i hope all of you genx-r exjw will get a kick out of this story from my childhood.
i was just talking to jt and he says i should post it..... my daughter is studying wwi history in school.
i told her that when i was in 10th grade, i had a social studies teacher named nancy galbraith.
LDH, with all that effort you put into that paper, I can only imagine the shock you felt when you discovered the WBTS agreed to uphold the charter of the UN and a NGO. LOL
I remember doing some collages and using Watchtower and Awake! pictures. But I dont think I ever did a secular report using WBTS publications, thank the maker.
Im trying to find a baby sitter so that my wife and I can go to a Pittsburgh Penguines hockey game. I'll let you know if I'm successful.
maybe i watch too many cartoons, but i always worry about falling boulders.
A hydraulic press would work just fine.
i am soooo proud - my little lad who's 6 declared that he had proof that santa isn't real (he waited till after he unwrapped his christmas presents though, i guess just to be on the safe side).. this is his simple reasoning .... "santa isn't real ... because if santa brings all the presents, then why do they sell wrapping paper in the shops?".
it really makes sense when you think about it.
i'm happy knowing he's already smarter than the average jw (and will never be one!
My oldest son (6 yrs) cracks me up. His and my sence of humor are on identical wave lengths. Although I dont have any humorous stories to share at the moment, what I wanted to say is that he is just begining to believe in Santa. My wife and I never really promoted the notion that Santa is responsible for the gifts (never discouraged either). It took him going to kindergarten and being exposed to the other children to really take an interest. So we've had a little more fun this year playing on the whole Santa bit.
Yeah, kids are amazing. Especially when their given a nurturing enviornment to flourish in.
sorry if there are those apostates here that do this, but you were often the butt of a joke and nothing taken serious.
i personally loved the ones who wore paper bags over their head, as they were often people still afraid of getting in trouble.
it is not like a political rally with people saying "make love, not war.
I too wonder about the effectiveness of this approach but as a few others have mentioned I dont see any thing wrong with them trying. It certainly leaves an impression with the average JW, good or bad, otherwise we wouldnt be debating the issue here on this forum, right?
hello...this is my first posting.
i heard about this web page from a friend that has a boyfriend that is trying to live life out of the clutches of jw's for the last 2 years.
i have found that even though i haven't been involved with jw's for about 10 years, thier nails run deep.
Excellent post NiecyMe! I too understand how you feel being raised as a JW for 18 years plus/minus. Welcome to the forum!
You're right. Every holiday, every birthday, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday is a constant reminder of how you should be living your life. LOL.
i do.
i'd like to tell all of you active jw spies that i appreciate it when you tell us the latest.
Hell yeah! I knew that my mother was attending a circut assembly this weekend and I hadn't even talked to her in a couple weeks. I love having the inside scope. Kudos to all you informants out there! Keep up the good work!
daniel 11:40, talking about the end times and other end time prophecies, do you still believe in them and do you think anyone really can understand them?
It’s a little too hard for me to take prophesy seriously after all the failed attempts by the WBTS. I suppose that I need to read the verses again without the aid of the WT and see what I think.
one of the most unbelievable privileges that a brother could have was being a microphone handler.
elders would discuss brothers for hours and see whether or not we would allow them to mow the lawn or handle a mike.
i always felt that these brothers were doing us a favor but if they didn't get a minimum of 10 hours in per month, they were dog crap and couldn't have any privileges.
This is a sensitive issue for me. When I was a young teenager I was approved to hold the microphones. I was excited to tell you the truth. I thought that I was getting some recognition for all of the work that I had put in. Not that I was spending huge hours in service or any thing like that but my old man isn’t a JW and I felt like I was never taken seriously as a result. Of course I’ve always questioned the things that the WBTS taught, even from an early age, so maybe they were just picking up on my “lukewarm” temperament.
Any way, after a few months of handling the microphones on a regular basis my name suddenly disappeared from the list. I approached the speech impaired brother in charge of the sound and scheduling and he really didn’t answer me. He just kind of danced around the question.
Well at about the same time my two best JW friends for several years began shunning me. To this day I don’t know why. I think that it might have been a racial thing because they were both African American and I suspect outside influence from their schools began to have an effect on how they felt about “whitey”. I have since been able to re-establish a relationship with one of them through another mutual friend and although we don’t really see each other regularly; when we do we always have a positive experience.
But I digress. Bottom line is I was very upset when they took this “privilege” away from me and it just solidified the thought in my mind that no matter what I did I would never get ahead in their eyes.
they will never prevent the truth about their satanic religion.
http://watchtower-quotes.ath.cx/ .
keep cool .
I agee with enigma1. Thanks for the x-mas gift phoibos_2!
