hi, i posted earlier "taking bets" about the jws serving a funeral dinner for my jw aunt in the local presby church.
the majority of those who answered was right...no, they are not able to do that, surprize surprize!
we are having our own family dinner in my uncle's home.
auntiejane,
If you want the service to be remembered for controversy, sing the hymn. If you want it to be about remembering your Aunt save it for later. I don't know what her view was but if she was a real dub it would be disrespectful to sing that hymn at the service. What is there to lose by holding on to it for a little later in order to keep the peace and honor your aunt?
Just saying,
W.Once
hey all, i just had a flash back when for about a year my ex and i didnt have a car to get to the meetings.
one thursday night i was going but my ex wasnt so i rang my friend a brother to come and pick me up.
anyway after the meeting was finished, he asked me to sit in the back seat on the way home, apparenlty the elders had had a chat with him and said it wasnt appropriate to have a sister in his car without anyone else and that it would be better if i sat in the back.
Everyone knows that the meetings make you horny. After you've sat through one of those babys the first thing you want to do is hump like rabbits! ...and let's face it, a car is only a rolling whore house. I'm sure that sex is the only thing the brothers can think of when they are in the Lord's work out in thier cars. Can you feel the love?
Right? Of course right.
W.Once
go to a different congregation, where no one knew you, and do something crazy?
like stand up and yell "praise the lord"!
or go to the memorial, and drink the whole glass of wine and burp really loud?
Buttlight,
I find it much more subversive to comment on Jesus' undeserved kindness every time the WT has a paragraph on the importance of turning in field service or how we are saved by an association with an organization. It stirs up the elders in ways you have never seen. They sense the bullet coming from behind but cannot attack the source as it would be seen as a denial of the truth that Christ's sacrifice is pivitol to our salvation. It's almost like farting only productive and not wet.
W.Once
are footstep followers of jesus.
so,,, how do they follow jesus?
what does the evidence show about their claim as footstep followers of jesus?
require a highlight pen and a monthly magazine for salvation.
my mother's so disillusioned by the elders, circuit overseer and society for removing her as a pioneer for going to my daughter's wedding in which she married an "unbeliever", that she has told the elders not to even announce her name if they find out she's been sick or could use some welcomed calls.
nope!
she just wants them to stay away from her as long as is possible.
I would venture to say that your Apostatalk has eroded her confidence in the gang of elders. Now she has been wounded herself by the phony baloney of the elite. It is the lying that threw me too. "You are from your Father the Devil... he is a liar and the father of the lie." Its good she sees the true lineage of the Watchtower Clergy. Have her over for lunch and enjoy baloney sandwiches in honor of the Service Committee.
Bunch of frauds.
W.Once
i wanted to share this recent incident and it really pi$$es me off.
i called my grandfather yesterday who is a believing but inactive jw due to health reasons.
he is 83 and in very poor health and is alone since his wife died 3 years ago.
Defd, "Ticker i am sorry for that. You are right. Most of the "friends" I know are the same way. However i made it my FIRM resolve not to be like them. If we know how to do what is right and yet do not do it, it is a sin for us. I wont let that slow me down in my worship to God and discipleship of Jesus." That's good you wont let it slow you down in your worship. I know that you wouldn't let that happen to any of the older ones in your congregation, defd. Unfortunately there are thousand's in the organization who don't have the luxury of being in your congregation. For JW's its all about "my" worship. That's why the oldsters are on thier own, its "thier" worship or problem. I'll never forget the parts on the DC program in 1994 about helping the elderly, how elders should access needs and set the example of helping them with tasks. NOT tasks of going out in the ministry primarily but physical needs. Wasted words on the survival of the fittest club. They dont beleive in evolution but they certainly act like it. The old are sloughed off and left in the dust. Your devotion to God and dicipleship of Jesus will be viewed as resplendant I'm sure. Go get 'em. W.Once
hi everyone, i'm new here......basically, i found this website a couple of weeks ago when i was in dire need of some like-minded souls who had felt screwed up about the jw's.
from about the age of four/five, my parents and i were involved in the organisation, and all three of us are stil messed up because of it.....we are no longer involved in it, but it took quite a few years before my parents found the strength to leave.
to begin with, i was quite a zealous jw, was baptised at twelve and disfellowshipped at fourteen, because as i got older i began to grow ''weak in the truth'' as people so kindly described me!
Girl interrupted,
Welcome. Deep thoughts at twelve? Why not. Its often memory that interprets those motivations as being deeper than they were. The acceptance of the WT's "urgent message" to "know God" by anyone at any age is often perceived as "deep" when it is actually a relatively common survival response. "The end of the world is coming ya know." There is always the desire to please, (and perserve) those we love, ie: parents through the Big A. I'm sure you were very sincere. Thats how one gets sucked in. Now your mind is free to think without further hindrance by the powers that were.
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty free at last!
Post some more as you need to vent, ask or celebrate your life,
W.Once
"But most Mexicans buy tortillas from a tortilla shop, where a machine can produce between 3,000 and 10,000 of them an hour."
Boy, that's fortunate!
W.Once
as kid i remember a break of 15 minutes between the public talk and the wt study.
all the new ones and "weak" ones ran out to smoke.
loved to see the attendant round them up to come back in when the droning began again.
As kid I remember a break of 15 minutes between the Public Talk and the WT study. All the new ones and "weak" ones ran out to smoke. Loved to see the attendant round them up to come back in when the droning began again. How about you? Were any of you around in them early days of the bOrg?
W.Once
my cheeks are hurting.
i laughed so hard that i missed some of the precious fast moving dialogue!
my pbs station has begun to rerun old "fawlty towers" programming!!
gringojj,
You missed the "New Light" on PBS. It used to be ungodly until the real meaning of the letters of PBS were researched. The "P" stands for "Public" the "B" stands for "Broadcasting" and the "S" of course stands for "Satan" This is ok because in the origonal greek, "Ho, He, Ho, Heee, oooooo, o" is in the nominative predicate position of the anartorous noun value emphaticall expressed with the top lip in stasis. So, watch what you want. You count your time and I'll count mine.
Remember when people would say that? You count your time and I'll count mine. Silly people.
W.Once
