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All the best to you over the next few months, but you've sure got what it takes to make it!
yesterday (monday) i was off school and work, and i told my mother i would go out in service.
so monday morning i got up, got dressed, drove to the hall, and there was no one there.
i fell asleep in my car while i waited, woke up to wave at a brother, then fell back asleep, and then woke up, looked around and left.
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All the best to you over the next few months, but you've sure got what it takes to make it!
hi all on this thread.
i am very new here quite excited to finally make the move and register.
i have a very long story but i would like to leave that for another time perhaps.
Congratulations and welcome!
I'm so sorry for all of the pain you have been through. For me it's over and I'm ELATED that life is so great on the outside!
There are some tough times in the immediate future, but some brilliant times after that. Trust your intellect. Cushion the social blow with new friends. Take care of your own immediately family, yourselves and each other.
Much love to you both and your children.
that your jw family were lurking here, either to specifically to pinpoint you or just to well, lurk.
would that change the way you post?.
what if you knew for a fact they knew who you were and they were tracking you, would it change the way you post now?.
I think that the day my mother shuns me for good I'll send her a link to my topics list. She'll probably reject it immediately but if she's any kind of mother she'll use it to follow me and what's happening in my life. Maybe reading her phone text conversations will show her how insane her thought process is.
Note to her now, in case she ever does...
Hi! Love you... call me anytime. It's true what I said, I've already forgiven you. It probably doesn't matter to you now, but in a few decades when armageddon hasn't come and you're at the end, you'll wonder if you did the right thing, and when that happens, remember... I've already forgiven you.
we began as one.
we have not come to that knowledge yet.
when we do, life will be exponentially more enjoyable for all living things.
Us and our fellow carbon-based life forms.
(Former) Regular Pioneer TM
(Current) Disfellowshippee
something i got off the myspace.com jw group.
if somebody can tell me the difference between the logic in this post and the logic in an orwellian book, pm me and i'll give you my credit card number.. .
i wanted to mention, to all active jehovah's witnesses, that a brother has called to my attention that he is being harassed by apostates.
Perversion? Woohoo! Where? Sign me up, sign me up twice brother!!
Sorry. Poor little mixed up squid.
just wanted to drop a line and say "hi".
i too am a long time lurker that "came out" sort of speaking.
(' bout 2 yrs!
Congratulations and welcome Jojo!! I can totally relate to that stunned feeling, but one day you'll look back on this time as the beginning of your living. It won't be easy at times.
A practical suggestion that you should start on straight away: start making non-JW friends... in the gym, t work, neighbours, common hobbies.... the potential is everywhere. It will ease the transition if not your *whole* social life is caught up in the organisation.
jws tell their flock that they are superior to "worldly ones".
that they're better.
how would you refute that??
I'm glad you put "Worldly Person" in quotes, as they have their own definition of the word. Most "Worldly People" would be proud that somebody considers them 'streetwise' and 'experienced'.
credit to
minimus
how many people did you bring into the truth, what was there reaction to you fading, daing or getting df'd and do you feel guilty about it now?
The one (beautiful and highly intelligent...) girl I studied with who subsequently got baptised is now dead. Her spiritual development is more likely the influence of her father, the elder, though.
possibly someone else who was around in the 1975-1980 time frame will remember this:.
it seemed to be that prior to 1975, the message on children was "wait until the new system".
however, it seemed to me at the time that after 1975 there was a popularization of child bearing.
I remember that there was a 'don't have children' talk at a convention in the early nineties, Lovers of Freedom is ringing a bell, 1992, 1994? I think 1992.