i've seen how some are so burdened by the fact that they were witnesses, that literally, every day is a struggle.
are you in need of therapeutic help because you are or were a jehovah's witness?
I was depressed while I was a JW. There is a lot of burdens put on you when your are a JW. Meetings, field service and hours, studying, bible studies....meeting up to everyones expectations. If you do anything wrong, people notice and gossip about you.
When I left...it all went away. Now I do what I want, when I want and never have to worry about people judging me.
Free at last! Dee
as many of you might have noticed, the may 2005 km has a group of 4 or 5 articles about scheduling family activities.
it includes a blank week long calendar and little slips that you can cut out and paste onto the calendar.
i think this is another crazy, last ditch effort to try and grab the remaining witnesses into the protective brood of the gb.
Richie, I am laughing through this entire post. This is unbelievable that GB is now suggesting schedules for family members. What are they thinking? You know...when you read the KM, I am sure that there were others at the KH thinking the same thing when they reviewed this crap!
Dee
big stuff coming up.
i need some people to prohpesize on what might happen.
my wife has been studying with the dubs for more than a year now.
gringojj- maybe I don't understand what you are looking for??? But from the sounds of your thread, your wife is very close to being baptised.
If you are looking for ways to procrastinate and play out this procedure, just so that you can get the kids and avoid the whole court thing! Here is my thoughts....
She will probably need to go out in service before getting baptised. She could always cry, lie and deny the day of the baptism. Tell everyone that she is 'really, really, really sick'???? haaa Then she might have to wait until the next assembly to be baptized. Just throwing out some ideas.
(I have to agree with the other posts made before me, stop the studying, go throught the courts to fight for the kids. But that is just my opinion)
Dee
how many are managers/supervisors and have to deal with one or two employees who are complete and udder nightmares, i.e.
not staying in their desk, always behind, always a crisis and have to leave work, has a smart-ass attitude when counseling or cries when you tell them what they need to be doing?
i have one that my boss hired as soon as i was promoted and i have to manage that employee and my boss knew about this person was when they was hired!!
I was a Information Technology supervisor for several years....from my own experience, I only had one guy who was the employee from hell.
At first, I tried everything with him. Praised him,, gave him additional projects (so that he would be recognized along with the rest of my group). Tried the friendly appoach. Showed him special treatment. Gave him a good review for a pay raise. Nothing worked! He continued to torment me, in ways that you had described and more. (always late for work, long lunches, went through my desk, leave early, sending IM messages all day long, work not being completed. etc...)
After months of this, I finally found him gambling on-line at work and turned him into HR. I thought that he would be terminated, but they gave him a verbal and written warning. Two days later, my car was keyed and scrached on both sides (from front to bumper)!
Since I didn't have any prove that he had done this to my brand new Acura, I did the next best thing. I went to upper management and had him moved to another department.
Believe me....get rid of the headache!
Dee
here's the dirty dozen: .
1) ants- imagine being buried in a sandpile up to your neck with sand.
along come a bunch of ants from an ant colony, and they crawl all over your head, in and out of your nose, your mouth, your ears, your eyes, and all thru your hair.
Snakes- Where I live, black snakes are common. In the back of my house, near the woods I have seen black snakes....the neighbors have heard me scream.
Spiders- Only large spiders. I freak out when I walk into a spider web, because where there is a a web, there is a spider.
Dee
mine was when my mom signed me up to sit at a table at our local university.
we had to sit there and talk to students as they passed by our table.
a few people came up to start a conversation and i didn't even know what they were talking about.
An elder asked me to go on a return visit....I sat through the entire discussion and the guy said to me, 'don't you recognize me?' After looking at him for almost a 1/2 hour, I had no clue who the guy was.
He told me, 'my name is C____ we use to date each other.' My face turned bright red and I could feel myself getting hot! I wanted to stand up and walk right out the front door. The elder saw that I was embarrased....but he kept on talking.
Dee
here is this week's service meeting schedule:.
song 148.
local announcements.
'Then they will know" ..that was my mothers favorite song. When my mother was dying in the hospital, I sang that song to her. It is funny, after all those years of being out, I could still remember that song.
Dee
blessings defined:
auspiciousness, favor, smiles of fortune, good fortune, blessings, godsend, crowning mercy, goodness and mercy, good.
no doubt we've heard statements like,
You know come to think of it...I remember saying those dumb statements to people. "Jehovah will bless you if you go out in service, be whole souled in the organization....etc."
If there is such a thing as blessings...I've actually had more blessings since I left than when I was a JW!
Dee
when you finally came to the jw meeting that you knew was your last one, what were your thoughts, feelings or actions?
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my last was the summer convent of 1986. i stood there until everyone left and then i took a picture with my new camera of the empty stadium, the wish being that the wts would collapse and never fill up again stadiums with people.
Hello greendawn,
My last was the summer convent of 1986. I stood there until everyone left and then I took a picture with my new camera of the empty stadium, the wish being that the WTS would collapse and never fill up again stadiums with people.
I think that your wish will come true someday!
Dee
i was reading my local paper this morning and there was a letter to the editor.
the writer had recently lost a child and the child's obituary was recently printed in our paper.
the writer said she received a letter with a "jehovah witness tract" called "what help for dead loved ones?
I remeber when the WTS suggested to write letters and one way was the obituary's. When they suggested this...I thought to myself, NO WAY would I ever write someone a letter or send a tract by looking through the obituarys.' But, I do know of sisters who had bragged about doing this....just to get a few hours of service. Just had to make those hours when you were pioneering!
Dee
