late last night i received the following message from the contact form on my website.
this message was sent from the contact form on the today's pa website.
organisation:.
What? No sympathy for jehovah? After all he's done for you? And he suffered creation pains for six days making the world nice for you ungrateful people. You'll be sorry. Wait until you have disciples. Then you'll know what jehovah has gone through for you.
Oh, wait. No, you won't, because jehovah is fictional. Whew!
many of you will be interested to know that irwin zalkin now has 11 lawsuits against watchtower at various stages.. these can be summarized as follows.... j.l.
shocked by the lack of action, the victims mother immediately left the congregation with her son.
by this stage campos was a known predator with complaints having been made to the elders at linda vista spanish, playa pacifica spanish and the watchtower dating back to 1982.elizabeth mcfarland ohio a former ministerial servant named scott silvasy sexually molested elizabeth when she was a child through her early teens.
To show her forgiveness she needed to leave her children under his supervision. He raped Monica Lynn on one of those occasions.
WTF? And she bought into that? Man, she was brainwashed for sure. In my brain, I understand why vigilante justice is wrong, but sometimes in my heart I think we should just line up some of these people and shoot them.
where are the signs and shirts the professional artist here have designed for jesus christ (according to the jws, not real christians) 100 years of sitting at his father's throne?
i would like to buy some if you will create a cool photo, let's start getting read for the big celebration!
what art work would you put on the shirts, the front and the back?
someone had a good picture a while ago, but I can't find it. Something about celebrating 100 years of nothing happening.
told my husband to put a muzzle on my mouth over the blood dogma.
we all were driving around in field service when the topic of "which fragments would you take if you were in a car accident or cut yourself badly".
said his choice is a personal one, another sister with chronic health problems said she had no problem with the governing body's new light on taking various fragments.
frogonmytoe, a JW I grew up with in San Diego became the San Diego fire marshall. I think he's retired now, but he was a fireman his whole working career.
i know for us exjw's that have awakened from this religion, it seems incredulous that we ever.
could have believed we were going to live forever and never die.. not just never die, but never die, like i was raised to believe with.
the millions now living will never die, garbage.. i said that to my highly educated professional therapist last week.. her eyes got big, and she said gently as to a child, "loislane, we are all going to die".. yes, i know that now, but that is not what my religion taught and i believed, for 60 years.. any thoughts on how i explain this lunacy to her?.
There are layers to it. There's the belief that they won't die, repeated over and over. Underneath there's the fear that one isn't good enough and not only will die, but will die a horrible excruciating death at Armageddon. I used to have nightmares about armageddon, I could feel my body shriveling up like a leaf in these dreams, while all the JWs around me survived and saw my destruction.
Terrible thing to teach children.
i didn't even realize the vw bus was still in production but vw in brazil still produces the iconic bus, production will end in december.. many of us had vw buses, surf wagons et al, i had a 1959 'camper' special we would take on surfing trips to baja california and camp on the beaches down by san quentin.. i took my 'magic bus ride' with four jw buddies just before my arrest over the vietnam draft.
we rode up the california coast to big sur.
with the side door open and feet hanging out we traveled the coastal route from los angeles through santa barbara, pismo beach, san simeon, big sur and monterey ending in san francisco where i hopped a flight back to los angeles for my arraignment.. enjoy-.
Not my favorite vehicle, but my first vehicle was a 1959 convertible VW bug painted an eye-searing bright yellow. Learned to drive a stick shift on that thing. Death trap, certainly, but loads of fun to drive.
greetings, soup lovers:.
i have a huge kitchen at my disposal (not my own); vegetables, cans of this and that and spices are scattered about, prepared to go into a cauldron of minestrone i started a few days ago.
i'm preparing ahead so as to freeze the leftovers to heat up later at home over my hotplate.. nothing like a 6-burner gas range to simmer over!.
I always wonder why restaurant soup is so awful, when it's so easy to make good soup. I think they use soup base and lots of packaged stuff.
I was taught to make lettuce soup by a French woman long ago, it is one of my favorites. I love split pea soup, and I love posole. And it's always good to just heat up some good chicken broth and add whatever veggies you have on hand to make a good vegetable soup.
I have a recipe from an old cookbook for some tiny dumplings. They puff up like a dumpling, but taste like a good buttery noodle. I like to put those in a simple vegetable soup. Yummmm -- it's getting colder around here. Good time to start making soup.
ive been around this board for quite awhile.
it has helped immensely.
lately i just read everyone elses experiences and try and forget the whole nightmare...but i cant.
How about taking out an ad in the local paper -- "Daughter (name her name), I know JWs keep you from talking to your own father and brother, but how could you ignore your 93-year-old grandmother? She is so depressed because you won't talk to her, won't answer her calls. What kind of religion is that? It's a religion that teaches people it's all right to be heartless and cold-hearted."
could someone please advise how to update our profile picture?
thank you..
Love your name, love your picture -- why change it?
jws are in need of more kingdom halls in many major u.s. cities.
at this years agm where it is expected that most of the faithful will be able to listen to the meeting (being tied in by video), dont be surprised if the wts 8 gb members take part in a symposium delivering some long winded appeal, petition, plea, proposal, proposition, solicitation or otherwise hit-on the masses for $$$ in order to lighten the burden and overuse that many kingdom halls are experiencing.
an acquaintance from the west coast mentioned to me that in late august thru early september of this year that a number of pow-wows involving close to 5,000 elders from numerous areas (riverside, los angeles, ventura and orange counties) took place to drum up financial support from the 800+ (not sure) congregations in those areas.
money-hungry bastards
