seenitall: when you say you have been lurking since the beginning, do you mean since 2001? That's a long lurk!
cognizant dissident
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new here
by seenitall innew here, but have followed this site from the very start.
as my name states, i have seen it all.
former elder, bethelite, po, ms, 4th gen and still active as pub.
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new here
by seenitall innew here, but have followed this site from the very start.
as my name states, i have seen it all.
former elder, bethelite, po, ms, 4th gen and still active as pub.
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cognizant dissident
WAC: You sounded like you were demanding to know his name, rank and serial number, like you were in the military or something and you were interrogating him. I guess old elder habits die hard and old bethel elder habits die harder!
Cog
ps: Welcome, seenitall.
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I am now doing Secretarial duties, due to Elder shortage in my cong.
by african GB Member ini am receiving all the letters/e-mails from bethel, i receive time reports(s4) from publishers and i also have access to all cong.
files, including jc information.. i am to a certain extend running our cong., so i am essentially the ceo of the cong.. what a feeling ex-bro's and sis's!
i never actually thought i'll be the ceo of any organisation in my life, thanks to jw's i now have the opportunity to "call the shots".. funny thing is they don't know that i am on a mission to "liquidate" this "company"(wbts)..
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Hillary Step used to say that ex-JW's were by far the most mentally ill and dysfunctional group of people he had ever met. I thought he was overstating the case at the time, but I would like to rescind my former opinion.
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Why didn't we ever study "Mankind's Search For God"?
by gubberningbody inwas there an official or unofficial reason that anyone knows of?.
it seems to me that pretty much every publication was studied at the book study, but we never did that one..
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Wac is 3.4 bricks short of a full load....
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Why didn't we ever study "Mankind's Search For God"?
by gubberningbody inwas there an official or unofficial reason that anyone knows of?.
it seems to me that pretty much every publication was studied at the book study, but we never did that one..
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I'm from Canada and it was never studied while I was in. I was waiting for it too because I really like that book. I wouldn't be surprised if people simply read it many years ago and just assumed it was studied, forgetting where they actually read it (in their own home study).
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She does seem mentally ill imo.
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Definitely getting DF'ed now
by notverylikely incame out as an apostate to the wife, came out about the depression, anger at being second fiddle in her life to 9 old guys in brooklyn, came out about having turned atheist, came out about the indiscrections, the tobacco use, everything.. fuck.
me..
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Jeez Nathan, your advice is so Tony Sopranoish..... and why is everyone telling him to get a good lawyer?
Doesn't anyone believe in settling your own divorce or getting a mediation lawyer. It's so much cheaper. That's what my husband and I always agreed to do. At the last minute though, he changed his mind and got all adversarial on me. I couldn't afford any lawyer. Didn't matter. I brushed up on the law and made mince meat of his lawyer and his feeble arguments in court.
Knowing your legal rights will take your farther, for a lot less money, than any high priced lawyer will. it was embarrassing...for them.
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Definitely getting DF'ed now
by notverylikely incame out as an apostate to the wife, came out about the depression, anger at being second fiddle in her life to 9 old guys in brooklyn, came out about having turned atheist, came out about the indiscrections, the tobacco use, everything.. fuck.
me..
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Notverylikely doesn't really have control over whether his wife chooses to divorce him or whether the elders choose to df him. It's possible they won't but not very likely. :-)
All you can really control is being the best father you can be to those kids and take care of yourself. Don't muddy things with another relationship right now. I see the "cheating" as merely symptomatic of a relationship that was already seriously on the rocks.
Even if she did forgive you and wanted to work it out, it would only be on her terms. You would have to do all the working, all the changing, or all the faking, because in her eyes, you are the one who is 100% wrong. I don't want to be pessismistic but I don't really see how any marriage can survive with one an apostate and one an uber righteous JW. The way that JW's are taught to view apostates really is death to any kind of healthy, intimate relationship. They just don't have the ability or willingness to look at matters from another person's perspective.
I speak from recent experience, years of marriage counseling and a divorce thats about to be finalized.
Cog
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Tears of Joy at AGBM's first talk as MS!
by african GB Member injuly the 25th was the most emotional day i have ever experienced.
i received a big aplause from the entire cong., including a standing ovation from the bro's in the sound room.. everyone was so happy to see a young man who was only reinstated a couple of years ago give a moving public talk..
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Yeah, I call bullshit too. You usually have to wait five years when reinstated to be appointed an MS and then they don't start giving you public talks until they are grooming you for elder. (a possible exception is if there are no elders whatsoever).
Also, in my 40 years a JW, I have never seen anyone given a standing ovation for a talk, even the most adorable child doing their first talk. Not too credible.
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Jehovah Witness sues Employer
by wasblind inhttp://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/8057201/.
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Then why the hell would you take a job as a holiday gift wrapper when you know all the gifts you are going to be wrapping are going to be for holidays you don't celebrate?