i was just wondering what everyone's username meant.
i have my own guesses (sixofnine, silentlambs, slayerlayer-i'm almost afraid :o), amazing-enough said!,mommy, fredhall-is that your name?, ozziepost-from downunder, and the list goes on!
please share!!
Tom Petty's song was playing on the radio when I made my first post. I identified with both the "good girl" and "bad boy" in the lyrics.
Free Falling also applies to how I've felt ever since starting to lurk on this board about 6 months ago. Plummeting to destruction with a tattered parachute, that parachute being what I believed to be the "truth." Sometimes I wish I had never started this journey.
FreeFallin'
care to give me definitions?
of course your never completely there with the answer, until .... sorry, definitions, my mind runs away with me sometimes, a mans best friend is a dog?!!.
whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy?.
The more I see of people, the more I love my dog. (In a purely platonic sense, Of course!)
FreeFallin
this has taken a lot of courage to post.
my life with the jws has been one hardship after another.
i am sharing this to help others see that jws claim to be loving and forgiving people while they are not.
Dear Cassiline,
I just read your story now. You have suffered beyond belief. May you heal and find peace.
FreeFallin'
could anyone tell me a little bit about the man and his book?
is it worth reading?
it's not listed in the free minds catalog.
ZaZAWitts and DocBob
Thank you both for the information. Bill Cetnar and his wife live close to me. I've only heard vague references to them as "apostates." Since the UN deal I've been glued to this computer, reading and finding out how many ways I've been deceived over the years. Something like finding our spouse has cheated on us, suddenly every phone call or scrap of paper takes on new meaning.
FreeFallin'
could anyone tell me a little bit about the man and his book?
is it worth reading?
it's not listed in the free minds catalog.
Could anyone tell me a little bit about the man and his book? Is it worth reading? Also where can I get it. It's not listed in the Free Minds catalog. Thank you in advance.
Free Fallin'
anyone got any stupid questions they were asked or things that happened as a witness?.
when i was at school, a kid asked me "if you don't celebrate birthdays, how do you know how old you are?".
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Being told by my x sis-in-law's mother that "Jehovah didn't create the little children, Jesus did." This is the same woman who refused to believe that artificial insemination was used on women and not just farm animals!
today is the anniversary of my only sister's suicide four years ago.
she was 38. i've had a candle lit for her all day long.
i've been playing her favorite songs...livin' on a prayer by bon jovi.
Dear April,
I am deeply sorry for your loss and the life you both had to live.
i'm assuming by now every jw knows that the watchtower was associated with the un (altho they may not know about the current disassociation).
i've heard it said that they were merely registered with the un to aid in the preaching work.
how did they, or any individaul witness come to that conclusion.
I'm assuming by now every JW knows that the Watchtower was associated with the UN (altho they may not know about the current disassociation)
I've heard it said that they were merely registered with the UN to aid in the preaching work. How did they, or any individaul witness come to that conclusion. Was there a letter read at the meetings or is this just private interpretation?
seems to me there are mainly three roads most of us have taken.
1.we did something "wrong" and were disfellowshipped and after felt able to look at the society in a different light.. 2.we didn't like the "truth" and were looking for a way out.. 3.we wanted it to be the truth but were overcome by the mountain of evidence against it.. which is the most common i wonder.. also do our motives play a large part in how we deal with information criticising the org.. without a reason to act information seems useless.. for instance if a person feels he has nothing to gain by leaving the org will he read different things into the same info as us?.
i think so and that all who leave must have a reason to do so, something to gain.. this does not make their reasoning wrong or prove they we are looking for just excuse.. but is a normal way in which humans deals with information.. two humans can have the same information but if they want or desire different things they may use the information differently.. maybe thats wht so many say "where else is there to go?
#4
just a question.
what stops the boys in crooklyn from simply saying: "look, we don't know why so & so filled out this form to become a ngo.
we, the governing body didn't know about it and as soon as we did we removed outselves from association with the un.
When the irrefutable evidence is produced that they did indeed disassociate themselves from the UN, after being associated for 10 years, I think they will claim they did so because of all the distress is was causing the brothers, and although the association was for the "preaching of the good news throughout the inhabited earth" their support of UN ideals is causing "a stumbling" and for that reason they are leaving.
Bullshit!
(sorry for the long, run-on sentence.)
