hello brothers and sisters and truth seekers,.
i am an active jehovah's witness.
i don't believe in 1914 and i'm tototally against their way of dealing with abuse cases.
If you want to keep the Sabbath..... Keep the Sabbath. If you want to take blood.......take blood. It's not up to me to decide anything for anyone except me. All the conspiracy theories about satan, demons or the Jesuits deceiving me is crazy talk.
My husband would be dead right now if not for a blood transfusion, so don't try to scare people about the life saving properties of blood transfusions.
i think studying the king james bible, and the jacobean flavored translations of the apocrypha and pseudipigrapha, whether you believe in them or not, is an essential part of being a culturally rooted english speaker.
i used to belong to an organization that advocated reading a chapter a day, but had no actual faith requirement to be a member.
20c a week and read the kjv a chapter a day, no lifestyle requirement, no doctrinal litmus test.
Let everyone find their own path. No need to lead anyone down any path, let them find their way.
i think this would be a great question to ask active jws.
they love to say how the world would be so different if everyone was a jw.
however, what if we flip the question and ask, would the world really be much different if the jw faith never came into existence?
Probably no change whatsoever.....they are insignificant.
i'm a man - d'fd for 2.5 years now and divorced.
find it hard to date girls out here only due to always having this secret i carry with me that i was once a jw and the thought of telling a girl one day why my family don't acknowledge me as even alive.. recently been thinking of trying to get reinstated and then do a quick fade as i cant go back to the whole jw stuff.. easier said than done and was turned down twice by elders after an immediate attempt 2 years ago.. my motivation for trying would be 1.
) to see if family make contact and 2) play the last hand in their game and give the middle finger.. interested in viewpoints?.
Move on - live your life. People " out here" are a lot more understanding than you think.
i have been df'd for 9yrs as of july 31 (yay me!).
so as i have written about previously in other posts, my whole family (parents + sister) made the choice to treat me as if i do not exist, and i have accepted it.
last summer they made a blatant show of it as our family reunion, in that they would walk right by me and not say one word...prompting our extended family to question their actions.
That's how my family is too - Scully. They always try to act normal in front of my never a witness husband, because he wouldn't understand about shunning. 😀
hi guys.
it's been about 4 or 5 weeks since i was disfellowshipped.
so far it's been easy, i enjoyed being left alone, no one bothering me, no one telling me i need to do more, need to reach out, questioning why i didnt go on the ministry, and the fact that my ex-wifes family cant talk to me even if they wanted to.
I am sorry you are feeling bad. Please move on with your life and leave the JW crap behind. This is what they want, this is the whole purpose of your disfellowshipping. If you move on, make new friends, don't play their game anymore they don't have any power over you. You don't have to allow yourself to be treated poorly, you are choosing it, choosing to subject yourself to the meetings.
a few years on and the funeral of my jw momma still galls me.
she left instructions for which kingdom songs to be sung and we gladly abided by her wishes.
the funeral was held in a public crematorium, not a kingdom hall.
It's funny how they can use a "worldly" composers music in their creepy convention videos but regular people can't do the same.
semester 2 commences next monday, and the study unit i'm taking will be my last as a undergraduate.
i've spent 8 years wandering around asian (west and east) history, and i should have graduated a year ago, but mu now has a rule that all ugs must take a two units of study outside their field of study.. so starting monday i will apply my mind to the question implicit in the unit's title: .
why people believe weird things: making rational decision's in an irrational world.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
That sounds interesting - and you will have a different perspective than your classmates. Good luck and have fun with it!
if you, knowing ttatt, could go back in time and speak to your former jw self, what would you say to wake yourself up from the wt religion?.
i would speak to my unbaptised publisher self.
at that stage, i believed.
Just go - leave the JWs- it's all going to be alright - you will figure it out. Just go.....
last weekend was regional convention and mark sanderson was the bethel speaker for the last talks every day.
his talks were video streamed from zurich to other cities in switzerland, austria and germany.
one interesting point was that he wore an apple watch, stainless steel edition (link).
I don't have a problem with expensive watches and jewelry.........but I don't go around telling a kids to give up their ice cream money.
I-pads are nearly required as JWs now and are quite expensive, my 70+year old parents both have them and have bought them as gifts for their grandchildren, and those aren't cheap either.
