i hated ministry book bags.i hated coming out of my home with the book bags looking like i was going to a seminar.so,i starting going to the ministry school and sunday bible meetings holding only the required books for that day in my hand.. for the sunday meetings,i would just carry the song book,bible and watchtower magazine in my hand.
no book bag!
for the ministry school,i would just carry just what necessary for the evening.
Oh my gawd--these rules!
I remember being given a really nice bookbag. We really did not have money for other things but we got those when we turned a certain age. A really nice, professional briefcase. I probably would have looked like a tiny lawyer if it weren't for the prairie skirts.
It was such a status symbol too--like you were more spiritual if you had one.
Idiotic.
good excuses.
pinkeye.
(highly contagious, and you aren't supposed to touch other people's dishes and glasses.)tuberculosis.
i've been lurking here for a while now, and i guess you could call me a fader.
i don't have hate in my heart for the organization that i spent most of my life in, but i have had an awakening.
luckily, so has my wife, and that way i don't feel so alone.
Keep thinking, keep growing--even if it's scary or painful.
Good luck on your journey.
after almost 24 years in the school and doing it since i was nine years old, i officially resigned.
it has become increasingly difficult to prepare talks, especially with the new format for brothers.
i did not mind doing them; i actually put the time and effort into getting them out.
Yeah, welcome to the sistas' world. lol.
The elders used to deliberately assign your helpers to be someone you didn't like, to promote harmony in the borg or whatever. So awkward. I started refusing assignments toward the end, because that was the last straw.
But it was certainly not the real reason I wasn't giving talks...it was because I could no longer stomach marketing their deadly message.
i have a story to share about my calls to wt ny hq this past week.
i was quite surprised by the level of disinterest and lack of concern from the two contacts that i spoke to.
rather than jumping right in and sharing my experience - and perhaps "poisoning the well," i'd like to read experiences of others on this forum who had the urge or need to call the wt contact number.. btw - mine was not an apostate rant or overly critical of the wt and was presented in a friendly and helpful way.
It's against the law (in NY) to record people without their permission.
NY has a one-party consent law. Only 1 of the parties to a conversation must consent to it being recorded. So go and record all you want!
after almost 24 years in the school and doing it since i was nine years old, i officially resigned.
it has become increasingly difficult to prepare talks, especially with the new format for brothers.
i did not mind doing them; i actually put the time and effort into getting them out.
I am not understanding this thread. It sounds like you're saying you quit because you didn't like the new format of the talks, and that was your main reason for quitting. Is that correct?
I was just thinking about you being counseled for introducing the scripture, and then my mind wandered to the "crit" after the talks. I never minded it at the time, but when you think about it, it's really weird to give a liturgy and then be critiqued in front of the entire flock. Kind of like a reality competition show for cultists.
oh my god!.
it is currently almost midnight where i live and i have now been spammed 3 times in a row by an unknown number.
first my home phone and then my cell phone.
oh my god!.
it is currently almost midnight where i live and i have now been spammed 3 times in a row by an unknown number.
first my home phone and then my cell phone.
i always took issue with the idea of no one knowing why a person got df.. i know im not alone.. i complained to my mother about this when i was younger, explaining that how do we know what it is that gets a person df if no one knows what they did?
my moms answer was , .
'if people knew a persons personal faults and what they did , others would not be so forgiving when they were reinstated, because we'd always view them with that view, so in other words, if when so n so, committed fornication, and the whole cong would know it, if they announced from the platform then his/her reputation would be permanently stained' .
OP is either from a different region than I was from, or a totally different generation.
a) They used to read a scripture describing the person's sin. They had some legal risk for this so they stopped. It was not better for anyone--the df person (probably often falsely convicted) got their reputation destroyed, and the congregation used it to do further damage to the reputation.
b) We always knew anyways because the elders' wives always told.
How 'bout this ? The whole IDEA of disfellowshipping is wrong in the first place.
^Yep.
Formally announcing it, saying, "Sister Slut fornicated with Brother Jones" would just have made it all worse. Why...
