Thanks for all the hugs....
I think the thing that pissed me off was her going and telling someone about me like i'm a poster child for "lost Jw's" just put my mug on a milk carton while you're at it.
swiftbreeze
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I need to vent
by swiftbreeze ini called my sister yesterday.
she is not a jw although she has studied off and on throughout the years and attends the meeting from time to time.
she knows i don't go to the kh anymore.
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I need to vent
by swiftbreeze ini called my sister yesterday.
she is not a jw although she has studied off and on throughout the years and attends the meeting from time to time.
she knows i don't go to the kh anymore.
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swiftbreeze
I called my sister yesterday. She is not a JW although she has studied off and on throughout the years and attends the meeting from time to time. She knows i don't go to the kh anymore. I really don't say much about it. every now and then she tries to say something regarding the "tooth" that she feels is encouraging. I just let it ride. Yesterday she starts telling me how she went to the Kh and she met this "df" person who is trying to come back, she tells this person about me. (which pissed me off cuz she doesnt know this person and she decides to relay my life story instead of her own) so i told her i didnt believe in the religion anymore and went into various reasons why. Well she starting crying and saying that i did not believe in God and told me i was throwing my life away and how i was going to die. she says "what about living forever? don't you want to live forever and what about this world coming to an end?" so i say " the reason why you want to serve God is based on what you feel you're going to get out of it?" she sobs even louder and screamed "I HAVE FAITH!" I said "based on what? what somebody has told you" she says "but thats all you've ever known!" i say "does that make it right?" she goes "well you're not on drugs and you have been saved from alot of things" (big sigh) she says "what about Job?" i say "was Job a Jehovah's witnesses? or a servant of God?" She says that i'm blinded by satan because i don't go to the kh anymore....I told her to please search the bible for herself and not have faith in 8 men in Newyork none of whom you know anything about not even their name...
She hung up on me. I feel bad.... i feel like i just snatched away her dream although i didnt mean to
I know our relationship will never be the same again...i'm so tired, confused, angry and sad
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Field Service is a Farce
by swiftbreeze ini touch on this subject in another post but i felt the need to take it further...back in the day jw's went out in fs but i don't know about today.... i live in a big city....the territory my congregation has is small because there are so many cong.
here.. our bookstudy only had maybe four blocks at the most to work.
my ex husband and i would go to the meetings and hear talk about fs and all the wonderful and experiences and the joy oh joy in being out in the ministry.
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longhairgal:
I know i've been there...i used to love working with the holy er than thou sisters..i was pegged as being weak so they would try to intimidate me with the "i'm so holy attitude" but i would always act like i didnt give a *uck..if they didnt speak or talk, i would just kill em with more silence. when i did talk i would make sure to use alot of slang. I felt like this if you want to label me as weak why expect anything else..
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Now Elders Are Making Elderly & Infirm Feel Guilty For "Being Hooked Up"!
by minimus inmy mom as well as a few others are "hooked up by phone" to the meetings.
lately, the elders are saying in their talks that if a brother or sister could be at the meetings but instead are "hooked up", then they are hurting jehovah by not having regular association with the "friends" at the kingdom hall.
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My aunt had a telephone hookup before she died. At one time the elders came and took the speaker from her home because some of the other JW's were saying that she could make it to the meetings. so we bought her a telephone with a speaker on it....
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Do any small creatures frighten & freak you out?
by Rod P inhere's the dirty dozen: .
1) ants- imagine being buried in a sandpile up to your neck with sand.
along come a bunch of ants from an ant colony, and they crawl all over your head, in and out of your nose, your mouth, your ears, your eyes, and all thru your hair.
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spiders...i was in the shower and this huge black spider came down...it was like a horror movie,,,i screamed and jumped out and ran... i couldnt stop screaming and shaking
I really don't like killing bugs, if i see one i'll let it go about it's little way.. BUT A SPIDER i'll beat the crap outta of a spider, the funny thing is i love that book charlotte's web
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Needle exchange opened today across from my shop
by orbison11 ini (we) are fuming, chilliwack is a small town outside vancouver , bout 100,000. our only needle exchange was ousted from their temporary spot to right across from my shop, i am a small nail/esthetics women only shop,,,,,needless to say i am livid, along with the senior condo ($180,000) owners across and beside.
i, along with a retired prominent lawyer, and many businesses, a[t managers are going on an all out assault.
it is called,,,o.c.t.
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swiftbreeze
OOPS! my bad! i meant 700 in taxes! sorry,,,it feels like 7,000. I thought about that while driving today i was like "man i gotta pay 7,000...wait a minute thats not right" but thats for last year when i was working. I'm unemployed now....
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Field Service is a Farce
by swiftbreeze ini touch on this subject in another post but i felt the need to take it further...back in the day jw's went out in fs but i don't know about today.... i live in a big city....the territory my congregation has is small because there are so many cong.
here.. our bookstudy only had maybe four blocks at the most to work.
my ex husband and i would go to the meetings and hear talk about fs and all the wonderful and experiences and the joy oh joy in being out in the ministry.
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I guess i was the sucker, because i never lied about my hours. maybe if i did i would not have had such a hard time...i remember how the service overseer would get on me about not turning in my time...i used to say "i don't have any for this month" he would get so frustrated then when the CO came to visit he would really have his drawers in a bunch...saying "you gotta have something, an hour or two"
now it's all clear.. my family was making their numbers look bad...it's all about the numbers...
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Needle exchange opened today across from my shop
by orbison11 ini (we) are fuming, chilliwack is a small town outside vancouver , bout 100,000. our only needle exchange was ousted from their temporary spot to right across from my shop, i am a small nail/esthetics women only shop,,,,,needless to say i am livid, along with the senior condo ($180,000) owners across and beside.
i, along with a retired prominent lawyer, and many businesses, a[t managers are going on an all out assault.
it is called,,,o.c.t.
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swiftbreeze
I agree Talesin... poverty is no joke...and doesnt make you less of a person, nor does it mean you don't have class, in fact i find that people who have experienced the "have and have nots" tend to have more common sense and that trumps so called "class"
I have recvd free condoms, i don't see anything wrong with it. If the Government wants to give me something and i qualify for it...I'm going to take it. I have to pay around 7,000 in taxes for last year...
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Do JWs Actually Have Less of a Divorce Rate Than Other Religions???
by minimus ini think so.
very few couples got divorced, even after they were caught with another person.i know that most that got df'd for straying still didn't get divorced----they tried to work it out.
have you seen this too?
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swiftbreeze
I know plenty JW's who are married but sleep in separate rooms. I know a few that are married but live separate. Then there are the ones who are just miserable...it's all over their faces. But all of my former married JW friends are now divorced including myself...so i think the numbers in the divorce area is going up. The younger generation don't care so much about towing the line and keeping up the "look" they are divorcing even though the "borg" tells them not to.
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Field Service is a Farce
by swiftbreeze ini touch on this subject in another post but i felt the need to take it further...back in the day jw's went out in fs but i don't know about today.... i live in a big city....the territory my congregation has is small because there are so many cong.
here.. our bookstudy only had maybe four blocks at the most to work.
my ex husband and i would go to the meetings and hear talk about fs and all the wonderful and experiences and the joy oh joy in being out in the ministry.
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I touch on this subject in another post but i felt the need to take it further...back in the day JW's went out in FS but i don't know about today...
I live in a big city....The territory my congregation has is small because there are so many cong. here.
our bookstudy only had maybe four blocks at the most to work. My ex husband and I would go to the meetings and hear talk about FS and all the wonderful and experiences and the joy oh joy in being out in the ministry. JW's would give comments about how they worked in FS. and encouraged the weak ones to join them...well being that my family was considered weak we decided to try harder now this went on for years...everytime we went out in FS 1. no one ever showed up maybe 6 or 7 people at the most.
2. the bother would give us our assignments and we would go to the block assigned and wait and wait and wait...where were the pioneers? the people that were assigned to the territory? why they would disappear. we would drive around looking...no one. This happened all the time. After a while i asked what was going on. The answer i was given was "you got to get with people" HOW? what happened to following the arrangement? If it was summer the answer was "the pioneers are on vacation"
VACATION! who takes vacation from FS? Jesus didnt take vacation from preaching.
Conclusion: LIES! all LIES! JW's arent going out in FS like they say they do..oh yeah when the CO visits then everyone is out...but in the day to day grind..there are only a few and rarely is it door to door. they claim to have bible studies or return visits...maybe it's just my area... has anyone else noticed this?