my formal education ended with high school.
i did a couple of semesters of college work but it really doesnt count.
i believe that almost any kind of legal employment is honorable depending on how we approach it.
Though I feel that college is not needed to become financially successful, it does help when looking for a job.
One way that college might help is that it sometimes teaches people to think for themselves. One reason of many I am sure why the WTS does not want anyone going to college.
a lot of experiences have been written about elders spying on people, tailing them in cars, etc.
i think this may have once happened to me, but am not sure if my intuition was correct or if my mind was just playing tricks.
i sometimes have some paranoia as a result of the trauma of being in the jws, so i am not sure what to believe.
I know my sister was hunted down before she got df'd. She had a personal "friend" work for an elder to get info.
They went after her like you wouldn't believe. She would not talk to them, so they set up situations to try to get to her.
hebrews 10:25
let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-- and all the more as you see the day approaching.
the dubs teached this as an obligation to go to the meetings.
Good question. Maybe it is as simple as simply enjoying the company of each other with like minds.
so...it's 1am here (give or take), and i'm browsing the web some.
doorbell rings.. at 1am.. police coming to bust my enormous mp3 collection?
hey, i'm paranoid!.
You may have helped that girl out more than you know. Even if she were not going to be attacked or whatever, maybe she will always remember the kindness that a total stranger showed her. That could go a long way.
Scary to think that something else could have happened. Weird to happen so late.
i just saw the elder who made me try to kill myself.
he put me on prozac, and helped me leave the jws because of his evil nasty ways.. he was being carried from his house in an ambulence, and despite my best efforts, i felt bad for him!!!.
i really wanted to laugh but found myself stopping to see if he was ok. .
These people are mislead to believe that all who leave the faith are evil. When it makes sense to be nice, I say go for it.
Of course there are going to be those idiots that are just asking for a good lashing with what we know.
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do you think that you will see your dear loved ones come back to life in a ressurection of some sort or do you think there is no hope of such a thing?
I do believe that there is a heaven that we will go to. I think that what the WTS talks about being paradise on earth is actually heaven.
I have also seen ghosts, and whatever you might think they are, they are certainly not from this world. So, I have seen first hand, that there is something out there that we don't have complete comprehension of yet.
Ultimately, we will have to wait and see, won't we?
as we have all seen, the elders seem to be finding all the inactive, and trying to make us make a choice.
we are either for or against the wts, and they want us to tell them so they know what to do with us.. the question i have is, how hard are they trying to find us?
will it be a simple phone call on the card that was in file?
As we have all seen, the elders seem to be finding all the inactive, and trying to make us make a choice. We are either for or against the WTS, and they want us to tell them so they know what to do with us.
The question I have is, how hard are they trying to find us? Will it be a simple phone call on the card that was in file? How about a visit to the last known address? Will they contact family or friends for whereabouts? If one tries hard enough, almost anyone can ultimately be found. But just to what extent are the elders going to take it?
For me, though I live in the general area, pass the hall everyday, I have moved several times, new phone numbers, and I don't think most there know where I work. It was not like I was a well known person in the hall. Never really did connect with too many there. The elders would remember me, but that is probably about it. I attended that hall for about 2 years hitting 2/3rds of the meetings. Not that anyone really cared. Kept to myself, didn't participate in too much. Had this been a hall that I was active in, then I could imagine it would be a bit different.
What are your thoughts?
sitting at computer and hear two males talking as they come up our path.
already suspicious, but when i peep out of my crack in the curtain, i see two blokes i don't recognise, wearing long-sleeved collared shirts and ties in what is strictly t-shirt weather.
suspicion confirmed.
That is too funny!!
growing up i remember the only excitement for the public talk was if it was a slide show.
once the first one happened, i always looked at the windows of the hall to see if there was aluminum foil on them.
if it was, boy did i get excited.
Growing up I remember the only excitement for the public talk was if it was a slide show. Once the first one happened, I always looked at the windows of the hall to see if there was aluminum foil on them. If it was, boy did I get excited. Don't remember too much about them, other than it was a great change from the normal boring as hell talks.
This must have been in the 70's and 80's. Do they still have these slide shows, or are they extinct? Usually I think the circuit overseer did these, or maybe it was those "special talks."
2 tim.2:15 says," do your utmost to present yourself approved to god, a workman with nothing to be ashamed of,handling the word of the truth aright.
" when you were at work, school or play did you find yourself ashamed to tell anyone that you were a witness?
what if they found out anyway?
I was a witness all growing up, up to mid twenties. I never identified myself to anyone as a witness unless I was going door to door.
