So last weekend was my last District Convention. I plan on breaking the news to my wife real soon. Nowadays even at the meetings my blood pressure raises and my back gets all tense as I sit and listen to some of the stuff we are supposed to believe. I also wanted to reply to your opening comment. I know just how you feel. I knew I had to leave or go crazy sitting there in all those boring meetings so I left. Your situation sounds kind of similar how mine was. Keep in mind that once you tell someone, even your wife things happen very fast. I barely got my letter of disassociation off be for I got a call from the elders. I went from having hundreds of jw friends to no one speaking to me within a couple of days of telling my wife. But I must say: "NO REGRETS" HA Ha!!
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My last District Convention (I hope) ... observations
by ithinkisee inso last weekend was my last district convention.
i plan on breaking the news to my wife real soon.
nowadays even at the meetings my blood pressure raises and my back gets all tense as i sit and listen to some of the stuff we are supposed to believe.
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My last District Convention (I hope) ... observations
by ithinkisee inso last weekend was my last district convention.
i plan on breaking the news to my wife real soon.
nowadays even at the meetings my blood pressure raises and my back gets all tense as i sit and listen to some of the stuff we are supposed to believe.
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I have a question. Could someone tell me how to highlight a text and also how to separate paragraphs? Whenever I post everything seems to get pushed all together.
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My last District Convention (I hope) ... observations
by ithinkisee inso last weekend was my last district convention.
i plan on breaking the news to my wife real soon.
nowadays even at the meetings my blood pressure raises and my back gets all tense as i sit and listen to some of the stuff we are supposed to believe.
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There was a catch phrase used through almost every interview with publishers, etc. - "No regrets" - in their decision to avoid lucrative secular employment, scholarship opportunities, etc. This was uttered countless times - almost every life experience (several dozen) from youths on up had that phrase. And if they didn't use it particularly - the speaker would ask it - "Any regrets?" . Why would you tell someone they need to eat better unless you felt that they weren't eating right. Same thing is going on here. They know many do have regrets even if they can't express them and why wouldn't they when they see they are still here living in this "system" and all those that didn't listen to the watchtower are much better off than they are. Everytime you need to go to a doctor or dentist be thankful that someone in the past didn't listen to the watchtower. Think of all the medicines that have come about because people went to college and became scientist rather than peddle magazines with the intent of getting others to peddle magazines.
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Last night I dreamt I was at the ministry school
by xjwms in.
and they asked me to give the last talk of the school impromtooo, ... and i was looking up information.
i used to do those, ... and it woke me up.. and i have'nt been to a regular meeting in four years.
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I can really relate to this subject. I thought I was the only one who this has happened to them. I have had two or three dreams like this since I left. The funny thing is I was probably out 15 years before I ever had a dream like this. I dreamt I was in the KH at one of the meetings (for some unexplained reason I got involved again). I am bored out of my mind. I look around thinking "How the h*ll am I going to escape this time. I woke up in a cold sweat. This is a very bad nightmare to have. Even now I cringe just thinking it. To have to go through all the problems of leaving again. Get me a barf bag!
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For those who think they know everything
by free2beme infor those of you who just thought you knew everything, here's a refresher course................ .
the liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.. .
no piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.. .
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Turtles can breathe through their butts. Turtles aren't the only ones. There are some men in Brooklyn who can do this. They have been successful at running a religion while having their heads firmly planted up their behinds most of the time.
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What are your goals in life that don't involve the WTS?
by John Doe ini'm just curious.
i know this is a wts discussion forum, but by some posts, it seems as if the wts never leaves some heads.
also, a lot seems to be conspiracy theory.
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I don't think for a lot of us it is that we can't leave the tower it is that the tower somehow keep sticking its nose into our business. Here is an example. I left over twenty years ago and my wife didn't. A few years ago we decided to to do a living trust. I thought it would be easy but my wife's beliefs even came into that. She doesn't want me to make medical decision for her because she knows I would go by what the doctors recommend, not by what the every changing watchtower says say to do. She could die from some part of their blood policy only to find out they changed it six months later. When you have family in the tower you always have the tower in your business. First thing I didn't when I left was to do some of the things the wt said weren't important such as buy a house and plan for retirement by saving in IRAs, joining the 401k at work. I'm sure glad I did. If I live long enough to retire I will be in good shape. I lead a pretty normal life doing the things that may have got in the way of service to the tower. I garden, golf, surf, go to the gym and make an occasional trip to Vegas. This is my first time on one of these boards in about 5 years. I don't think it is healthy to obsess about the watchtower all the time. If you have a ministry helping others get out that is different but I think it takes a special person to do that for a long time and I would think you still need breaks from it. It can be very frustrating.
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Read any good books lately?
by chrissy inso, i will be down and out for awhile after a little surgery this week and i am trying to get a few books to keep myself amused and i am looking for suggestions on something you may have read recently and enjoyed.
i prefer non-fiction, but will consider reading anything highly recommended, as long as it contains at least a spark of truth.
well, i will recommend a book to you alla few days ago, i finished reading into the wild by jon krakauera biographical story about a young man who, after graduating college, got rid of all of his belongings and hitch-hiked across the country in search of jack london-esque adventures.
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Hi Chrissy Here are some of the non fiction books I have read recently that I have enjoyed. WISH YOU WERE HERE... The biography of Douglas Adams by Nick Web. If you are a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fan you will enjoy this on on Douglas, the author of Hitchhikers and a friend of Richard Dawkin who's book was mention in an earlier post. Soul Surf...The story of Bethany Hamilton, the young girl in Hawaii who had her arm bitten off by a shark. She is such a possitive person even after what happened to her. Enjoyable read. If you like science: GOD TIME & STEPHEN HAWKING by David Wilkinson. Also BELIEF IN GOD IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE by John Polkinghorne Oh and BONO in conversation with Michka Assayas. If you like U2 you may enjoy this book. On finance: START LATE, FINISH RICH by David Bach. Good ideas on how to get a finacial plan going.
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The facts on crucifixion, stauros, and the "torture stake"
by Leolaia infinally, i will look at biblical and patristic evidence bearing on the crucifixion of jesus in particular.
we need to examine the earliest known descriptions of the kind of crucifixion adopted by the romans and the specific terms they used to refer to it.
apparently the society believes that crux still meant "stake" in the second century a.d., when tacitus composed his annals.
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Excellent post Leo. I have already saved it to disc for future reference. I really think this information should as part of a book or in the form of a brochure. One of the things I remember being told when I was a JW was that God wouldn't have allow Jesus to die on a cross because it was a pagan image. Where as an upright pole would have no other connotations to it whatsoever, right?
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Earthwuake strikes southern California
by Netty ini just saw this on the news this morning.
a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck southern cal.
i know there are posters on this board from southern cal, wondering if anyone felt it?
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Hi Netty, I was driving through Santa Ana when someone on the radio said they just felt an earthquake. I didn't feel it at all.
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Should JWS EAT SAUSAGES?
by badboy in.
i understand that constantine the great banned them because they were eaten at pagan festivals.. in view of the pagan connection,should jws eat sausages?
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You have all raised some very interesting points I think the WT should look into. It has been a while since the "organization" has been able to come up with anything to get the rank and file worked up enought to get out there and try to score converts and hawk books. This might be their ticket. They could kick off the campaign with a series of WT article on the evils of the saugage. They could issue "No Sausage" cards for witness to present to the waiter when dinning out. Perhaps they could come out with some bizarre eschatology involving the sausage to predict the end of the world. You know the kind of thing. Make a date for the the invention of the sausage. Sausage times, time and 1/2 a time.