would you have not taken a transfusion?
would you make sure that your child was deprived of one, too?
would you have turned in your own family member to the elders?..........just how far would you have gone in showing allegiance to the cult?
Being razed as a JW
Woah, that's a tough upbringing!
I know what you mean though about the hazy distinction between obedience to the religion and to parents. For a long time the religion wasn't real to me and I didn't really care for it but I wanted to make my parents happy and so tried to do the right thing (well, what I thought was right at the time)
hey everybody, .
who has experienced this : ever since leaving the jw's, i've been trying to make "worldy" (i hate that word !!
) associates.
Yeah I've had those exact same thoughts too and I'm still working on them. It does take time to develop deep friendships though so don't give up. That's what I tell myself. Were all your friends as well
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greetings and welcome to the forum.. sincerely,.
district overbeer
Hello Jaffacake! Welcome to the forum, I hope you find it fun and informative.
Mmm.. jaffacakes are my fave biscuit (or are they technically a cake? anyway I like 'em)
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in your words, what would be the unpardonable sin?
give examples.... .
Being a Celine Dion fan
i'm a big fan of smallville but i feel the series needs a kick of adrenaline.
some of the episodes are more like a teen drama mixed with an dash of scooby doo.
all the sexual tension between clark, lana, lex, chloe does keep me glued to the series though.
Ah, you must be from the Vancouver area then. I visited there a while ago, it's a cool city. I especially liked Stanley Park and seeing Killer Whales off Vancouver Island, that was amazing. The monorail thingy is good for getting around on as well. We used to go to a shopping centre that I think was called something like Metrotown. We also thought it would be a good idea to walk from the centre of Vancouver to the top of Grouse Mountain and back again. Oh boy, my feet were sore that day!
I think that's part of the reason I watch the show cos I recognize some of the filming locations from years ago. It will all be quite matter of fact for you if you see them filming all the time. I'm just kinda sad for stuff like that
Do you ever get asked to be an extra?
i'm a big fan of smallville but i feel the series needs a kick of adrenaline.
some of the episodes are more like a teen drama mixed with an dash of scooby doo.
all the sexual tension between clark, lana, lex, chloe does keep me glued to the series though.
I'm a big fan of Smallville but I feel the series needs a kick of adrenaline. Some of the episodes are more like a teen drama mixed with an dash of Scooby Doo. All the sexual tension between Clark, Lana, Lex, Chloe does keep me glued to the series though. The last episode 'Sacred' was pretty good with a bit more action than usual and even Lana doing some crouching tiger type moves. I think this storyline with the 4 artifacts will lead to something pretty cool hopefully.
I'm not sure who I fancy more; Tom Welling or Kristin Kreuk. It's all very confusing
Oh, anyone looking forward to the new Superman movie coming out next year?. I've heard they have Kevin Spacey to play Lex Luthor and Bryan Singer directing . Brandon Routh who is playing superman is pretty much unknown like Christopher Reeve was when he started which should work well.
if you still go to the meetings - look at the notice board where they have the accounts report.. is there a deficit?.
our cong wanted to build a new hall (they share), but they cannot raise the funds to do this.
did your cong pay bills on time, i.e.
My last cong were quite rich so they did ok financially. It turned out though they were doing better than they thought. The bro that did the accounts was taking a chunk of the cash for himself. He didn't get DF'd though, he just got demoted from MS. That to me is just weird, I mean fraud is a criminal offence and he didn't even get punished really or get reported to the police. Yet people who commit minor things get DF'd and...... Oh boy, don't get me started..
there was a very well respected elder in my cong that i will call mr. r. this elder was a very zealous and pious jw and the po.
mr. r was of cuban descent and had extremely conservative veiws.
mr. r being the upstanding jw and elder had a very attractive wife and two cute kids.
Wow, Mr Hypocrite really f*cked up there didn't he. It must be hard for his kids to lose their dad to divorce just because he's a porn freak though.
When I was a JW me and my mum used to laugh at the number of people who would answer up or give talks condemning their own faults. We'd give each other a raised eyebrow look and roll our eyes. I think they are trying to put up a smokescreen to their own faults.
i just read the following statement at this url:
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20050219/news10/502190317/0/news13
mr. dunn said jehovah's witnesses take their gospel message door to door because jesus commanded his disciples to take the gospel to all the earth.
They are BOOK PUBLISHERS
LOL. Yeah that's true. I remember on a Saturday or Sunday morning my mother used to say 'right we are all off on the field service cos we need to get rid of all these mags. You can't give the bloody things away'. If we didn't place any we used to say that we had taken our mags out for a walk. What we said or believed seemed irrelevant as long as the figures on the report card were ok.
can time be counted if one is not distributing literature?
When I was younger my imaginary friend Katie was a Catholic so I would count time talking to her. I could get in 10 or 11 hours a day.
She did express an interest in becoming a JW at one point but I managed to put her off. I told her the imaginary adulterous relations we were having wouldn't be tolerated. It would also mean an end to my scam if she got baptized.
