so we have our circuit overseer this week.
we're getting the crap kicked out of us (figuratively) for our meeting attendance.
we have attendance in the 70% range for some of our meetings.
I had a hard time sitting through the boring meetings back when I actually believed it all... and the end was sooo close.
I can't imagine sitting through it all now, knowing the end isn't close, and knowing there are much more educational and fun programs on TV.
recently my father and i have been arguing over scriptual interpretation getting nowhere so i wrote him this email to see what his reaction would be...check it out!!.
here is my email to him...maybe we should take a break from these conversations on.
interpretation of scripture.
there was a time when I thought about faking it for a while.. but I have moved on beyond that point. I couldn't stomach it myself. I don't think the elders would take me serious if I was rolling my eyes through every meeting!
BUT back to the topic of you... your Dad closed with "HOPE AGAIN" ... he is getting his hopes up. As my mom tells me "You ARE a JW, you just are DF'd right now, you KNOW the truth, etc" even though I have told me many times that I don't believe in it and I'm not a JW.
It might work, I just hope you don't go insane trying to fake it. And.... fornication is such a stupid rule, I don't believe in the word or the concept. It is so antiquated, and was written by a bunch of men. Bottom line.
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bonjour.
je decouvre avec plaisir votre forum - je vous lis a l'aide d'un traducteur automatique mais je suis vraiment heureux de savoir que sortir de la secte des temoins de jehovah est aussi une nouvelle facon de se faire des amis grace a l'internet.. cordialement - jacques
It's au revoir, I believe.
Bonjour Jacques, je parle un peu francais, mais pas boucoup.
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at some point everyone asks these questions?
what is the meaning of life?
why has god let terrible things happen?
If you continue to ask questions that you can't get the exact answer to, only educated guesses or using logic deduct your own conclusion, do you continue to ask the questions or do you move on so that you don't go crazy?
The questions have all been asked and answered so many different ways by so many different people over thousands of years. Every culture and religion has it's own set of answers, none of which are absolute because no one can prove their answer is correct.
That brings me to: If you can't get the perfect answer, why continue to ask the question?
Why not decide that life is limited, we are finite, we have 80 years to make something of this life and concentrate really hard on LIVING life instead of questioning it. Delve into the facts, like science, study the facts we do know about life, learn what the meaning of love is, find a hobby that you enjoy, learn a skill and challenge yourself, get friends, explore this world we call a home. Maybe the answer is that we just need to make the best out of this life and quit trying to understand it and explain it all the time. Maybe there is no answer possible.
In algebra there is the impossible, the square root of negative 1 is i. Yes, the letter i, for IMAGINARY. That is like our guesses, they are imaginary. Maybe there is no perfect answer.
during class the teacher asks "who all plan to go to college?
" and you shrink down in your seat in an effort to become invisible as everyone in the class raises their hand.
-doodle-v. your turn!
BTW
What are the USEFUL HABITS that they teach us?
How to ring doorbells, prepare a "talk", deliver a 5 min speech about the latest Watchtower??? How to NOT apply yourself in school to get into college? How to NOT focus on a career, retirement plans?
I don't get it... High school has career planning days, your local community college has workshops, a lot of businesses offer free financial planning seminars, etc... Your local library offers free information... so, I would say they offer more in the USEFUL HABITS Department than the WTS ever did.
during class the teacher asks "who all plan to go to college?
" and you shrink down in your seat in an effort to become invisible as everyone in the class raises their hand.
-doodle-v. your turn!
You know you're a JW teenager if:
Your mom tells you that wearing skirts above your knee will "excite" the brothers at the hall.
You aren't allowed to ever wear a bikini, no a modest 1 peice will do. (make that fuddy duddy 1 peice)
i was wondering if anyone else has had a hard time making friends since leaving the organization.
being raised as a jw, it seems difficult to me, as i was never allowed to have any friends who weren't other jw's.
as a result, i have isolated myself to only my immediate family.
I have met a few very good friends, but it took me years. Some I met in school taking night classes, some at work, some online.
Get into a book club, or racing club, or start golfing, bottom line is friends aren't going to come knocking on your door, you have to be active searching them out. So join somehting you enjoy doing and give it some time... it takes a while to make friends, but you will get there.
I am finally at the point where I have several really good friends but it took me a lot of work to get here.
i thought that was a religious-based organization?his devotions were recognized in 1998, when he received the angel network award from oprah winfrey for his work with habitat for humanity.. .
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20050131/news02/501310328/1006http://www.habitat.org/how/christian.htmlhabitat for humanity: a christian ministry.
habitat for humanity international is a nonprofit, ecumenical christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide and to making adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Wow. great article, he sounds like a good man. That is weird though, I remember HFH being critisized when I was a JW.
is it true?
can you be disfellowshiped for reading crisis of conscience?
is that why some have read it in the library out of sight of other witnesses and elders themselves read it in secrecy?.
Repentant for what???
As far as I can remember the 10 commandments and the sins for not entering in the kingdom of heaven... reading wasn't anywhere on the list.
i went and saw the movie last night.
y'all this is the best movie of the year.. i laughed out loud, i laughed so hard.... and i felt so emotional too.
i didn't cry, but i empathized with the both characters.
have not seen million dollar baby, and don't plan on seeing it. I don't care for Hilary Swank.
