in case you have not noticed, we do have a resident prophet here on jwd.
he goes by many names, elijah, brown boy, and estephan leuese!!
here is a direct quote:my earthly name is estephan leuese.
misspeaches , dont ask EliJah. He rejected me also on the basis of my screen name. This is Kid-A's club and Im sure he would welcome you. But you better check with him just in case. LOLOh my goodness... silly me.... Your absolutely right of course. I am sorry that Elijah has rejected you. Rejection is such an unloving act.
So Kid-A can I join? Don't you need an Aussie Chick to be one of your apostles?
in case you have not noticed, we do have a resident prophet here on jwd.
he goes by many names, elijah, brown boy, and estephan leuese!!
here is a direct quote:my earthly name is estephan leuese.
Well actually yes I am Christian.
But I want to be one of the apostles!!!!
in case you have not noticed, we do have a resident prophet here on jwd.
he goes by many names, elijah, brown boy, and estephan leuese!!
here is a direct quote:my earthly name is estephan leuese.
Elijah - I asked if I could join and you totally ignored me!!!!
Is it because I am Australian and not Middle Eastern?
mrs ozzie and i were at koorong bookshop today; we hadn't been in a while and mrs ozzie wanted to get a particular book as a birthday gift for a friend.. koorong bookshops are religious bookstores here downunder and supply heaps of good theological books, bibles, recordings and the like.
when we were making our first steps along the road to freedom out of the borg, we were regular visitors to koorong and built up quite a library from the books we bought there.
like i said, we haven't been in perhaps a year and we mooched around a bit.
Hi Ozzie
A big hello to you and Mrs Ozzie. I hope you are both well and look forward to catching up with you again soon!
I'm still in those baby steps where I hear anything JW and get really curious/interested and want to know what is being said. I also want to help other people understand the reality about what goes on in the religon. I want them to see beyond the love bombing!
One day I know that I will be at the stage your at. I'll just let it happen naturally.
P.S. Koorong is a great store!
in case you have not noticed, we do have a resident prophet here on jwd.
he goes by many names, elijah, brown boy, and estephan leuese!!
here is a direct quote:my earthly name is estephan leuese.
Which apostle names are left? I bags one of them...!!!!! I want in!!!
And the other name mumbo jumbo well I choose Princess Estoria of the Australian Desert.
Are Australian women okay? I'm not really middle eastern.
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is there anyone here who actually support jws or is everyone disassociated?.
what disturbing things did you find out
Well I guess the thing that blew me out of the water the most was discovering that Jeruselum (spelling) was not destroyed in 607BCE. This was a big deal for me because if that starting date was not right then that meant the prophecy in Daniel that brought us to 1914, when Jesus began ruling as King, was wrong as well. It meant that Jesus didn't begin ruling as King in 1914 and all other related prophecies must be wrong too. You can read more about this in the 'Best of' Section by Lady Lee. Seriously theres some interesting reading there. Go check it out when you have a chance.
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is there anyone here who actually support jws or is everyone disassociated?.
Hi gcuddles and welcome too you!
I understand your sister is disassociating herself. I imagine that is a big deal in your family and congregation. There are some people on this forum who have disassociated as well. There stories may be of interest to you.
Personally I have never been disphellowshipped or disassociated. I was raised as a JW all my life and stopped attending meetings almost 2 years ago. I stopped because trying to meet all the obligations like meetings, field service, personal study, preparation, bible reading, talks etc was making me feel VERY inadequate and I could no longer deal with the associated feelings of depression that came with it.
I am happier than I have ever been now. I still consider myself to be a Christian. My relationship with God is stronger than its ever been. I like to think I am a good person (as per your initial query.) I found out some disturbing things about the JW doctrines at the beginning of this year. It really shattered me too. I was so upset and hurt. I felt really betrayed.
I really do hope you stay around. Feel free to ask questions of us. It's a great happy little community!
Cheers - Miss Peaches
just wanted to say hi.... its my 1st time on here...it looks good.. are there many here from aus??.
i am 37 - male - was a jw all my life until 2 years ago.
used to pioneer regularly and was a ms. thankfully i questioned everything in the end and found out who god really is and the history of the jw's....my wife and i were shocked after reading coc and c/freedom.
Hi Riverview!
Great to meet you. I haven't ventured to your side of the country yet... But maybe one day!
Great to have you on board. Hope you enjoy the discussions and get involved when ever you can.
Also good to hear that the JW's didn't take away your faith. All the best to you and your family!
Miss Peaches
has anybody read the book "women are from venus, men are from mars?
" and if so what did you think of it.
was it/is it accurate?
P.S. Stilla did you ask about this because you watch Star Trek & I watch Will & Grace? he he he Yes - one of the reasonsWell if it helps you in your studies/investigations my Lesbian boss is a mad fan of Star Trek and my Gay colleague is a mad fan of Will & Grace.... interesting isn't it...! LOL Jourles Its been years since I read the book but as I remember the concept of the 'cave' is this.... Men have this place called the cave. What this means is that when they just want time out they go quiet and retreat as it were. (ie go into their cave...) Now along comes the woman and sees the man being quiet or whatever and from her way of thinking goes 'Oh no! somethings wrong!!!' so she tries to coax him out of the cave. Like by saying is everything okay? or whats wrong? that sort of stuff. This makes the man agitated and he retreats further into the cave. The lesson for women from it is that if a man is in his cave leave him alone. If you leave him alone he will come out of the cave a lot quicker instead of retreating further into it.
i was thinking about the kingdom songs we sang as jw's and was wondering about you posters out there that are ex-jw's or still jw's what was you all time favorite "kingdom song" or what was you all time horrible song that we sang from both songbooks (1966 songbook or the later songbook made in 1984 sing praises to jehovah.
my favorite song was song #119 in the 1966 songbook "keep your eyes on the prize".
i like this song because it made me feel that armaggeddon was coming fast and the "new system" would be here to give me the prize.
I actually used to like this song towards the beginnning of the songbook... it was from one of the dramas... It was real bomp bomp bompy...
I hated the marriage is gods arrangement song.... we had a sister in our hall who thought she was some mad soprano singer and used to go to town with it... my ears! my ears!!
