Thanks!
Now that you've been here a year, you're in a position to help others successfully navigate the waters that you have just gone through.
Well, my English is not that good, so I need a lot of time to think things through and write the post with my dictionary at hand. And before I'm done with that, all you other folks have posted :-)
And I usually don't post unless I feel I have something to contribute with.
kifoy
http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974.
i completed 7 levels, final score 220,537, world traveler iq 97. .
in the scheme of things, prob not all that good i suppose.. jeff .
I took this a few days ago. Can't remember my total points, but I finished level 10 and got a TIQ of 112, I think.
kifoy
Wow! I've been here a year already! Can you imagine?
It took about three months of reading before my first post, and although I can't at all keep up with the turbo posters that post over a thousand their first month or so, at least I made it to Junior Member before I reached my first anniversary :-)
I've grown a lot this year, so much that I think I can say that I'm finally free, and that the org. has no power over me any more. Thinking about the past don't make me sad nor mad. I just shake my head in disbelief sometimes, thinking about all the crazy things one used to take for granted without a single question.
I love to read about all the scandals and the self-centred elders that have haunted so many of you. Not because I enjoy your suffering, but more the feeling that I have done the right thing, and glad four you all that you managed to brake out.
I never was scared of Armageddon. After I left, even when I still had it in me that it was the truth (I would rather not think about it back then), I said to myself: "If the JWs don't have the truth, I'm OK. If the JWs have the truth, I will die in Armageddon, but then if the JWs have the truth, I won't feel a thing being dead, so that will also be OK."
My biggest hopes for the future, would be for my family to understand how things really are. Especially my parents and my grandmother. I have not seen my grandmother in 6 years, and she will be 80 next year... She have at least had two chances of seeing me, but turned me down. How sad. I almost feel like crying when thinking about her.
[Edit: My grandmother turns 90 next year, not 80. Even grater risk of me never seing her again :-( ]
So thanks for being here. You are one of a kind! And I'm really happy to have found you.
Big hugs to all of you from little me,
kifoy
since something like dna determines how long you live, how does it keep track of time?
some animals live longer than man, and some have shorter lives, what determines it's life span?
what is time anyway?
So what will happen to the telomeres when we enter the paradise and live forever?
The cells will presumably still divide to keep us young... so the telomeres will get shorter, until...? Or will they?
Glad I don't have to worry about that, then
kifoy
i was only in for 10 years.
however, i never feel that i 100% believed it all, even at the point of baptism.. i think after the initial period of 'love' shown on the part of the brothers, i must have only been a baptised brother for about 4 years when i knew it was all wrong on so many different levels.. i remember a sister saying to me "once they have got you under the water, that's when you see the real way they treat you".
it all changed after baptism.
About 2-3 years after I left, I think...
kifoy
remember how it was always stressed how important it was to "have a personal relationship to jehovah"?
that those who got disfellowshipped or disassociated themselves because of what members of the org.
had said or done, or failed doctrine etc., wouldn't have done so "if they only had had a close, personal relationship to jehovah"?
No, I could never understand how one could have that. And I had, and still have, no idea how a personal relationship with Jehovah should be like.
How was I supposed to feel if I had a relationship like that? I don't know.
But since it was really desirable to have such personal relationship with "our father", I felt really bad when I couldn't figure this out.
And especially those perfect pioneer sisters that was interviewed at conventions, convinced me to believe that it was me there was something wrong with.
kifoy
from the age of ca.
7 to the age of ca.
21, i joined about 10-12 quick builds in norway.
Can't you to sue if you got hurt there? I guess they have insurance for that.. I remember a "brother" suing another brother because he fell and hurt himself at a get-together he had at his house for the congregation.
We don't sue on grounds like that over here... never heard of such a thing (only heard these stories from the US).
But I know that the workers on construction sites were insured, therefore kids under 16 were not allowed, and everyone had to wear hard hats.
And after a few years we also were ordered to not write or put stickers on them, because it would weaken them.
My mother, who had covered her hard hat with names and dates of all the quick buids she had ever joined, had to find herself a new one.
I remember one time, a woman fell down from the ceiling on to the concrete floor. She was picked up by an ambulance. I don't know if she was ok, but mood among people was really low for a long time.
The first 15 years of quick building here in Norway, most of the workers were unskilled. The supervisors were skilled. I was not skilled, but yet I think I did a really good job. At least I knew how to swing a hammer :-)
Then they started to invite people based on their skills. But this was no sucess, I think. And not long before I left, I joined one last build.
kifoy
from the age of ca.
7 to the age of ca.
21, i joined about 10-12 quick builds in norway.
Ah, yes. I forgot about the sunburns :-\
kifoy
from the age of ca.
7 to the age of ca.
21, i joined about 10-12 quick builds in norway.
From the age of ca. 7 to the age of ca. 21, I joined about 10-12 quick builds in Norway. At first I was helping out in the kitchen, of course. My mom and dad signed up for the first quick build in Norway, and I thought I was lot of fun.
When I passed 16, and was old enough to be at the construction site, I worked with gardening, ceiling, inside walls, on the roof and many other things.
I got injured twice.
First time i scorched my hand on a 1000 W floodlight. Man, that was hot!
Second time i stepped on a rusty spike. I only wore my training shoes, so the spike left a nice small bloody hole on the sole of my foot.
But it all went well, I received excellent treatment at the first aid caravan both times. And best of all I got the rest of the day off.
Not to mention all the sympathy I got from everyone! Finally the attention I never got before nor after :-)
Anyway. I found the quick builds very funny, as it was the only "witnessing" that I was good at. I hated field service, but this physical work I could handle.
Did you join many quick builds? Did you get injured?
kifoy
insight on the scriptures volume 1: aaaron-jehoshua (copyright 1988 wts).
"jesus indicated that people of sodom and gomorrah would experience a resurrection to stand for judgement.".
compared to:.
Either they are in total darkness.... or else the lights are on, but no one's home
lol
Acording to whyizit both the Insight books and the Revelation book were published in 1988.
Maybe they wrote the Sodom section in the Insight book some years earlier when the light was on, and forgot to turn it off again before publishing?
I'm thinking that it takes a long time to finish a work like the Insight books, and if they on top of that have to keep record of the lightbulb changing in other publications during the process...
kifoy
