I have volumes that date back to the 50's anyone interested in any information...i'm not sure yet if i want to part with them but i will gladly copy info.
swiftbreeze
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Awake and Watchtower volumes
by swiftbreeze ini have volumes that date back to the 50's anyone interested in any information...i'm not sure yet if i want to part with them but i will gladly copy info.
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Dorthy's ruby slippers had the power the whole time.
by m. kirov inmy baptisim is null and void, due to breech of contract and insider trading.
you used to look so good at the pupit, in your sheep suit.
*old light, new light, psuedo light, night light* lights out, say your prayers.
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swiftbreeze
Very good!
Yeah i was also singing and dancing on that yellow brick road only to find an old man behind the curtain who had also lost his way. The people of oz thought he was a god cause he came crashing down in a big ballon and they had never seen a big ballon before....
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ATTENTION-------- ALL JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES!!!
by minimus ini have to say that the longer that i stay away from jehovah's witnesses, the easier it is to see that they are so wrong!
so wrong about how they live their life, so wrong about their fundamental belief system, so wrong about how they treat people---whether they are jws or aren't.
for any of you lurker witnesses here, please get off the fence and recognize you were never "in the truth".
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swiftbreeze
I agree...I had my doubts but more and more everyday i see how evil they really are..and not because of anything said here on this site. The truth about it is this...they talk about how the world hates them when in reality, it is the JW's who hate the world. My ex who still is a JW tries to constantly give me a hard time...He wants to see me suffer, why? because that is what he has been taught...that if you leave you will suffer.
They want you to believe that they are the "light of the world" when in reality they are a flickering candle in the corner of an already bright room.
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What were your reasons for not liking the ministry school?
by LongHairGal ini dropped out years ago because i couldn't stand getting together with sisters i didn't like to do a talk.
i hated it with a passion!!
i do realize that you did learn but what i resented was that the sisters were inflicted on each other in a way that i don't think the brothers were.
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swiftbreeze
I thought the school was totally unreal
I remember one time i was a householder and instead of saying "great come back next week" or "yes i would love a bible study" i said "no thanks, I think i'll just stick to what i've been doing" i thought it would be interesting to see a realistic outcome. The elders was like "don't ever do that and how the householder should always accept the information" but i thought that was unrealistic because we get turned down everyday. I didnt get put on the school for a long time after that.
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Slacker Pioneering
by scotsman inas i was reading the thread about not at homes i wondered if anyone else a slacker pioneer?.
there was a bunch of us in our hall that went out on a wednesday.
we usually managed about 45mins before needing a coffee which somehow extended through lunchtime, maybe interupted by a return visit that hopefully wasn't home.
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swiftbreeze
i remember how i wanted to be a pioneer...I thought i would be at the top of the ladder if i could just be a pioneer. I would listen whole heartedly at the assemblies listening to all the so called wonderful experiences...anyway everytime i spoke with a pioneer and expressed my desire to do so the answer i got was "you don't want to do this" i was like damn where's that great pioneer spirit...after awhile i thought the sisters thought i wasnt good enough...now i know that it's because they know it's a bunch of BS!
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JW working the obituaries
by Icansaylucky ini was reading my local paper this morning and there was a letter to the editor.
the writer had recently lost a child and the child's obituary was recently printed in our paper.
the writer said she received a letter with a "jehovah witness tract" called "what help for dead loved ones?
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swiftbreeze
My baby sneezed today and his granny (a non jw) says bless you and i felt so stupid because it never came to mind to say anything....i know she thinks i'm a bit strange..but i can't help it...i'm socially disabled. I never considered myself to be rude, as a jw i thought we had the best social manners. now reading all the different posts, i can see just how ignorant jw's are.
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Did you feel their togetherness and nosiness put you in danger?
by LongHairGal ini know it is an odd question and maybe i am not phrasing it right but i felt with their cult of confession (not just to the elders) but with everybody knowing each other's business it could be a danger.
for example: let's say you were a person who kept a lot of money hidden in your house and you made the mistake of telling one of these wonderful friends - what guarantee did you have that they wouldn't blab it to the wrong person and you could get robbed or something?
i always felt with them that i shouldn't let the right hand know what the left was doing.
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swiftbreeze
I used to say to myself all the time that i thought that there was a serious lack of privacy. Actually someone broke into my apartment once and the police came and investigated and said that the way the robbers came in... it was like the person or persons had been in my apartment before because they didnt ramble around the robbers went directly to what they wanted and knew where it was. We never had anyone over accept JW's.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Have The Reputation THEY Think They Have?
by minimus inwitnesses believe they are special.
the publications give many examples of how wonderful a witness was viewed upon by a "worldly" person.
kms tell of how so many praise the witnesses for being so "different".....what would you say is the real way people view jws??
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swiftbreeze
thats a good question because we were always told how not to bring reproach because we have such a good reputation and blah blah blah...anybody that i ever told that i was a JW thought i was a wierdo...most people don't know anything about JW's accept that they don't celebrate christmas or birthdays.
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What is your favorite Memory?
by swiftbreeze ini hope this has not been a topic lately.... it was christmas day...and i had went to visit some non-jw relatives i was 15 yrs old...and a group of other kids from the neighborhood had all got together on the block, it was snowing and the snow was so fluffy and pretty, so we all started walking down the street singing x-mas songs (we had sipped some spiked egg nog) everyone exchanged little gifts.
we went to different houses visiting and eating.
toward the end of the night we went to my sister's friend house and danced till around 2:00 in the morning..." for the first time in my life i felt free and happy.
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swiftbreeze
I read a story about a young lady that camped and hiked across america alone. and she said that it was a spritual experience that brought her closer to God and nature
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What is your favorite Memory?
by swiftbreeze ini hope this has not been a topic lately.... it was christmas day...and i had went to visit some non-jw relatives i was 15 yrs old...and a group of other kids from the neighborhood had all got together on the block, it was snowing and the snow was so fluffy and pretty, so we all started walking down the street singing x-mas songs (we had sipped some spiked egg nog) everyone exchanged little gifts.
we went to different houses visiting and eating.
toward the end of the night we went to my sister's friend house and danced till around 2:00 in the morning..." for the first time in my life i felt free and happy.
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swiftbreeze
I hope this has not been a topic lately...
It was christmas day...and i had went to visit some non-jw relatives i was 15 yrs old...and a group of other kids from the neighborhood had all got together on the block, it was snowing and the snow was so fluffy and pretty, so we all started walking down the street singing x-mas songs (we had sipped some spiked egg nog) everyone exchanged little gifts. We went to different houses visiting and eating. Toward the end of the night we went to my sister's friend house and danced till around 2:00 in the morning..." for the first time in my life i felt free and happy. I wasnt out knocking on doors with the magazines or sitting home waiting for the holidays to end or at some boring gathering playing bible games. I was out...having real fun...i was young and it felt good to be alive.