Posts by mimimimi

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What were you praying about before you left the JWs?

by MegaDude in

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i was earnestly praying to serve jehovah and give him my all.. in short order i found i was heading toward the unthinkable.

i was on my way out of the watchtower and the only life i had ever known.

pretty ironic.

mimimimi

I was always praying to Jehovah to help me to get my spiritual life together. I could never keep up with all the studying, service, and meeting attendance. I felt guilty all the time because I was just not measuring up.

I also prayed every day, several times a day, for my husband and children to become witnesses. I was so afraid of them dying at Armageddon. I was filled with grief over it at times, but kept telling myself that Jehovah would answer these prayers.

My oldest son has serious drug and alcohol problems and has been a big worry to me. I prayed daily, several times a day, for him as well in regards to these problems. I did ask for Jehovah's will to be done in his life, hoping that Jehovah's will would be to help him become clean and sober.

I still pray for my family, of course, but I am not full of the fear and guilt that I carried for so many years.

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Talking to a DF'd sister...

by SoBizzy in

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i am not df'd and have not da'd, just faded the last six years - anyway i was remembering a time when i was about 18 or 19 and a very good friend that i had grown up with was df'd for fornication - well she was finally coming back to the hall to get reinstated and i hadn't seen or spoken to her for more than a year - so when she showed up at the hall one night i told my mom i was going to say hi!

remember, she was still df'd - my mom said i shouldn't and i told her i don't care - i had missed my friend and wanted to just say hi!

i said to my friend - "i just wanted to say that i missed you and happy to see you back!

mimimimi

I have made it a point to greet disfellowshipped ones, give them a pat on the hand, and let them know I was glad to see them there. Always with someone I knew well, though. I was disfellowshipped myself in the past and I was always very offended by the way that people would treat you when they found out you were disfellowshipped. When I first starting come back to the hall, my unbelieving husband came with me and a sister came up and introduced herself and started to be friendly. When I told her I was disfellowshipped, she drew away as though she had been stung, turned quickly, and almost ran away from me. She never said one word to my husband. It was so extremely rude and a very bad witness. My husband said he would not come to the KH with me again until I was reinstated. He saw a lot of rudeness and lack of love from the JWs over the years and finally reached a point where he would not even come to a KH for a funeral for someone.

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Do You Think That You Might Turn Back To Jehovah?

by Englishman in

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i`ve never yet been snubbed by a jw.

the reason is that i refuse point blank to speak to them unless they speak to me first.

so, if i`m visiting my jw mum and jw visitors arrive which they often do i just smile, raise one eyebrow slightly, and look `em straight in the eye!.

mimimimi

This has come up several times with my sister and mother. I always tell them that there is a difference between leaving Jehovah and leaving the Watchtower organization and that I have not left Jehovah. Then I always emphasize that I have as much faith in Jehovah and Jesus Christ as I ever did. I make sure to include Jesus in that statement.

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Why it is wise to...

by lighthouse19something in

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i recall wt article titled "is it wise to examine your relgion" and encourged it.s use in fs.

funny they don't want rank & file examing them.

mimimimi

"But that does not relieve each individual Christian of the responsibility to dig deeper into God’s Word, for the purpose of getting the full depth of the thoughts explained. This involves looking up the scriptures cited. It means reading the footnotes in Watchtower articles, some of which refer the reader to an older publication that provides a fuller explanation of a certain passage or prophecy. It requires digging deeper, putting forth effort to locate that older publication and then studying the pages referred to. It consists of making full use of specialized Bible study aids that the "slave" class has made available over the years, such as indexes, concordances, Aid to Bible Understanding, and "All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial." Yes, Christians have been provided with excellent digging tools, the latest of which is the new English-language Reference Bible, which, in time, will be available in a number of other languages. Let us use these digging tools to good advantage."

Notice how the tools they refer to are only Watchtower publications. If someone truly wants to dig for the truth, they will look at everything available on the subject from all sources. But by the Watchtower trying to limit them to only their publications, they are trying to control what they believe. Most witnesses are not going to pick up on this and would even say the Society encourages them to make sure it is the truth.

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Why it is wise to...

by lighthouse19something in

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i recall wt article titled "is it wise to examine your relgion" and encourged it.s use in fs.

funny they don't want rank & file examing them.

mimimimi

Good one. Maybe he did have a bad cold.

I was very sorry about my earlier post. I don't want to give that impression of myself. I have nothing to do with drugs. It was my bitterness coming out. But I hate to think that a WT apologist would look at it and say that is what "apostates" are all about.

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Why it is wise to...

by lighthouse19something in

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i recall wt article titled "is it wise to examine your relgion" and encourged it.s use in fs.

funny they don't want rank & file examing them.

mimimimi

Hi, uwishufish,

It is a line of coke and the guy with the finger to his nose is getting ready to snort it. Oh, maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's a line of mescaline.

Gee, don't know.

mimi

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did you have CO scandals or PO scandals in your cong

by nelly1 in

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we did one year we heard that our co's wife was caught doing it with a special pioneer than was staying with them, co was taken off the circuit, and our po"s daughter was having a lesbian affair with her roomate, of course i knew before she dissasociated herself i told a sister i knew they were and she told me it was slanderous, then 2 weeks later it all came out, she then ran off with a dissfellowshipped lesbian over double her age, the other lesbian was publicly reproved but i have since heard shes been disfellowshipped for lesbianism, a question?

i thought if you were a po and one of your household was found to be doing something that bad then you had to stand down, is that right?

mimimimi

We had a CO and his wife who got involved in some telephone business and who were trying to get all the brothers and sisters they could involved with it also. The society found out about it and let them know that as a CO he was not to be doing any kind of work or job and gave him time to make a decision to give the business up. Well, he chose to keep the business and was removed as a CO. I remember one of the pioneers in the congregation saying that as soon as the CO and his wife would get into town, they would be calling up congregation members wanting to get them involved in this business. Also, there were complaints about how his wife was always trying to hit up more affluent congregation members for new suits for her husband.

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JW attending funerals in Catholic church

by wordlywife in

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just wondering, my jw husband attended a funeral at a catholic church with me, and i thought perhaps this was frowned upon?

have any of you former jw's ever gone to any service in a church before?

it totally shocked me that he went with me.. thanks-.

mimimimi

There is an elder in a congregation close by whose wife, a pioneer, told me that they attended a wedding in a church of one of her family members. She had told her husband that since they never went to the holiday things her family had, she was afraid her family would think that she and her husband did not care about them at all if they did not attend the wedding. There were no repercussions over it, but I am not sure who all knew.

My experience has not been the elders saying anything about it, but people within the congregation, usually less educated and more ignorant ones. I learned to not tell anyone anything about my life, and I really did not socialize with the people in the congregation. My husband and children were not witnesses and we had our own life.

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JW attending funerals in Catholic church

by wordlywife in

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just wondering, my jw husband attended a funeral at a catholic church with me, and i thought perhaps this was frowned upon?

have any of you former jw's ever gone to any service in a church before?

it totally shocked me that he went with me.. thanks-.

mimimimi

I went to many Catholic funerals and weddings over the years for my husband's family members. I attended weddings and funerals of other faiths for people I was friends with. I learned early on to keep my business to myself and not discuss it with anyone in the congregation. I received all kinds of moronic advice from people who were not in my situation, as well as being judged for what I had done, until I learned that lesson. Worrying about other people's consciences is only a way to keep control over the R&F. They can worry about their own damn consciences.

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Dirt biking

by Jeepthing in

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anyone here know where to go for dirt biking?

i live about 15 minutes away from st. louis, missouri.

where the whole family could go and near by campground if available.

mimimimi

Jeepthing,

The time of the free meal is 5 to 7 today if you all want to partake. I was not sure on the time and checked with my husband this morning. Hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, soda, and a dessert like Little Debbie's or something like that. My husband sprang it on me this morning that I needed a dessert for everyone this morning and I went to Sam's Club yesterday, so I still have to run buy something today. Hope to see you there.

mimi