14,121 partakers??? What? I remember years ago seeing totals drop down into the 8,000s and I remember thinking, "Hurry up and die, people!" because you know, back then, that would mean the end was EVEN closer!
What a jump! I have a theory that the amount of increase of partakers has a positive correlation to the amount of increase in mentally ill Jehovah's Witnesses. If only there were a way to test this theory ...
how many of us would get up and "start your time" by 6:00am or earlier?.
i sure did my fair share and convinced many others to join me semi-regularly.. we'd stand out in front of "somewhere/something", you remember?.
donut shop, 7-11, liquor store ( genius ), driving to laundry rooms or coin-op's, etc... anyway, this past sunday i was pumping fuel for the long trip home early in the morning out of l.a. to norcal, when i spotted a young, energetic version of myself 20 years ago.
Yeah, I remember us going to the laundry mat at 8:45 to "start our time" before going to the Kingdom Hall to meet for service. The unwritten rule was that you couldn't start counting time until 9:15 or 9:30 or whenever it was you left the Kingdom Hall to start service, but if you "started" your time early, the clock could keep going until we met back at the Kingdom Hall at noon. You could eek out another 30 minutes to an hour by doing the laundry mat trick.
That is a true sign that we hated what we did. We did everything we could to eek out extra time instead of doing actual witnessing! I'm so glad I'm out!
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i would like your thoughts, please..
Of course I would go for my mother, just like I would go to any church she might belong to when she died.
My dad on the other hand ... I did not go. It was at a Kingdom Hall and I would not have gone no matter what church it was at.
There are many reasons people choose to not attend their parent's funeral or memorial service, but to not go simply because it is in a church you do not agree with is silly.
a minny man in a local congregation has a beard...he was bullied by the elders to remove it.. then the co came along and told the elders to allow him to keep his beard.
(not as the result of any skin condition or anything).. i kid you not!!!.
what do you make of that?.
A minny man in a local congregation has a beard
Am I the only that thought he was talking about a midget, dwarf, or little person? (Or whatever the politically correct words are nowadays?)
if you don't like being a jehovah's witness or going to the kingdom hall or the society then leave.... it's as simple as that... .
i left several years ago and have not been hounded, bothered or sought out by anyone.
i still see them from time to time, and yes, they do pour out the love bomb when you run into them, but eh, you know what?
You sound like someone who converted as an adult, and was not raised in this religion from birth (or a young age). You sound like someone who does not have any family still in. Am I right? If you do still have family in, then I definitely want to know how you were able to leave so easily.
I left many years ago when I was 23 or 24, but it was anything but easy. I agree that if someone is on the fence, that to leave sooner rather than later would be best, but it is not always that easy or cut and dry.
To tell them to just leave trivializes how difficult the journey really is. And it is definitely a journey, not a bridge you just jump off.
i was trying to find the source of the michael j. tyler quote in the was it designed article in the jul 15 awake, when i came across this website.. was this posted before the magazine?
is the watchtower passing someone else's work off as their own, or the other way round?.
also, can anyone find the source of the quote?
Following.
Waiting to hear what the actual quote was!
what was the experience like?
i lived with my brother and then sister-in-law in an apartment building owned by a brother and his wife.. besides the fact that they would constantly enter the place while we were out, without any kind of advance notification, they would procrastinate whenever there was maintenance work that needed to be done.
sometimes it would take months before they would get to it.
My mother and I did. We use to call him a slumlord behind his back. Nothing ever fixed, and when he did fix anything, it was half-ass and temporary.
forgive me for indulging in a goodbye but it would feel wrong not to,.
i hope the discussions and atmosphere here do not change for it is a bubbling brew of doubt, bravery and sincere hunger for answers.
these are healthy ingrediants for humans and especially for a jehovah's witness.. this forum offers not just the ability to ask without consequence, but it also offers the means to be real.
Congratulations Dr Snare & Racket! It is so nice to hear of a success story! I wish you the best!
there are a million of them and mine is by no means the most important question to ask them if i only had one shot at it.
but, i have always wondered what kind of bs excuse they would give as an answer to this question: "brother goober bum, given that there are both male and female partakers here on earth who claim to be of the 'anointed' and plan on being of the 144,000 ruling with christ in heaven for eternity........ why are the female 'anointed' treated as submissive, second class citizens and why is their opinion on doctrinal matters, matters of teaching and reproving, anything at all.... why are they not recognized while here on earth even though you claim that jesus has selected them to become angels to rule with him?
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I would ask ...
How can you live with yourselves knowing that you have ruined so many lives with your shunning policy? How can you live with yourselves know how many people you have killed with your anti-vaccination, anti-organ transplant, and anti-blood policies?
Okay, I know that's two, but seriously ... how can they live with themselves?
