As a fellow spy and former JW, I feel a connection with you.
Sorry for your loss.
I hope you find comfort here.
after 5 years away from the borg, it hasnt got any easier.
in fact, in my mind, its got worse.
the pain of losing a mother, father, two sisters and a brother, nieces and nephews, people i loved so dearly, has become ever deeper with every passing day.
As a fellow spy and former JW, I feel a connection with you.
Sorry for your loss.
I hope you find comfort here.
I would agree with JeffT's assessment of the situation.
Brothers "have" the power.
Sisters can manipulate the brothers in how they use it.
door to door is an essential way of preaching among jw, you cannot get baptized unles you join in door-to-door service, ..... but how many converts in your congregation in past 20 years came out of door-to-door preaching?
please deduct mentally handicaped and weirdos.. number for your congregation?.
mine could be 2, (mother with a teenage son), but they da shortly after baptism.. albert .
In the last hall i was in - 2. One was a long time study (5+ years), the other was a teenager who had a liver problem and wanted a hope for the future.
i get so sick and tired of jws constantly questioning the source of information or the motives of the one providing it.. if satan said "2+2=4" would you then be stupid enough to say 'that cannot be true because the devil said it".
if the fds said "2+2 does not = 4" would you disagree with it??.
would you agree with it if they held a gun to your head and said "you will be killed if you dont agree??".
I had an elder tell me that if the Watchtower told him that the sky was actually green not blue. He would from then on call the sky green.
"colony elders suspected something was wrong when they wondered why one man was getting up so late in the mornings, and they decided to shadow him, said prosecutor freddy perez.. they then handed the case over to the police.".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8117905.stm ().
not difficult really and a better reflection on their suitability as 'elders' in their community than the frequent "lets shove this under the carpet to protect our image" approach of wts elders ....
Amen
i didn't want to hijack billy x's attempt at hijacking another thread directed to our apostate terrorist, reinna.
this is a parady that only ex jw's could possibly appreciate.
whether you appreciate my macabre sense of humor is entirely another matter.
Dear Borg Master,
When my congregation built a new kingdom hall, we voted that if the congregation should ever be disbanded or no longer be JW congregation, you got the land and the building.
Has an entire congregation ever come to its senses and realized that it is a cult?
Logging off,
Drone #452-34H
i didn't want to hijack billy x's attempt at hijacking another thread directed to our apostate terrorist, reinna.
this is a parady that only ex jw's could possibly appreciate.
whether you appreciate my macabre sense of humor is entirely another matter.
Dear Borg Leaders,
How is it that you have evaded having someone "go postal" and take down your cult?
Certainly you have pissed off enough people throughout the years. Does this show Jehovah's protection?
Sincerly,
Speedy Delivery Postal Worker
after reading the ouji board thread, i wondered if anyone had "dared" anything of this nature.. i was always too scared to even watch movies with any of this content.
i do read my horoscope.
my great aunt was into the occult and she was told she would die before she was 50 when she was in her 30's.
restrangled - do you happen to remember the name of the book?
I would love to look it up.
the scottish sun reports about about shauni chalk, a 16 year old girl from perth, who has been banned from attending the local kingdom hall of jehovahs witnesses in perth.
the girl was cited for anti-social behavior by the police after she hurled insults and harassed jehovahs witnesses at the kingdom hall during a three-month period, halting the meetings and becoming a general nuisance.
(jw news & comments).
She's a cutie, but according to that article she is a real pain.
i have read today this quote from one member on facebook going by the name of ruth eeker.. .
based on her quote, she states that "as well in regards to the un, the society has various name versions registered still in the un.
so they are still not completely out of the supposed beast!".
I think that Lukewarm hit the subject correctly.
JWs get DF'd if they join YMCA for access to resources that the JW may not have access to otherwise.
WBTS joins UN for "access to Library" - saying that they otherwise would not have had access to it.
That is straight up hypocrisy.