Posts by earthtone

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September 1st The new theocratic year

by JH in

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friends

yep, september 1st is upon us.. what shall you do?

pioneeer?

aux pioneer?

September 1st The new theocratic year

by JH in

jw
friends

yep, september 1st is upon us.. what shall you do?

pioneeer?

aux pioneer?

Well first I plan to revamp my finanical future, so that I will be able to take care of my JW mom (who has no 401k ) so that in 20yrs (after no big A) she won't be living on the streets. Also start putting money away so my little brother can go to college

Secondly, I gonna learn how to dance, Good! I'm taking stepping classes. No not the kind they do at the blk colleges, but the kind they do in chicago clubs. here's an example in R.Kelly's video happy people - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WVAED7qIf0

Third celebrate holidays for the first time in 17yrs. Turkey Day, here I come.

Go to a Bears Game - GO BEARS!

Get a theraputic massage - My shoulder and wrist are beggin for one - every other month.

Save for the apostate fest !

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Jiffy Lube totally sucks--beware

by under_believer in

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http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/jiffylube.asp a real eye-opener.

earthtone

Ham what's a japenese car? I have a toyota celica

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Have You Been Divorced, Or Getting A Divorce?

by Outaservice in

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friends

divorce is much more common in the jehovah's witness community than they would like to admit.

probably more so than the population in general in my opinion.. if you have been divorced, do you think that the watchtower society contributed to the divorce, or caused it, or is it just possible you married some jerk or abuser and divorce would have occured no matter what religion you were, or even if you had no religion?.

possibly you got married way too young as the end was coming and there is no marriage in the resurrection if you died.

earthtone

How funny, I see David Seigel attornery at Law for divorces.

Last week there was a thread about picking oranges in florida for bethel and there were ad's for orange juice. I thought everyone had the same ad's That funny.

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Have You Been Divorced, Or Getting A Divorce?

by Outaservice in

jw
friends

divorce is much more common in the jehovah's witness community than they would like to admit.

probably more so than the population in general in my opinion.. if you have been divorced, do you think that the watchtower society contributed to the divorce, or caused it, or is it just possible you married some jerk or abuser and divorce would have occured no matter what religion you were, or even if you had no religion?.

possibly you got married way too young as the end was coming and there is no marriage in the resurrection if you died.

earthtone

okay am I the only one seeing the divorce ad at the bottom. lol

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Have You Been Divorced, Or Getting A Divorce?

by Outaservice in

jw
friends

divorce is much more common in the jehovah's witness community than they would like to admit.

probably more so than the population in general in my opinion.. if you have been divorced, do you think that the watchtower society contributed to the divorce, or caused it, or is it just possible you married some jerk or abuser and divorce would have occured no matter what religion you were, or even if you had no religion?.

possibly you got married way too young as the end was coming and there is no marriage in the resurrection if you died.

earthtone

The admonition that you can only be free to remarry if there is a death of a marriage mate or adultery, raises the adultery rate, some people feel trapped and feel adultery is their only way out of a bad marriage

Our marriage was dead and he was still holding out. His mother called me and asked me why did I want a divorce and I said , " I don't love him" and she said Jehovah hates a divorcing try to work it out, you don't have a scriptural reason and he won't be able to get married. So I gave him one. He knew and finally accepted I didn't want to be with him anymore. It was horrible of me to do, but I felt like he was not getting it

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Have You Been Divorced, Or Getting A Divorce?

by Outaservice in

jw
friends

divorce is much more common in the jehovah's witness community than they would like to admit.

probably more so than the population in general in my opinion.. if you have been divorced, do you think that the watchtower society contributed to the divorce, or caused it, or is it just possible you married some jerk or abuser and divorce would have occured no matter what religion you were, or even if you had no religion?.

possibly you got married way too young as the end was coming and there is no marriage in the resurrection if you died.

earthtone

4 times? I'm waiting....

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Letter to my family. Retyped

by monkeyshine in

i have not made the best decisions most of the time.

no good reason anyway.

it is beyond restriction.. this is the most important point.

earthtone

This is from your first post. I don't know if you read it.

Okay I read it and it sounds logical to me and I'm sure to others on this site, but we are xJW's. They are probably going to see the stance they are taking as "doing God's Will". They think they are suppose to shun you. From what you have told me your sisters are pretty cold-hearted. I don't think they will understand what you are saying, About putting families first, because they are taught to put God first, always.

Overall I think it's nicely done. You made a good point about the elders stepping down for their family, but the elder is still attending the meetings. Big difference from you, who doesn't go.

I wish I was more helpful. I just wanted you to be aware of what the reaction will most likely be.

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Have You Been Divorced, Or Getting A Divorce?

by Outaservice in

jw
friends

divorce is much more common in the jehovah's witness community than they would like to admit.

probably more so than the population in general in my opinion.. if you have been divorced, do you think that the watchtower society contributed to the divorce, or caused it, or is it just possible you married some jerk or abuser and divorce would have occured no matter what religion you were, or even if you had no religion?.

possibly you got married way too young as the end was coming and there is no marriage in the resurrection if you died.

earthtone

I'm divorced. I think we got married way to young. I never would have married him if I hadn't been given an ultimatum from him and guilted into marry him because we had committed fornication. We were 19, Df'd and I thought that we could make things right by getting married and serving Jehovah together. Instead. As soon as we got reinstated. He stop going to all the meetings. At the time I wanted a spirtual minded brother. When I told him that this bothered me (him not attending meeting) he promised he would go and never did. He started lying about how much he made at his job and our finances in general. Spent half his check on computer equipment while I worked almost 30 hours a week and went to school fulltime 40hrs.

Then because he lied about how much he made ( I think 6.50 an hour) he had to work crazy overtime. We just grew apart from not seeing each other and we barely had sex ( maybe once a month, then every couple months, then 4, 5 months) I was just sick of him. We didn't even have Jehovah to keep us together and I was never really in love with him. Then a year into things he tries to flip the script and become "the man" in the house and tell me what to do. Cook this, clean that. WTF!. And on top of all that he had horrible hygiene problems. Can you sh*tty drawers? I didn't even want him to touch me.

So yeah the WTS contributed to this travesty of a marriage. I never would have gotten married that young if it wasn't for me thinking this was the best thing to do, so I wouldn't to be committing fornication. And in the end I committed adultry( but we were way past over with but not legally seperated).

EDITED: To say I don't regret it at all. I probably could have worked harder to make it work, but I didn't. The best thing that every happened to me was when I woke up and said I can't do it anymore. And didn't. Not saying it was all his fault either. I really justed didn't want him anymore and I don't think I ever really did. I was young and stupid and thought his love for me would be enough (low self-esteem) .

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I've been invited to the convention

by 2112 in

ok, i've been out for 15 yrs.

my wife is still in and very zelous.

she is really begging me to go with her this sunday.

earthtone

Alternatively, you can use the opportunity to point out to her all of the things wrong with what they're saying there.

Yeah this is true. Especially on Sunday when they give those damn resolutions. They sound so wacky and controlling. Point out to her how they keep harping on internet usage. It's because they don't want people to see all these apostate sites and become apostates themselves (word it alittle better though). I'm not sure when but they give a talk at the convention about Jah not forgeting the elderly. That's a great time to point how many elderly one's don't have money in their retirement accounts because they thought the world would end by now. And look! They are still here. There are so many good times to point out how asinine the WTS really is. Have fun laughing at them if u go. Because the whole thing is pure comic relief.