i just got a call from an elder from my old kh, i have not been to meeitngs since april 2007. i recently took my daughter to thier first b-day party, (their cousin), anyways, they want to ask if i celebrate b-day now.
i told them i'd speak with them later.
so, since i ahve been inactive since april can they df me?????
...so it was a common thing for jews to celebrate their birthdays then wasnt it........ have you ever heard of a barmitzvah.... jesus was a jew........... so he celebrated his birthday as was the custom correct? so the things that my savior did............ am i not supposed to look at them as an example and strive to be more christlike?
I haven't heard this one before.
Barmitzvah. Birthday.
I like it.
it has been pretty firmly established that the wts monitors ex-jw discussion boards generally, this one in particular.. on this forum and others, the strategy of "fading" is often discussed.
fading can be defined as gradually lessening one's activity in the congregation to the point where he virtually "disappears", becoming inactive & attending virtually no meetings.
thus, a more or less "normal" life can be achieved without the stigma and privations of disfellowshipping.. other ideas on how to get around the pain of disfellowshipping discussed on this type of forum have been discussed, if not in the literature, at least in boe letters.
hahahahaaha oh you are killing me trev....rotflmao.......................oompa
Now that was a it of a thread-killer.
note my post numbering!
and its halloween!.
does this mean i am the anti christ?.
I live at 616
I can believe this.
and my wife was born on 616.
I can't believe this.
Sure she was born in June 1916.
Or on the 61st day of June.
Okey dokey then.
my daughter and i, fun-loving apostates that we are, have some terms we use regarding the wt organization and other cults.
i would like my fellow posters here to tell us their terms, buzz words, etc., to add to our list: to get the ball rolling, two of our favorites are:.
cookie-cutter theology.
"Genital class" : those who hope to procreate in the new system
Hilarious thread.
its all about lurkers: there are at least three main types of lurkers, 1. a jw with doubts, concerns, feeling that something is wrong with the religion, 2. an ex-jw who is caught between two worlds, and does not feel free yet to live a normal life, 3. a non-jw who is either involved with a jw, or a relative of a jw, or is in the middle of being studied with by the jws.. defining moments: everything we write, say, and do is observed by the lurkers.
in a single moment, or a series of collected comments, we will eventually cause a lurker to have a defining moment ... a point in time where they decide that being a jw is not for them anymore, or that they can stop living between two worlds, or cease studying, and not join the religion.
we may never know who we help, or how many.. flame wars and character attacks: when we get embroiled in these, whether we are the instigator or the brunt of the attacks ... what are we really doing?
Maybe time for another resurrection.
Lurkers unite.
i just got a call from an elder from my old kh, i have not been to meeitngs since april 2007. i recently took my daughter to thier first b-day party, (their cousin), anyways, they want to ask if i celebrate b-day now.
i told them i'd speak with them later.
so, since i ahve been inactive since april can they df me?????
I don't think you should lie.
I don't think you should explain your facial hair. Please.
I think you should be proud that you're being a good father and letting your daughter interact with her relatives.
Stand up proudly when you take their phone call (don't sit; don't be intimidated), and ask kindly: "Why are you calling me exactly?"
After these grown men mutter and mumble about birthday parties, say: "If you don't mind, I'm going to say goodbye to you now."
after trevorgate, i feel compelled to contribute more to the board.. you said this board has been a little crazy latelyso heres my story.
i tried not to be too long and ramble too much.. forgive my spelling or punctuation in advance.. .
lets begin in 1984i was going to college and met my now jw roommate.
She doesn't make enough to live on her own, but she's saving for a car.
Because of her epilepsy she can't drive, but she's saving for a car.
Alrighty then.
after trevorgate, i feel compelled to contribute more to the board.. you said this board has been a little crazy latelyso heres my story.
i tried not to be too long and ramble too much.. forgive my spelling or punctuation in advance.. .
lets begin in 1984i was going to college and met my now jw roommate.
The Gender Genie sounds like a wonderful genie.
Does the Gender Genie also do checks for emotional stability?
it has been pretty firmly established that the wts monitors ex-jw discussion boards generally, this one in particular.. on this forum and others, the strategy of "fading" is often discussed.
fading can be defined as gradually lessening one's activity in the congregation to the point where he virtually "disappears", becoming inactive & attending virtually no meetings.
thus, a more or less "normal" life can be achieved without the stigma and privations of disfellowshipping.. other ideas on how to get around the pain of disfellowshipping discussed on this type of forum have been discussed, if not in the literature, at least in boe letters.
Here's another theory.
Fact. People will fade. In the absence of means to physically kill people, people will fade.
Fact. If Jthe JW org wanders too far out of the mainstream, there will be no hope of attracting new members, let alone maintaining legal benefits.
Hence. Let faders fade, and still maintain some semblance of ordinariness around them and their JW families.
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just curious, with all the internet bashing, etc, if a bethelite wanted to have internet access in their room, would it be allowed.. if so, i wonder if they monitor the activity?
Certainly Bethel, the business, monitors internet use on its own computer network. Most companies do, and that's fine if they're paying for the access, and access is on company time as well.
But what proportion of Bethelites have their own laptops and access? How many Bethelites are regulars on sites such as JWD, in their own rooms, in their own time?
