I already started a cult religion. I call it the Church of Walmart and we meet in the local Walmart every Friday after you get paid. There is no tithing I just look at things longingly while we walk around and you buy them for me.
REV Noni
forgive me if this comes off as harsh,.
i've read & read many posts here mostly very negative.
alot of you have family that have shunned & continue to shun.
I already started a cult religion. I call it the Church of Walmart and we meet in the local Walmart every Friday after you get paid. There is no tithing I just look at things longingly while we walk around and you buy them for me.
REV Noni
it's my birthday today, sept 19. i was born in 1972. .
i find it interesting that so many people i know post a "happy birthday" on my facebook page.
all of those years inside the wts org., and i always thought birthdays were evil, pagan, god dishonoring.
Today is my birthday too!! Happy birthday!!
well, not really his first, he turned 17 yesterday.
it is his first that we have celebrated!
his mom got him a cake with candles and sang happy birthday to him.
Serenity your the Cool aunt now!! I celibrate my 14th birthday on Monday. I will be 37. I'm going to dinner with some apastate friends who all had brithdays this week. We are going to party like its 1999!! W00t!!
i have been seeing a gorgeous lady two times lately.
she was telling me that she smokes from time to time.
i do not think i will go too far with her since i hate smoking odors.
I just want to say that I smoke cigarettes. I smoke cigarettes a lot and in public whenever I feel like it. I feel like it narrows down the idiots a lot. This thread is a case in point.
for me, it's the waste of precious time and being lied to.. stupid time consuming things to do that are utterly worthless!
and on top of that being told that you were going to live forever on paradise if you followed their decrees..
I would have to say it was the whole wait on Jehovah thing. Even after I left the Jw's I held on to a form of waiting and it has affected my life. I waited for my life to magically change and waited and waited and waited. 20 years went by before I found out that I have to do something to get something, and change my life that was making me unhappy. You would think that I would have stopped waiting when I DA ed 14 years ago but it took another 12 years to get my self together. Now I'm doing something about what makes me unhappy and working my butt off to suceed in life. I'm not waiting on anyone to help me, I'm helping myself.
i have jw relatives who are getting on in years.
the relationship is very strained - very little communication, and frankly i'm getting exasperated being the only one making any effort to maintain it.. several years ago, when a non-jw relative passed away, it took several days before the custodian of the information (a jw) decided to send me an email to inform me - you read that correctly - i was informed, not over the phone, but via email.
a couple of years go by, and in the meantime, a jw sibling has a baby, and again i learn that i was left uninformed about the pregnancy and the birth until well after the fact.
Generally, I don't google people to find out if they are dead. I googled my grandfather because he popped into my head while I was cooking dinner and I found his obituary. His wife has no excuse except being a mean evil bitch to not tell my family about his death. My sister lives in the same city as she does and they have seen each other at assemblies and my sister told me she knows where she lives because she has been to dinner at her house before. My sisters phone number has not changed. My sister was a pioneer and my BIL is an elder. She was a JW. There is no excuse that she could give that will make this better.
My family keep me informed about major illness and death. I've been at my Uncle and other Grandfathers deaths since I left the JW's. I was called and told to go to the hospital. My extended family may not speak to me everyday or even every year but they at least keep me informed about sickness and deaths and they still expect me to come to the hospital and say good by to my realitives.
dad was a great man, great, despite the religion.
he was powerful, tall and intelligent, yet humble and kind.
he was an introvert, and a circuit overseer.
I'm sorry for your loss. I found out that my grandfather died 6 months ago, yesterday, via google. His wife never bothered to tell the family he was gone.
I'm glad you had time to talk to your father. He sounds like he was a nice man.
yeah thatnks jw step grandmother bitch.
i can't believe that she would not call her step sons and let them know their father had passed away.
my father is a jw also and my little sister sees this woman at assemblies and she didn't bother to call anyone.
I just talked to my sister and since she lives in the same city she is going to do her best to get the elders invloved and get her counciled about this. This woman had my sisters phone number and even has been to my sisters house for dinner. There was no reason at all for this. My sister up until 2 years ago would visit my grandfather at his nursing home. He was moved to a new nursing home 2 years ago and my step grandmother "forgot" the name of it and my sister is not someone who would just forget that. My sister asked every time she saw her at the assemblies and would call her at home and get no answer. My grandfather has been missing for 2 years. We had no idea where he was. My father tried to find him but all the nursing homes he called had no records of him.
My sister is smart enough to know that this makes JWs look bad. She told me that this was why some people believe that JWs break up families. She also told me that even though we don't believe the same things I'm still a part of the family and this would never be the case if anyone else in our family died or got sick. She also offered to arrainge a memorial service for him if my father and uncle wanted to have one in Florida.
As far as I know my uncle doesn't know yet and we have been trying to call him since yesterday when I found this information. My grandmother doesn't know yet either.
yeah thatnks jw step grandmother bitch.
i can't believe that she would not call her step sons and let them know their father had passed away.
my father is a jw also and my little sister sees this woman at assemblies and she didn't bother to call anyone.
You know it hurts most because my father has lost his father and he didn't even know. We knew it was coming because he has been dealing with alzheimer's for about 8 years or so. He was in a nursing home. My father tried to call him in Febuary and could not find him. He had been moved last year and no one told us that either. My dad tried every nursing home that dealt with dimentia he could find and no one had any records of him. Turns out he died Febuary 20, 2011 at 90 years old.
I never really had a relationship with my grandfather because his wife wouldn't let him. Even after my family moved down to Florida when I was 5 years old they never wanted anything to do with us. I know it was because of her. She was never my grandma. She was always June and now she is nothing to me.
yeah thatnks jw step grandmother bitch.
i can't believe that she would not call her step sons and let them know their father had passed away.
my father is a jw also and my little sister sees this woman at assemblies and she didn't bother to call anyone.
Yeah thatnks JW step grandmother bitch. I can't believe that she would not call her step sons and let them know their father had passed away. My father is a JW also and my little sister sees this woman at assemblies and she didn't bother to call anyone. She has been married to my grandfather since the early 1970's and she broke up my fathers family to begin with.
My grandfather died in Febuary and he popped into my head today and I googled him. I found his obituary. We don't even know if he was buried or cremated. He apparenly had no memorial service or funeral and he was a WWII hero. He and his brothers were members of the Greatest Generation and they all served in the armed forces. His obituary was very general and didn't mention anything about his life or any kind of service for him.
Then again according to my mother and father this woman has worked very hard at seperating my grandfather from his family. They didn't tell my father that he was selling the family business, nor that they were moving to Florida. When they sold the business my father found out from people at the Kindom Hall and he was working for my grandfather at the time. Then they disapear and move to Florida without telling anyone.
JW's are such nice people aren't they. Especially this one. This whore broke up my grandparents, converted my grandfather to JWs, and then did her best to make sure my grandfather had no relationship with his sons or grandchildren, all the while he raised her bastard son and let him have his name.
Seriously, is this how "true christians" are supposed to treat each other??