Posts by swiftbreeze

according to my ex there's a great influx of those falling out. He says they are dropping like hot cakes...The last time i was at the meeting which was about a month ago there was alot of people not there maybe about 50 people when normally it's about 125.

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Okay, what made YOUR day ... Enquiring Minds want to know !!!

by talesin in

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i'll share first.

here's what made my day so far .... .

~ fresh asparagus ... steamed ... slathered in butter.

swiftbreeze

I bought this cute pink purse, i just love it, plus i got it on sale!

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What more is there to the equation than "happiness"? It's not enough.

by AlmostAtheist in

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the thread on "happy jw's" got me to thinking about this.

there really are some truly happy jw's.

maybe it's because they don't take all the "do more, do more" stuff to heart and just do what they think is "enough".

swiftbreeze

The happiest day in my life:

I missed the sunday meeting to go visit some old "worldly" friends from my "double life" days that i hadnt seen since i was a teenager...They were so happy to see me...everyone was like "why did you stay away for so long?" I recieved more love in that one night than i had got all those years as a JW , we talked and laughed until 5:00 in the morning. I realized that these people cared about me as a person, everyone else had remained friends and had been there for each other through trials and had supported one another. That was the beginning of the end for me...I think JW say that they are happy because the WT tells them that they are.

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Why is an elder removed?

by purplesofa in

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there is an elder at my hall that was removed last week.. he was not df, he still is in good standing.

he did not request it.. how can an elder be removed?.

what is the process?.

swiftbreeze

I went to an elder's home to use his computer, i went to the "view history" to go back to some places that i had visited the day before, and there were all these porn sites listed, there were also porn sites in his favorites listing. I never told anyone ( not even my husband), I didnt want to embarrass him or his family. He was so nice about letting me use his computer whenever i needed and his wife also was very loving and helpful towards my family. I wasnt my business..simple as that.

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The New World Translation and Honesty

by Little Bo Peep in

after having researched my beliefs of 45+ years, finding so much was really different than what the bible context really taught, i decided to "read" the bible for for the first time to see what it really was saying, taking off the "blinders" of the wt.

i began reading the greek scriptures first.

i used the new world translation, knowing if we were to ever reach our grown children, i would need to use that translation to prove anything.

swiftbreeze

I've been reading the Bible and comparing it to the NWT. I used to try to read the NWT along with Watchtower articles and other WT books .... now when i read the Bible by itself with no filters ..it comes alive and is very interesting, i can read for hours. I try not to get hung up on things i don't fully understand i just try to grasp what the basic message is. I've also learned alot by coming to this forum.

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What Was Your Greatest "Privilege" In The Organization?

by minimus in

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was it being able to join the theocratic ministry school?

being a regular pioneer?

"handling microphones"?

swiftbreeze

I spent an entire afternoon at the district assembly putting toilet paper in the bathrooms....I was so proud of myself...i was also bored and kept falling asleep...that gave me a good excuse to walk around and check out all the cute young brothers.

There was this one particular brother who is still a good friend of mine...he would always come to the assembly around noon time just before lunch and say "where's all my ho's"

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when you were babtized and dedicated did you feel a void?

by swiftbreeze in

this has always troubled me:.

i was studying to be babtized although i was raised around the "truth" i still had to have an official study.

so i was taught that i had to go to jehovah in prayer stating my desire to be dedicated and babtized.

swiftbreeze

This has always troubled me:

I was studying to be babtized although i was raised around the "truth" i still had to have an official study. So i was taught that i had to go to Jehovah in prayer stating my desire to be dedicated and babtized. So i got down on my knees and starting praying but it didnt feel right...i felt a void like something was missing. I couldnt figure it out...I know that i was very sincere and really believed but i still felt a void like my prayer wasnt heard....i continued on anyway and thought maybe after my babtisim i would feel better. Same thing i didnt feel nothing. I thought that as time went on things would change but every time i tried praying, i felt a void. We always had "talks" about prayer and how many JW's had problems with it and all kinds of solutions were given but none worked. has anyone felt like that?

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Are there any Masons on this forum?

by Brummie in

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?

rumour has it that there are?

swiftbreeze

from what i heard Charles Russell was a Mason...and it's funny cuz i once tried looking up some information on masons in the WT and Awake volumes my grandmother has volumes that go back as far as the late 50's and to my surprise i found none...and i thought it was strange because JW's have info on just about every religion or organization. all i found was a tiny paragraph that didnt tell me anything.