the family are very excited because there’s a special interruption happening this friday which has supposedly only happened once before when rutherford announced jesus’ ruling in heaven.
requires tuning into jw.org.
meant to be this coming friday before the memorial.
there’s a special interruption happening this Friday which has supposedly only happened once before when Rutherford announced Jesus’ ruling in heaven. Requires tuning into jw.org. Meant to be this coming Friday before the memorial.
probably not a popular opinion on here....and haven't been actively attending meetings since 1988....(i know i know a submarine attender) however thoroughly enjoyed attending this evening...was good to see lots of people i remember whilst growing up in this faith, they were genuine and the whole atmosphere was one of love.
sure if i suddenly wanted to become active again and didn't change my lifestyle they would drop me like a bomb.....however i haven't and won't and they didn't and don't.
this works for me.. i cannot demonize the witnesses on what i have seen tonight.
That old apostate 'love bombing'......please.
Oh, I said it is genuine in a way. It can be from the heart. They genuinely miss you and genuinely want you to abandon all else and come back, but might think it's too pushy to say all that so they hope just the "We miss you" part is sufficient.
Love bombing is an attempt to influence a person by demonstrations of attention and affection. With already close people, it can further be defined as an intense atmosphere of affection and adoration designed to disarm an individual's natural guardedness. You can't be mad at them if they are going out of their way to show love. There's no reason it cannot be from people who really care about you. But see if they, now that they saw you, call to invite you to that lunch.
probably not a popular opinion on here....and haven't been actively attending meetings since 1988....(i know i know a submarine attender) however thoroughly enjoyed attending this evening...was good to see lots of people i remember whilst growing up in this faith, they were genuine and the whole atmosphere was one of love.
sure if i suddenly wanted to become active again and didn't change my lifestyle they would drop me like a bomb.....however i haven't and won't and they didn't and don't.
this works for me.. i cannot demonize the witnesses on what i have seen tonight.
I am glad you enjoyed your love-bombing. It is genuine in a way. They really do wish you would abandon all else and come back to their self-imposed prison. I am confident I would get the same treatment if I went.
I also don't hold anything against them when they cannot attempt to "love" me by inviting me out to coffee or lunch if they miss me so much. They are in a cult. It's in their reprogramming.
Glad you enjoyed seeing some old friends.
why is it that all of the friends show happiness and excitement when a meeting is cancelled?.
no meetings week of memorial "what a blessing from jah!".
bad weather - oh it's so nice to have a night off.
It's a cult.
The Governing Body arranges so much for you- "What a blessing from Jah!"
The local elders cancel the meeting for a snowy evening- "What a blessing from Jah!"
Lower the recruiting hours requirement so more can pioneer- "What a blessing from Jah!"
Building new KH's, selling KH's, combining congregations- "What a blessing from Jah!"
Bad news about the Watchtower- "Its persecution from Satan's World."
I could go on and on with either one. The blessings and the persecution.
Bottom line- It's a cult.
i am so crushed right now.
i have been dating a witness for over a year now.
we love each other so much.
So sorry to read of your loss, but you say "Now we have no choice but to stop..."
So not true. He has plenty of other choices. But now you know that the religion is firmly in first place in his mind right now.
the family are very excited because there’s a special interruption happening this friday which has supposedly only happened once before when rutherford announced jesus’ ruling in heaven.
requires tuning into jw.org.
meant to be this coming friday before the memorial.
I have no idea, but a total guess is that it has something to do with money or with counting the anointed partakers.
I would bet it's something to highly discourage partakers.
pimo here.. i must have missed an announcement or something because there is no workbook online for this week.
are they cancelling the mid week meetings between april 15 - 21 because of the friday memorial?.
i don't want to text anyone that i know so i'll ask you guys.
Yes, there is NO MIDWEEK MEETING this week. My wife's Wednesday meeting is cancelled for that reason.
I know, in the past they didn't cancel meetings on other nights, but apparently this is a thing now, maybe for a couple/few years.
...to drop by and say, 'ayup, mates', to you all, my old friends.. i am so totally over the jobo thing i have surprised myself.. if anyone asks, 'what do you think of the jobos?
' my reply would be, 'i don't think of them.'.
all my rage, anger and sadness have dissipated over time.
Unky Punky, I can often go days or even weeks sometimes without posting here. I will always have more of a connection to ex-JW's because I have so many JW's still in my life- my wife, her family, my mother.
But otherwise, all things JW have started to dilute themselves in my life. I am really forgetting all the doctrine and scriptures- good riddance. The more I forget them, the more I realize it's all the same old story anyway. I am going to visit Flipper's Lake Tahoe Fest again this year. That's like 8 or 9 in a row, I lost count.
i’m fairly new so i don’t know everyone’s backstory.
how did you realize the organization was false?.
It's a long story, available for free:
http://watchtowerdocuments.org/alan-miller-shares-his-story/
i remember reading somewhere (perhaps on here?
) than an entire congregation disassociated and started their own congregation after decided that the gb were apostate.. was this an urban myth or is there any evidence of this?.
Bonham, Texas:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/197640/real-story-on-why-watchtower-society-lost-kingdom-hall-bonham-texas
Personally, I would skip Kool-Aid Man's links to Six Screens.
