hi everyone, and thanks for all your sweet messages.
it's been a long time since i posted on here, almost 3 months i think, but i know that trev has been keeping you all updated about me, as well as printing your good wishes for me.
i don't want to dwell on my situation, but want to say how happy i am to be posting again.
Hi everyone, and thanks for all your sweet messages. It's been a long time since I posted on here, almost 3 months I think, but I know that Trev has been keeping you all updated about me, as well as printing your good wishes for me.
I don't want to dwell on my situation, but want to say how happy I am to be posting again. I've really missed you guys, and it's great to be back.
Linda
she was only 24, and found dead yesterday.
there has been bad flooding there(people missing and others found dead).....so that may have been a factor, but they are doing an autopsy on her....does that mean there might have been foul play?
she had a troubled life, so we wouldn't rule out someone hurting her.
((((((Megsmomma)))))))
I am so sorry for your loss
Linda
i will be posting wedding photos soon but for now, here's a few engagement photos.. .
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They are lovely Renee, thanks for sharing them
there are hundreds or thousands of websites on jehovah's witnesses with all sorts of slants, but i have never come across any specifically for atheist jehovah's witnesses.
has anyone ever seen a site for atheist witnesses?
i think it would be a great idea, and we could call it atheists for jehovah, as a counterpart to the atheists for jesus.
Well, although I'm an atheist I still try to live up to many of the standards I had as a jw, and though I never read the bible now I know there are some sound principles contained in it.
It's the active/semi active jw part I couldn't do - I never want to be in a kingdom hall again, and being disassociated would make it kind of difficult to become a jw again anyway.
warning: don't read this if you are easily depressed!.
here's how it is for me right now - no frills:.
its pants, sh*t, black, doom, gloom and don't spare the melancholy (pronounced mel-ankley if you are me).. what's brought this on?
(((((((((((((Crumpet))))))))))))))
Sorry to hear that you are going through a tough time right now, I will keep you in my thoughts. I hope it passes very soon
love
Linda
i have been reading posts here since long time.hope to have nice and productive conversations.
i have been a jw for a long time.
there some interesting issues that have developed here.as time permits i will participate in some of those issues.take care you all.one thing,english is not my first language,so patient with my grammar.thanks.
Hi Samson, and welcome to the board
okay, so thursday was my actual birthday - but i understand that i should be celebrating the whole week long .
see what i missed all those years!.
so, happy birthday to me !
Happy Birthday Nellie!!!!
the scotsman said:.
<< tee hee - dubs will believe anything, lol.>>.
that's good because you shouldn't believe everything you hear in this world.
Scotsman..1975 was`nt a big deal in your area?.....At the stroke of midnight January 1st 1976,it wasn`t a big deal anywhere..Before that,it was a Very Big Deal to JW`s around the world..Dispite preaching about it for decades and peddling liturature on the subject,JW`s dont remember doing it.....Does that make JW`s Brain Washed,Brain Dead or just Liers?...OUTLAW
All are one, and some are all three OUTLAW.
the scotsman said:.
<< tee hee - dubs will believe anything, lol.>>.
that's good because you shouldn't believe everything you hear in this world.
Also a few of the articles qouted are not changes of any significance. (The Watchtower re: Generation will not pass away.)
The core point is the same, it is the understanding of the word generation which has changed. For JWs this was not anything of significance
I knew a few elderly jws for whom the generation change was very significant. They had been taught for many years, all their lives in some cases, that armageddon would arrive in their lifetime as those that saw 1914 would still be here when the end came. Then, in 1995, the watchtower postponed armageddon by saying that the generation jesus talked about could be any generation that ignored the watchtower's version of the truth.
Most of those elderly jws are dead now. They died confused, frightened and disappointed because they had been taught to believe that they probably wouldn't die.
The reason for the generation change was nothing to do with new understanding. It was everything to do with the watchtower realising thatt, without some kind of change, all the 1914 generation would die out, and they would be left to find yet another embarassing explanation of the failure of their prophecy.
july 3rd.
are you excited?
if you understood the title, you know what i'm talking about.
My husband says that the thread title is the universal greeting of the Transformers, (he isn't a fan, but a work colleague is), so it must be something to do with them
