gotta hit he KH for the necessary humiliation session.....not.
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gotta hit he KH for the necessary humiliation session.....not.
thanks to everyone scanning mags here.
setting: sunday talk.
brother giving the talk (bgtt): 'a co told me' (he said that as in god told me), 'the only three reasons for missing a meeting are...' (drum roll) ... 'the three fs'.. me (thinking): wtf?
mmm.
ugh, i missed seeing einsturzende neubauten in 1992 b/c it was on a meeting night.
at least my priorities are straight these days.
do any of you have nightmares as a result of the jw religion.
i haven't been to any meetings in 17 years but i have nightmares a couple times a month about the whole thing.
in my dreams the scenario will be i am at an assembly or a meeting against my will and everyone is ignoring me and some are glaring at me and i am trying to leave but for some reason i can't get out of the building.
i used to have nightmares, i've been out for almost 9 years, and i still dream about the KH all the time and going to assemblies, but now it usually turns in to a concert and i'm always, damn, i can't believe the society (oops, can't use that word), the cult booked the Ramones for their assembly....or i end up having sex with someone.
my dream assemblies are pretty awesome and i'd totally go back if they were monophonic assemblies, where no talks are given, girls get naked and great bands play.
in jesus name, amen.
in post-jw life, it seems to me that acceptance of this basic fact of life, the reality that we will die, is a healthy thing to do.
yet, i believe that most jw's cling to a hope that armageddon will spare them death, even when they see death at the doors.
they have never prepared themselves for the reality, and when it becomes inevitable, the pain of that realization must be intense for some of them.
no, and i'll never. i'm pissed that right when things start to click, when artists, filmmakers, writers have so much more to say, they have to die.
it's a lame ass situation and whoever or whatever has set us up like this, i'd like to pour gasoline on them and set them on fire....maybe i'll have a chance for at least a suckerpunch if there's an afterlife.
or i'll be reincarnated into a cow in india and take a shit on a watchtower.
oh, but i've come to grips with i'm going to grow old and die and there's no armageddon coming for god to murder billions of people so i can live in their houses b/c i preached.....my anger/frustration is beyond the jw belief system.
if there's a god, i'm giving him the biggest wedgy if i ever meet him.
life is one big cock-tease and i think people 'accept' their death when they reach old age b/c it's a pain in the ass to hurt and have messed up teeth and feel your whole body slow down. if they didn't feel that way, they'd be hanging on harder to life.
'' faders'' are a thorn on the sides of the wts.
they miss meetings,don't contribute any money,don't go out in service,and can contribute towards the ''spiritual sickness'' of the local congregations.. will there come a point where they will ask each and every ''fader'' if they wish to remain in or out of the congregation?
can they come up with scriptures to warn the congregation that you are a ''fader'' and are be marked?
depression, mental instability, here's the phone number for my therapist and psychiatrist, those are trump cards to get the elders back to giving boring repetitious talks.
phobic of large crowds, phobic of small crowds, ask my therapist, here's his number :)
which is awesome b/c you can offer real phone numbers to therapists and they can't even acknowledge if you're a patient or not.
my understanding is that if armageddon comes when you are dfed, you are dead.
of course there is the standard jw caveat for that "only j can judge".
my dfed brother was committed early this morning to the psych ward.
really sucks.
sending good vibes your way. jws and wtbts surely do have a way of being the polar opposite of christian philosophy that they claim they're preaching.
well, i went this weekend and there were a few key points that i thought were pretty interesting.
one thing is that we are not to use the word 'society' any longer.
i don't know if anybody else has heard of this before but i wondered what the reason was behind it.
it's a good thing that the FDS brings this updated enlightenment from God himself.
thou shall not use the term society.
thou shall not have a myspace.com account.
since the door has been reopenned again, do statistics show an increase of this generation, do new partakers still get a talk from the elders after the memorial now.
it was said that just as one knows their gender so annointed ones now they are annointed
first i heard of this....any threads or references you can point me to on this.
i guess this conveniently makes up for armageddon not being here yet, or ever.
we all know the kingdom melody, keep your eyes on the prize.
do you think the witnesses place too much emphasis on the prize?
why go out in field service?
i think its fear of not getting 'the prize', aka, death by a god sodomy @ armageddon.
i will be paying off all my cards by next week (around 2500).
have you had a difficult time paying those bills this year?
we pay our credit cards off every month, even though we sometimes have to live off our credit cards b/c we're both freelance, but we haven't had to pay interest fees for about three years b/c we always pay before the grace period.
congrads on getting out of that debt, once you're off it you'll feel great.
one thing i just found out is that to get a better credit report score in the usa, you need to keep your balance at about 30% of your credit limit. i had no clue about that, so we're paying twice a month and use a bit of savings to get our average down so when we can buy a house we'll be lookin' sweet to the lender.