can't believe how fast time has gone by.
my mom taught me that the world was gonna end by the time i was 25..
Good for you on being awake at 36 Joliette ! I 'knew' about 'The Truth™' since childhood but started attending meeting at 37.. lasted a little under 10 years until I burned out from the never ending JW treadmill.
Read NewBoys bethel adventures and out the door I went.
Gut feelings, listen to them.
so a recent post by a troller linked to a youtube vid of the midweek meeting stream: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5119948566298624/great-announcement.
just assuming everyone knows that this is the congregation in pt.
richie, fl that wt uses for all the shut ins approved for logging into www.stream.jw.org with the privilege of getting their meetings at home.
Interesting, yes lots of copycats. Being new and stupid I'd come up with my talks on my own. Pulled off one or two really good ones but left me so exhausted from the stress build up I struggled to do anything decent for a while after..
Used to increase the point size on my screen to fill the pages faster, what an ordeal for an introvert, never again !
Good post, best life ever right.
asia for the asians, africa for the africans, white countries for everybody!.
everybody says there is this race problem.
everybody says this race problem will be solved when the third world pours into every white country and only into white countries.. the netherlands and belgium are just as crowded as japan or taiwan, but nobody says japan or taiwan will solve this race problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.. everybody says the final solution to this race problem is for every white country and only white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.. what if i said there was this race problem and this race problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into every black country and only into black countries?.
One if my machinist's in Moroccan, nicest most hardworking honest guy you'll ever meet. Hired him on ten years ago and never misses a beat. He's up for retirement next year and willing to stay on a few extra years. Sure his family has issues with Islam, himself PIMO does the bare minimum and rarely of ever goes to mosque. Does not do the Friday thing as most do not here in secular Québec. Put both his daughters through uni. Brings us Cous Cous when they come off Ramadan and we stuff our faces in the shop, invited all of us over to his place once when he first hired on. His sister in law dated my programmer and they'd hit the sack for a bang hehe. ( just like JW, pious on the outside and horny as hell on the inside, pork pork pork ) Anyhow he really changed my perception of immigrants here. That and the kids that work at the local Tim's and Subways's beside it are mostly honest, hardworking and personable. Staff made up of Haitians, Arabs, Asians and am on first name basis with the guys at the subway's Italians, Syrians and Lebanese. Well brought up and ambitious one wants to become a real estate agent, others are all in their early college years.
Oh my neighbour is a 63 years old Haitian general machinist, one man show. Another great guy and hardworking to a fault. He's there right now at work on a Sunday as I am. He's been there 25 years.
Flip side of coin is the 35 to 55 or so years old of same origin that have auto repair and body shops in the neighbouring building to our shop are not so stand up.. I'd say at least half are shady so my generational argument may have some merit.. or maybe a blue collar / white collar thing who knows
Anyhow just throwing that out there as it's interesting
i helped, unfortunately, many people to become baptized jws.
recently, over the last few years, i saw many of my students who were still “ in the truth “ lament that i was no longer associating or active in the faith.. i do feel bad that i did such a good job that most of them still are in the cult.. are your teachers still around or did they wise up and leave the lord’s organization?
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The guy that 'encouraged' me to go the the hall in '00 is in south america running a cong. as PO. That and waiting for his inheritance by staying in and active in JW land. ( dad was a CO ) The two guys I studied with are elders, one sort of woken up but justifies it all by sugar coating everything. The other is PO of a somewhat local to me hall and has made a carer of it, in for life. Very brainwashed individuals, that latter one especially.
then new and improved purple song books that came out in 1966. then there was the brown song book and a even newer one in 2006. .
thousands of hours wasted singing those stupid songs and their stupid lyrics.. song 106 "watch how we walk and watch we talk.
i remember inserting different works in the lyrics to relive the boredom.
As a new convert I actually though at least a few were fun to sing along with and maybe one or two had a nice melody, was it #15 ? Some ended nicely with a long piano note if whoever was at sound would let it taper off. Many I found hokey but was interesting to 'witness' a little bit of that backwards culture I felt. Yes the new song book is atrocious and happened right around the time I started my fade to dissociation. Whoever came up with the idea for a new song book dropped the ball big time.
just got the heads up from montreal that 16 congregations will cease to exist from 1 april 2019. also 3 kh are no longer going to be used anymore.
this was a major announcement for many and upsetting.
wonder where the r& f are going to be dispersed with what sacrifices in the way!.
Confirmed : Westmount and Lakeshore ( metro Montreal congs.) closing !
just got the heads up from montreal that 16 congregations will cease to exist from 1 april 2019. also 3 kh are no longer going to be used anymore.
this was a major announcement for many and upsetting.
wonder where the r& f are going to be dispersed with what sacrifices in the way!.
just got the heads up from montreal that 16 congregations will cease to exist from 1 april 2019. also 3 kh are no longer going to be used anymore.
this was a major announcement for many and upsetting.
wonder where the r& f are going to be dispersed with what sacrifices in the way!.
On a side note April 01st, is it a joke ?? Gullible I am
just got the heads up from montreal that 16 congregations will cease to exist from 1 april 2019. also 3 kh are no longer going to be used anymore.
this was a major announcement for many and upsetting.
wonder where the r& f are going to be dispersed with what sacrifices in the way!.
Holy smokes !! Did you catch which ones ? Metro Montreal or outlying areas ?
thanks to atlantis and his sources, we are able to examine material from the alleged "faithful slave" which is intended only for the eyes of the shepherds wolves in the congregation.. information needed for visit of circuit overseer .
all congregation accounts records covering the period since the last visit, which would include any bankbook being used and the records for any additional accounts being kept by the congregation.
(do you have excess money which should have been given to us?).
Thanks LHG, you available for a date ? Hehe kidding asides I always appreciate your understanding and empathy.
