Wasanelderonce, at least the sarcastic bastard knew the headship business was a bunch of crap...
tabbycat
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Did Elders fail to meet requirements they made of you?
by Wasanelder Once inour po and his wife were both pioneers.
he is young and a sarcastic bastard.
one time he stood in the back of the hall while the meeting was going and said to me "this headship business is a bunch of crap!
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Anyone going to GILLINGHAM Convention 2moro?? (Kent, UK)
by dorayakii injust come back from the first day of the gillingham, kent, uk convention.
it was the first convention there, because i think they wanted to take the pressure off the twickenham rugby stadium... my cong was assigned to twickenham stadium, not to gillingham, but i "volonteered" was volonteered by our po (the same one who's on a rampage to appoint me as a "mini"... .
i didn't do much today, was assigned to car park duty, then went to sit down for the 1st and 2nd talks... took some notes, then decided to walk around to look for "poztates"... i didn't find any... (we should have a way of noticing each other), i didn't write my name or cong on my badge, so i thought that might be a little sign which might go un-noticed by the r&f, but i didn't attract any attention apart from a couple sisters who looked at me and called me "brother blank"... .
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tabbycat
So, you didn't think of streaking across the field then?
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Do you think of yourself as an apostate
by barbar inmany of the people on this site say that they are apostates.
but that is not the way i feel about myself.. i am not angry with the "witnesses" or the organisation, i don't feel that i wasted my life.
i just think that i was stupid to believe it for 30 years (well sort of believe it, i did have severe doubts on and off).
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tabbycat
I absolutely do not. I always hated the term, and refuse to be categorised as such. I do understand how some of you have reclaimed the term (which is great) but for me personally it makes me really angry to think of being labelled (i.e dismissed as a 'crazy') as an apostate. I was always scared of 'apostate' protestors when I went to assemblies, because JW's would strike the fear of god into you if you so much as looked at them, or picked up a leaflet.
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Can inactives be D/F'd?
by tabbycat incan inactive ex-jw's be disfellowshipped?
i've always been interested but can't ask my mother (still a jw) for fear of upsetting her.
if i was d/f'd, would it really mean that even my immediate family would 'shun' me?
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tabbycat
Thanks for that. I'd love to disassociate for moral reasons and the same principles for which I left in the first place (one of which was the treatment of D/f's JWs) but it's a helluva risk to take family-wise. I instinctively feel my mother and sister would not shun me at all, despite being staunch JW's but you just never know. The real fly in the ointment would be my mothers sanctimonius husband, who is an elder. I also live far away from them, so the fact I don't live with any of my JW relatives would be another reason for having no loop-holes.
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Who's that Knocking on my Door?
by prophecor init's saturday morning, the most notorious day for field service.
do you recognise the knock?
can you tell, for whom the bell tolls?
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tabbycat
Be careful what you wish for Junction-Guy! It might just come true!
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Can inactives be D/F'd?
by tabbycat incan inactive ex-jw's be disfellowshipped?
i've always been interested but can't ask my mother (still a jw) for fear of upsetting her.
if i was d/f'd, would it really mean that even my immediate family would 'shun' me?
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tabbycat
Well, it's been about 12 years, but I still feel like I'm looking over my shoulder!
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something silly I gotta share
by lilbit in.
i managed to bake bread today and it came out really good.. and i made baklava for the first time and it is sooooooo yummy i will never go to the store and pay for it again.
stupid i know but im really proud of myself and had to share.. lilbit
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tabbycat
I'm on stupid bloody diet, so I have to ration my bread! I LOVE bread! (I have shed a few pounds though!)
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Did you do crazy things post DF?
by anewme ini was just wondering if anyone out there had similar struggles after being disfellowshipped?
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all my life i was a good christian person, then after getting df'd i entertained the idea to do all manner of formerly forbidden activities, since everyone thought i was going to the devil anyway.
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tabbycat
I'm not D/F'd, but when I left I wore the worst clothes you can possibly imagine. It was poss the most obvious case of lame teenage rebellion you've could see. I feel ashamed! It wasn't even slutty, just embarrassing 'sub-culture' wear!
My post-JW clothes were sheer bad taste which were just the dark underbelly of the cheapo Laura Ashley rip-offs I wore when I was 'in' (though that style was seriously floundering for me by the time I left...). There were a lot of raised eyebrows in the town I was in, and numerous reports back to my poor mother, who is still the world's best JW.
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Something else you won't see in "Watching the World"
by GentlyFeral infound this at gladwell.com.. twenty years ago, a political philosopher named james flynn uncovered a curious fact.
americans at least, as measured by i.q.
tests were getting smarter.
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tabbycat
I bet you won't see a report on the latest book which identifies proof that homosexuality can be proven to be genetic in lots of cases...
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remember those stories about demonic possession?
by LuckyNun inand how people would swear that things moved by themselves and hovered around?
well, i wish my stuff was possessed so it would move itself to my new apartment for me.
it's 116 degrees here.
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tabbycat
Oh, believe me, I didn't want to watch the Blair Witch Project. I thought it might be a case of self-administered aversion therapy (throwing myself in at the deep end, so to speak). The only really terrifying thing that happened is that lights started flickering and darting around the room I was in (with the curtains closed). Imagine my relief when I realised they were reflected car lights coming in through a gap in the curtains. Phew!