on my way home last night from work i ran into a prominent elder from brooklyn.
this guy is always featured at circuit assemblies and his family was presented as the model witiness family in the 80's.
well imagine my shock and surprise when i realized that this dub had just bought a lottery ticket.
I wonder how many times this particular piece of shi% participated in the disfellowshipping of some poor schlub who smoked or perhaps, oh I don't know. . . played the lottery?
How can this &^*%$# live with himself if he has helped to disfellowship even one person!
How many families has he destroyed, but now Jehovah understands?
I gotta quit I'm getting SO MAD
my son answered the door this morning.
the couple that my mr.horton and i had been studying with when we were considering going back to the truth finally got ahold of him.
the did the usual routine.
Red,
If it were me I would consider calling the police. Your child is a minor and they have no right to come over and tell your kid they will come and take him ANYWHERE without his parents.
This may sound extreme, but what if they were able to manage to convince him to be a witness-you would lose your kid the same as if he were kidnapped.
It's time for a court order!
i just registered right now.
i would like to introduce myself.
i am a 30 year old female and not a jw but my mother is so thats how i came by this site.
Hi Puff-Welcome!!!
You have already shown great strength to resist that awful religion when you were only 16. But I'm sure you need the occasional "transfusion" of courage in order to cope. We all do.
The Witnesses of course are so very manipulative and will cheerfully resort to lying in order to get what they want. They call it "theocratic warfare." Read up about it and you will see.
They are cruel, intolerant and self-righteous. Oh and did I mention hypocrites? Spend time here you will learn and be strong.
A word about guilt trips: they are very destructive and cause pain so refuse to listen to guilt trips. Insist on logic and reason, that shuts them up every time.
I don't want to live in paradise without you is a classic example, and obviously a load of kaka, because that is obviously what she intends to do or she wouldn't stay in the religion.
Try telling her that you "don't want to die at Armageddon without her" so couldn't she at least try to spend 1/2 hour a day reading apostate literature?
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my brother, my sister, myself, xena and those with us walked out when we were called aside and asked not to attend the reception after the memorial.. more details to follow....... timb
Just effing unbelievable. I am so sorry for your loss. The JW's just never stop shocking the stuff out of me. You should think we would all be shock proof by now!
They have all been robbed of any natural feeling or logic. All they feel or think is what they have been told to feel or think.
Morons!!!!!!!!!!
once i left i became about as "worldly" as a person could get.
world that once i left i went totally out of control.
when i left, .
Alone,
Yup, the shock is enough to kill ya! But don't let it because you have a lot of living to do. Believe it or not you will get your life back and cherish every minute. The hurt and anger will subside and joy will grow. Trust me I left about fifteen years ago and sometime I wonder how I lived through the pain, but here I am.
Oh and Wolfgirl, I didn't just want to throw up - I did, when I learned about the UN. I had been out and living my life and just had never heard about it until I found the forum. When I realized what the WT had done I had to run and drop to my knees before the porcelain god!!
Anyhow Alone you have found love, understanding, community and the actual really Truth right here. Soon you will need to change your name - cuz you aren't alone anymore.
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This was not a random shooting, the Witness engaged in an argument and hit the guy, not to blame the victim but what the heck was he arguing with the guy about? Not Christian enough to turn the other cheek but too Christian to accept a blood transfusion. Wierd
most of you know i'm the one with all the religion woes..(ie....finding one...ha) anyways, i did all this research on christmas being that i was brought up not believing in it and found that it really does have pagan roots in a big way so i can't decide if it's ok to do it if i do it for jesus' birthday even tho now i know that it wasn't started that way and all this bad air is around it and i get scared i am deliberately doing something against god and that's detestable to him.....ahhhhhh.. i know he wasn't born in winter, i know we don't know when he was born....so is it ok for me to get presents on a day that used to be used to worship some pagan sun god when they would hang pine boughs all over their house.
doesn't that make it bad?!
ugh
Christmas Woes? No, you are supposed to have a poinsetta. You silly wabbit!
But seriously dear, after some time has passed you will be able to let go of your fears. Once you have tried out your new life as a non-witness for a while and you realize nothing bad is going to happen to you the fun will begin.
I enjoy Christmas as a time to cook and buy gifts for the people I love. Also Mannheim Steamroller has some wonderful Christmas music, gets you in the mood. Relax, its okay Christmas is not bad. You don't have to analyze the livin daylights out of everything anymore. Christmas is good and so are you.
been a while since i have had a chance to visit the board.
a lot of things have happened...dealing with some business crap....ending one and starting a new one with a partner this time...dealing with child custody issues...my husband was laid off....just general stress....arghhhh!!!!.
everything is going to work out i am sure...but i bought my first pack of cigarettes in 10 years on sunday.
Eyebrow,
Please don't start smoking again. You know it won't make things better or even lessen your stress. All it will do is give you one more thing to stress about. I quit in January and hung in through some pretty rough times. You can too!!!! Get rid of the ciggies, they are not your friends. Just remember the sense of power you felt when you quit. . . remember?
after 40 years of serving as a regular pioneer and being on the infirm list, the circuit overseer, the po and another elder told her today in a 30 min.
conversation she was going to be announced as no longer pioneering.
the co mostly talked about me, my wife and daughter.
so, they sent in the "hired goons" to rough her up. 80 years and a lifetime of loyal service and she gets the boot and a verbal beating.
i'm becoming intrigued with dabbling on ebay.
i've made a bid for some goods and i'm waiting to see if i've "won".. any advice for a newbie ebay-er?.
buying, selling, whatever?.
I went on Ebay for a looksee for the first time on Saturday. I looked at shoes and I began to notice a pattern. The women's shoes described as "sexy". Stilettos and the like-were usually in a very large size, 10 or 11 in US sizes. Huge shoes in styles used by say. . . cross dressers and shoe fetish types. Well all I'm saying is that the stuff on ebay, well um . . . you don't know where its been. Just a thought
