thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.
had to reference 1 cor.
11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.
Thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study. Had to reference 1 Cor. 11:1-16.
I wonder if this irked any while you were still in?
Does the WT still remind the lady sheep to keep a scarf handy?
i was in my company vehicle and i spotted some jw's going from door to door.. i circled around the block and pulled over.
when they passed, i rolled down the .
window and asked the pleasant looking middle aged couple as they passed, if they were jehovah's .
That was great. That is your talking to the couple--but
I am sorry you lost you dad that way.
hello jwn!
i don't get to check in here or comment as often as i would like because i have been working so hard at school...but i just have to share my news in hopes that newbees can see that taking the leap to enroll in higher education is worth it-.
i am graduating this spring with a bachelor degree in art history, minor anthropology...many people (including nonjw's have given me flack for choosing a "dead end" career path) but since leaving the watchtower organization's group-think mentality and "leaning on my own understanding" instead... i decided to say fuck everyone else's opinion...i am going to pursue my passion to work in a museum as a curator or archivist-.
congratulations!
I remember you when...you were coffee-house-girl-before-your-degree!
I love that you set your cap for what you WANTED and got it.
Maeve
hello everyone it's nice to finally be able to post i had trouble getting emails last month and was never able to sign up.
this has been a very informative site which has really helped me grow and to think for myself.
please allow me to introduce myself.. i was born into a witness family and was baptized at a young age an was part of a small kingdom hall.
Good to hear from you, GoUnion,
Hello and hang on.
There is a lot of support here---and a lot of rough "weather" at times.
Maeve
7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.
i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.
i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.
Doctor Snare.
Congratulations!
The peculiar triumph on top of everything else--you had to throw off the weight that easily ensnares: the whole soul-sucking WT Thing . And then start from scratch.
Very, very good. Really proud of you.
Go on, fella. Go on!
it is very difficult to knock a ball into a hole (like golf), throw it into a receiver's hands (american football) intercept it and knock it over the fence (american cricket).
or to put a sattelite at the right time at the right speed in the right direction in the right place to have it orbit another body, so :.
what ingenious natural & process is it, than can get 9+ zillions bodies to get into the right orbit simultaniously or sequentially and have them remain there for billions of years?
S&R,
A deer instead of a bull (It ran in front of son's truck) we eat in your honor. And a virtual hug from GramMaeve (((SnarlR))).
I'm not up to the discussion, but watching from the sidelines...
the hope of a better world is what attracted me (and likely many of you other loiterers (grin) on this site) into the mental mindtrap of christian thought.
i guess its understandable, re-reading the words that the author of the matthew gospel that we know as the sermon on the mount, its easy to think, that if jesus ruled the world, everything would be ok.. i'm still interested in a better world.
so have many other thinkers (and revolutionaries).
FTS,
When living in the home place has nothing left but drudgery then the young do leave in every country. It happens here as someone pointed out above.
A troubling matter for land use is that the traditional use of land by indigenous people may not be documented and the government or corporations can take it over "legally". This of course happened in the U.S. and it is hardly ever even given a thought.
The land never can return to the sons and daughters of those who live on the flanks of hills and rivers.
Money will rule mens lives. Not the earth, the wind, water, and sun.
And we are able as you have mentioned to lift the burdens off each other's backs with simple inventions--but again as you said: there's no money in it.
But, in time, money won't give us the earth,water, and air that we sold away.
We do have to value the ones who have lived close to the earth without title to it--they have some natural entitlement, don't they?
a lucid exposition of a man's breaking free:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upwh4d3bxji.
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Great, I will make sure my family sees this.
Truth brought me in and eventually took me out of the WBTS.
the hope of a better world is what attracted me (and likely many of you other loiterers (grin) on this site) into the mental mindtrap of christian thought.
i guess its understandable, re-reading the words that the author of the matthew gospel that we know as the sermon on the mount, its easy to think, that if jesus ruled the world, everything would be ok.. i'm still interested in a better world.
so have many other thinkers (and revolutionaries).
Just Visiting--
Just because the WT baited their "hooks" with valid human concerns should not innoculate us to the need to address those needs now that we are free to do it--- without waiting for Jah's "Big A" to make things right.
Maeve
recent happenings close to home bewilder me by day, terrify me by night.
i am immersed in the profound waters of doubt and, sometimes, despair, as i struggle swimmingly to a far off shore that itself is encased in black mist.. yet, the shroud of fog does rise.
i am able to see outward, through the windows to my soul.
The loss of one's sense of purpose and the significance of life: memories and our meaning to others. What are we now in this world of others?
The re-shuffling of who we are NOW after the disillusion of our religion and the dissolution of our old self is a difficult event--not a task, really. It seems not a thing I am doing but rather a thing happening to me. As you say, an observer on shore.
That is what your thought pulled out of me, Coco.
Take care Coco.
Maeve
