...........welcome............"kiss the monkey?"........just kiddin'
enjoy your stay
magoo
i have just joined this discussion board.
i have been reading it for some time and have been enjoying the insightful posts here.
i grew up in the organization and had been very active.
...........welcome............"kiss the monkey?"........just kiddin'
enjoy your stay
magoo
i received a phone call from my mother (who is still a jw, but very accepting of me still as her loving son, even though i was disfellowshiped for questioning the oranization and choosing the bible over the watchtower at that time).
she makes normal talk, just regular stuff pertaining to situations of ours.
about me coming to visit, and or her coming.
v oices....ever tried yoga.....or a good physical exercise routine....it works
magoo
i think the witness are probably happy with anticaption that this just might the closing of this syestem of things.i mean crazy weather here in the northeast and flooding in austrailia.all the signs are their.
i think they are just eating this stuff up.
tell me what you think, have any witness you encountered said anything about this crazy weather.
. .. ..it's cold.... ?
magoo
what do you have on the info page for religion?.
yes & "non-religous - though spiritual"
magoo
i need to know how many here have fake facebook profiles.
.
i can pm you and tell you who, my fake profile is.. .
what's the purpose of a fake facebook profile ? only the real thing on facebook for me....how else would anyone know it was me..... :o)
magoo (not magoo on FB)
so this last week i went to visit a very dear friend of mine about 21 hours away.
she is one of the two people i have had a major hand in helping to see the bullshit of the watchtower religion.
in any case, as we were driving through a neighborhood, guess what we saw.
...sweet....you must be VERY young or very gullible......or both. "apostates in the printing dept at bethel" .....surely the magazine rough draft is approved by the powers that be in bethel(GB) before final magazine is published & sent out to the congrgations.....surely
magoo
ps-3 more posts & i'll be at post# 666-think that may be a good # to bow out of the limited posting i do on jwn
i've been here one year!!.
april 4, 2009. i re-read my first post.
wow!
....very cool....happy anniversary....
magoo
if you had to sum up your current thoughts on the wts/jw experience what word/phrase would you use?.
anger?.
confusion?.
.....never really beleived any of it....
magoo
i'm trying to compare some statistics and figures on this to share later in the thread to see if more long-time witnesses are exiting- or are newer witnesses exiting after a shorter period of time.
and - are more people exiting in the last 10 to 15 years than before.
so your answers would be helpful in looking into this .
parents became jw in 1959...was 8 years old at the time...ms in 1976...stopped meetings same year....df in 1978...freedom at last. have never been to a meeting since & sure don't regret it
magoo
http://makingmemagazine.com/index.php/2010/02/invisible/.
when i read this, my whole assortment of emotions were triggered.
i feel like this at times, at other times not at all.. i hope you'll read it, report how you reacted to reading it, or invisibly notice it within.. jeff.
.....sometimes being invisible is not such a bad thing....wish i were MORE invisible sometimes.....
magoo