Posts by reneeisorym

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I'm a grandma!

by Out At 22 in

.....and i'm barely 28 y/o!

lol my 17 y/o stepdaughter delivered a healthy baby girl almost three weeks ago!

it is really weird seeing and holding that baby and being called "grandma".

Why do you have YOUR faith?

by FreedomFrog in

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faith is the belief in something that there is no proof in.

christians believe in jesus, pagans believe in goddesses, atheist believe in no god and so on.... so everyone has put their "faith" in something one way or another.

even if you have put your "faith" in you...what made you choose?

I do not have enough faith to be an Athiest. If you're wrong and you're an antheist you go to hell but if you are right and are a Christian, you go to heaven. I like the Christian option better. So I say that it takes more faith to be an Athiest.
I do think that a great majority of the time (not always) that atheists don't give God too much consideration because then they would have to try to live a moral life.
I chose Christianity because it feels right to me. I have considered many different beliefs and they just didn't feel right. They history behind it seems the most logical too. I then don't think denomination within Christianity matters as long as you aren't in a cult.

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JW sighting at the supermarket

by Scully in

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last weekend i was picking up a few things for dinner and was just ringing through the order when i noticed the person behind me examining the cake i was buying a little too closely.

it was a jw woman we used to know.

apparently she was hell bent on figuring out whether this cake was for some kind of celebration (it wasn't) so she could run back to her husband the elder and try to cause trouble for me.

reneeisorym

I love it!... Keep up the good work!

I always make sure that when my mom says she's "missing something" (meaning me) to tell her that she's missing Jesus. She just doesn't get it! :) I make sure to tell her how wonderful I am doing too. And especially how much our church is growing and how much evangelizing we do and community service. I love rubbing it in every chance I get.

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Tell.Tale Signs.

by Blueblades in

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a tell.tale is an outward indication of something secret, a revealing of what is meant to be secret.

going back before our fade four years ago, the elders unknowingly gave me a tell.tale sign that they were secretly discussing how they were going to delete me as an elder while still using me to do special assignments and some of the work that they were not up to doing.

here is how i found this tell.tale sign out.i filled out an application to pioneer to set an example to the other local elders and to serve more fully with my schedule during the summer months.

reneeisorym

Maybe the tell tale sign was when they grabbed me as i was trying to quickly leave. They wanted a sheparding call.. NOW... and they started pushing me if I had any questions and if I wanted to be a JW. The elder got so frustrated yelling at me as I was crying.. sobbing even and wouldnt quit yelling and I denied it all.
(To finish the story: They wanted a JC meeting so I went and DAed... lots easier than crying):)

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Getting to college

by LtCmd.Lore in

for all you people who were raised witnesses, and yet got to college without parental help, i want your story.. i'm in just that situation and i need ideas.

plus it will probably be interesting too.

so, please, commence with the stories...

reneeisorym

Granduated and my parents still wouldnt let me date this new brother in the hall because I was young and he was recently baptised so we just skipped dating and I ran away from home June 2, 2000 at 2:00 in the morning. We got in a coed dorm and I worked and since we were married and had little income, we got pell grants to go to college. His lazy butt wouldn't work so I had to work 40 hours a week and go to school full time and lived off of "pasta salad" (mayonaise and noodles and some seasoning) and ramen noodles. I almost starved and my JW family never gave me a thing!! So much for Jesus saying, "where were you when I was hungry?" Got divorced and started college again ... still havent finished and i'm 24.

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Brother pain in the ass wants to come and visit

by buffalosrfree in

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my wife told me she had been asked by a bother (elder type) in the congregation wanted to come by and visit me.

i told her thats fine as long as he doesn't bring anyone else with him and its not just right after he is out in service as i don't want to be used to garner time.

if he is really interested in being nice then come on by, but if not, not to waste his or my time by bringing someone else with him, if i don't know them they aren't welcome in my home, end of discussion.

reneeisorym

Good Luck.

I wouldnt let him in my house. Don't let them brainwash you!!!

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Now are you different?

by reneeisorym in

you all know how it is to be different after having been a jw.

so.. now, are you different than people around you?

i am in the bible belt so most everyone is a christian here.

reneeisorym

You all know how it is to be different after having been a JW.

So.. now, are you different than people around you? I am in the Bible belt so most everyone is a Christian here. I am a Baptist like most others here.

Are you different now? If you are agnostic, are most others in your area agnostic too?

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What's your present belief ?

by JH in

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without attacking anyone for their beliefs, feel free to state what you believe in right now.. personally, i still believe in a higher power, a creator, call him jehovah if you wish, a god that will put things back right eventually.

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reneeisorym

I believe in Jesus. I belive that he paid for our sins and all we have to do is believe in Him to be saved. I believe he paid the price for us and we don't have to try to earn our salvation or repay God for a gift he GAVE us. I go to a Baptist church.

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Elders that don't want to talk about spiritual things

by VM44 in

someone a month or so ago posted a comment here at jwd about how they were surprised that when elders got together, for instance for dinner or some other non-congregational activity, that they seldom or never talked about the bible or spiritual matters.

(if anyone remembers who made that comment, please let me know!

been trying to find the original thread for hours!).

reneeisorym

Just one more reason I can feel that the religion is wrong. My mind can read the evidence all day long but there's something special about your heart telling you that you are doing the right thing.

Just Thursday I met with some girls for a study at a friend's house. I lead it (and I'm a woman!!!) and its at her house. I stayed later to talk to her and we just started talking about how awesome God is and praying together and we were both brought to tears at how wonderful God is to us. That's what Christians should be talking about.

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Did Leaving the Organization Make you Feel Alive?

by Mysterious in

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did you have moments after you left the organization when you felt alive for the first time?

when you realized that you had just been drudging around with your head down, enduring rather than living.

when that huge burden was lifted from your shoulders and you saw the world not for the place of darkness and pain that the witnesses made it out to be but for all the wonder in it?

reneeisorym

Leaving JWs made me realize what life is about; life is worth living now. In fact, now I know what real life, abundant life, fulfilling and satisfying life is like. For when our eyes are opened to the astonishing truth that our relationship with God does not depend upon the puny pebble of our own efforts but upon the massive rock of His unchanging and loving character, life opens before us in a technicolor explosion of awesome possibilities.

Grace transforms desolate and bleak plains into rich, green pastures. It changes grit-your-teeth duty into loving, enthusiastic service. It exchanges the tears and guilt of our own failed efforts for the eternal thrill and laughter of freely offered pleasures at the right hand of God!

Ok I'm done! :)