Posts by Lilycurly

Well that would be the last straw!lol After all, it's the only damn thing they can celebrate. And around here, it honestly look like they are putting all their repressed festive needs into those. It becomes big congregation parties like christmas, birthdays and all that jazz wrapped up under the allowed little name of a wedding anniversary.lol

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Where are the JWs active

by Triple A in

i keep reading all these threads that talk about the jws knocking on their doors.

we live in southern california and there has not been a visit at door in well over a year.

my business is on the main drag and their has not been a visit there either.

Lilycurly

Hihi, the talk about the badge reminded me...you say most JWs like to use the "sneak approach", well when I was out in service, I one day realised that if I said right away that I was a Jehovah's Witness, then I wouldn't have to talk (since I hated to talk). It worked...quite well.lol I guess the sisters who went out with me just hitched to tell me to sneak it up.lol

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If Armageddon comes and Jehovah kills you apostates

by Smiles in

what would your last words be?

Lilycurly

About the no sex/no marriage no kids in the New System...beleive me, I remember distinctly the time it was discussed at the hall. Keep in mind, that was just a few years ago, and as a single sister who expected the end to come soon, I just sat there, mouh opened, and I looked at my father with tears in my eyes. I just couldn't beleive I was to accept that. They kept saying how we don't understand now, but that we would when it happen, that we wouldn't care.( I remember the brother explaining it seemed to have trouble with the notion too) And I thought...no kids? How can we be happy without kids. It seriously helped my decision to leave.

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Pagan? Do you keep the feast days?

by darkuncle29 in

jw
friends

do you keep the feast days?

any of the holidays?

astrological events?.

Lilycurly

I do....for me, pagan holidays have much more meaning then todays commercial ones. Sabbats and Esbats bring you closer to the cycle of nature, wich is nice. I like the fact that it brightens and celebrates special days in the year. It makes you look around and take note of what is happening out there.

Of course, I mix a bit of the modern holiday in the events so that my family don't feel all that lost.:P

I also like to aknowlege full moons with a candle...well, the moon in general, I love to watch her wax and wane, especially when she gets orangey, it just entrances me.

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Honest fading a myth?

by Fatfreek in

is honest fading possible?.

i've thought several times that if i had it to do over again, living in this age of jwd with all its online support and encouragement -- along with the huge resource of the internet -- that i'd have faded slowly instead of allowed the disfellowshipping because of apostasy.. on the other hand i wonder if that's all stupid speculation, wishfully thinking it would have prevented the cutting off and the shunning of the remaining family members, especially the children.. i know you'll correct me if i'm wrong on the following premise but i suspect if a person is honest, he cannot prevent the disfellowshipping -- in a great many cases.

i believe that it all depends on the vigilance of the local elders and how penetrating they are in their questions, and how perceptive they are with your answers during sheparding calls.. "um ... brother, we've missed your presence at the meetings and in the field ministry and we're certainly here to help you, but wonder if you've actually lost your faith that jehovah's earthly organization is the correct one.

Lilycurly

Well, my story must be an exeption then. I don't even know what happenned. One day I was a full blown JW, giving my 10 hours a months, going and answering at every meeting. Being all smiles and positive chat with the rest of them.

The day after, I quit, cold-turkey. I simply tell my dad in a fit of exasperation that I wouldn't go anymore, that I've had enough. No smooth fading, no letters of DA, nothing. I never went back to a meeting or out in service since. My father knows I riped my blood card and got rid of all the WT crap, he knows I regularly visit apostate sites, and read apostate material and talk about it right and left, heck, I even let Crisis of Conscience lying aroung the house in hopes he would take a look. Logically, he should have told the elders, no? Shouldn't I be disfellowshiped by now? I never got a call from them and JWs I met in the street smile and talk to me as if nothing happenned? Is my dad trying to protect me? Isn't that disloyal to the society?

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Whats happens to all the $$$$ when the WTS closes down

by jwfacts in

i used to think that if the end didnt come within the generation that the wts would have to shut down.

as it is a multibillion dollar non profit organisation i imagined that the publishers would then each get an equal distribution of the wealth, a great incentive to stay.

but then the definition of a generation changed and makes the wts viable for a bit longer than i cared to hang around for.. how long do you think the wts can continue before people en masse realise it is a pointless cult and it drifts into oblivion.

Lilycurly

As much as I wish this would happen in our life-time, I think there is very little hope it will ever happen. They are too good at making bullshit up. There will always be people to beleive it all.

But one thing is for sure, if they did close down, I would never see the $$$ go to the poor people of the world or the average Mr. Joe Witness.

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Cave men?

by Lilycurly in

i'd love to know how jws explain the discovery of 6000+ year old remnants of cavemen?

i mean, they can explain dinosaurs, but what to they say about the prehistoric men?

i'd ask my jw father, but i want to be prepared first....

Lilycurly

Thanks for the links! I'll have a look, and possibly show my father when I get in the mood for an argument....*sigh* I'm not very good at that.

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Did You Keep That Soft Voice After You Left The JW's

by Honesty in

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Lilycurly

Lol, soft voice...I don't know if it's what you mean, but it reminds me of the slightly girly "sorry-to-wake-you-up-so-soon" voice I used to take everytime a door would open on a Saturday morning. God I love Saturday mornings now! I truly appreciate them.:P