so the big "national " news release has come and gone.
it was huge in that this time it definitely hit the ears and eyes of witnesses as well as others who know witnesses, or have relatives who are in it .
on a " national " scale this is a lot of people.
I am waiting for the opportunity to talk to my brother - I'm not sure when this will happen, but it will happen sooner or later. My bro listens to me despite all the "warnings" he gets about me b/c I left the religeon. I will tell him about this b/c I am not certain he knows. I am sure he will make some excuse like he always does but I am planting seeds...I'm keeping my fingers crossed it will work one of these days. Slowly but surely I am picking away...
MMO
i have been reading the forum the past couple of days, actually i am finding it hard to pull myself away.
i stumbled upon it by accident - searching some thing lead to another and another and here i am.. 3rd generation ex-jw here.
got out fairly young.
Hello and welcome to the forum! Thank you for sharing with us, and I am so sorry about the loss of your brother!! May you find the love and the peace that you seek!
Yours truly,
MMO
just wondering, cuz it's so often espoused by those doing the shunning that disfellowshipping is a "loving arrangement," and there must be tons of "testimonial" literature from the borg saying so; however, when i was a jw, i don't recall ever once hearing a previously d'f''ed one giving witness to how loving it was.
I think it's a bunch of crap!! No good can ever come of it. Not to be crass or anything, I'm just saying...I know of several DF'd ones that never returned, despite the whole thing being designed to bring those ones back - it doesn't work. My friends just think it's a joke, as do I.
MMO
ex witness of 20 years here.
by the grace of god (or something anyway) i managed to get out.
i visited this forum about 5 years ago and noticed the u.n. issue.
Welcome to the forum! I am sure you will enjoy your stay here. Thanks for sharing with us!
MMO
a producer with nbc in new york called within the past hour to tell me that the segment i interviewed for (once in nashville, tn in august and once in washington, dc in october) is set to air tonight on nbc nightly news with brian williams, that is, if no huge calamity takes place to bump the feature.
this piece will be two minutes and 45 seconds long, the longest slot nightly news has for topics of interest, and will feature a discussion about the court documents that are found on the cd i recently produced, "secrets of pedophilia in an american religion, jehovah's witnesses in crisis.
in addition, nbc's internet site, msn, will follow with a detailed story.
Well done Barbara, hopefully it sinks into the minds of those who need it - all JW's!!
MMO
hello folks, mr. flipper the pot stirrer here again.
no, not really, i was easy on the old guy.
at our post office in our home town there every day is an approximately 65 to 70 year old witness man who stands next to the post office entry door with the magazines wt & awake.
Great job Mr. Flipper!
Please continue to spread the word b/c as mentioned, most JW's don't/won't hear about these settlements! I tell everyone I can about it too, but I don't usually get much contact with JW's themselves. You better believe I'm going to mention it when I do get the chance though.
Keep up the good work!
MMO
it's utterly amazing that the society has bamboozled publishers into thinking that all of its cutbacks.
are somehow not related to a lack of donations.. perhaps this will be tested in the next few years as gasoline, food, and other essentials go way.
up in price while wages stay stagnant.
Just this once, I am in favour of taxes!!!
MMO
an elder was killed in a hit-and-run incident near the kingdom hall, either before or after door-to-door work.. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/essex/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1191559961217180.xml&coll=1 (type jehovah in the search box).
man is killed in hit-and-run in newarkat least three suspects escape on foot from stolen vehicle after crashfriday, october 05, 2007 .
by barry carterstar-ledger staffsimon priester jr., a jehovah's witness, may have been getting ready to canvass a newark neighborhood yesterday morning when a stolen car with three people in it struck and killed him as he was getting out of his vehicle.
Very sad! I feel for the family.
MMO
i am one of those people who always gives money to those who ask me on the street.
the reason is because there was a time when i was a kid that my siblings and i needed to beg on the street for food money because mom and dad were both addicts.. anyway, i was on my way into walmart and a lady stopped me and asked if i could give her a few dollars ($5 to be exact) so that she could pick up a prescription for some medicine.
she explained that she and her kids have been sick with bronchitis and although the kids were better she was not and had run out of money until her check came on the first of the month.. i can also sympethize with having to wait for government checks to buy what you need having grown up on state welfare programs and i reasoned that $5 is nothing for me and my husband because combined we bring in over six figures a year income.
I used to give money whenever I could but I have stopped more recently. There have been a lot of newspaper articles and stories on the news lately saying that if we give money we are not actually helping b/c it doesn't force the person to get a job or to do something about their situation etc. Plus, I have my own bills to pay.
I still feel bad though...mostly b/c we cannot judge everyone the same, there are those who truly need the money b/c they are in a tight spot.
MMO
hi everybody, my name is julie, and this is my first post.. i'm a third generation jw, or at least i was until a two weeks ago, when i was announced as no longer a jw.
i'm really happy about that, ecstatic in fact, although i'd been a jw all my life, and i'm 37 now.
i could have disassociated like my friends, but i couldn't be bothered to play their chikdish game, so i let them do it for me.
Welcome to the forum!
