has anybody invited you to go to the memorial this year?
do you expect to be invited?.
usually elders come over a few days before to invite me, but they didn't come yet....
Such warmth and love Pole ... I'm surprised you didn't run right off your front porch back into the arms of ... the braindead, manipulated, controlled, robotic, stupified congregation of conditional lovers of the living gods (GB).
tsk, tsk, tsk (nodding my head in mock sadness)
has anybody invited you to go to the memorial this year?
do you expect to be invited?.
usually elders come over a few days before to invite me, but they didn't come yet....
I haven't been invited to anything since I was d'fd 7 years ago .... dey don't wub me no more
One Saturday they must have stopped by my house by mistake. They caught the plumber coming in the back door with some tools and tried to offer the mags. He said 'I don't live here - let me get the lady of the house'. When he yelled through the door "Jehovah Witnesses" I yelled back "WE DON'T WANT ANY"
er uh ... I don't think they'll be back
we all know that the memorial is the single most important day in the jw year.
but why does it have to be observed on one specific day, nisan 14, and at one specific time, at sundown?
did jesus ever make a statement saying that these two requirements had to be kept no matter what?
From the very beginning the JW Memorial reminded me of Easter Sunday ... they make such a big ta-do about what they'll wear, then sit throught that boring ass discourse for the umpteenth time ... watch the emblems go around - and if someone partook for the first time it was all abuzz in the KH at the next meeting or out in field service. Then, because the Detroit area usually has more than one cong. in the same hall - rush out so the next group can hear the same dribble and perfunctory emblem passing ( ... OH LORD!) THEN ... it's out to dinner so you can show off your new DUDS!
Just thinking about that crap makes me feel depressed ...
Funny though, I haven't 'partaken' of the emblems the few times I've visisted churches. Never made that 'first sunday' which is when a lot churches have communion ... or whatever they call it
i just got back from the circuit assembly.
some interesting perspectives:.
9 people out of 2500 got baptised.
The so-called 'wisdom from above' is the very reason I left the org. I wonedered why I was so depressed and tired. My marriage was a mess, my children were unhappy and me - a usually positive and optimistic person, was sinking lower and lower by the day. I finally realized that the reason I was so miserable was that I was trying to please the men in Brooklyn - it was always 'do more, make all the meetings, be on-time, dress appropriately, study beforehand, study with your family, read the mags., get at least 10 a month, follow up on your RV's AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! I couldn't take that s&%t anymore.
I reasoned that this wasn't from God. Jesus said is yoke is kindly and light but the GB BS was anything BUT! I prayed to God for forgiveness for leaving my marriage, but I was too young (19) to know what I wanted and I couldn't believe that God would consign me to a life of misery for my error. After 12 years in the org. I decided it was time for me to live the life God wanted for me.
THEN I RAN THE HELL UP OUT OF THERE!
I only look back to remind myself how foolish I was for falling for all that CRAP! And to never do it again. I think about visiting once in a while to see what their talking about now . From this post it sounds like the SOS (same old shit).
FREEDOM - HOW SWEET IT IS!
can time be counted if one is not distributing literature?
Back when I was in you could (1998) through informal witnessing especially. You could count time for 'placing a conversation' as one overseer put it (lol). Oh yes, witness to everyone you come in contact with ... that may be their only opportunity to come into the troof ... strike up a conversation in line at the grocery store, with the person sitting next to you on a bus/plain/train, at the doctors office ... and the 'BLOODGUILT' trips they put on us stressed me out to the MAX. I was so nervous that I would miss somebody and die at Armageddon because I didn't have the courgage to speak up on every occasion.
No wonder I burned out - it takes entirely too much to please the men in CROOKLYN.
i have been so sadend by finding this site and wanted you all to know that the organization is indeed a loving one with only your best interests at heart...but i'm sure, if you look deep within your hearts you already know this to be true...dont you?.
if you search your inamost thoughts and feelings and put away your debeauched/immoral life style ( because if you are truly honest with yourselves, guilt is the reason you needed to distance yourselves from righteousness) and come back to the truth you will see that only kind, loving and overwhelming compassion has always been at the forefront of the wtbts and that although you may feel contentment in a (deluded sort of way) you would have a real happiness within the true christian organization...as your former bible trained concience must know... all others that profess to be 'christian' are satanicly influenced even though they may appear to do good/kind things....how else would the last days of satans system be?.
so i urge all the 'lost sheep' to 'find the love you had at first' and return to the loving compasionate embrace of the organization....you know this makes sense!!!!
Welcome to the board my fellow newbie ...Boy did you make my blood boil LMAO
I love a good sense of humor! Looking forward to getting to know you better out here. So great to be free, isn't it!
this is my first forum post though i've been out here reading yours for a while.
i didn't know how to post my bio.
i became a jdub at the age of 16. i had a child out-of-wedlock who was 1 year old at the time and i was searching for answers - i wanted my son to have a future and the one the witnesses portrayed was better than anything i'd ever heard!
Thanks so much for all the kind words. It's taken a year or so for me to finally come out here with you all ... but now that I'm here I'll definately hang around.
this is my first forum post though i've been out here reading yours for a while.
i didn't know how to post my bio.
i became a jdub at the age of 16. i had a child out-of-wedlock who was 1 year old at the time and i was searching for answers - i wanted my son to have a future and the one the witnesses portrayed was better than anything i'd ever heard!
Adelmaal ? Wow! Your ex-wasband sounds JUST like mine. Only difference is he found a sweet hardworking sister to marry ? the dubs didn?t tell her he was a lame and a deadbeat until after the wedding ? when she started complaining they were like ?oh, you didn?t know? that?s why his last wife left him (lol). She?s a sweetheart though ? she?s real good to my kids, doesn?t force them to go to the meetings on the rare occasions when he does pick them up. I wish I could help open her eyes to the truth about the truth before she wastes too many more years on that loser ? I felt like I was the husband and he was the WIFE (thus the term wasband ;-)
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And to your questions about how do I deal with him and the kids as far as the faith is concerned, He?s so trifling he doesn?t take them to the meetings or field service now (thank goodness). I don?t know how I would deal with that if he did ? but believe me ? I Would.
this is my first forum post though i've been out here reading yours for a while.
i didn't know how to post my bio.
i became a jdub at the age of 16. i had a child out-of-wedlock who was 1 year old at the time and i was searching for answers - i wanted my son to have a future and the one the witnesses portrayed was better than anything i'd ever heard!
Thanks so much for the warmth ... Honesty - YES, my children left with me. We are a very happy, well balanced family now. My main goal in life is to teach them to be their own person and never let anyone judge them. Even though their father, step mom and granny are witness they have absolutely NO influence on them. They have tasted freedom and they never want to go back to being bored, lonely, isolated people. My 16 year old son is on his way to a School Dance and my 13 year old daughter's on her way to a B'day party!
this is my first forum post though i've been out here reading yours for a while.
i didn't know how to post my bio.
i became a jdub at the age of 16. i had a child out-of-wedlock who was 1 year old at the time and i was searching for answers - i wanted my son to have a future and the one the witnesses portrayed was better than anything i'd ever heard!
This is my first forum post though I've been out here reading yours for a while. I didn't know how to post my bio. so here it is.
I became a Jdub at the age of 16. I had a child out-of-wedlock who was 1 year old at the time and I was searching for answers - I wanted my son to have a future and the one the witnesses portrayed was better than anything I'd ever heard! The promise of an earthly paradise overshadowed all the weird doctrines and practices. I became a full-fledge fanatic within 1 year. Fast forward ... bad marriage to Witness man who didn't know the meaning of work, career, future, ambition HELLOOOOOO ... Can't we live a little now Honey - He wasn't having it. Our life was about meetings, studying and selling books and bibles ... oh yeah, and trying to feed our 5 kids (we had four together). I slowly began to awaken from my spiritual sleep when the King of the North prophecy was revised. I was stunned to say the least. Then, college education was OK (as long as you were going to be a pioneer - how stupid is that!), then - OMG - What the hell was that 'generation' twist all about??? I didn't even try to swallow that one. That was it for me. I had a great job, met some nice folks at work and realized that people are people both in the org. and out ... some good, some not so much. Why would God destroy ALL these peopole just because they didn't want to live this weird, boring ass life I'm living! And OH was I tired of field service. I couln't even fake it anymore. I still remember the street and the last door I knocked on. I slowly started slacking off from meetings - my children's earaches and tummy aches and anything else I could come up with kept the shepherds at bay for a few months. But when Hubby saw that I wasn't happy sitting at home bored out of my mind anymore and I began thinking for myself, reading 'worldly books' instead of the Watch Tower lit. he called the dogs on me. Funny it didn't occur to them to come by until he asked ... I was changing right before everyone's eyes ... I even warned a few sisters that they would look up one day and wonder where I was, I knew I was on the way out! A couple of elders finally came by anyway but I didn't even go into the room with them, I just sat on the stairs off our living room while they sat on the sofa reading the guilt trip scriptures ... thou shalt not forsake meetings at the KH ... Thou shalt turn in a regular field service report ... yadda yadda yadda. I sat there completely emotionless ... no brother, I don't need you to pray with me ... I don't need anything, I don't know if I'm coming to the meeting tomorrow or not. They left dumbfounded, stunned and not knowing what to say or do. Their voodoo didn't work on me anymore. I left the Hubby a few months later after he gave me an ultimatum to come back to the truth or it was over. BUH BYE! I couldn't get away from him fast enough.I knew God loved me for myself and I couldn't belive he wanted me to be miserable for the rest of my life. I was 29 going on 30 and it was time that I started living. I knew going to the memorial in 1998 that it would be my last meeting. I haven't set foot in a KH since! Hallelujah! The internet kept me from going back. I was searching for the book "Young People Ask" and came across the ex-JW's. Thanks to the information out here on the web my happiness and peace have increased a-hundred fold. Thanks to EVERYONE whose done something to get the word out on this mind control cult known as Jehovah's Witnesses. You're giving people their lives back!
One LOVE
