You guys are a dangerous group
Don't they know it? LMAO...
tonight i happened to be at the service meeting and the p.o.
gave a talk on apostasy.
there was not even a slot for local needs but they got rid of one part to give the talk on how the congr.
You guys are a dangerous group
Don't they know it? LMAO...
did you have moments after you left the organization when you felt alive for the first time?
when you realized that you had just been drudging around with your head down, enduring rather than living.
when that huge burden was lifted from your shoulders and you saw the world not for the place of darkness and pain that the witnesses made it out to be but for all the wonder in it?
Yes, I did!!! I was finally free. To be me, to think for myself, free from ever- watchful eyes, free to be with my family, and not feel guilt for not being at the meetings, in service or studying.
Yes, I felt alive for the first time.....and it's a wonderful feeling, isn't it?
BTW, Twitch......................Happy Birthday to you.
I know, I know.......no hijacking.....sorry.
It must be Df'd....he's skirting the questions we ask about his identity.....
.....and i'm barely 28 y/o!
lol my 17 y/o stepdaughter delivered a healthy baby girl almost three weeks ago!
it is really weird seeing and holding that baby and being called "grandma".
congratulations......it's so much fun to be a young gramma...enjoy. I have a 15 month old grandson...he's adorable.
a friend of mine who is df'd is seriously considering trying to get reinstated in order to have his family back in his life.
this is not an easy decision because he's fully aware that this isn't "the truth", but the pain of being excluded from normal family relations is really tearing him.
he has two choices: either move away from his family and try and start a new life, or bite the bullet, try and get reinstated and then do the fade.
I know someone who told the elders that he wanted to be Reinstated™ and when they realized that he was interested in resuming a relationship with his family (including grandchildren whom he has never met) they told him that his Heart Condition™ wasn't right, and they would not consider his request for Reinstatement™. This was after attending all the meetings for a year and jumping through all their hoops in the meantime.
Scully, this makes me so angry....that they can play God, and do this to people. It's WRONG,WRONG, WRONG! They are destroying families, left right and center, and they don't care. It has to stop.Somehow.........and they say, "leave it to Jehovah, only he knows the condition of the heart".....what a croc!
Mary, I understand why your friend is going to do this, I really do. I hope it works for him, and I certainly hope his family appreciates what he's about to do for them. I also hope he has the stomach, for all he is going to have to do...it is going to be wearisome for him.
Having gone through it myself, I would not do it again....at least not with the family I have.
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=c55608db5b5834c2316826ebb719cb6c&threadid=252956
we now have a date for armageddon august 22, 2006.. .
a top expert on the mideast says it is possible iran could pick aug. 22, 2006 the anniversary of one of islam's holiest events, for a cataclysm shiite muslims believe will forever resolve the battle between "good" and "evil.
Damn!!!! I seem to have survived the mushroom cloud.....drats and tarnation!!!! Now I have to go to work.....aaauuuggghhh!!!!!!...................and pay my bills......
a friend of mine who is df'd is seriously considering trying to get reinstated in order to have his family back in his life.
this is not an easy decision because he's fully aware that this isn't "the truth", but the pain of being excluded from normal family relations is really tearing him.
he has two choices: either move away from his family and try and start a new life, or bite the bullet, try and get reinstated and then do the fade.
Blondie said,"Even if you are gungho and zealous, they will always remember that you are a flawed person, no matter how invisble the mending. They will let you know that they NEVER left Jehovah (although they did by the actions and words many times unseen by other JWs).
Mary, this is how I felt, after I was reinstated. I went back in order to have my family back, and it was hell. I hope your friend thinks very seriously about this. Going back to meetings, made me physically ill....studying every stinking WT and book, (the elders make sure you have pre-studied) Everybody keeping a close eye on you, and your attendance, conduct, etc. Yukk.
If his family know how he feels about the "truth", then why don't they let him live his life as is, and just enjoy his company now and then? What's the big difference? It's all going to be a lie, him going back, they know it, don't they realize that Jehovah would also know it? and won't that bother them? .....oy vay.....
my son will be 4 years old in november.
this is a funny age, he says the coolest things.
for example: both his grandpas have passed away (before he was born), and he has now been asking where they are.
When my daughter was 3 she peeked under the bathroom door, when my dad was in there, and she came down the hall and asked, "Why do boys take out their belly buttons to pee?"...my mom and I almost died laughing.
..................yep thats what my sister said to me today.
apparently after the dc, it was said that there may not be a convention next year and that its obvious the society knows something.
she said the whole congregation are really excited and people are making plans to pioneer this year.
oops, double post,,,sorry.