this was my first post on here...... https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/177753/hi-hope-am-welcome .
there have been a lot of changes since then .. i am healthier, happier, wealthier.
i have put the jw's well and truly behind me.
Hey cantleave - it turns out you canleave!!
Congrats to you and your family for your successful escape! It's the best thing you could have done. Who da thunk we would all be just fine, perfectly fine.
See ya next time you are in town!
Cheers to you and yours!
"congregation picnic"2.
"congregation gathering"3.
"spontaneous gathering of jws”.
Funny not funny...the corporation. Is more worried about getting sued over salmonella than the repercussions from hiding a pedophile.
i agree, the whole world is in fear of litigious society. The annual end of year party is now a catered midday lunch for my company. Times have changed.
Still, there are religious groups and communities that do understand how beneficial informal gatherings are for people. But the WBTS is not interested in the well being of their faithful, after all they have the privilege of the RC once a year!
at matthew 24:45, where jesus discussed the faithful and discreet slave, he gave only two identifying features of that slave.
(1) providing the master’s domestics food at the proper time; and, (2) after having done so, being appointed by the master himself over all the master’s belongings.. since current watchtower teaching is that the appointment over all the master’s belongings is yet future and that such appointment is to be made by the master himself, how does the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses account for the fact that it has preemptively identified itself as that faithful and discreet slave?.
surely there remains among believing jws some who can discern the problem with this teaching!
Additional comment on the subject.
My elder brother asked me if I accepted the GB as the FDS. I said my acceptance didn't matter. The illustration is questioning not how the domestics treat the FDS, but how the FDS treats the domestics. My opinion isn't important scripturally.
Crickets.
hello friends,.
i don't post here much anymore but still check in to read from time to time.
yesterday i thought i would send a fb msg.
Wait what???
Oh my goodness, I just checked her FB page and I see. I met her with Cha Ching and hubby, and she had always hoped to make it to Tahoe.
I remember the story of you guys finding each other. I am so sorry to hear this. RIP Dear Suzi!
Her son asked her what he wanted her to say to her friends and she said,
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Exactly what I would say.
hi, this is my long overdue introduction.
i’ve been visiting this site since probably around 2011. in that time, i’ve taken a lot from these discussions and never contributed anything.
i’m not sure that i have much to contribute these days because i just don’t pay too much attention to wt land.
Welcome Hendrix! So great to see 2+ more leave and come to the “dark” side! 🥂
either here on this site or by a congregation member?
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Yes. The wife of a member on here didn't like him going to meetups or going to lunch with me, which I do understand. So instead of going to him or me discuss, she went to a "sister K" we all knew and told her I was an apostate and met regularly with apostates.
A mutual friend had just newly left the JW, and was trying to sort her journey with a husband who was still in, was asked to meet the "sister K" at a restaurant for a drink. The "sister K" just unloaded on her the whole APOSTATE thing about me. She defended me the best she could. But it created a lot of difficulties that could have been avoided. The wife's intent was clear, but she was too weak to follow Bible counsel...so it goes.
simon, i hope this is ok to post here.. for those who dont know yesterday a terrible car accident took the life of a lovely young woman leah ryan.
she was the daughter of 2 members here who go by the names of sleeping beauty and her husband hairy he goat.. leah"s sister has started an account to help fund funeral costs.
for any wishing to donate here is the link.. https://www.gofundme.com/for-leah-my-beautiful-sisters-funeral?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fb_co_shareflow_m&fbclid=iwar1z971joytaqnsy0zyq1_admdyxzqjpgrlf7l2-teq1nalnnqc6wcsn3pq.
Handing a family money at a funeral if one can/chooses to, is normal and has been for decades if not centuries. Technology makes it easier for more friends to know about it and choose to contribute if they want. It's a personal decision anyway.
I'll probably donate my body to science so nobody has to deal with it.
Having been aware recently of two situations of necessity, my observation is most people like to help out where there is a need, even if it is a small amount. It feels good.
i can no longer read any posts on this website with my iphone.
every time i go to a page i get something like a popup that says congratulations you've won a prize at amazon.
theres no way to close it out.
Same here. I've cleared the cache. Nothing works. I have to turn the phone off and on.
well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.
during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.
i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.
Sometimes we think it’s people with hearts and minds directing this organization for the spirituality of its faithful.
But it is a corporation making the decisions to insure the existence of the corporation. Every single decision is made for that outcome.
They’ve got millions of $$$ they are trying to protect.
a european jehovah's witness, who served in an important branch, has sent me the following rumor.. some serious sources are mentioned.
it clearly shake my perspective of what is going to happen in the coming months.. i'm totally shocked !.
the law firm managing all the interests of the wt has studied the problem in europe on data protection and actions on files and protocols of child abuse.
Interesting. Since the protection of the corporation is the utmost concern, I figured eventually something like this may happen at some point. What would be great is if anybody would save that communication about destroying records. I think in future abuse cases, it will be a slam dunk against the WT for that brilliant move.
They have savvy accountants and lawyers. Anything can happen to save the $$$.
