i was at walmart and hardies and met two good friends that i studied with and they became jws.
i haven't been a jw in 35 years and they still seem like friends.
i feel sorry that i put them in that circumstance.
I was at Walmart and Hardies and met two good friends that I studied with and they became JWs. I haven't been a JW in 35 years and they still seem like friends. I feel sorry that I put them in that circumstance. One's wife died a few years ago and I went to the funeral at the KH. Old memories.........
Ken P.
hey i left the j's almost twenty years ago, like you i had my reasons for joining and my reasons for leaving.. i've matured alot as you tend to do as you grow older, so maybe i've lost touch with alot of my idealistic thinking, insercurities and basic stupidity.. as much as i would love it, that there was an after life, where you can once again enjoy the love of lost love ones, its not the over whelming driving force of my life.. because of that i think i am a much happier person, i live for now, i basically belive, all options an evidence taken into account that this is it no god, no religion, no truth.. of course that is not a mantra set in stone i am not right and you are wrong, and my god it would be so great if this was all a big joke!.
but for me i get on with it, not looking for god, not looking for truth.
happy to just wait an see.. what about you?.
You just about covered exactly how I think. I just can't answer why all the universe is here or why it works like it does. If a God does exist I don't understand his mind or reasoning.
Ken P.
i've been attending a wesleyan church to please my wife for a year now and i find it is not as different as i thought from the jws.
they don't try to control you as the jws but the same themes are used.
the preacher talkes about worldly people the same as jws.
I've been attending a Wesleyan church to please my wife for a year now and I find it is not as different as I thought from the JWs. They don't try to control you as the JWs but the same themes are used. The preacher talkes about worldly people the same as JWs. He uses Jehovah and tries to get the church members to witness to eyeryone they meet. The end is comming soon etc. Religion is a scheme to get our lives into a certain spirit controlled way. The bible is God's word and we must use it to live a decent life is the theme. The people are nice to me but I'm just not a religious person after the way my life went as a young person.
Ken P.
It looks as though this site has cleared your mind of all JW thoughts.
Ken P.
happy friday everyone!!.
so in the course of working on a writing project i was doing some research last night on ye ol wtbs library (which no joke i have placed on my computer in a folder called "barf") and lo and behold, after getting tremendously frustrated that despite it's self advertised awesomeness i still couldn't find what i wanted, in a moment of haste i entered in my last name into the search, and poof all kinds of entries.. for whatever reason i had completely forgotten about my great uncle being mentioned, well at least as often as he is.. so i start reading some of the entries, and it's all talk about his missionary work.
and holy sh*t, i actually got a little nostalgic for the guy.
I have nostalgia all the time when I drive around my town. I was born here and started the KH here. I remember all the houses my mother had bible studies with the people here, my relatives lived here and I remember all the places they lived. I drive by the old home where I was born many times. Out in the country roads I remember calling on the homes there. I am 74 and most all these people are dead now. I went by the old KH that I help build the other day and it is now a Holliness church. I thought about attending to see what it looked like inside.
You just can't forget all the memories you have from your youth. Almost every street, buildings, grave yards, houses etc. brings back some memory of my life. I get depression some times thinking about my life in the past. Not much time left to enjoy what's to come.
Ken P.
money has dried up and i have too many credit card bills to pay.
both of my cars are not working right, property tax hasn't been paid and many other things are going crazy.
never been in a situation like this before.
Money has dried up and I have too many credit card bills to pay. Both of my cars are not working right, property tax hasn't been paid and many other things are going crazy. I don't know what to do right now. Never been in a situation like this before. Depression getting worse, age getting to me. Don't care if I die or not. Sure would like a little peace in my life.
Ken P.
an email i just received:.
after our meeting today with cbn world bank of nigeria plc .
we write to notify .
an email i just received:.
after our meeting today with cbn world bank of nigeria plc .
we write to notify .
My stepdaughter's husband's father gave 6 million dollars to the Nigerians and lost their house because of the scam. He lost his business and all of his money in a scam where he would get millions for sending them money. He wouldn't listen to those who tried to tell him the truth about this scam. He died about a year later.
Ken P.
my life is in a bad state right now.
i'm in debt so far i will never get it paid off, can't even make the payments.
my two step kids are living with me right now, both are going through a bad marriage.
Thanks for the thoughts and suggestions. I'll get through it someway. I wasn't thinking properly when I got in debt so much, well my wife is the one who got herself so far in credit card debt. She has always been so good at keeping her financies in good shape, but she went overboard in helping her family so much that it finally caught up with her. She was working but lost her job a few years ago and didn't realise her debt. We will see what hapens.
Ken P.
my life is in a bad state right now.
i'm in debt so far i will never get it paid off, can't even make the payments.
my two step kids are living with me right now, both are going through a bad marriage.
My life is in a bad state right now. I'm in debt so far I will never get it paid off, can't even make the payments. My two step kids are living with me right now, both are going through a bad marriage. Two grand kids and a great grand kid with us. I have depression also. Don't know how it will end. Never had my life so unstable before, I just don't know how to get it back to what it was a few years ago.
Maybe some day I can get it back to normal.
Ken P.
