my wife and i went out to a mexican restaurant the other night... and the place was packed...with tons of people waiting, which was a little unusual.
as we're waiting we notice everyone seems overdressed... then we saw them...the name tags...
it was the dist.
THEY ARE A NON-ISSUE...and they and their "message" is DEAD.When will they realize it?
Do you want a real answer to that or is it for emphasis that they won't?
I remember one year there was a man waiting on horseback in sackcloth outside the site. Should have heard the banter.
Btw there will be one in Rochestor Mini-Soda this weekend. I'm there. Last one for me. Hoorah. I'm still debating on wearing something moderately cleavage revealing with a "just above the knee" skirt" and fishnets. LOL.
one of matt's friends got me a furby over the weekend off of ebay.
i wanted one as soon as i remembered a jdub telling me that they were forbidden...i never knew why...does anyone know?
i played with it all day monday...i couldn't find any reason why the jdubs would ban them.... .
Another reason for me to go to hell. Even as a jdub I had one, chalk that, two.
so i have seen many anti experience threads etc.
my father (a jw elder) has had several businesses for a number of years.
(thanks dad i'll follow your example really well and become an excellent business person.
It def goes both ways bad employers and employees. In all fairness my father who is a jw employer tried to treat them all fairly, thats not saying the direct supervisors did.
As for: My husband and I are in the process of opening a small retail business and I so do not want to have to hire any jws. Isn't it legal to discriminate based on one's religion? I hope to be able to screen people discreetly so as not to get into to any trouble about this.
The simplest way to get around that is make sure they'd have to work meeting nights or something, require working of hours jws hate, that should make them self screen and not take it or corrupt thier spirtituality
Btw it could be considered spiritual harassment if a jw boss witnesses to an employe, so if an employee were to be caught witnessing on property you could bring up discrimination to those of other faiths I imagine.
..would you thank the bullies now?.
i must admit that the social pressure was a large factor in my exiting.
though it was hell at the time i'd rather that than life as as dub now.
Welcome urbanized.
I was the baby in my family so whenever I was bullied for being a dub my siblings disposed of the problem for me.
I do remember worldly kids being jealous that I got to skip out of school early (though it was for service grrrrrrrr) often.
In my school there was also a large posse of witness kids in my grade alone, so that made it much easier too
ok just to cover my bum, i am not against marriage per-say.
so all you happily married folk leave me alone.
she and i were both quite fed up with the dub mentality.
I had to res this post because all, it is and was about me.
For being in a f'd place in my life and listening to the advice of my dub parents I stayed with him longer than I should have.
The process began a year ago-and as of 1/31/2005 it was officially done.
Best thing I ever did for myself, and a major learning experience.
Joanna's blunt honesty did help, because I needed to hear that from someone, even though I chose to ignore the red flags because no one else in my life would tell me.
The most ironic part of it all, after having them tell me not to take divorce lightly was to have my mom say: You could have told us how hard it was a year ago and divorced him then.
Thanks mom, I like to keep private life private, and thanks for the reverse psychology especially after making me feel guilty as anything for it.
My life now, divorced, happy, exiting the org for good this time around. And absolutely ecstatic to have support from people like Joanna.
Thank you for not giving up on me when everyone else did.
Definitely welcome, even though I'm still a noob too
I know you'll find this site addicting
In a good way
i've started on a path that is very comfortable for me almost a year ago.
and now i'm wanting to see how many believe a similar way.. i looked into wiccan, celtic, eclectic and other forms of pagan.
i think that i've settled down into shamanism since that was the path my grandfather went.
One last thing. I have stated this before but I believe that people need to be careful what path they choose. Tickling the ego is not a solid reason to inquire into the under world of the spirit.
I couldn't agree more, though sometimes that path chooses us.
the jw literature likes so much illustrations.
some are really wrong.
for example the following illustration:.
I love how almost all of the "worldly" pictures the person has an obviously cut for the picture pair of jeans on and almost always they are smoking, so if you are not a witness you smoke. OHHHHHHHHHHHH in the Knowledge book there is a section on family happiness the family portrayed has a picnic. For one family of four there is far more food than they should eat in one sitting, gluttony anyone?
have any of you who were ever "raised in the truth" really traced your doubts back to as early as you remember?
i would be interested in hearing what they were.. i started tracing my path of doubts.
doubts as a child:.
Forgot to mention:
my wife and i went out to a mexican restaurant the other night... and the place was packed...with tons of people waiting, which was a little unusual.
as we're waiting we notice everyone seems overdressed... then we saw them...the name tags...
it was the dist.
So when I go to the dc this weekend when going out after I should order a nice cold beer.
Yes I will.
