hi my name is lillian and i am posting for my first time.
i was a witness along with my husband and two children for 12 years and gave in my letter of disasociation about a year and a half ago.
i have struggled with the guilt of bringing my family in contact with the witnesses (i have always been a bible searcher) and i am only coming to terms with this recently.. i now consider myself a born again believer in christ jesus and read my bible daily to check and see what is true.
Welcome! You are soooooo fortunate that your spouse and kids left too. I enjoy life with my kids so much, celebrating holidays with family, letting them be involved in sports or music or whatever they enjoy, and telling them they need to go to college and have a career. I thank God above every day that I left that cult while my kids were very young.
Look forward to more of your posts.
what a crappy morning i'm having.
first i over slept i was reading coc till one in the morning and woke up late, then i decided to walk to work, it's only a 15 min.
walk.
Lola--so sorry! Why don't you tell the elders you aren't available Sunday because you are celebrating Easter?
a couple of months ago i attended a funeral with my wife at the local kingdom hall for my uncle.
its the 1st funeral i've been to and 1st kingdom hall in 5 years.
i was a jw for 17 years and now i'm a chrisitan.
Gregor--that's gross but amusing at the same time.
i'll tell you one thing that just got to me this morning.
i was playing tennis and at around 9:30 my tennis partner and i looked up and lo and behold!
2 witnesses were walking up the street.
Nicolaou--I don't disagree with you. I used to be the smuggest of the smug, arrogant, and extremely judgemental of others. I was also an extremely unhappy person with low self-esteem and severe depression issues, maybe being arrogant gave me a false sense of superiority.
I used to really get sick of the quotes from the scripture that talks about "God chose the lowly of the earth" or something along those lines. It was being fed from the platform constantly. It pretty much taught the JWs that they weren't good enough for anything.
i'll tell you one thing that just got to me this morning.
i was playing tennis and at around 9:30 my tennis partner and i looked up and lo and behold!
2 witnesses were walking up the street.
Their smug attitudes make me sick. I see a couple of ladies at the bus stop holding up magazines sometimes. It's kind of creepy when you really look at their faces and the way they act--reminds me of Stepford wives.
now that the gerontocrats have dispensed with their annual springtime campaign of blustering everyone away from the wine and bread, it's now time to for the yearly decalogue of decorum; an epistle to the clueless.. in the april kingdom ministry the old farts tackle their annual chore of getting their dubbies to somehow behave like normal, thoughtful human beings when let loose on the public away from their kingdom halls.. what do we find on page 5?
``reminders" to the rabble not to save seats; not to leave the premises during the noon lunch break, nor to bring booze or large coolers; to tip at least 15% to 20% when dining at restaurants.
this, i believe is a first; they now feel they have to coach jws on just how much is considered apopropriate by ``worldly" (read ``normal") human beings.
It's because Jehoober's Witlesses don't further their education that they don't know how to behave.
Oh BEHAVE!
im daystar!!!!
would anyone be interested in me?
im very nice, im an ex-jehovahs witness, im 32, im friendly etc... interested in females from any country.
I would be the perfect match for you!!! I look like Pamela Anderson's twin sister or rather quadruplet sister! I got 2 big ones and so does she!
i'm going to the meeting on sunday, i'm over 1000 miles away from anyone who knows me and i have a goattee, what do i do?
i'm planning to be a naive "interested one" with hard questions.
Tell them you heard from a JW that they believe the WBTS is God's organization on earth and ask them to prove it from the Bible, a non NWT Bible.
now that the gerontocrats have dispensed with their annual springtime campaign of blustering everyone away from the wine and bread, it's now time to for the yearly decalogue of decorum; an epistle to the clueless.. in the april kingdom ministry the old farts tackle their annual chore of getting their dubbies to somehow behave like normal, thoughtful human beings when let loose on the public away from their kingdom halls.. what do we find on page 5?
``reminders" to the rabble not to save seats; not to leave the premises during the noon lunch break, nor to bring booze or large coolers; to tip at least 15% to 20% when dining at restaurants.
this, i believe is a first; they now feel they have to coach jws on just how much is considered apopropriate by ``worldly" (read ``normal") human beings.
and (7) ``making nice" with hotel staff when checking in and checking out. "
Can someone please explain to me what the "he double hockey" sticks it means to make nice with hotel staff????
im rose!!!!
would anyone be interested in me?
im very nice, im a jehovahs witness, im 25, im friendly etc... interested in males from any country.
Shame on all of you! You forgot to let Rose know that if she gets involved with any of you xJDubs, she will be required to do more than the missionary position on her wedding night!!!
