They're having one this weekend in Houston (i think)..my df'd dad is going and I was gonna try to get a ride with him. But my objective was to get a free ride to Tx and chill in the hotel while he go gets reprogrammed with their nonsense...He told me if I went I had to go to the convention too...
Sweetp is gonna be chillin in the comfort of her comfy apt this weekend...
did anyone answer the question like i did ?
my gut always said no but my heart said yes.
i wanted to believe in living forever like in those dam pictures, i wanted to be building those houses and hanging out with people on grassy mountain sides and have a freaking lion that would never rip my head off and that i could wrestle with.
I know exactly why I said yes...wanted to make my damn parents and other family that was dubs happy. I never wanted to get baptized...never wanted to pioneer...just did it all to keep them off my damn back...I've been free now for almost 10yrs. I've been asked many times what's one of the things you regret most in your life...and #1 on the list was getting baptized....
I've seen personally so many "young" ones around my age group that was out there living it up, having the time of their lives, even my step-sister and mind you she was around the dubs much longer than i was.but never got baptized..(smart girl actually)but she had children without being married and was welcomed back open armed by everyone...but no lil ole me got the big D so I have 666 written across my forehead......Yes I'm very bitter about it and always will be..damn people screwed up my life....
everytime, i watch the movie "a time to kill", i cry.
that movie gives me chill bumps!
that's one of the reasons why i love *************(dang!
It's takes alot for me cry behind a movie...but
It's A Wonderful Life
Imitation of Life
And most recently..I have a Bollywood/Indian movie obsession so I watch Bollywood ALL THE TIME...these movies brought tears to my eyes..
Devdas
Dil Chahta Hai
Mujhse Dosti Karoge
Parineeta
Veer-Zaara
on saturday i was at a cousin's wedding.
neither bride or groom was jw, although her mother (my aunt) was jw but was df'd for smoking way back in the early '70's and i doubt the bride (my cousin) remembers anything anymore.. her older brother said a prayer before the dinner.
it was a very beautiful prayer imho, and maybe he remembers a bit more of the jw experience, it started and ended like what you'd hear in a kh, but the middle was actually said from the heart and filled with love for the new couple and our family and the friends present.. i bowed my head and said amen afterwards.
I've seen this before too. At a cousin's wedding(non-JW) when the preacher was praying none of my JW relatives bowed their heads or anything....but funny part was..at the reception they were the first ones out on the floor shaking they butts...
unfortunately I haven't met many xjw's either in La either...I feel like I'm the only one sometimes...
I'm in Baton Rouge, about a good hours drive from there depending on speed and traffic...
i've got $500.00 on taylor hicks to win american idol.
at 10 to one odds ( pinnacle sports ) !
normally i'm not a gambling man.
I hope Taylor wins...I actually only watch the show to see him perform and then all the others are just a bonus....I PRAY HE DOESN'T DYE HIS HAIR....I personally think that's a part of his originality. He shouldn't change it.
I like alot of the others but Taylor gets my vote...Although I didn't vote last week...I will be voting this week...I just like how he's really into performing and it seems like it really doesn't matter if he wins or not because he just loves performing anyways...
So lets go Taylor fans....whoohoooo
