i can still remember the day.
sitting in a theater watching the new star trek flick.. they were searching for god and found him...or did they?.
when this part played before my eyes i literally felt my heart fall.. still powerful after all these years.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxvkjav5ik.
Thanks for the reply. I'm always interested in what wakes people up. From what I've seen it can be just about anything. With me the meeting went first. I was still a JW in parts of my mind but couldn't stand going to the meeting. I would do anything to avoid going to them.
My wife is also still a JW so I can understand the frustrations associated with that.
If I were you I'd smoke a little of you wife's pot be for going to the meetings to make them a little more tolerable.
i can still remember the day.
sitting in a theater watching the new star trek flick.. they were searching for god and found him...or did they?.
when this part played before my eyes i literally felt my heart fall.. still powerful after all these years.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxvkjav5ik.
So what happened after that NikL? Did you start seeing all the flaws in what you were taught? Did you continue going to meetings?
i remember when i was about 17, i started shunning an older brother because he was disfellowshipped.
when i graduated high school, he pulled me aside and said " i know you are not supposed to talk to me, but i want you to have this" it was a gift that he had custom made for me.
i was so blown away, we never even had a real conversation before.
Yes, there were lots of witnesses in the area where I lived that were good people. When I was young and had no money I had a JW loan me one of his cars for about a month when mine wasn't working so I could get to work. I always had lots of help whenever I moved or needed help with something. I always had friends to do things with. Go to the beach. Ski trips to Mammoth etc.
My problem was never with the people (well most of them) I just didn't believe it was the truth anymore and didn't want to be a Jdub anymore. The hardest thing for me was knowing that most if not all of the witness I knew would have nothing to do with me once I left but it had to be done. I'm sure I would have left a lot sooner if I had the some of the experience I see people post here with elders and witnesses at the halls they attended.
sorry for this matter has been already discussed.. i got shocked after watching this video:.
kingdom hall disaster demonstration.
this is really insane !!!
This might be the most useful thing ever done at a Kingdom Hall. Most of your time there is wasted learning religious nonsense about the end of the world and how you will only survive by doing what doing whatever the nut jobs in Brooklyn come up with. At least this is practical information that might help you in the real world disaster.
today's text:.
saturday, april 30. the little one will become a thousand and the small one a mighty nation.
i myself, jehovah, will speed it up in its own time.—isa.
this is just a first step clapping.
it's like the fed one quarter bases point at a time.
a new montra that was recently adopted by the wife and i is this:.
dont give them more power than they deserve.. here's why i say that, and i point this to those of you still in the congregation, still trying to decide what you want to do.. recently, our family had a little family reunion gathering of sorts, and we were in the company of some extended family that were either df or da, to varying degrees.
we made it very clear, to any and all in attendance, that we wanted to be respectful and kind, despite any previous perceptions about our "status".... and that our feelings on a lot of things had "softened", and "changed" over the last 2 years.. i am being purposefully slightly vague, but i think you get the point.
If you want to have some fun with them show up with your own microphone on Sunday. Make sure yours is bigger than theirs.
Great post. Definitely an empowering moment when you realize that there is no reason to fear them. They only have the power over you that you allow them to have. In reality they have less authority than a crossing guard.
ask them a question can i give return to jehovah brochure to a df person.?
dead silence on other end, then he said uh hold on brother long pause music then ok bro have you discussed this with your local elders answer no.
bro what cong do you attend?
ask them a question can i give return to jehovah brochure to a df person.?
dead silence on other end, then he said uh hold on brother long pause music then ok bro have you discussed this with your local elders answer no.
bro what cong do you attend?
Amazing how paranoid they become when asked a simple question. Right away they want to find out who you are and what you are up to.
been sitting on this for a few days, confining my anger, to an area where i can control it.. two indian sisters to be raped as 'punishment' after brother eloped.
two sisters in india - one aged only 15 years - are to be raped as "punishment" for their brother running away with a married woman from a higher caste in the latest case to shock the country.meenakshi kumari, who is 23, and her younger sister, will then be paraded naked with their faces blackened through the streets, according to a ruling from the all-male village council.. the family are from the dalit caste, historically known as "untouchables".
however, the brother fell in love with a woman from the higher, jat, caste.
