i was reading a book and read the following quote:.
"one of the most tragic things i know about human nature is.
that all of us tend to put off living.
So sad ,and so true ! I was asked by a psychologist, "What were my hopes and dreams ?" ....I could not answer because as a young child I learned to squash everyone of those thoughts before they matured . He could not understand when I tried to explain to him how my thinking had been affected becuse of the JW religion .
I have a hard time even now following through with an interest ,but I am trying .
some men probably got off on the power/ego trip being a male jw gets you, but i never cared for it.
i'm an introvert, and was an especially awkward one at that haveing been reaised in social isolation, so it was about the strangest feeling in the world when as a newly-baptized teenager (back in the day) i started to pioneer.
i was about as green as you could get in every way but i was told i had to take the lead in the service meetings and the car group.
I don't like being led !! Rebel , I too have always been more of a leader than a follower ,given the chance I will takeover ! Sorry can't help it .
Having a man tell me which door to knock on never really mattered ,but OMG having a teenager trying to make car groups could make me crazy . Some of the 'brothers' were just as bad ....I more than once spoke up and said how about if we did it this way instead :) ALWAYS with a smile and subordinate manner .
since finding out the truth about the truth myself and having successfully extricated myself and my parents about the jw's, i find myself with a new dilema that being they still believe the bible as a literal book for their salvation as i has read all of thomas paines works and how the bible is not very good for the human family, as they are of advancing years would it be inappropriate to shatter their illusions of some kind of paradise and let them flounder in a moral precipice and wonder what their lives have been about.
on the flip side once their time has come how would i feel for not telling them their false views.
at the moment i am in the deist point of view, with a tendency of the agnostic, it is quite a dilema!.
You have done a good thing getting them out of a distructive cult ...after that everyone should be free to believe as they wish . All being said NO ONE can PROVE what there is after we die so don't push the issue with them . Let them believe what ever comforts them in their old age .
sd-7 texted me today.
his wife is in labor, has had some complications and is having an emergency c-section.
he asked me to spread the word to the folks on jwn.
Congratulations ,good to hear baby and Mommy are doing fine .
how do you feel about that ?were you misled (again) after all these years ?
this article from the newspaper in the latrobe area reffering to steven unthanks case is truly disturbing.
its an affront and an insult to any and everyone who has participated in the ministry of jehovah`s witnesses over many, many years.talk about being thrown to the wolves.how low can this organization go in saving face at the expense of those whose loyalty and devotion is discarded for a perceived image.absolutely shocking.
I found my old Publisher ID card that they did away with years ago here is what it says :
Name :Troubled Mind
Address: XXX
City ..XXXX.......State ..IL.....zip code ...XXXXX....
is engaged in preaching the gospel of Jehovah's Kingdom from house to house in cooperation with the following congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses :
City ,State , Congregation
Signed by the Presiding Overseer ......................dated issued 2-15-1990
signature of publisher along side of card on the left . (bottom right was a symbol of the world with an open Bible in front of it )
So was this my personal ministry ? What was I a publisher of ?............
Very legal move to put an end to these cards ...I think I was suppose to destroy mine ,ooops.
tap a spoon on a crystal goblet - the ringing sound never stops.
sometimes birds also chirp, it is always there.. otc remedies are useless.
mine started with a workplace situation that could have been prevented with simple ear plugs, but in those days nobody knew that extreme noise over a prolonged time could cause aural nerve damage.
My husband has it ,and sometimes he really suffers because it can get very loud . He worked on engines for yrs ,and was in a band for a few yrs ,I am sure those things contributed to the damage .
do not count family members.
how long did it.
take to bring in each sheep, are they still in?.
I was a publisher from 1973-2006 over thirty yrs ., and NOT one ! Thank goodness
my wife and i are thinking of moving our family to a better place in the us....away from jw family and out of the southern bible belt.
just curious how many of you live around co and, more specifically, near fort collins?
of course, we're open to any city that is less conservative and has awesome summer weather and outdoor activities.
Sheep2theslaughter , I love Colorado and visit there every summer . My son and Daughter in law live there . One of our favorite places to camp has been Mueller State Park near Colorado Springs .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb2jsi_abv0&feature=related.
this wt video really shows the hierarchy within the wts.
watch the body language!
They are all dead now arn't they ?
has anyone seen this year's memorial invitation?
maybe someone could post a picture.. on the front is a question to the householder, 'how do you view jesus?'.
then it gives multiple choices with accompanying pictues: .
